It seems that many of the companies are banking on the fact that many of the new tablets coming out will support flash:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/busines...QOkAEn3lVNOX9O
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles..._to_flash.html
It also seems the cost of converting the existing libraries is another factor. The second link and the comments are interesting.