Seriously? If you don't want to raise the bar, well, you don't have to.

Easier to do one Flash implementation? Sure, maybe for the developer who wants to do things the way they've always done it before. For the user? Not so much. There's a reason the iPad can play video for 11 hours straight on one battery charge and you've touched on it. How long will the Droid (or other non-Apple device) play a movie without recharging?

If Safari's market share is so small, why is Adobe concerned?

Once again though, none of this is my point.

Apple has decided on doing things a more efficient way. You don't have to like it. You don't have to buy it. If Flash goes away and is replaced by something better and your non-Apple device achieves dramatically better performance will you still be complaining about how evil Apple is? Will you bemoan the loss of Flash? Probably not except that you apparently WANT the ability to block 80% of what comes out of really crappy software. Good for you. So why do YOU care that Apple users don't want to go through all this and PREFER to move on to something better?

There's a reason Windows 7 looks a lot like a Mac. There's a reason the iPhone revolutionized smart-phones and mobile computing. There's a reason the iPad sold 300,000 units on the first day (yeah, yeah, I know, we all drank the kool-aid.) Apparently, Flash is a piece of bad, unnecessary software that a lot of people don't care about.

Jihad? Really?