Adobe Slams Apple for iPad's Lack of Flash
Adobe says that the iPad, without Flash, will miss out on the majority of web games and video.
Apple may tout the iPad as the best web browsing experience, but what about Flash? Love it or hate it, you can barely go through a handful of clicks before running into an Adobe-flash powered element.
Flash has been an important part of the web, and it'll be something that iPad won't have out of the box when it ships in late March. While the omission of Flash was excusable on the iPod Touch and iPhone, competing devices today run Flash, which makes the iPad omission even more glaring.
Adobe's Adrian Ludwig, the company's Flash Platform Product Marketing Group Manager, wrote in a blog post:
It looks like Apple is continuing to impose restrictions on their devices that limit both content publishers and consumers. Unlike many other ebook readers using the ePub file format, consumers will not be able to access ePub content with Apple's DRM technology on devices made by other manufacturers. And without Flash support, iPad users will not be able to access the full range of web content, including over 70% of games and 75% of video on the web.
If I want to use the iPad to connect to Disney, Hulu, Miniclip, Farmville, ESPN, Kongregate, or JibJab -- not to mention the millions of other sites on the web -- I'll be out of luck.
Adobe and more than 50 of our partners in the Open Screen Project are working to enable developers and content publishers to deliver to any device, so that consumers have open access to their favorite interactive media, content, and applications across platform, regardless of the device that people choose to use.

Apple is heading towards the bridges with their torches lit...
Like Adobe or not it is difficult to live without Flash. Try it for a while without it and see how it goes.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/youtube_begins_to_support_html5.php
Let me get this straight, the large volume of cyber-attacks exploiting holes in adobe should be ignored, and I should just thank my lucky stars that I have flash at all from the a “Almighty” Adobe? I don’t think so. Get your house in order Adobe.
Thats true good Sir, but Ipad doesn't have a Microsoft OS, or IE8, so this shouldn't be a problem. Alot of previous posts have commented flash is a dyng breed so no need to comment further. Ipad will be just fine without Adobe.
if HTML5 allows developers to freely create web apps, especially games, I would say apple's support for it would be lagging at best. it's all about control, for instance, they don't allow ANY app that has a scripting system in it.
consumers like Brittany Spears... I think I'll look elsewhere for advice on what makes something good... I don't work for apple, and I don't own apple shares, so whether the stupid sheep consumers flock to it or not makes absolutely no difference to me!
the fact of the matter is, for the average consumer, this device is the future, but - and I'll just check that I'm on the right site... yep, definitly not perez hilton - this site is not for average consumers.
people here are meant to bring to light the liberties and functionality you sacrifice in pursuit of Apple's 'innovation'