Android 2.2 'Froyo' to Have Baked-In Flash Support

Here's my cynical take on it:

I think it's stupid. I think Andy Rubin is stupid. This seems like it was done for the sole purpose to try and frame Apple's decision to not allow a proprietary 3rd party platform with a miserable track record in virtually every conceivable metric as an "evil" decision rather than actually make Android any better.

It reminds me of the people who called Apple evil for not supporting interchangeable audio DRM (it'd be a lot more 'open' if we used PlaysForSure!) instead of just thinking long term and I don't know... abolishing it.

I don't think anyone on the Android development team sees Flash as a viable platform for mobile content. (It ain't.) If they do it's a little ironic.

And uh Andy- Android is already suffering from massive fragmentation, poor quality control standards, and lagging application quality. Adding Flash to the platform is like inviting an recovering heroin addict into a family on the verge of divorce.