- Flash as outdated as a floppy disk drive

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is not gracious in his statements.

The fact that Apple CEO Steve Jobs is not particularly fond of Adobe's Flash technology has become well known in the past. He will, among other things, have said that the Flash, at least for the Mac, is full of errors and that the software is the cause of most of the crashes that Mac users are experiencing.
During a meeting in January with employees in the Wall Street Journal, which has a lot of Flash-based content on its website, the Jobs have resorted to perhaps even stronger words. It reports the news service Valleywag in an article that links to WSJ.com.
During the meeting shall Jobs have said that Flash is a big eater of CPU power, a source of security holes and not least, a dying technology.

- We do not use much energy on old technology, the Jobs have said, before he compared to Flash with outgoing technologies like the floppy drive, CD, old computer, ports and LCD monitors with CCFL-based (Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp) backlight instead of the LED (Light-Emitting Diode).
Jobs will also have said that the battery time to Plate machine iPad would have been reduced from 10 to 1.5 hours if it had used the processor to decode Flash. Apple promises that the iPad will be used for ten hours under full use, including video playback.

Regardless, there is little doubt that Adobe's position is about to be challenged on many sides for the time.
Browser users already have for years complained that the Flash-based ads on sites that cause browser closest to kneel under the strain - at least if you open more than a small handful of pages in different tabs. Considering that it usually only speak simple animations, it is a bit strange that this can happen on even powerful, modern computers. 
I  mentioned this problem to Adobe Flash evangelist in Europe, Enrique Duvos, for almost a year ago. He said that he was totally unfamiliar with this issue.
Adobe Flash Player has also been hit by several vulnerabilities in recent years. But if Jobs mentions this, he throws rocks at glass house he is in. Apple's QuickTime software was of the Danish security company CSIS voted the greatest security risk in 2007. This situation seems to have gotten better over the years, the last year gave Apple carried out three security update to QuickTime 7, while the number was eight in 2007.
Like the Flash Player QuickTime for most of a browser plug-in that is required to play certain types of content on websites.
On the technology front challenged besides Flash Player by increasingly HTML5-based solutions, not least from Google and Apple. Microsoft fights also about some of the same market with the company's Silverlight technology, which in any case preferred by many Windows developers. It has not been affected by very many known security holes.
Others believe Plug-dependent Web content is an abomination that matter should be avoided, not least because this hampers the possibilities to display the same content on all platforms, which are part of the goal with HTML and other Web standards.