What’s Apple’s problem with Flash? Three years after the introduction of the iPhone, Apple’s refusal to include Flash on its soon-to-be-released iPad has sparked another kerfuffle amidst Apple and Flash maker Adobe Systems.

In a lengthy blog post, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch railed against Apple’s Flash avoidance and detailed why Flash has become successful on the non-iPhone part of the web. From its humble start allowing low-bandwidth vector animations on the web, Flash now includes animation, streaming audio,

rich interactivity, arbitrary fonts, two-way audio/video communication, local storage, and “enabling the video revolution on the web,” Lynch wrote.

The explosion of smartphones and the imminent wave of tablet devices — including the iPad — means an “important crux for the future of Flash,” Lynch wrote. In the mobile near future, a plethora of devices with different web-browsing capabilities threatens to break up what Flash largely built — “seamless, consistent and rich […]

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