Most people are quick to criticize whatever Adobe does. Flash Player 10.1 is a lot faster on the Mac. I've been debugging with it (the debug player is much slower than the release version) and my Away3D content rarely dips below 30 fps. Venting personal frustrations is great but doesn't reflects everyone else's reality. I bought a netbook, mostly for my son to start using a computer. I trashed XP it came with and installed Ubuntu's NER. The ONLY reason I even considered using Linux was: it runs the Flash player. We can access cbeebies's website for games and shows and even stream it live. Here in the UK most TV content is available on-demand and all the providers use Flash to deliver. The availibility of Flash is one thing that can help push Linux adoption. You can develop flash content on Linux using third party tools like FDT. Try doing that for Apple's iOS Apps...

"Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf Philipp Weinmann succeeded in exploiting the iPhone in the first time slot. They exploited a Safari vulnerability with a payload which retrieved the text messages from the device. Charlie Miller (Twitter: 0xcharlie) competed successfully for the third year in a row, taking home the MacBook Pro via a Safari exploit which delivered a full command shell payload." In case you missed it " for the third year in a row"!!! Before blaming all the evils on the internets on Flash some companies got some hole plugin' to do :P http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2010/02/15/pwn2own-2010