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When the first iPad was hitting the market, Apple came under fire for not offering Flash on the tablet. At the time I argued that having Flash on a tablet wouldn't be useful. A year later I'm convinced I was right.

Despite promises that Motorola's Xoom would include Flash support, it won't initially ship with the support. The reason isn't clear, but whatever the cause, it could devalue Flash and increase the use of HTML5 for web video instead.

This week, RIM showed off the power of its forthcoming PlayBook tablet's browser compared to the iPad, dissing the idea that dedicated apps are needed for many tasks along the way. With apps playing an increasingly important role in mobile computing, could this isolate RIM's table from business users and consumers even before the PlayBook ships?

Microsoft is taking flack for changes in its strategy for its Flash competitor Silverlight.

Missing your favorite Flash games when surfing on the iPad? iSwifter is building a system just for you. Stream games to your iPad and foil Apple's evil plan to destroy Flash!

Froyo started hitting Nexus One phones this weekend, and from there many owners wasted no time downloading the Flash 10.1 for Android beta. First hand reports are starting to roll in; consensus seems to be that the speed improvement is great, but Flash isn't always a benefit.

Sure, it's irritating that Jobs is keeping Flash off the iPad, but even if he changed his mind it wouldn't solve all, or even many, of our problems.

Adobe still isn't saying if it will take Apple to court over Apple's new iPad/iPhone device software development rules, but here are some of the ways they might try to do it.

When iPhone developers downloaded the new iPhone OS 4 SDK preview today, they found some changes to the license agreement; changes that seem to be aimed squarely at Adobe's attempts to help Flash developers convert their apps to the iPhone platform.

Steve Jobs told the Wall Street Journal why the iPad won't support Flash but his reasons seemed rather vague and dismissive. In the absence of a more concrete reply, tech bloggers are coming up with their own theories of why Apple is barring the door against Adobe.