Does the Apple iPad support Flash?
Gadgets, iPad | Hans | January 27, 2010 at 1:14 pm
In case you didn’t notice, Apple recently announced the iPad tablet in Yerba Buena. They are still demoing different features on it, but while they loaded the National Geographic website it appeared to have loaded a flash ad. The iPad may support flash! If this is true then that means the iPhone and iPod touch will get flash too since they are also running on the iPhone OS.
You can check out the iPad specs that have been released so far here.
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It’s funny, because I posted on another website that I would only get an ipad if it had flash, whoops.
I suspect Apple may decide they are better off selling videos through iTunes than opening the free video-streaming online universe to its users…
Sorry but no camera… no hulu… equals no sale for me. Looks nice but its not what I’m looking for. I have an ipod already.
it still does not have flash look their demo video on thier website and see the newyork times website and it is not moving like it normally does showing that it if a false demo… steve you are a great marketer but thats it… keep showing the sheep the way
Hate to break it to you buddy, but if you go to the new york times on an ipod, the entire site renders identically to the iPad demo. Thats because the NYT uses multiple versions of their site that the browser detects. You do not need flash of any sort to run the NYT site 100% accurately, people just seem to be making this stuff up at thispoint
who cares what that rag of a paper has on their website anyway!
the point here is that the plucking ipad doesnt have flash support! :(
Worthless without Flash.
Agreed
I agree too. No flash, then I’ll be staying with a netbook.
We need Flash support but is doesn’t look good!
According to Wired, and anyone who saw the Steve Jobs demo, it appears that it does not. “In the web demo, you could see a broken plugin icon on NYTimes site. Does that mean there’s no Adobe Flash support on iPad?
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/01/apple-tablet-event/
the ipad does not support flash. I actually went to the national Geo website on my iphone to look at the ad and it was there on my iphone meaning it was not really flash……
No flash, no iPad. Moving on.. I am still very upset the iphone does not support flash.
Steve is right. I’m not sure where this headline came from on Quickpwn, because watching the demo there was definitely a missing plug in icon displayed on the NY Times site, as Steve said.
This is also odd, because if that is something that is “missing”, why would Jobs use that site to demo the iPad, knowing that its going to show this “weakness”?
Even the cheapest netbooks run Flash fine in the browser.
Wake up Apple.
Agree.
But the iPad clouds over all other netbook just because it’s an apple product….
I feel bad for those who buy this over other touch screen netbook…
I don’t, have you seen other touch screen netbooks? They’re poorly constructed piles of ugly and bad engineering. And Christ 9/10 of them are running on awful resistive screens. Its 2010, and while Apple didn’t hit the nail on the head, this is the first machine that has sufficient A. power, B. battery life, and C. a nice enough screen. mos of the problems are software related (Flash, Multitasking, Being limited to Apples store, Not being able to customize the appearance or the heads up screen). Thats not to say there aren’t issues (name, lack of physical USB and SD card slots, lack of camera) but at least Apple opened up access to the 30 pin port when they did the last iPhone software update. You’ll be able to get a video camera dongle for the 30 pin connector. You can already plug in your sd card to the adapter (great because I like my camera a whole lot more than I like my iphone camera). I know not being able to use usb peripherals is annoying, but the thing at least supports the bluetooth apple mouse, so you have one way of bringing a hardware keyboard with you. Not quite as cool as mounting accessories, but whatever, I don’t need to manage my iphone from my iPad…through lame assed cables, bring on the itunes OTA syncing!
Just look at the competition: the JooJoo, 500 bucks gets you a plastic hunk thats twice the weight and 4 gigs of storage, plus it only runs a web browser and it only gets 5 hours of battery life. Appple just ate the JooJoo’s lunch, now the only people who buy it will be doing so directly to spite apple. The HP Slate: Still hasn’t materialized. Archos Android 7″ Tablet: Best price, but smaller and with its own set of limitations (much slower processor, no 3g, also no flash). Dell Mini 5: Somehow manages to split the smartphone/tablet difference and be just a little too big for your pocket but also too big to view full web pages unimpeded. Plus its from dell. You can also include weird new devices that may or may not be released like the Motion Ink Adam (display straight up isn’t ready for release yet. In 5 years, you’ll see them everywhere, thats just how screen tech works). Lenovo UI: 2 words: Resistive Screen. Plus, 1,000 bucks for a computer thats not a great computer, and not a great tablet. And all we’ve seen was a concept, not sure what the final product will look like.
As you may have noticed, I’ve spent way too much time responding to this post, but its just because I’d like people to remember that the iPad is in a very early niche market that has yet to take off due to engineering mistakes and other persistent problems. The iPad does its part to screw itself, but at the end of the day, its by far the best tablet experience you can get at its price range, and its powerful as hell to boot.
Not saying I’m buying a 1st gen, but plenty of people will especially if apple fixes their software issues.
Sad, isn’t it?
I think the largest pitfall in ipad sales will be the lack of camera, flash, and built in notetaking (aka pen) capabilities. Without these I know I won’t be buying.
I think adobe is planning saving compatible flash for iphones… so it’s only a question of time
sorry I just read adobe that this is not going to help viewing web content with flash pages, it will help flash developers save their flash files as iphone native apple :-(
I am Sure, Flash work on IPad…Camera GPS ect will also on the next Gen. IPad. All you need to prepare to buy it. Great fun!!! Enjoy your life
I’m’ not so sure. the only reason flash isn’t on OS3 is because all the iDevices below 3rd gen dont really have enough ram and processing power to handle it.
If iPad does not suppoprt Flash & Divx = USELESS
what i want from the ipad : flash, and to be able to modify the startup boot scripts to launch the flash directly. not sure if i like the iphone OS idea :(. infact i dont.
i wish they just made this OSX with some kind of other window manager for their fancy gesture support and menus.
would open up way more possibilities.
If I were to buy it, I would certainly use it to watch movies while traveling and as an ebook reader, but 90% of the time I’d us it as a quick, lightweight, convenient way to browse the internet from my couch without firing up my huge desktop-replacement laptop.
Checkmarks on the first two, but a lack of Flash plug-in support on their browser is a deal-breaker for me. Flash is used to enhance too many of the sites I frequent.
I’m sure they’ll do more than fine without me, but my wallet’s staying closed until Flash support is available on their browser. I can’t justify the purchase if the main thing I’d buy it for is stunted, especially for what I see as a purely restrictive business practice.
The reason why ipad dose not support flash I think is that; the near feature of video and audio is HTML5. You Tube now support their videos in HTML5. It should not be another reason why ipad dose not support flash
What You Tube say about HTML5? YouTube HTML5 Video Player
This is an opt-in experiment for HTML5 support on YouTube. If you are using a supported browser, you can choose to use the HTML5 player instead of the Flash player for most videos. Your comments will help us improve and perfect the mixtures we’re working on. So jump in, play around, and send your feedback directly to the brains behind the scenes.