Honestly, out of all the HTML5 > Flash rhetoric, this probably represents the greatest leap forward when comparing the two. It was really the ability to capture webcam data that made YouTube a success in the beginning. People who look at the YouTube HTML5 player and say, "Flash is dead!" seem to forget this valuable point.
So true. With both sides of the remote-face-delivery-portal implemented in HTML5, will the Flash (finally) end open up the internet for real creativity and minimal-capital moving content distribution?