flash player with ipad on safari

Word. Well said.

I don't get the point here. I don't go to McDonalds and order a Whopper. I don't look at Honda Civics and ask if they come in a V12. Apple said no Flash.

Some individuals seem to think the rules should be different for the iPad for whatever reason.

cokeicee wrote:
never say never :P

Read this: http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

I think never is a good estimate 😉

The iPad commercial is misleading. "All of the world's websites in your hands"... Yeah Right! Unless you are trying to access the 95% of sites that use Flash, then you had better give up and find yourself a PC.

On a positive note....this "iPod" has a prettier screen than my last iPod.

jbalushi wrote:
......trying to access the 95% of sites that use Flash, then you had better give up and find yourself a PC.

Are you saying that 95% of all websites use Flash? Please cite your source for that statistic.

Thanks.

Meg St._Clair wrote:

jbalushi wrote:
......trying to access the 95% of sites that use Flash, then you had better give up and find yourself a PC.

Are you saying that 95% of all websites use Flash? Please cite your source for that statistic.

Thanks.

It was an exaggeration to stress my point. You can replace that with the actual percentage of sites using Flash and it will still support that fact that the big iPod does NOT put "All of the world's websites in your hands".

I paid Apple $850 in hopes that I could travel without my laptop. I was sorely mistaken. I should have researched it a little more thouroughly before purchasing. Had I done so, I would have just kept my iPod and spent the money on the new HP Slate.

Do not get me wrong. It is an awesome iPod, but not worth the $$$.

I have learned my lesson. I will not make any future leaps into the Apple world without extensive research and testimony from trusted sorces.

No flash player on any Apple device and never will. HTML5 is the future and flash is the pass. In 5 years or so most web sites will be on HTML5. It's better and fast.

RIP Flash.

Do not get me wrong. It is an awesome iPod, but not worth the $$$.

It's a ridiculously expensive iPod, but in view of the range of other capabilities, it is good value for money overall.

It's amazing how so many blithely quote how the lack of Flash means they can't access or use '95% of the web' when in reality the proportion of sites using Flash for anything more than advertising content and fluff is way lower than that - and reducing every day as more sites switch away from it.

I get why so many are fervently tied to old, inefficient and poorly implemented technology, but not why there is so much resistance to improving on it for everyone's benefit.

Good point but to "greatly improves flash performance" Adobe had to wait for Apple to open that API to plugin developers. As of 10.6.3 that's done and Adobe has released a beta version for Flash Player 10.1 named Gala. Apple and the OS still decide what gets accelerated 😉

By the way some Apple Pro Apps are not 64bit or even cocoa and iTunes is still carbon. Maybe Apple should lead the way in that regard.

To address that issue Flash on mobile devices will have an on-demand option. Where Flash content will load only if clicked. Also Flash is an app on Android that can be removed. I think is might not even be installed by default at launch. At least you get the option.

95% of websites?? Do you spend all your time on adult site? I guess you and I must visit a radically different web. I have flash block installed on my Mac and I'm not missing anything.

Tamara wrote:
95% of websites?? Do you spend all your time on adult site? I guess you and I must visit a radically different web. I have flash block installed on my Mac and I'm not missing anything.

You know you can just uninstall the Plugin, right?
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html