First, the metaphor of the divorced family gathering in dining room and kitchen, while it may have added some rhetorical drama, did so at the expense of unnecessary emotional baggage for some readers, for which I apologize.

Second, I need to be clear that Apple’s allusions to Flash performance issues are likely groundless, given that the Flash player has historically been among the lightest weight and most responsive user-facing technology, compared to heavier browser plug-ins (such as Java and Silverlight). When faced with the usual tradeoff of speed versus quality, Flash has opted for speed (as in the case of Flash video, which coarse but fast, and a key reason behind YouTube’s early success). Battery life is another concern, but there are plenty of battery-draining programs on the iPhone already.

Third, it is worth noting that Flash-on-iPhone mechanism relies in part on the LLVM compiler technology, that, ironically, Apple also uses in OS/X and XCode (along with other companies such as Sun and NVidia). See this link for more information: http://www.llvm.org/Users.html