How do I get flash player on iPad.

I'm looking for the disclaimer on the android devices about why I can't sync wirelessly to my iTunes library. Or open my Pages documents. Or access my files in iCloud. Or edit my Garage Band files. Do you really need disclaimers to run your life?

This thread has turned into who has to have the last word. Who really cares? There was a question, hundreds of answers and even a couple of solutions. Let it go. Holy night. This is now a non-issue that you people are blowing out of proportion and obviously can't get on with your lives if you don't have the last comment in a now useless thread.

LOL.

MLadd,

This thread is a honey pot.

Matt

I am sorry, I would like to say otherwise.

Just because Flash is proprietary, doesn't mean that it can't be a commodity. You can liken it to a somewhat monopoly, but in this case, a monopoly that doesn't hurt us consumers because what is being monopolized, and being held as proprietary (flash), is free for us to use.

True, it would be preferable for no company to have such a control of the internet, but since Flash has now been on the internet for years, it is inevitably an established mindset that "flash is there".

I praise Apple for taking its part in trying to wrench control from Adobe of the internet, and encouraging open source-like standards such as HTML-5, but this can hardly still justify "boycotting" flash on their products to their consumers. Traditionally, iPhone and iPad have been emphasized as top-class, desktop level internet experience, and that is still being emphasized. Yet, when you browse a website, like newgrounds.com, a very popular website with open-source music and games, you are stumped, with blue question marks everywhere, and approximately 50% of the website not being displayed, your experience only half-polished.

Therefore, Flash is a "just-works" part of the internet. We are unconciously using flash everyday on our desktops. I am ready to guarantee that at least, within this day, you have encountered SOME form of flash content.

What you are saying doesn't really correlate. I don't think Android has restricted itself to not doing those things. Infact, if it anyone's fault, it's Apples. Apple is the one who restricted Itunes wireless sync to it's iOS devices. Apple is the one who made iCloud only for itself. Adobe did not restrict flash for iOS however. It was Apple who chose not to allow it.

When something that is seemingly doable is not done, it is sure to cause some concern within the consumers who use the products.

Just because Flash is proprietary, doesn't mean that it can't be a commodity.

In the case of my argument, it does.

If you don't accept that, you are free to discard my arugment.

Matt

tpulak wrote:

What you are saying doesn't really correlate. I don't think Android has restricted itself to not doing those things. Infact, if it anyone's fault, it's Apples. Apple is the one who restricted Itunes wireless sync to it's iOS devices. Apple is the one who made iCloud only for itself. Adobe did not restrict flash for iOS however. It was Apple who chose not to allow it.

When something that is seemingly doable is not done, it is sure to cause some concern within the consumers who use the products.

It was Adobe that failed to write a version of Flash for iOS

Allan

Haha alright. That's the divide of opinion I guess 🙂

I honor your argument, but I stay true to my opinion.

Actually, this is what this forum boils down to, a difference of opinion.

The original question was how to get Flash on an iPad and the answer is you can't. I don't see any room for difference of opinion in that.

Allan

tpulak wrote:

Haha alright. That's the divide of opinion I guess 🙂

I honor your argument, but I stay true to my opinion.

Actually, this is what this forum boils down to, a difference of opinion.

I'm fine with argreeing to disagree!

Matt

"The original question was how to get Flash on an iPad and the answer is you can't. "

And yet I now can view flash on my iPad thanks to this thread.

And that, my friends, is the way the cookie crumbles.

Great. Could you remind those of us who are new to the ipad2 how you would go about being able to see a flash whatever on an ipad2 today is it a download or an app? Be good for all is us not to have to trawl through all this chaff for the wheat thnx much jbg.

Flash is not supported on the iPad, and probably never will be. Browser apps such as Skyfire, iSwifter, Puffin and Photon 'work' on some sites, but judging by their reviews not all sites. Also some websites, especially news sites, have their own apps in the App Store.

Interesting. I am a boring person and have hardly ever played an online game which may or may not require Adobe Flash. Normally I only ever use either a PC or laptop - both running Windows - to access the Internet, and give vent to any creative needs ie work. I am very new to the iPad and new to Apple. I have unwittingly used Flash all my surfing life without mishap on machines running Windows. Perhaps I have been extraordinarily lucky!. So I don't understand why I do not have the same experience on my iPad because Steve Jobs, by all accounts, if I understand correctlythe correspondence here, will NOT allow it. My increasing knowledge of the man is that he was very much a control freak and this personality trait is often, if not always, associated with megalomania. So in this respect he still has a stranglehold on my surfing experience using his tablet. If his hold is because of some nefarious commercial reason then I object, strongly. If there is a strong technical reason for his refusal to accept Flash which has nothing to do with commercialism, monopoly and so greed, then an apology to him is due. Otherwise I hold to my view of the man.

Adobe failed to write a version for IOS. The reasons were then given for why flash would not be on IOS. Adobe has also ceased production for flash on mobile.

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/