"I think the Flash-based restaurant example has had it's time. Let's try and move past the fallacy that most Flash-based sites are restaurant sites. They're not

"I think the Flash-based restaurant example has had it's time. Let's try and move past the fallacy that most Flash-based sites are restaurant sites. They're not. YouTube, Grooveshark, blog.tv, etc. are all possible because of Flash." I'll stop using that example as soon as I stop having that problem once a week. It's even worse in fashion, where designers for tiny brands continually get suckered into making flash-only sites that are essentially useless beyond being brochureware. Are there sites that use Flash to great benefit? I have no doubt, although it seems to me the examples you're using are just using it as a way to deliver media. But for 99% of web sites, Flash is a bad idea and provides little benefit. I use Flashblock on my browsers, and the only time I seem to need to unblock anything is to watch a video. That's a bad sign for folks looking for a long-term use of Flash outside of players and video games.