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<br><div><div>On Jan 29, 2010, at 2:34 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial">I think the most important of these is the lack of flash support. Does anyone know why this is?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> </blockquote><br></div><div><div>Here is a good article on why the iPhone (and by implication the </div><div>iPad) does not have Flash: </div><div><a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/138885/2009/02/flash_iphone.html">http://www.macworld.com/article/138885/2009/02/flash_iphone.html</a> </div><div><br></div><div>There are a bunch of good reasons to keep Flash off of the iPad. </div><div>Both technological and political reasons. HTML5 may make Flash </div><div>irrelevant. It is fitting that Apple will be the driving force for </div><div>the industry to adopt HTML5, just as Apple was the driving force away </div><div>from SCSI and floppy drives, and towards using USB and FireWire. </div></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>___________________________________________</div><div>Randy B. Singer</div><div>Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance</div><div><a href="http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html">http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html</a></div><div>___________________________________________</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span> </div><br></body></html>