Just what I want, a herd of gadgets everywhere cluttering up the place. Why not just use vnc to a virtual screen on your mobile.

Tell you what, you guys go mess around with some "neat" programming languages, I'll keep focusing on the open, hypertext and evolving Web which we have thanks to HTML, which you clearly don't understand (comparing HTML to a programing language is astounding ignorance) is critical as a universal open standard designed for any device, rather than whatever it is you think is so great about Silverlight or today's other branded kit. We would not have anything like the Internet from Microsoft or any other single tech company, so maybe you would be happier on a closed AOL or Compuserve or XBox land, where your programs work perfectly on computers exactly like yours (same OS, performance, libraries and general display/io properties). The web sites I develop are for government and health and are meant for everyone, not gimmicks for bored people, and fortunately standards are where the weight of the Internet goes.

Dimitri, maybe you should take a deeper look at what is happening with HTML 5 before calling others ignorant. I certainly do understand what I'm talking about. While I've very intentionally eschewed Flash, aside from the occasional embedding of Flash video, I have developed many interactive sites and follow the main direction of web standards, with experience of how the heel-dragging, meddling and inabilities of various players interacts. I'd like to see a future with no Flash, and it's likely to happen within a few years outside the playground/commercial aspects of the web, unless Adobe really pulls up its socks and forces Flash developers to do things properly in the way that xHTML forces sites to be more compatible and accessible.

Dmitri, quite right, Flash is the most suitable media player on the Web today, but that's a single role really, and is done as a single facet of an HTML site. I could imagine a very interactive Flash video player scooping HTML 5, but one of the goals of HTML is to make Flash unnecessary, as the Web should be entirely multi-party standards based. With the huge growth of mobile devices like the iPhone, Androids, Palm, etc, for the foreseeable future, it is not sensible to code essential elements of a site in Flash, and videos are best streamed today via a link to YouTube.

fashionista, that's interesting, and I might even take you seriously if you weren't such a potty mouth and obviously biased. The could have/should have info about what most Flash designers don't do is particularly impotent. For sure HTML has had some issues over the years as standards bodies and individuals struggle with its intricacies and failings. We'll see in a few years, or we can just look at the Web today and see how much important content is Flash (zilch, aside from a few video players). The good news is your skills will transfer as what you talked about is not unique to Flash.

Dking, then they would lose all the platform level features. The game would be bigger, slower, and eat more battery.

Anyway all this will be done with HTML 5 in a year. It has full support for the canvas and media. That's where everyone is heading - Google, Palm, WebKit (Safari/etc). We will see some level of cross-device compatibility for dynamic apps that use local features like location. But it will be based on standards and preserve the advantages of HTML.

If you were Apple, Palm and Google, would you optimize for an Adobe controlled Flash where you're constantly contributing to your competitor, or a multiparty developed Web standard where you can be a leader.

ryan, my point is I don't want Flash in the future. HTML (for all its growing pains) is a thing of beauty, it emerged with the Internet disruptively and creates open, linked data as it goes along. Flash is a blob of goo from Adobe that is a short term solution to the problem of needing more dynamic, canvas level toolkits. There are so many entertainment and restaurant sites that are done entirely in Flash, where they're trying to create an "experience" when I just want to find out where they are or who's playing tonight, and can't or it is aggravatingly more difficult because some Flash designer, who for many purposes couldn't be bothered to figure out how to do it in HTML, made something that should have been handed out on a CD-ROM in 1995 and has no place on the modern web. Android getting Flash is a fail. I hope the iPhone never gets or needs Flash.

I have zero interest in Flash on my handheld. HTML is designed for all kinds of devices, and it's the real hypertext web. Most Flash-only web sites were created thoughtlessly and wouldn't be usable on a small device. Google's strong support for HTML 5 will make Flash unnecessary.

Multitouch would be nice, if only so the iPhone users don't look so silly trying to use the phone, though I prefer on screen controls so you can use the device with one hand.

What I'd rather see than this is constant optimization for the G1/Dream, which will benefit all devices. It would be a travesty if the G1/Dream were made obsolete by required new features before a few years pass.

Rogers Dream and Magic remain unrooted.

should be reinforced.. this plan is available to any subscriber to the $30/6gb plan, not just iphone users. Beware the brand name hype.