How much does it matter that the iPad doesn support Adobes Flash software?
It’s not as big a problem as I thought it would be, but it’s still an annoyance. There are now some 150,000 applications in Apple’s iPhone and iPad App Store. Many of those duplicate services that on the Web require Flash. For example, YouTube uses Flash to deliver videos on the Web, so iPad users can’t access YouTube through its Web browser. But they can use the iPad’s native YouTube application. Similarly, the Scrabble game on Facebook is built with Flash, so you can’t access that version on the iPad. But there’s a native Scrabble game you can download and use to play against friends who are on Facebook. But some Web content providers that use Flash haven’t yet created iPhone or iPad applications. There’s no iPad Hulu program, for instance, so you can’t watch Hulu videos. And even those iPad applications that are available often don’t give you the same experience you’d get on the Web. For example, you can watch old “Star Trek” episodes on YouTube via the Web. But you can’t find them
