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How do I get flash player on iPad.

How do I get flash player on iPad?

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Posted on Apr 21, 2011 4:13 PM

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Apr 21, 2011 4:27 PM in response to cherylfromirwin

Hi chertlfromirwin,

sorry but to my knowledge of iPad, and the software it is based on, flash is not supported. There maybe other means you can get Flash to work but these are not supported and if you develop a problem and you take it back to your local Apple Store, the geniuses will refuse to touch it as it is known as "jailbreaking". In most cases doing this may cause you more problems than it solves.


Flash is all well and good but HTML5, uses a lot less system resources, it can play video & audio, you can find out more about HTML5 here:

http://www.apple.com/html5.


Hope this helps.

Hugh

Jun 4, 2011 11:10 PM in response to cherylfromirwin

I've tried sky fire, I swifter and other apps. They are all useless. Even tried remote access software.

Can't understand why should apple not have something so basic.


If they have a personal issue with Adobe, sort it out. find a way around? Whatever...but why should the consumer suffer!


You cant play flash enabled games, can't view most airline website if you want to book a flight, almost everywebsite has an error on it.


I'm waiting for the Microsoft win8 tablet and hope apple allows a change of OS like it did for Mac.


Android is much better in this aspect.

Jun 4, 2011 11:29 PM in response to tanmaye

tanmaye wrote:


almost everywebsite has an error on it.

I almost never encounter errors.


I'm waiting for the Microsoft win8 tablet and hope apple allows a change of OS like it did for Mac.

What does a Windows tablet have to do with changing the OS?

Android is much better in this aspect.

You can load WIndows on an Android iPad?

Wait. Android is an OS, not a tablet.

Jun 4, 2011 11:55 PM in response to cherylfromirwin

The iPad including any other iDevice on the market does NOT include Adobe's Flash Player and it's also not downloadable for the iPad firmware.Apple mentioned that it's keeping it's technology for computers,for the computers and the technology for there smartphones/mobile devices to there.I would suggest that you use some of the HTML5 compatibilty that the iPad has to offer.It's pretty much like a new light-weight type of Flash engine for mobile devices and I would recommend it.Try some HTML5 applications on Safari and tell me how you like them.Also,try using vidoes via HTML5 and tell me how you like the quality of them via HTML5.


-Michael Phillips

Jun 25, 2011 5:15 AM in response to cherylfromirwin

I, like everyone else on this forum would like Flash to work on my iPad. It is very disappointing that Apple made a web access and consuming devise that only supports the format they want customers to use, rather than what everyone on the Web is using. It is not good enough to tell customers, who bought a consuming device that they can only use it to consume some of the Web content as it is produced in the format that Apple likes. I don't want to power up my Pc or MacBook every time the 'do not support flash' box pops up. Very poor customer support, Apple. Would like you to tell us how to use Flash, not HTML5.

Jun 25, 2011 5:33 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

You are right, I should speak for my self. It sounds as if you work for Apple to me, though, as they seem to be the only people who don't want Flash to work on an iPad as they have problems with Adobe. I do understand that HTML5 might be preferable to Apple for future development, but it seems odd to me that they don't give people what they ecpect when they buy their device, namely a device that always works.

How do I get flash player on iPad.

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