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Originally Posted by Bremen Cole
But it seems to me the smart minds at Adobe could come up with a way around it......
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It's basically already too late for Adobe to fix this issue. They've had years and have turned a deaf ear to the complaints about their Flash crapware, and now that Jobs refused to let Flash have a place on the iPad, they're scrambling to patch it up. But it's a lost cause. Why? Because the iPad is going to be a game-changer in the entire computer industry, and Adobe recognizes that. This device is going to become the de facto standard for anyone like my mom and my wife: people who have zero need for a full blown computer but just want something that is compact and will let them check facebook and email so forth. My wife practically fell down when she saw the presentation on the iPad, so it's a given that we must own one: absolutely perfect for someone like her.
And that's what will destroy Flash entirely, and Adobe knows it. The market for the iPad is enormous. And once the sheer volume of web hits from the mobile safari web browser starts to skyrocket in a few months, web designers are going to leave Flash in droves just so their websites will work on the iPad. They'll move to HTML5, and that will be the eventual standard. Within about a year or two, if that long, Flash will basically no longer exist on most well-maintained websites. Adobe took too long to fix their issues, which has unfortunately become the standard modus operandi for Adobe, and Jobs basically got fed up and killed Flash singlehandedly.