If Nokia had NO brain at all, it would switch to Android, abandoning their still dominant platform (~40% worldwide marketshare), giving up control on the OS and becoming just another me-too phone manufacturer, just another Sony Ericsson.

MORE IS NOT ALWAYS BETTER BUT IT OFTEN IS. And it's exactly why Apple added features to its iPod over the years. DUH!

Sounds like Communism.

Bingo! It's Microsoft versus Java all over again.

Millions of smartphone users don't own the "highest ranked smartphone" and they are not suffering any ill either. What's your point? Of course Adobe makes it sound more important than it is actually is. Of course it is not critically important to web users. But still, it frustrates me every time I visit a website with my iPod Touch and realize the menu, or some other component of the site, is not working. Now, when I need to do a "quick surf", I tend more and more to do it with my Nokia 5800 XM -- I have the *option* to turn Flash on.

Well duh! But so what? When a developer chooses to use Flash or whatever tech to implement his software, there are reasons behind the choice. If the native API can do something another API can't and the developer really needs that extra capability, he will naturally choose the native API. We don't need Steve Jobs to tell us what's best for us and, yeah, control OUR destiny.

"You expect me to listen to a man wax lyrical on the nature of war after he's spent an hour running around with a cardboard box over his head, and then take all this seriously?" You obviously don't appreciate japanese humour.

The original iPhone was pretty cool. Compared to what's out there now, just 2.5 years later, not so much.

An Apple lair king talking down the competition. Who would have thought?

"getting killed by Apple" It's amazing how much Apple fanboys love to speak in hyperbole.

So by that logic, the iPhone OS is pushing Android out of the market?

I was wondering when the bribing speculation was going to come out. Thanks for making my day -- I can sleep well tonight.