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Originally Posted by athlonkmf
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A professional (as in: wants to make lotsa money) website would do good to ditch flash as design element anyway. If getting bad SE-rankings due to bad indexing doesn't convince them, maybe a not working site on apple machines would.
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Perhaps you should tell this to all the major sportswear sites, like Nike and Adidas, or Disney, or even Pixar....
The Flash "haters" repeat the same mantra over and over, but the fact is, at this time, most of the cool stuff cannot be done easily, cost-effectively, or at all, without Flash. All the pathetic examples you guys keep showing, are at the level Flash animation was in the '90s.
Most of those "hating" Flash, are either backroom tech-support types, or search-optimization types. Both of these groups generally have the visual sense of a door knob, look funny, and just don't get anything other than sites selling mattresses or electronics....
But consumers like Flash. Large companies do a lot of consumer research, and they utilize Flash as appropriate (sometimes most of their sites are Flash). Even advertisers, who must target the widest possible spectrum of their audience, use Flash heavily. If Flash didn't work well, their research would have shown it, and they would have dropped it.
Why? Because Flash is robust, efficient to deploy, has an incredibly high adoption rate, and it can provide visual appeal.
So, in the larger world, you guys (Flash "haters") don't matter.
Jobs is just riling you up at the moment, because he is positioning Apple as the new 800lbs middleman between you and your media, and Flash and Silverlight are both gateways he wants to keep closed on the iPad.
Remember, Jobs also told you that "Nobody reads anymore...."