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Originally Posted by scottjl
ads are hardly a red-herring for flash. who do you think pays for your farmville? they don't develop the applications, host them on servers, bandwidth for the users, all out of the kindness of their hearts. yes there's a lot of non-flash use, but in the end, flash is bought and paid for by all the flash ads out there....
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And how is this different from the way most of the web works, or free TV, or newspapers and magazines? Someone must pay the expenses involved in providing these services.
Flash is currently used for a lot of things on the web, including ads, only because it is the most efficient vehicle to reach the greatest number of people. Mobile sites use image files instead.
As Flash takes hold in the mobile market (by the end of the year it will be on every major mobile platform, except the iPhone OS), there will be much less pressure on companies to spend resources to build dumbed-down mobile (Flash-less) versions of their sites.
Within a year the majority of Android sales will be of 1.5+MHz, 45nm chips. Products with these come out in a month or two. This will result not only in significant increase in horsepower, but also in reduction in power consumption. So, I'd say the survival of Flash on mobile platforms is well assured.
As to the poll, it's largely a reflection of the war sparked by Steve Jobs, with the iTroops voting in droves against it.
But the rest of the world doesn't really care, they just want to be able to see the web on their tablet or large screen phone in the same way they see it on their desktop.