How do I get flash player on iPad.
How do I get flash player on iPad?
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please call off the discussion as it was started on Apr 21, 2011 4:13 PM
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If you and others, including me, stop posting to this thread it will just die. But this post will help keep it alive for a few more minutes 😉
Adobe ceased development because iOS continues to be so dominant, especially on tablets (because iPads are awesome) and Apple effectively got their way. I would have done the same as Adobe. They are not a massive company and it would make no commercial sense to keep investing in Flash Mobile when such a large part of the market is prevented from using it.
iOS market share for both tablets and smartphones is going down - not up. Android marketshare is going up. So that "large part of the market" is actually decreasing.
What put the nail in the coffin for Flash on Android is the effort required and expense of making it for an already fragmented OS. That fragmentation is only going to get worse as more and more Android based devices are released, running all different versions of Android on quite different hardware.
iOS devices have never had Flash - so Adobe is saving nothing by 'stopping development' of something that didn't exist in the first place.
Fact is, and you can read it here, Adobe realised that Flash really isn't best suited for mobile, and HTML5 is the way forward, after trying it for a couple of years. And that's what they are focussing on.
You make a good point about the fragmented Android market and I agree with that. However, I don't believe that Adobe would have made that decision if Flash was 'universally supported across all mobile devices", in the same way as HTML5. We'll never know I guess.
Setting aside the tech argument: there are many iPad owners who only really care about the fact that their iPads don't run rather a lot of websites properly and don't really care which technology those websites are developed in. Personally speaking, that's the main reason why my iPad remains a (much-loved) compliment to my home laptop rather than a complete replacement.
Ok.....I can't read through this entire thread. I want to order some tickets off of a site that requires flash. Is there a way to use this site on my iPad, or am I unable to use any website that requires flash? I am not pro or anti flash......I just want to be able to use any website I wish.
Read the first page. Force yourself. Nothing new has been added since.
There is no flash for the ipad, so your answer is no
A website using flash for financial transactions? Bad news from a security standpoint.
johndaily wrote:
Killed on IOS only.
Only if iOS is also Android (jokes aside) and all other mobile OSs, then you are correct.
Was watching cartoons with the kids this morning and a commercial came up about fruity pebbles and a game you can play online.
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And sure enough, couldn't play it, had to grab my sons galaxy tab.
Why not download the iOS app?
Grabbed the iPad, knowing I had a 1 in a million chance it would be playable since the web on iPad is useless.
and yet, 65% of those using the web with mobile devices happen to be using iOS. (with Android coming in at a whopping 19%. Most of those are probably playing the fruity pebbles game. 😁)
BobTheFisherman wrote:
If you and others, including me, stop posting to this thread it will just die. But this post will help keep it alive for a few more minutes 😉
This thread is now all about the "I can't use the REAL Internet on iOS devices, so Apple is evil and Android rules" crowd trying to save face. They refuse to accept the fact that Flash is no longer supported on mobile OSs going forward. For five years now they have been bashing iOS as inferior, substandard, unusable because it doesn't support Flash. They have invested their egos in arguing that Flash will remain the video standard on the web for decades to come and iOS users are stupid for buying Apple products. Flash has been their rallying cry, their main talking point, their reason for being. And it all went up in smoke last week when Adobe annouced that beginning August 15 Flash would no longer be available for download on Android and that Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) would not be supported at all.
So the backtracking, retribution, faulty logic, blame game is in full swing here. And, of course, it's all Apple's fault.
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lkrupp wrote:
For five years now they have been bashing iOS as inferior, substandard, unusable because it doesn't support Flash.
And they were right for 5 years.
Chris,
Nice image, and looks like mobile safari is dominant.
But in the proper context... you can see it is a very small player.
| 2012 | Win7 | Vista | NT* | WinXP | Linux | Mac | Mobile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June | 53.2% | 3.7% | 1.1% | 26.2% | 5.0% | 8.6% | 1.6% |
So having 60% of that 1.6% put's it at a wopping 0.90% of all internet traffic.
| 2012 | Total | iOS * | Android | Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June | 1.63 % | 0.90 % | 0.52 % | 0.21 % |
Add in the desktop version of Safari and you're still below 5%
| 2012 | Total |
|---|---|
| June | 4.1 % |
Wanna talk about impressive numbers, Windows makes up 84.2% of all computers in the world, now that's impressive.
johndaily wrote:
Chris,
Nice image, and looks like mobile safari is dominant.
But in the proper context... you can see it is a very small player.
Relative to what I responded to ("1 in a million chance it would be playable since the web on iPad is useless.") (emphasis mine)
So it looks like there are three times more iPad/iPhone users doing absolutely nothing on the internet than Android users.
Does the Windows percentage also count people who use Linux all the time but their original OS was Windows?
I found this thread after trying to get a DreamWorks flash website working on my iPad. After reading all the brilliant, yet childish BS here I tried to access the DreamWorks flash website on my Droid and it worked perfectly. So no matter how much market share iOS has, or how loyal Apples fan base is, the simple answer is that my iPad isn't able to do what my Droid can.
How do I get flash player on iPad.