I think the deeper debate is really about control. Flash and Hulu can run smoothly on a cell phone (thankfully so I have something to do at the gym). Everyone is upset because nobody (cough Apple) wants to support Flash. However, if Flash was "So terrible" to begin with why have everyone and their mother been utilizing it for years!??
Adobe had plenty of of chances to establish themselves on mobile devices
over the last five years and the best they could come up with was the
stillborn "Flash Lite" and somehow Apple ends up being the bad guy because
they made a decision to not support either a failed technology (Flash Lite) or
a technology not designed for mobile devices (Desktop Flash)?
Every content provider can choose to support HTML5 today, or not. And
every consumer can choose to purchase any number of non-Apple mobile
devices, some of which that actually do support Flash (or so I hear).