Flash on Slate
With the tech community in full attention to iPad’s upcoming release (read Bill’s post), the future of iPad correlates what would become of Adobe Flash, which at this point enjoys the majority share of what you and I uses for viewing media content in the web. Apple’s decision not to support Adobe Flash is making a big debate in the tech community. Apple uses the argument of protecting digital media rights using their DRM technology as opposed to Adobe Flash where it’s open and without any digital rights protection. Obviously, major publishers welcome Apple’s decision on this regard. However, for you and I, this is a draconian move and more than irritating. Just as an example, most of Facebook’s games are written to run in Flash. So, no Farmville for you future iPad owners.
Not surprisingly, Adobe is not happy with Apple’s decision and to that end they’re doing a marketing campaign to support iPad’s competitor, which is quite obvious on this youtube video. Here they’re showing off HP Slate running Flash.
