How do I get flash player on iPad.

Some of the developers have dedicated apps, like Farmville, Bejeweled, Margaritaville, etc for the iPad and/or iPhone that integrate with your Facebook account, so everything that happens is updated across all platforms.

Jim

I'm sure Adobe still would love to supply a solution, but they have not been able to produce one, to date. "okay" is not the kind of experience I want.

Let's just say it yet again: Adobe have publicly announced that they have ceased development of Flash for ALL mobile platforms. So no, they would not love to supply a solution. Not for Apple, Not for Google, not for Microsoft, or anybody else.

Will this issue EVER go away? For all you "Flash wantabees, it is what it is". Do your homework next time you buy into the Apple World.

"Actually, Apple is the one that decided to not allow Flash on it's devices."

Correct.

" I'm sure Adobe would love to supply a solution considering the sheer quantity of Apple devices out there"

And they tried for over two years working directly with Apple engineers on it but failed to bring anything useful to fruition.

It will never go away...ever ever ever lol (Mcaby why do you follow this thread if it drives you so crazy. I'm am not specifically interested in Flash, but rather all the applications and websites that still do use Flash. I don't care if they use a "donkey pulling a bucket" technology, if a huge portions of the web apps I like to use did use that, then I would want "donkey pulling a bucket" support for the iPad.

And, yes it seems Adobe has stopped all development for mobile devices. Yet, my point was that Apple and Steve Jobs made a specific decision to NOT support Flash on the iPad. If I had software that Apple said would not ever run on an iPad, I too would stop all development for it, as it would be a waste of my time. As for phones, the bottom line is many websites and Flash don't work very well. New standards and the addition of a phone friendly portion of the website are generally the best answer. Plus I'd imagine any Windows based tablets do support anything Windows supports aka Flash.

Why is it that people feel the need to tell us 1) what we want is silly and 2) posting on an Apple forum to answer an Apple question is the wrong place to discuss it? This is me doing my research. Should I do my research on CarFakeGadjects.com instead?

Tonefox: If you had a product and a possible market at least 200 million tablets as customers, if you had any business sense, you would absolutely like to have your products on that platform. From what Chris said above, they tried for 2 years without success. It sounds like they DID want to be on the iPad.

Tonefox: Also, Adobe just announced on Nov 9th, 2011 (after supporting Flash on many mobile devices) that they are now going to focus on (yes another Adobe product and HTML 5) moving forward. http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2011/11/flash-focus.html So Flash did support many mobile devices (and wanted to) and now they want to support the same devices with Adobe Air. It's unreasonable to think they wouldn't want to be on the iPad or that they are in any way ignoring all the mobile devices. Heck it has been just over 2 months since that announcement and people make it sound like they never supported mobile and never will.

There is a problem with your spin Jim545.

Yet, my point was that Apple and Steve Jobs made a specific decision to NOT support Flash on the iPad.

As was mentioned, Apple supported Adobe for a number of years with Apple engineers assisting Adobe engineers to develop a mobile version of Flash that worked within the parameters of the iOS. Adobe failed, even with Apple's help. At which point Apple said that it was time to move on and support what does work within the parameters of what Apple wanted the iOS devices to be able to do. The decision of which you speak, was taken after Adobe had quite an opportunity to provide a product and ultimately failed.

A product that has worked so well, BTW, on other mobile devices and platforms, that Adobe has abandoned further development altogether.

Wow. You're talking sematics while this person just spent lots of money on what basically is a toy. You can't rely on the iPad for school or business because flash is needed. The Linux community has lots of code to translate flash while having a small footprint and apple can have it for free. However, the company is raking in cash and they no longer care about their customers. Bottom line: don't waste your money on this toy. Buy a MacbookAir or something that does the job.

I no longer go to school (I do not need a doctorate, and I already have enough money.) But I use my iPad daily in my business and not as a toy. I also carried it with me for three weeks in DEC on a vacation to the US; San Antonio to LA, LA to Seattle, Seattle to Chicago and Chicago to Dallas, all by train. The iPad and my iPhone were all that I had with me. I was always in contact with my extended family in Mexico; voice, video and text and well entertained besides. I have no needs for Flash. The iPad is a great device.

Dahveed: Read the Steve Jobs Biography, check out the launch. It was a purposeful choice by Apple to not include it. Steve Jobs always wanted complete control over the Apple hardware and software and generally, that is exactly what he got. I'm not sure exactly where the quote about" them trying to get it to work for two years and failed came from". Common sense says if two huge innovate companies like Adobe and Apple wanted it to happen, it would have happened. Don't tell me they can make an iPad but not get Flash to work. That is plain silly. Apple has made an amazing and innovative device (well devices). I'm a fan. At least you sign your posts with fanboi 🙂. I'm more pragmatic. When I get a device, it is for a purpose. I'd really like an iPad but it won't do 20% of what I want to do without Flash. So I'll have to make that decision. The market is going to move away from Flash towards HTML5 and that is good. http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cp-flash/all/all shows their market shrinking, but still 25% of websites out there use Flash. Doesn't matter if we like Flash or not. That is a lot of websites 🙂

When you buy your new shiney sports car, you are going to be pretty upset if it doesn't go to 25-30% of the places you may want to go. You can drive home but can't go to work. The supermarkets near you aren't accessible, but your new shiney car can go to the next town, no problem. Oh darn, can't go to the hospital.

I expect the car to do what was advertised. I'm sure that I am older than most here and I'm from the time that I didn't need to do my homework before buying from Apple because it was Apple. That was enough. Now, Apple is acting more like Microsoft than the company that gave people great tools to work with.

Jim, you are making assumptions about what you think two large companies can do, the problem is that there was no will on Adobe's part to actually get Flash right for the Mac and ultimately for iOS. Go back and study the history of Adobe with regard to Apple and the Mac and you will see that Adobe basically abandoned the company that made it what it was. Adobe would not exist if not for Apple. Adobe was nothing until Apple adopted Postscript as the basis for laser printers. And later Next adopted Postscript as the basis for the entire desktop. And both Apple and Next paid huge royalties to Adobe for Postscript. But Adobe abandoned Apple and the Mac and saw great profits if it switched camps and threw itself in with Microsoft and Windows. So it did, and it occasionally threw Mac users an old, warmed over bone. Adobe has been one of the last major companies to update its products for use on the Mac, consistently.

As far as Flash, Adobe had 4 fulltime engineers developing Flash for Windows. It had one part-time, none Mac expert developing Flash for the Mac. Flash for Mac is a horrible product. The Safari developers finally had to develop Safari for Snow Leopard so that the Flash plugin could be isolated, then when it would run away it did not bring Safari and the whole Mac OS down. The development of Flash Lite for mobile devices was just as poorly developed. Mainly because Adobe makes no money off a plugin that it gives away for free. What was always important to Adobe was that its products worked with its gravy, Windows.

The bottom line is that Flash is made for Windows. All of the material that you feel that you are missing was made for Windows. You should likely be using Windows if you want Flash, it is a product aimed at Windows.

You may think that I am just some dumb Mexican, Apple fan boi. Well I am an Apple stockholder with a large investment in the company, I have followed its history since the introduction of the Mac, which was my first Apple product and have followed its history even more closely after I bought a lot of Apple shares in the weeks that it hit rock bottom and folks predicted it would die. The bottom line, you do not know jack about Apple and what is behind many of its business descisions over the last 10 to 15 years.

Gee, Welshcloggy .... I'm only typing in so I can be #600 in this stupid thread. As long as I'm here anyway, though .....

How about some actual work on your part? Go through this forum, which isn't the first on this topic, or the biggest, or the best, but it's what's here ...... and count up all the different opinions here? How many for, how many against, how many who just don't care?. The 'antis' will outnumber the 'pros' when it comes to Flash, I promise you, but you really do need to try to verify your silly claim.

Along the way, you might try to actually read the TOU and help files for these forums so you can figure out what they are (user to user tech support) and what they are not (an avenue to chat to Apple, in this case).