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This may surprise you but many people are still using old-ass web browsers and refuse to upgrade -- because they don't know any damn better. HTML5 will most certainly
not run on these browsers. Flash will.
Why would "Adobe weenies" deny that Flash has advantages? You're speaking nonsense.
I hate Flash, but I also know a few Flash developers, and they certainly are in no hurry to drop everything, spend time internalizing all the nuances of HTML5 so that they know it as well as they know Flash. After many years of working on one platform, and being very comfortable with its inner workings, it's very very hard to switch.
As an analogy: many people will tout the benefits of both Vim and Emacs; but try convincing a long-time Vim user to switch to Emacs. It just won't happen, period. The keybindings are too ingrained in their heads to be changed without much force.
Or to put it like Ballmer, it all comes down to DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS.