This video is only Nexus related as far as the demo running on that phone. It's more to show what an asshat Adobe's Flash evangelist is.
He claims they can run this Flash video for up to 3 hours on the phone. And he proclaims that proves that Flash isn't a factor with regards to battery power. Hmmm... The Nexus specs claim it can do 7 hours of video playback. Seems like going the Flash route may ding you after all....
The demo is also playing H.264 video.... Why would you want to wrap H.264 in Flash? If you're serving H.264 you can use the video tag which is natively supported by the webkit browser on the Nexus - and iPhone for that matter.
What happens to the battery when you're playing Sorenson Flash video? How about animated vector flash?
If Adobe is serious about Flash and even close to truthful about their roll as a company, which is to provide content creation tools, then they'd release the source to the runtime with a CC, BSD, GPL or whatever license. They could then try to push it as an open standard and maybe get some W3C action behind it, which may take 10 to 20 years. In the meantime however they may get browser vendors to write their own implementations if they feel it's important enough to support that type of content.
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