How do I get flash player on iPad.

The apple and flash thing goes all the way back to the early macromedia days sort of a family feud...

I love it when people create accounts just to post stupid stuff...

I love it when insecure people use forums as a place of confrontation.

Read up on the old company's macroMind-paracomp and authorware. MacroMind was an Apple Macintosh company that designed and developed software for Apple Macintosh computers including shockwave, the first incarnation of flash, then they merged with paracomp and authorware to form macromedia and switched there compatibility focus more to Microsoft as it was gaining by leaps in bounds over apple in sales and use. Of course we are talking early 90s you were probably just a baby.

Apples non flash stance has more to do with historic corporate feuding and face saving than it does with security concerns. Eventually apple will tuck their tail and incorporate flash. That's guaranteed

rache2005 wrote:

I love it when insecure people use forums as a place of confrontation.

Read up on the old company's macroMind-paracomp and authorware. MacroMind was an Apple Macintosh company that designed and developed software for Apple Macintosh computers including shockwave, the first incarnation of flash, then they merged with paracomp and authorware to form macromedia and switched there compatibility focus more to Microsoft as it was gaining by leaps in bounds over apple in sales and use. Of course we are talking early 90s you were probably just a baby.

Apples non flash stance has more to do with historic corporate feuding and face saving than it does with security concerns. Eventually apple will tuck their tail and incorporate flash. That's guaranteed

Why not provide links to this documentation?

including shockwave, the first incarnation of flash

ShockWave was not the first incarnation of Flash. Shockwave was a compressed version of MacroMind Director runtime files designed to be used on the web released in 1995.

Flash was originally FutureSplash Animator and was bought by MacroMedia in 1996. Director (ShockWave) and Flash remained seperate products only gaining a little compatibility over time.

Eventually apple will tuck their tail and incorporate flash. That's guaranteed

Really? You'd better tell Adobe that then, because they ceased development of Flash for mobile devices last year.

Just go to Wikipedia and look up MacroMind, this is just a flagrant plagiarism of what is written there. They added the parts about shifting to Microsoft and corporate feuding. I don't recall any corporate feuding with MacroMedia and Apple. And apparantly they read "Thoughts on Flash" and they know better than Mr. Jobs and his staff did about the situation. As for the last two sentences that is just from an inability to read apparently.

I remember macromedia well, so I already know what a piece of BS rache2005 posted. Thanks

If you download and use the Puffin browser app, your online flash games will work.

Do you really think that after over 1 year and 100 pages that no one has suggested this before?

rache2005 wrote:

I love it when insecure people use forums as a place of confrontation.

Read up on the old company's macroMind-paracomp and authorware. MacroMind was an Apple Macintosh company that designed and developed software for Apple Macintosh computers including shockwave, the first incarnation of flash, then they merged with paracomp and authorware to form macromedia and switched there compatibility focus more to Microsoft as it was gaining by leaps in bounds over apple in sales and use. Of course we are talking early 90s you were probably just a baby.

Apples non flash stance has more to do with historic corporate feuding and face saving than it does with security concerns. Eventually apple will tuck their tail and incorporate flash. That's guaranteed

Please explain how the last paragraph is supported by the preceding paragraphs.

By the way, I was an adult when Eniac was developed.

Heck, my original experience with FreeHand was back when Aldus was the publisher.

Philly_Phan wrote:

Heck, my original experience with FreeHand was back when Aldus was the publisher.

🙂

And I still miss Aldus Pagemaker from before Adobe got their nasty little hands on it.

Csound1 wrote:

Philly_Phan wrote:

Heck, my original experience with FreeHand was back when Aldus was the publisher.

🙂

And I still miss Aldus Pagemaker from before Adobe got their nasty little hands on it.

I never got comfortable with PM. My preference was Quark XPress.

Philly_Phan wrote:

Csound1 wrote:

Philly_Phan wrote:

Heck, my original experience with FreeHand was back when Aldus was the publisher.

🙂

And I still miss Aldus Pagemaker from before Adobe got their nasty little hands on it.

I never got comfortable with PM. My preference was Quark XPress.

I guess it depends where you start, I used Pagemaker for so long that I could operate it with the monitor switched off, Quark did everything some other way and I was always in a hurry then 🙂

I'm so old that my first computer had strings & beads, but was very 'Green'

Actually, I like Adobe. They do make some nice products. I'm real happy with Photoshop CS. Lightroom is also pretty good but Nikon's Capture NX2 is better with Nikon images.