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I've been "using" Flash on my Nexus One for about 3 weeks now. Before I go on, Flash is optional as in use the "On Demand" feature. This prevents it from loading until you want it. Why don't you know about this? Are you being truthful in your post?

To address your no comment about videos and touch input, which is only showing your ignorance, try any of Vimeo's video content. It's already been updated for Android. It works great. But maybe I shouldn't take your comment about Flash video so literal. Were you using that as a blanket statment for all Flash content, weather it's used for video, animations, applications, etc.?

Your comment about touch input in general is also completely farce and doesn't add up with reality. It was disproven early on;
http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2010/05/12/top-flash-misperceptions-flash-cannot-run-on-touch-devices/

There are a few video examples on this site showing touch input with Flash; http://theflashblog.com/

On the topic of input and Flash, I noticed that Flash games that uses the arrow keys, are handled by my Nexus One's trackball. Try games like Flash Pac Man to see this in action -- a game that was never intended for a portable, but yet it works and controls perfectly on my Nexus One;
http://www.thepcmanwebsite.com/media/pacman_flash/

I'm looking at the BBC player right now. I found a sneak peek video of "The Choir" -- never heard of this show. I selected fullscreen mode and I'm not having any problem sliding the progress bar, let alone pausing and adjusting the volume and I have fat fingers. What's your excuse?

Conclusion? What? The only thing conclusive here is your ignorance. Do you even understand what Flash actually is? I'm assuming no, because your comments are as if all Flash content is set in stone and it can't be reworked/tailored for other platforms, which is the farthest thing from the truth.

Anyways, Jobs was hardly right when it comes to other platforms and Flash -- especially the Nexus One, but when it comes to his portable iDevices he's probably telling the truth, considering my 2G Touch can't even display a wallpaper with this iOS 4 update, I guess it wouldn't be able to handle Flash either.

http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/lunar_lander_game.html

http://sebleedelisle.com/games/moonlander/

http://www.thepcmanwebsite.com/media/lunar_lander/

It reminds me of an 80's joke. If video games influenced behaviour then kids that grew up playing Pacman would spend their freetime running around rooms, eating pills and listening to repetive music.

At last, my years of effort poured into this anti-worker security application are validated! Soon it will be in cubicals everywhere, preventing work.

Here's a sneak preview.
http://www.thepcmanwebsite.com/media/pacman_flash/

Practice/simulations here

Apparently.

I don't want a better popup blocker (AFAIK - It is absolutely perfect as is!)