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No need to rip. What I'm saying it's no trivial task to bring the full Flash 10.1 feature set and improvements to Linux in a simple manner (there was a reason why Maemo was the only mobile platform with full flash until the HTC Hero).

The crux of the matter is that we are not Adobe's customers but Nokia's, and IMHO that's why people feel Nokia should do "something", even if it is something as unrealistic as taking over the ARM Linux port. Adobe does NOT consider us, end users as customers, that's why their multiplatform support was always such a hit-and-miss issue (I found it odd that lately Qt, a *native* application framework has far better coverage and quality than something linked to web technologies and with such a powerhouse as Adobe behind their back). Which actually is part of the problem. Until they can sell the platform as something with 99% penetration, it doesn't matter how slow, outdated or hacky a particular device's support is as long as it's there. This is now coming around, as with the iOS turn of events, they no longer have ubiquity and they actually have to pedal to keep their positions, or risk other platforms following suit, which *would* be a serious blow to the actual source of income for Flash. Adobe WAS lazy when it comes to platform breadth, lulled by it's dominance and lack of true competition, that much at least is true from what Jobs said.
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