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Originally Posted by kennyc
"Adobe: There’s No Flash on iPad Because Apple Is Protecting Content Revenue"
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Complete bollocks. From the article:
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But Ludwig notes that if Flash were available on the iPad, users could watch TV shows on Hulu for free instead of buying them through iTunes.
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ABC has a free player. CBS will have free HTML 5 streaming later this year. The TV.com app does free streaming. Netflix does Watch Instantly streaming. Orb and Sling allow streaming of live TV. And that's just a handful of examples.
Not to mention that you couldn't watch Hulu even
if the iPad had Flash,
because Hulu blocks access to mobile devices. The upcoming Flash player for Android won't play Hulu either.
Seriously, that's one of the weakest arguments on the Flash debate I've ever seen.
As far as games go - I suppose for some casual games, people might use Flash rather than buying an app. Assuming that it was good experience, which remains to be seen. But there are no Flash alternatives - not even close - for a lot of the games in the app store, because the technical requirements are too demanding.
If Apple were really so concerned about protecting their content business, there would be no apps that allowed video streaming (bye, ABC player and Netflix), no apps that allowed audio streaming (see ya, Pandora and last.fm), and no other ebook reading apps (don't let the door hit you in the ass, Kindle and Kobo).
Apple cares about selling hardware. Music, books and movies are a means to an end for them, not a revenue source that they're interested in protecting at all costs.
And I'm still trying to figure out what this, or any of your other links, have to do with iAds (which wasn't even a gleam in Jobs' beady little eyes when the original iPhone was released sans Flash).