Adobe: We Love Choice

&#62;The $600 Flash authoring tool is the only way to produce Flash applications.<p>That statement is wrong. Anyone can create tools that can 'create' and/or 'run' swf files. Adobe itself provides Flex SDK cost free. It is an opensourced framework.<p><a href="http://osflash.org/projects" rel="nofollow">http://osflash.org/projects</a> has a list of opensource tools available to create flash content.

"The $600 Flash authoring tool is the only way to produce Flash applications."<p>FlashDevelop : Free. OS Flex Compiler : Free.<p>If you're going to flame, at least know what you're talking about.

Apple probably loves choice as well. They should have the choice to design their products as they wish. I have the choice to buy Apple's products if I wish.<p>If you need flash on your phone, don't buy an iPhone. Choice is great.

&#62;There’s many HTML rendering engine implementations, the best few are totally open source with Apple being the major contributor to the best one, WebKit.<p>Not so many people would agree that Webkit is the best HTML rendering engine (Gecko, KHTML or Opera, anyone?).