Flash assumes a mouse, and much of what goes on in Flash games (and user interfaces) involves moving and ‘hovering’ the mouse in addition to clicking it. Touchscreens do NOT have the equivalent of a ‘hover’ state for the input device (your finger).

Each touch of a touch screen is (generally) going to be treated as some sort of ‘click’ event. This is a hugely important concept, as I have learned developing touch screen kiosks for visitor centers. There is no ‘rollover’ event either. You touch it, you select it.

New games designed for touch devices are going to blow us away and more than make up for losing many of the current ones.

There are other reasons to dislike Flash, which I could expound on since I have programmed in it for years, but don’t forget that many or most of these so-called ‘must have’ Flash games would not work on a touch device *anyway* !

Long live adoption of HTML5 and may Flash gradually retire as did the floppy drive.