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Originally Posted by Sonist
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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."
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I don't believe anything one way or the other about this, but at this point the onus on Adobe is to deliver a high quality Flash on at least a couple of mobile platforms, and do it before the end of the year, if not sooner. Their credibility is very much in question at this point.
It only makes sense for Apple to support Flash if there's a clear competitive pressure to do so. And that pressure only exists in theory (well, beta) right now.
It would be interesting if Apple were to mitigate their risk by doing their own implementation of Flash or a functional subset thereof (if they aren't working on this already). With fewer constraints concerning requirements (for example, that the code be cross platform, or that it implement the full spec), and full access to iPhone code, they could probably come up with a better solution than Adobe, expose functionality the current Flash specification does not (accelerometer?), while avoiding external dependencies.