Lee Brimelow has a fantastic post about this: http://theflashblog.com/?p=1703
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:03, artur <[email protected]> wrote: > /i was wondering what the communities thoughts were about this:/* > * > > * > http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/01/ten-things-missing-from-the-ipad/ > * > > *Flash* > > Many people will bemoan the lack of Flash in the iPad. It wasn't mentioned, > but eagle-eyed viewers would have seen the missing plugin icon on the New > York Times site during yesterday's demo, and given that Apple clearly hates > Flash as both a non-open web "standard" and as a buggy, CPU-hungry piece of > code, it's unlikely it will ever be added, unless Apple decides it wants to > cut the battery life down to two hours. > > Who needs Flash, anyway? YouTube and Vimeo have both switched to H.264 for > video streaming (in Chrome and Safari, at least -- Firefox doesn't support > it), and the rest of the world of Flash is painful to use. > > In fact, we think the lack of Flash in the iPad will be the thing that > finally kills Flash itself. If the iPad is as popular as the iPhone and iPod > Touch, Flash-capable browsers will eventually be in the minority. > > > go. > > > -artur > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
