Marketing companies love it. I think it gives their designers a way to create without the need for developers. That's fine, I don't have a problem with that. If you want to build Flash apps, have at it, just don't gripe when the hot new platform doesn't support it.

That's my main point.

I think Flash forced the W3C into action. We now have standards that will allow us to do a lot of what Flash did. We're moving in the right direction.