As I have said before, Flash is so easy to use as a developer. I made my first game when I was 8 YEARS old. I still don't understand HTML or Javascript to the extent that I can make a graphically intense game in a reasonable amount of time.

Flash is also a great platform for simple DRM. My mom (family business) publishes all her worksheets in flash, which allows domain checking, printing, anti-copying, etc, without having the user jump through hoops or stupid **** like that. Something like the iPad would be great to view these worksheets, but because there is no flash, oh well... And until recently making an iPhone app was out of the question, because no one in my family had a Mac or iPhone, (Hakintosh + Dad's 3GS changes that). If it freaking supported Flash this would not be a problem. Oh, and all our games are flash also (some java, but converting them to flash).

Do we use flash for ******ed things like navigation? No, we use PHP and HTML.

Flash just works. Thats why it is so popular. It does not matter if you are on crappy IE5 or Chrome, it just works the same way. Lets see if HTML5 works on IE5... oh wait it does not...