When the heck is Apple going to get its head out of it’s orifice and start working with Adobe to get Flash on their devices!!!
It's not going to happen with Flash... it's trashware and it's the cause of a lot of computers crashing. There's no need to put trashware on Apple products when you can do the video through other means -- and websites are changing out of the trashware, Flash, and moving over to the open standard video that Apple does use. They're getting smart about that trashware.
What you'll find, actually, is a lot of the complainers that you may find in the developer world who want Flash, want to use it to do an end run around Apple apps and Apple is not going to open the platform up to trash being created on it and crashing the device all the time, as Flash does.
I never knew how many people loved Flash until Apple came out with the iPad.
JK. I think the people upset about the lack of Flash fall into three categories:
1. People who really want Flash.
2. Developers who want to use Flash, and don’t want to transition.
3. People who are looking for something to complain about on the device.
I use browser add ons to block all the wonderful Flash advertisements. I really miss those flashing green and red vibrating ads and the flash ads that expand and cover content if you accidentally mouse over them. Not to mention the talking Flash ads that congratulate me for being the 1 millionth person to see the ad.
On your point with the Flash being used to make an end around, possibly true, but my biggest problem with Flash is that 99% of all Flash content is annoying advertisements or a 10 megabyte intro file to a web site that loads then follows with some crappy animation of a bunch of still photographs sliding across another photograph and then the web site title dropping in one letter at a time like an amateur Power Point transition.
Security issues with Flash also are quite common. It will not stay in the sandbox.