This thread is only nominally about Flash. The real problem is Nokia's habit of releasing hardware and then almost immediately abandoning it. The symbian guys are used to it -- s60 3rd ed / 5th ed hurt a lot of people -- but a lot of Maemo users were attracted by the technology and weren't aware of Nokia's unwillingness to support the people who buy their phones.

The other great example of this exists on this very form -- find the thread called "Fixed in fremantle and the diablo community ssu." Nokia used to be great about OS support on the N-series internet tablets. They even released a "hacker edition" of maemo 4 that would work on the oldest tablets. Then they started planning Fremantle, and the minute that happened the Diablo users were screwed forever. Ironically, the last big update for Diable enabled installing updates over the air, so you didn't have to reflash... and then the updates stopped coming. Fremantle killed Diablo over a year before the Fremantle SDK even came out.

The Flash thing is the most pressing current problem caused by Nokia's inability to give a crap about the people who buy their products; we bought a phone advertised as having 'full flash support' and now most flash sites tell us to get lost.

Flash 10.1 is a symptom of a real problem, and any thread about Flash is going to have comments talking about that problem. Everyone knows this by now (except you, apparently). Say what you will about Apple; at least they support their goddamn phones.