Watching Flash/Online video on ipod *touch

You cannot. Flash is not supported on iPods or iPads.

That's just so wrong! Imho, it would be such a better product if it supported Flash. True, HTML5 and other things might provide an alternative but Flash is so ubiquitous that it's going to take a long time - if ever - for it to become obsolete. Again,imho, it's why I'd get a netbook over a iPad.

Well, Flash may not be ubiquitous for very long, but that begs the question of why you bought a Touch in the first place since the Flash support has been a quite public item. Furthermore, a Touch would never be considered a replacement for a computer regardless of Flash. And, you may find it difficult to put a netbook in your shirt pocket.

My touch is not intended to be a replacement for a computer - not even close. But it still would be better with Flash support.

And I can't put an iPad in my shirt pocket either, so as long as I'm carrying something, personally, I think a netbook's a better value.

As long as you don't care about weight and size, then why not skip the netbook and just get the laptop. Plenty of 13" models around including Macs, all of which support Flash.

Adobe does not make a Flash player for the ipod touch/iphone.

It seems unlikely that they ever will.

You can send feedback to Apple and/or Adobe about this if you like.

Adobe would love to make Flash for the iPod but Apple won't allow it. Google Steve Jobs Flash to see why SJ thinks Flash is unnecessary.

Michael

"Flash is unnecessary".

Except if you need to view a web page which uses it. Calling Flash buggy is fine, but when I can watch Hulu on my Android phone but not on my iPod Touch, the explanations don't cut it.

Hulu is available for iDevices:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hulu-plus/id376510438?mt=8