A screenshot showing aviary working because they made a quicktime video alternate? Aviary's whole platform is a stunning example of how awesome Flash really can be, it's a suite of cutting edge design tools done in Flash and they haven't ported those to the iPhone - check them out if you want, their apps are just amazing:
http://www.aviary.com
The 'games' they mention are not what TFB is showing either. Addicting Games (owned by MTV) is a casual game site with somewhere around a million daily visitors and 1000s of games you can just click to play, not apps you need to find, maybe buy, download and install.
Even if that process is streamlined it doesn't scale to the extent Flash game sites do where at any time your investment in any game is just a click and countless other games are also just a click away.
But the vast majority of flash games are useless on the iPhone and iPad, because they expect input mechanisms that those devices don't have. Though there's probably less variety, native games clearly provide a better experience because they are designed for the hardware.
Yes! It's extraordinary to me how much people forget this. Flash would be nice on the iPhone OS devices for movies, but a huge percentage of the games would be unplayable. No wonder Apple isn't interested.
In many cases you're right, Flash UI conventions are not going to generically hold true across the board for iPhones. A lot more would work than the current situation, where none do.
The 'games' they mention are not what TFB is showing either. Addicting Games (owned by MTV) is a casual game site with somewhere around a million daily visitors and 1000s of games you can just click to play, not apps you need to find, maybe buy, download and install.
Even if that process is streamlined it doesn't scale to the extent Flash game sites do where at any time your investment in any game is just a click and countless other games are also just a click away.