On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:19:57 -0500, thunder
wrote:

On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:34:13 -0700, jps wrote:


Flash is getting to be very resource intensive and Jobs is hoping to
push everyone towards HTML 5 but the reality is that he'll have to find
a way to support flash unless he wants to limit iPad's utility.

gnash might work for him. I've been using it for several years, as until
recently, Flash wasn't working on my 64 bit architecture (Linux).

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/

Part of the reason Jobs is keeping flash off his platform is that it's
an app, that can invite other apps to play. That breaks their
monopoly.

iPad will likely find a way to play flash through another Apple store
application, which will disable any external Flash apps from running.

It's a tricky business to run a monopoly.

I'm waiting for the HP slate, it'll be a normal pc, open to whatever
runs on pc.