As if defending Flash makes someone unsuitable... There is still today a lot of stuff that is much better and smoother in Flash than in Objective-C. Of course also the other way. But people that have worked in both fields will usually agree that XCode for example is a subpar development environment.
Just saying: it's not as if Apple did everything right that Flash got wrong.
Xcode is a great development environment for Obj-C, I don't use it for any other development though.
And could you give me an example of Flash being smoother than Obj-C?