OK, I admit it. I never liked Flash. But Apple isn’t killing Flash. Google is.
Back when I sold ‘real’ animation software I hated it. Computer geeks idea of making stuff move on a screen really was the absolute worse way of doing it. I objected to it as an animation tool. Then I started getting annoyed at Flash as the cause of all those ridiculously complicated websites which took forever to load and didn’t really tell you anything.
I felt the need for content. Content isn’t king, it is our bread and butter. And while corporate websites got FLASHier (pun intended) they got less and less interesting in terms of content. It was like a one page brochure on nice shiny paper. Almost useless, you can’t even use it for starting the fireplace in winter.
Which is why blogs took over. Google likes blogs better than Flash sites. And people find content through search. At least if you are interested in attracting new customers. Having a flash based website you end up paying for SEO to achieve what? If someone enters your brand name, your official website appears near the top of search results. Which is like saying that if someone opens the physical copy of yellow pages, when they get to your listing they see you!
What you really need is to appear next to relevant topics. And Flash doesn’t do that. Wordpress does. Or any other mechanism that puts the emphasis on content. So rather than spending through the nose to try and make your flash website more SEO friendly, just start a blog next to it!
Your flash website is like your business card. Flashy and almost useless but it gives a better (safer) sense of your brand. And the blog is like your newsletter. Less aesthetically pleasing but with more juicy content, worth revisiting. I predicted the demise of Flash back in 2007 but here I am now in some ways backing it. There is no good reason to go tearing down work already done on the platform 98% of connected computers use! Just because Steve Jobs and a bunch of iPhone touting fashion maniacs in California say you should? (Remember than iPhone penetration is much much lower in most of the rest of the planet.)
I still don’t like flash by the way.