How do I get flash player on iPad.

Jim545 wrote:

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 recently got an iPad and honestly I don't seem to visit many sites that use Flash. Dependence on Flash is not uniform; some people will use it more or less than others. And some of the Flash-dependent sites I visited have gotten smart and dumped Flash for HTML5. That is the trend.

Most sports cars don't actually go everywhere in reality. That's why I bought an all-wheel-drive car, because I sometimes need to drive off road or in mountain snow where you would not, or could not, drive a sports car. So your sports car analogy is fine, and it unintentionally makes the iPad acceptable, since most reasonable people do not expect to take a sports car everywhere...

Here is a link to an article giving a decent rundown on where both Flash, HTML5 and the iPad stand from a content provider's viewpoint:

http://now.periscopic.com/2011/05/our-research-into-flash-and-html5-which-one-is -right-for-your-project/

Go get video browser from the apps market. So for it has been playing flash videos and other things.

DragonX1982 wrote:

Go get video browser from the apps market.

Apps market? Isn't that an Android thing?

And cherylfromirwin (whom you responded to) has not posted here in 9 months.

This article is outdated, being from May 2011. Much has happened since then. BTW, Safari is not the only browser for iOS, as the authors of this article appear to think.

Agreed. And to say there are only 20mil iOS users out of 150+mil iOS devices sold, due to "breakage" and attrition is flawed.

Statistics can be manipulated to prove any point, and this article does just that.

Oh, it was already outdated, extraneous, and irrelevant when written back in March or April for May publication. it provided some heart-stopping facts like a large percentage of the world's installed browser base uses Flash and not HTML5, every bit as relevant and helpful as the fact that most people in the world have black hair.

The hundreds of comments which were submitted to that article, all of which are presented below it, provide the counter-arguments better than anything that needs doing here. The article itself seemed to be one of those "red meat" types, deigned mostly to provoke comment and attention .... much like many of the posts you'll find in this thread.

The article did exactly what is was ment to do.

Explain why 2 years after Steve Jobs said html5 is future and flash is dead we are still seeing new flash content created and not an explosion of html5.

It was ment to explain to the laymen why your still seeing Flash being used over html5.

Lamens?

Do you mean laymen? Men is already plural.

Thanks Dragon for your reply (the type of reply I hoped for 🙂 ) (and Chiss I knew what he meant).

Bottom line for me is I've found out is the iPad does not support Flash natively and won't. There are some work-around which all seem to be some type of remote control of another machine running flash. It is clear that Flash will eventually go away and HTML 5 will become the standard (not overly relavent but just an industry trend).

I use apps that use Flash, so I'll have to decide. The iPad is an amazing product, so Apple may just hook me and I'll do my Flash elsewhere or use a work around. Any opinions on the Flash work arounds that work best or are the most popular?

I just can't help but get sucked into this discussion lol 🙂

The article did exactly what is was ment to do.

Every article does what it's meant to do. The difference is some articles are opinion based and include numbers and statistics that show what the author wants to show. Others offer up clear, concise statements based on factual numbers. This is the former. It's 1) outdated 2) biased and 3) contains invalid statistics to prove the author's opinion.

Listen, I don't care if you like Flash or hate Flash. I don't care if your bank/school/business/whatver uses it or not. The fact remains, there is no Flash on iOS devices.

If you need Flash, purchase a device that allows it. If you don't, purchase a device that does or does not allow it.

I find it hard to believe that this is the most important issue in some people's lives.

Jim545 wrote:

Thanks Dragon for your reply (the type of reply I hoped for 🙂 ) (and Chiss I knew what he meant).

I also assumed he meant the App store.

However, many, many people use the term "mp3" for any music files, regardless of the actual file type they are actually using.

Call it what it is so there is no confusion is all I was suggesting.

Jim545 wrote:

Thanks Dragon for your reply (the type of reply I hoped for 🙂 ) (and Chiss I knew what he meant). ......

Well, more comic relief, thanking one user for an essentially useless, OT response and, in the same breath, chastising another for not quite getting what it was really all about.

Taking a contrarian view, starting from the assumption the the first guy had actually said what he meant to say, if a bit awkwardly, it was a simple thing to check:

1. There is nothing called Video Browser in the iOS App Store
2. Flash Video Browser is for sale in the Android Market

If you're interested in recommendations on how to use Flash on the iPad, that has been discussed countless times in this and other threads. Instead of me regurgitating all of that all over again, or asking you to go through and actually read the entire contents of a thread instead of just jumping in at the end of it, why don't you just search the App Store keywords "flash browser". Or run a websearch kw "flash browser iPad".

Michael Morgan1 wrote:

why don't you just search the App Store keywords "flash browser". Or run a websearch kw "flash browser iPad".

The standard response to such a suggestion seems to be "I have a life - I don't have time to mess around with searching..." or "I have children, I don't have any time..." and so on. Self-help was declared dead some time in the nineties, I believe.

Yea, good point Chris. I guess I'm overly sensitive to folks correcting others with regard to writing style or word choice. A good correction for most people.

MLad, your answer isn't actually complete (now I'm correcting symantics...oh irony!). Flash is not supported on iOS devices natively (exactly right). I'll add my "but": but there are some workaround prodcuts that make it possible. They seem like remote control/remote desktop type applications where you connect to a machine in the cloud that will run Flash for you. I'm wondering if any of those are any good? I can live without Flash a lot of the time, but sometimes it is a must for work and a desire for play.

In general. I always try to keep in mind that the forums are used by people from around the world and probably frequently used by people that are not computer experts. Heck, I'm a computer professional but I can find 100000+ sites where I'll talk like a noob. We are all noobs at some things. When I talk to my lawyer, doctor, gardener, or next door neighbor, they have an expertise that I don't. The doctor looks like an jerk if he says, "

a fracture of the proximal third of the ulna with the dislocation of the head of the radius" rather than "you fractured your forearm" when speaking to a patient. If he is doing a lecture to medical students, the former may be more appropriate. When I say to the gardener I want you to plant that flower today, he might be thinking, "Umm the Hippeastrum hybrids should only be planted in the spring."

If someone says, "Can Flash I have on iPad for me", I figure they might be from another country 🙂