It actually still makes them money. The Flash authoring environment is still one of the more popular methods of doing production-quality animation. See http://c

It actually still makes them money. The Flash authoring environment is still one of the more popular methods of doing production-quality animation. See http://coldhardflash.com http://coldhardflash.com for lots of examples. The Flash authoring environment is the best vector graphics editor I've used, even without the animation and scripting on top. They're still going to continue that, even if the Flash Player plugin is a bit behind.