Adobe Flash VS. Apple (iPads and iPhones

How does everyone feel about the battle
between Adobe and Apple? How will this affect the many of us that use
100% FLASH websites to promote our work online?

For those not sure as to what the situation is, here's a quick synopsis:

APPLE (Macintosh)
Both the iPad and iPhone do not support Adobe Flash. Steve Jobs has sited these
reasons:

• Adobe has not updated Flash to handle touch screens.
• Flash slows down and crashes platforms.
• Spam and malicious web geeks can use Flash in bad ways.
• Flash is outdated and not being updated enough.
• Flash is closed off and proprietary, and HTML5 seems to be the future. (flash must be purchased by the developer and requires viewers to have a plugin. HTML5 is open.)
  

ADOBE (Flash owners, formerly
Macromedia)
Adobe has responded with:

• Suggesting that Apple is being hypocritical in putting them down for being a proprietary, closed off technology.
  
• Flash is used all over the web and will catch up with all touch screen devices.
• Many mobile devices allow Flash (ex. Android), and there's plenty of business there to not worry about Apple (ie. Apple can go suck an egg.)

Being heavily involved in web development, we think that they both have
good points, but comparing HTML5 in its infancy to Flash is not
appropriate. We know HTML5 can do some cool stuff and doesn't require a
plugin, but (thus far) it can not do 1/2 the things that Flash can.
Hopefully someday soon developers can show us that HTML5 allows for the
same incredible functions that Flash allows now.

Some suggest Apple is starting this debate because they have something up their
sleeves. We don't really care. What we want is for Flash to be used on
iPhones and iPads, which will require Flash to catch up with the
technology (and a change of heart by Jobs.) We also want to see HTML5
and Javascript grow to become more user friendly and have the same
capabilities of Flash. Is that too much to ask?

What this means to Hawaii businesses that run Flash-rich websites:

• iPhones and iPads do not and may never be able to see most or all of your website.
• You will lose some clients that search solely with these tools.
• If those clients are important to you, you'll have to offer an HTML version of your site, or get rid of the flash entirely.

As of right now, we're not seeing a huge problem here, but as search
becomes more common place with these devices, we could have a problem if
we don't adapt. What are your thoughts?