This is why Flash is bad.

It is a proprietory format. The only people who can write a Flash plug-in is Adobe. If they decide your platform is not important enough then you become locked out of from part of the internet.

This goes against the very principle of the open nature of the web.

If the Flash player was open source and allowed anyone to port to a different platform then that's fine.

But it isn't which means Adobe have leverage and hence power.

But like junkies people want thier hit and willing to sacrifice anything to get it.

Very, very sad.