Lack of Flash on iPad and iPhone

[Dudley]

Are Apple doing anything to get round the lack of Flashplayer on the iPad and iPhone? It really is annoying not to be able to watch a significant amount of media.

[Dudley]

I obviously want to do more with my devices than you do Helen. The iPad/iPod could do so much more if Flashplayer was available.

[ChuckFickens]

No.

Not because they can't, because they don't want to support flash.

Apples official statement on it...

http://www.apple.com/...ws/thoughts-on-flash/

[Mattk]

I don't own one but believe there is an app available that offers a flash workaround.

[Dudley]

Thanks Chuck, That's the sort of answer I've been looking for and the response from Steve Jobs in the article does go a long way to make understanding the situation easier. In my case it is not games that are the problem, it is mostly news media, particularly the BBC who frequently broadcast items which require flash to view.

[Wrongn3mber]

Why would anyone buy an Apple product and then complain there's no flash when everyone knows that they're not flash enabled? If you needed flash that badly why didn't you get a phone/tablet that operated flash? Is there some things that the Apple products can do that no other phone/tablet can't do or were you just caught up in Apples advertising?

[Gromit]

Dudley

The BBC have a free iPad News app where most of the days videos are viewable. Anything that isn't there, is usually searchable on the YouTube app which is built into the iPad. You might be able to do more with an iPad if it had Flash, but the battery would only last half as long. There are many Android Tablets that support Flash but most have poor battery life. Take your pick.

[Gromit]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10738882

It also has BBC News 24 as a Live Stream in hi-def H.264 format

[Dudley]

There are several reasons, not least of which is that in all other respects they suit my purposes best. Also, live music, live sports viewing and tv viewing are the main reasons I use them and they are excellent for those purposes.

[Dudley]

Thanks Gromit, much appreciated. That will do nicely.

[Gromit]

Have you signed up to TVcatchup. It has most of the Freeview channels to watch over wifi. It is free to sign up and there is a n iPad version which is really nice.

http://www.tvcatchup.com/ipad.html

[Dudley]

Yes I have Gromit but thanks for mentioning it. I'm also registered with SkyGo which is brilliant.