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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
That's true, but most people I know with smartphones aren't doing much web browsing anyway. They just check e-mail, and view some mobile sites for sports scores when they're on the go, look up an address to a restaurant etc....
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All I care about is any tablet I buy must have the exact same web browsing capabilities as my PCs or I won't buy it. So Flash support is a deal breaker for me until some future date when every site I visit regularly has switched away from Flash.....
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The reality is that the full Flash Player will be available on Android, Blackberry, WebOS and Symbian in the second half of 2010, and Windows Mobile 7 in the first half of 2011.
Which means that all tablets and most phones running any of these systems will have full Flash capability, including hardware acceleration.
Plus, most tablets and many phones will run on Tegra 2 and Atom Z6, thus most likely the minor hiccups we see on the Snapdragon Nexus One will be smoothed out by the more powerful hardware.
The bottom line is, 2010 is the year in which Flash finally comes in full force to the mobile world.
With Android growing exponentially (even AT&T is getting a 4" AMOLED Samsung i897 (running Android 2.2 with Flash) in July), and everyone else getting on the Flash bandwagon, the iPlatform looks pretty isolated in terms of web browsing. I am not certain most companies will continue to invest in mobile sites, once "mobile" comes to mean only "iPlatform."
I personally believe that iPad v.2 or v.3 will get Flash, just like the 3Gs got video, and just like Apple opened iBooks one year after Jobs pronounced that "nobody reads anymore."