Apple's iPad keeping Adobe Flash away from your couch

Apple's freshly announced iPad is a lot of things to a lot of people, but it appears that it's not going to be the device that proves the appropriateness of Adobe Flash for enjoying rich media device on a mobile device. Better luck next time, Adobe!

[robski Posted Jan 29th 2010 11:46PM]

@STORYTELLERS

If you have 300 plus apps, then you just bought yourself a $1500 iPad.

[edf Posted Jan 28th 2010 2:22PM]

Am I the only one who felt Jobs presentation lacked sincere enthusiasm? Felt over-rehearsed, kinda like he felt he had to say phrases like "best Internet experience anywhere". He can't seriously believe that.

Flash has it's problems, but HTML 5 is still a ways off before it gets widespread adoption. In the meantime a lot of sites use it for product demos, etc. It will leave iPad folks in the dark.

[Chris Aubeck Posted Jan 28th 2010 2:35PM]

Rick Moranis: Honey, don't get mad but I've been tinkering with your iPod Touch...

[AnnaVannanna Posted Jan 28th 2010 3:02PM]

No Flash!!! I hope they remembered to make this Maxi iPad flushable!!!

[jeffburg Posted Jan 28th 2010 5:17PM]

thank god.

[Meproxsoft Posted Jan 29th 2010 6:44AM]

Flash works in my opinion well only on windows systems. If I open a website including flash on my macbook the fan starup very quckly. This is very disturbing a bit at a time. I can understand Apples decision to abstain from Adobe Flash.

[WindFreak Posted Jan 29th 2010 12:03PM]

So let me get this straight. People actually want the most used app for forcing advertisements on you against your will. Along with being user to inject trojans and key loggers on their machines?

I do everything I can to not use flash and hate the damn website that force the use of it.

I am more likely to get an ipad because it doesnt support flash.

[ewoods Posted Jan 29th 2010 6:43PM]

@WindFreak

FORCING advertisements on us? You make it sound like ads are a bad thing. As if the plethora of free content available on the internet, from news sites to the wide range of apps from Google and other companies, isn't brought to us free of charge because of ad revenue. If loading a few ads every time I hit a page means that I get what I want for free, that's a price I'm definitely willing to pay.

[Raffi256 Posted Jan 29th 2010 7:44PM]

Lacking Flash support sucks, but it just underscores the larger problem with the iPad, it's COMPLETELY LOCKED DOWN. Everything has to be approved by Apple and purchased through their one store. Maybe this was okay with a phone or mp3 player and people buying fart apps, but this is a large computer-like device.

[d1g174l Posted Feb 1st 2010 11:02PM]

Exactly. IPAD = BUYPAD