Since Apple unveiled the iPad last Wednesday a large focus has been centered on the lack of Flash support.
Sides were quickly formed; Pro-Flash or Anti-Flash.
The Pro-Flash side calling it absolutely unacceptable for a modern and powerful media device to not allow Flash content.
The Anti-Flash side points out the public lack of support on the iPhone along with major reasons to despise the technology.
The Pro-Flash camp pointed out sites like Hulu and YouTube for video, and the numerous games available only through a Flash interface. Adobe even chimed in with a blog post presenting their argument for Flash.
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.
They have a valid (somewhat) point that the flash platform allows flexibility and a maturity that does not exist in other technologies such as HTML5.
The Flash Blog (An independent site evangelizing the Flash platform) was quick to point out how widespread the content is including pointing out very obviously the porn side of the web. They used a very effective tagline in the post that had twitter ablaze with arguments.
Millions of websites use Flash. Get used to the blue legos.
On the other side of the fence was the Anti-Flash camp, pointing out statements that Flash is the leading cause of crashes on Mac's. The fact that it is a huge CPU hog and that is just a bad format. I would generally count myself in this camp, my MacBook runs Flash content horribly. HTML5 is going to be great, especially when paired with the advances in AJAX.
