There are two parts to this emerging discussion. One focuses on the format, the deliverer.
The other is content delivered.
The first discussion is like not wanting to eat the food on your plate because you dislike the plate it is on, while the second might be more important if you are hungry.
One trove of Flash content is the library of interactive safety training materials maintained by the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA). Are people really arguing that this information should just disappear? Or that people who use iPad are somehow too advanced to need it? !???
How about this one? http://ecodazoo.com It's Flash.
It's the content that matters. We don't know what we're missing when chapters and presentations and summaries are replaced with a cryptic [?] icon that just doesn't work.
People focusing on the technology will be groaning when they see this, but I am watching for the day that all the human knowledge stored in "obsolete" code (Commodore 64, TRS-80, Amiga, HyperCard, Apple IIe, now Flash) is given new life because somebody puts the operating systems in the "cloud." After all, the entire TRS-80 operating system was only 16K, so to attach the operating system to the program code is miniscule compared to attaching a picture to our email messages.
A profession for the future. Code archaeology.
And, yes, in my experience, inability to access Flash and java on iPhone is a BIG lacuna. (Not to be confused with the big kahuna.)
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