Let's look at the facts:
The guy is showing a prototype device that's encased in Lexan plastic, no less. Repeat --prototype device.
Even if Flash supposedly crashed --and there's zero evidence from the video that Flash crashed-- how do you (and others) leap to this "Adobe must fix this!" mantra? Is this a production tablet? Has everything been finalized and optimized in it? It's akin to putting a motherboard on a bread box.
I see a web browser that just happens to be on a youtube page and running a video --while the guy is scrolling up and down with his right hand and moving his other hand on the screen as well, and the browser disappears off-screen. He then hits the Contacts icon, and you get the contacts info onscreen.
I see no message about the browser having an issue and having to restart (which I would expect). I see no other indication of an error. One the one occasion something crashed my Android-based phone, the phone rebooted. I don't see that happening on this prototype.
On my Android phone, if I'm playing an App (browser or otherwise) and I hit the Home button instead of the back button, I go to the main screen. There's no taskbar with running apps on the bottom like Windows. There's an indication at the top of the phone of things that are running but I haven't figured out (yet) how to quickly get back to the app I was running without going through the process of bringing up the "Apps" icon and finding the App again.
The reporter verifies that this is the same behavior on the tablet:
"*Update: Just wanted to clarify, flash didn?t crash here, I just accidentally hit the ?home? button while I was really trying to hit the ?back? button. Android users know that you get an error message if an app crashes, I know because I have a Nexus One. There?s hidden home,back, and power buttons (on the side of the prototype) u do not see in the videos/photos, sorry if that confused any readers."
So it appears to me that you want to believe what you want to believe about it, without any real evidence to the contrary.
Here's a short video from the SAME REPORTER showing Flash video running on the prototype:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttn1G0Kw62o&feature=player_embedded
The bottom line is that there's absolutely NO way one could reasonably deduce that this --even if it was a so-called crash-- can be attributed to Flash. Using that logic, say I'm viewing a web page here on Cnet and my PC throws up a blue screen. Am I to automatically say "Cnet causes blue screens!". Come on...
I'm no big fan of Flash, but fair is fair. And this attempt to either denigrate it or a prototype Android-based tablet is patently unfair.