Mostly tuning in again to express my amusement over the downvotes from the (certainly large number of) flash haters. :-)<p>As for your points, yes, I didn't mean to argue any of that. Just wanted to set straight that from a business angle Adobe doesn't <i>need</i> to care about that 6% rounding error at this point.<p>They're waging a platform war which is different to, say, the browser war. Their dominance is so overwhelming that developers have no choice but use them, no matter how much it sucks - adobe knows that very well. That may not have been the reason for their consequent neglect towards the minority platforms from day 1. But not spending more resources <i>today</i> on remedying that situation is most likely a conscious decision (mixed with a bit of incompetence).<p>They know that making said developers crazy happy at this point doesn't help them one bit against the coming open standards. When the HTML video tag arrives then flash will be pushed out of the video niche, no matter how good it is or how happy the developers are.<p>Consequently there's simply not much reason for them to spend resources on making the OSX or Linux plugin better. Their focus is on the mobile market now, which is a battle that they really need to win if they want to maintain any relevance in the future.