Why doesnt the ipad support adobe flash player?

Because Adobe stopped making Flash for *all* mobile devices.

No Flash for iPads, iPhones, or iPods

Here's why there's is no Flash available for iDevices or other mobile devices. Adobe was unable to provide a product that was suitable to the needs of battery powered mobile devices used for Internet browsing. Existing Flash technology used too much memory, ate battery life, and was buggy. Simply put Flash did not work well on mobile devices.

Apple's Steve Jobs led the escape from Flash dependency when Apple introduced the iPhone, and later introduced the iPad. There was a hue and cry over the omission. Time proved Jobs was right on target.

So this is why there is no Flash for your iPhone or iPad or iPod nor for most SmartPhones. Flash has been abandoned by many sites in favor of supported technologies such as HTML5 or by providing their own custom app.

Here is Steve Jobs official comment on his momentous decision to omit Flash from iDevices: Steve Jobs on Flash.

Here is Adobe's later announcement to cease development of Flash for mobile devices: Adobe on Mobile Flash. Adobe is not providing Flash for Apple iOS devices, and they no longer provide Flash for any other cellular phones. Flash is officially gone.

Now, you are not necessarily out on a limb. There are some apps that can display some Flash, but don't count on there ability to display anything using Flash.

A sample of Apps that can display some Flash content:

1. Puffin

2. SkyFire

3. Photon Flash

4. Browse2Go

5. Swifter

Also, note that many sites that use Flash provide their own app for accessing their material. So check with your favorite sites and find out if "there's an app for that."

Short answer: Apple believed it to be to buggy, a resource hog and a security risk. Adobe eventually agreed and has stopped all development of flash for any mobile devices.

If there is flash content you absolutely need and the web site is not savvy enough to have converted over to mobile friendly format you can download a third party browser that intercepts your web page request, sends it to their servers and converts the flash to stuff that works on your device.

Photon, puffin, iswifter, skyfire all claim to work with flash content.

The iPad natively does not support flash. You will have to download a flash supported browser on the iPad to run flash. This might help: http://ipadnerds.com/flash-for-ipad-all-gens/