Why there’s no Flash on the iPad

Why there's no Flash on the iPad

I was going to write a post on the whole iPad and Flash debate, but thought this summed things up nicely. Here’s the main reason why there isn’t (and likely will never be) Flash on the iPad and iPhone:

Kaboom!

As of Snow Leopard, the Flash plugin is sandboxed so at least it doesn’t take Safari down with it anymore when it crashes (and it crashes *a lot*).

This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 at 10:09 am and is filed under Apple, Mac OS X.

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Jim Mock is a web developer living in Portland, Oregon with his wife, twin sons, 3 dogs, and 2 cats. He has been a Boston Red Sox fan for as long as he can remember, is addicted to video games and web standards, and thinks you should be, too.