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When will there be a flash player for iPad or & ipod

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Posted on May 31, 2010 3:07 AM

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Jun 6, 2010 3:09 PM in response to Johnathan Burger

Johnathan Burger wrote:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20006893-83.html

yep, Microsoft needs to keep supporting flash-otherwise how are hackers going to continue making a living 😉


Javascript! Its a great tool on it's own for XSS attacks, etc... Add some Ajax and you are golden! It's also great to snif internal networks. Just look up Pown to Own for a run down: basically the only browser not hacked out of the box was Chrome (so far). Also JSCon2010 had some nice talks about security issues in JS. The best part: Apple and Google are helping hackers run their malicious code even faster. The number one threat to security is the illusion of security: rule of thumb if it's online it can be hacked.

Jul 24, 2010 3:22 AM in response to Tomm0457

The lack of flash for the iPad is now starting to be a bit of an irritating chore.

There is a critical mass of websites used in everyday life which have flash. My gym's new website is all flash, so on the way there the other day I was unable to find out what time the classes started. I just went to an interesting link on the BBC Panorama website, to watch a short video - please download flash.

Either Adobe needs to quickly develop an acceptable working flash solution for mobile devices, or Apple needs to contribute some of it's billions made by selling these devices, to companies who need to pay for the redesign of their websites to remove flash content.

Jul 24, 2010 11:26 AM in response to Tamara

100 million? What's the breakdown on that? Figures I've seen suggest around 60 million for iPhones and 3 million for iPads. So, I guess there must be 40 million Touch users?
The thing is, with the iPhone and Touch, no-one (including me) was/is really bothered about no Flash, but the iPad is a very different case. 3 million isn't really that many to justify redesigning all Flash based web-sites. I mean what percentage of those accessing the web is that?

Jul 24, 2010 5:02 PM in response to igmackenzie

Don't be fooled by OS numbers, that includes business numbers where you aren't supposed to be accessing personal sites and home computers where people use their Windows computer with their iOS device. And, in a marketing database, with most people with an Apple product you are looking at people with a higher level of disposable income.

So if a site can ignore 100 million potential customers they must be doing very well indeed in this harsh economy.

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