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Questioned about Flash's torrid performance on platforms other than Windows, an Adobe employee responded to Adobe's favorite cheerleader John Welch by saying that he should use a flash blocker because it will… get this… SLOW DOWN THE CRASH CYCLE. Adobe seem to refuse to even address the fact that they need to fix the bloody thing.

Adobe also won't comment on his question regarding HTML 5, something that is encroaching on the field once held by Flash and now facing competition also from Microsoft's Silverlight. Nevermind the fact that HTML 5 may just kill both Flash and Silverlight, because HTML 5 requires no plugin, just a modern browser such as Opera, Firefox, Safari or Mobile Safari that already supports the new standard.

Mobile Gmail, Mobile Flickr and Glyphboard already employ HTML 5 to store data and in the case of Mobile Flickr, use location services.

(via the always excellent daringfireball)