Comments on: Does the Apple iPad support Flash?

By: Rolly

Rolly — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 01:23:13 +0000

And no option to connect network cable..only wifi

By: Troy

Troy — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:21:06 +0000

IPad does not have flash… Apple’s gotta have a reason to sell you a 1,000 laptop at cheapest. I had the 64GB IPad and it didn’t support flash!! I took it back before the 2weeks was up suffered the restocking fee (15%!) added a little money and got a macbook air. Great Idea but without flash Just a huge slightly fancier IPhone

By: sam

sam — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:22:51 +0000

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.

By: sam

sam — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:15:29 +0000

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

By: Yupz

Yupz — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:30:52 +0000

Sad, isn’t it?

By: KeithLaub

KeithLaub — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:43:59 +0000

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.

By: quack

quack — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:22:38 +0000

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.

By: quack

quack — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:12:55 +0000

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! :(

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:13:36 +0000

I agree too. No flash, then I’ll be staying with a netbook.

By: Iandanger

Iandanger — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:45:38 +0000

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.