Regarding Flash, does any mobile OS actually have Flash baked in? iPhone doesn’t, near as I can tell. Flash is available for WinMo but doesn’t ship with it from Microsoft AFAIK. Symbian, maybe? In other words, the fact that *Android* doesn’t have Flash is no different than other major mobile OS’s. Of course, Flash at least exists and is licensable on WinMo, whereas it may not exist yet for iPhone or Android.

The Flash engine is still closed source, IIRC, so Flash might still be a binary blob that Android handset makers might choose to load, or possibly carriers might choose to load — not sure how those decisions get made.

So while it’s certainly worth some grousing that Flash might not be on the HTC Dream, I’m not sure it’s apropos to deposit that problem on Android’s doorstep outright. Ditto GPS, if indeed the Dream is lacking that.

Now, the GTalk API removal, on top of the XMPP removal from the M5 SDK, is interesting. While none of that prevents developers from doing it themselves via third-party JARs, it’d be nice if we got a little more info on the “security concerns” so those who *do* roll their own don’t cause problems.

And I pray to the high heavens the Bluetooth isn’t screwed up more than I’m thinking it is…