Gruber's take on the Apple/Flash situation.

I'm not a Flash fan either. Partly the proprietary thing, partly the way that it hogs resources. Partly the way it's abused by online advertising, partly the way it's abused by designers to do things that can be done perfectly well using web standards (which should get more interesting with HTML5...)

I suppose the main point I'd add to Gruber's post is that Apple's history shows that, given the choice between doing something mediocre and not doing it, they just don't do it. Which is why I'm not expecting to see Flash appear on a "closed" Apple platform like the iPhone any time soon. After this long, the appearance would be worth of an announcement, and Apple aren't going to announce something that's not just "not great", but would be best described with adjectives like "buggy", "juddery", "slow" or "unusable" (which describe Flash implementations on other mobile platforms.)