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iPad 2, iOS 5.0.1

Posted on Feb 26, 2012 2:37 PM

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Jul 26, 2014 4:36 PM in response to Danny215

Apple has long disliked Adobe Flash on any device, including desktop computers, because it is a "resource hog" & is unstable (crashes frequently). Apple ceased supporting Flash directly because the version included in new OS updates was always well behind the current version. A problem with production schedules of an OS, long development vs the shorter development of an app. So Apple left development to Adobe who took over the responsibility. Apple refused to support Flash on their iOS devices because the high resource needs of Flash would impact the users battery performance, it would use up the battery storage much quicker. Ultimately, Adobe conceded that Flash was not as valuable on mobile devices & killed Flash for all mobile devices including Android, etc.

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