Will the iPad ever get flash support?

Yes, it does support Adobe Air.

Grab a recent link would you.... I mean geez I could post a link showing that gas is only $1 a gallon, but it doesn't really help when we know today it's really $5.

That link you provide shows how Adobe initially helped developers convert existing Air apps into IOS native apps.

Since then, we have had Air officially land on IOS, and now there is no more need of your year old link.

Flash does run on IOS, and they call it Air.

( and you clearly have ZERO idea what you are talking about because NO DEVELOPER IN THE WORLD would ever misswrite ActiveScript.... it's called ActionScript)

I just searched Adobe's site... That's what ADOBE gave me...

Not sure what you mean by it supports the results of a program created to run in air. Maybe you can elaborate. But it sounds like you said it does support Air... since you could develop using AS3 (same language used in Flash projects) or Flex and compiled for iOS.

Having an understanding of what your doing helps alot when arguing a side, or trying to prove a point.

But you really shouldn't be someone who knows nothing of the subject, and go to Adobe's site looking for answers, and then providing such information as fact.

Especially when the info is a year old, is no longer relative, and then admit you simply provided a link that "Adobe" gave you.

This is why nothing get's done, lies propagate, missinformation becomes widespread, and humanity dies a little inside.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to be right, or sticking up for your side. But to have zero understanding, and want to be apart of the argument is insane.

Just say "Hey, honestly I don't know what's going on or who is right". But what you're doing or did, is what is bringing down the world as a whole.

People chosing a side, and defending it absent knowledge and even to their own deprivation, and seeking even lies or missinformation as their foundation for doing so.

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The real bottom line and issue is that you did not seek out the truth, instead you simply seeked out what fit your position. Because I already provided the proof, but it didn't fit your position.

Ya gonna have to get over things like that and put on your big boy pants eventually, because the world is gonna do this to you alot.

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Read my posts again.

I come at this from a slightly different direction. Im considering purchase of an iPad but face a dilemma. If Flash is on the way out as the experts here seem to suggest , why is that most TV stations are still using it on their web sites afor showing programs etc? Suly they would have a keen eye on future trends. Yet, if I read everything on this thread correctly, they are cutting themselves off from a huge (the majority?) of tablet/mobile users. Seems odd.

Bottom line is cant use ipad to watchTV/movies. So that kills one reason to go for the retina display.

Ps. I am NOT going to pay Apple for content I get free or have already paid for as a cable subscriber.

Over 50 live TV channels are available on the iPhone and iPad here in the UK, including the BBC and ITV channels. No Flash required.

http://tvcatchup.com/ipad.html

You might want to download iSwifter app. It doesn't work perfect, but it does play flash.

Hbo, showtime, Cinemax, abc, NBC, tbs, adult swim/cartoon network, the cw-all have apps allowing playback of their content on iPad with no additional fees(have to subscribe to cable for Cinemax, hbo, showtime).

ATT's Uverse, xfinity and time Warner have apps to watch programming.

Hulu+ and Netflix have apps.

So what is your point?

LOL so quick to get defensive... 😁

Companies aren't going to ditch a well established platform on the destop platform just because one company doesn't like the platform. Most likely these companies will do what I do with my Joomla Movie Component and just detect Android and Apple devices and offer up the appropriate code so that these devices will use their native players. And I'm sure someone somewhere has created or is creating a Flash Player using Adobe Air.

My bad - i gave up when i was oh for two - showcase (canada) and city tv - just a random choice. Just browsing web sites, didnt want to download apps as I'm using a friends iPad.

Does MBA support Flash (that is another option but the screen resolution not so good especially on the 11")?

RMJFlack wrote:

Ps. I am NOT going to pay Apple for content I get free or have already paid for as a cable subscriber.

No reason to do so. I don't know who you get your cable from and I don't know what you're already paying for but I regularly use the XFinity app and the HBO-Go app. I don't pay a penny for either of them and I actually get more movies that I get on my television.

RMJFlack wrote:

Does MBA support Flash (that is another option but the screen resolution not so good especially on the 11")?

Yes but it's not pre-loaded. You have to install it yourself.

As you can see here, Flash usage on web-sites is actually on the decline, and only used on 24.7% of the top 1 million websites anyway.

Most Flash videos are H.264 based these days anyway, so movie playback isn't an issue for properly created websites.

What is an issue is interactive, vector based Flash movies - that's what will never be available on iOS, and is rapidly being replaced with jQuery, HTML5 and other similar solutions, where technically possible.

Obviously not everything Flash can do can be replicated in HTML5, jQuery etc. at the moment but that is definately the way the web is moving - from closed and proprietary to open and standards-based.

This is where that detecting of Apple based devices would come in. Dealing with videos, especially H.264 MP4 videos is a simple matter... determine the device and change the player. DONE!. But trying to create a Flash based movie like the games my daughter playes on Disney and Nick Jr. would be a beast to create using jQuery, HTML5 and CSS. And then there's that IE issue where you just lost that hole group because of HTML5. Just like the migration away from writing CGI scripts in C, back in the day, Flash could be replaced. But with tools in CS5 allowing me to create cross platorm apps (Android, iOS, Blackberry) using Adobe Air and ActionScript 3 this opens up new possibilities.

But I can understand usage of Flash declining on the net, esecially with so many people conneting to the net through mobile devices recently, adding to those numbers.