iWantFlash!

We the undersigned ask you to sign our petition to inform Apple, Inc. that it can't claim a device "lets you see web pages as they were meant to be seen" without Adobe Flash Player in a web browser.

We would like Apple to fix this issue by allowing the Flash Player 10.1 onto the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch so we can experience the full web.

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Fuck you apple.

kyle,
wants to be able to watch flash videos without voiding warranty!!

Francisco Sevcik,
Its a service like any other, it should be supported by iPad devices, without needing a workaround or a jailbreak..... this way iPads are cripple devices, just for pictures, musics and videos....

Diego,
Porfavor permitan adobe flash player en sus dispositivos las consecuencias cada quien las asumira, que si hasta la pila en fin, no ser asi mi proximo dispositivo dera ANDROID!

Manuel,
Apple's policy of not allowing Flash Player on iPads and iPhones is a slap in the face not to Adobe, but to Apple's own loyal customers. To limit the usefulness of our mobile devices to display Internet content is arbitrary and totally unfair!

Patxi Fernandez Navarro,

xXXx,
apple products are some of the best around, and i want to use my ipod to the full!! not just some with some crummy apps...

Harriet Letherbarrow,
I was looking at apartments online, and couldn't even watch the virtual tour.

Tom,

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Clover,
I am a web designer and would like to share my hard work on the IPhone and IPad the way I created them.

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Apple is entitled to not putting anything on it's own products. People don't have to buy it if they don't want. But when at the Apple conference, they say they want to break more into the market, they fail to realize that they then have to deliver what the people want in addition to beating out the competition in all aspects. They are failing at both currently. Its a great business plan, but horrible execution on said plan.

Cristobal vivar,
While browsing with my iphone I frequently find empty pages, videos or websites Im missing, apple dosent even display a broken plugin to let me know. Its time this arbitrary prohibition is lifted, other smart phones support flash fine, why not the iphone??????

christian grant,
A smartphone is supposed to be an all in on device. Well Apple, you forgot one.

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Has anyone asked their advice to developers?

Blayze Millward,
Do you realise how many peoples livelihoods your destroying by doing this, apple? And all because your scared that the flash games will out-preform your apps.

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we want flash or I change Ipad for Galaxy

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Ok, it's time. I am sick of trying to work around Flash content. I want it on my iPhone.

Anon,
Come on Steve Jobs, technology is constantly evolving through out the years and HTML isnt doing it anymore. Its 2011 wake up!! we need flash, so itll make it unstable. Well stabilise it, you guys at apple corp have the tech for it. Its about what the consumer thinks best not you guys.

Steve,

Lisa,
Would be more likely to upgrade to a newer iPhone or buy an iPad if only they would support flash! Silly business decision tbh...

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It's stunning a device like the iPad cannot play Flash stuff. it's a big mistake. hope they fix it soon

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Please you don't lost nothing

Zack Martyn,
Seriosly Apple, look at HOW you started. How you began! You Aren't obsessed with control.. You were the pioneers of anti-system or "man". I can't believe you think to profits, share holders, and control are mow your true motivs saddens me. Yet I still support you. Typing right now even, on my iphone4. I would suspect a serious increase of customers with the partnership with Adobe. If you read this, thanks.

Kristen M.,
I would love to get an ipad but I can't show my design work on it or do my school work on it because my college site uses flash for some assignments, I am now looking at other options. Jobs is losing major money over this.

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John P,
4 different things i wanted to do tonight on ipad that i cant because no flash player... Starting to hate the ipad

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Maxim Skryabin,

Werner Seiser,

David Fooks Fooks,
I bought both an iPad 2 and iPhone despite the obvious shortcoming of not having flash. Is apple just holding out in an attempt to sway the net over in their direction? Seems so. smart move financialy. Horrible for customers.

Paul,
Please give us flash I may have to throw ipad2 in the bin and get a playbook and I have everything apple so it's a big deal for me

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Having no flash on my iphone 4 means i can not watch some of my favourite videos on certain websites.i can watch sky tv but apple wont allow me to watch simple videos.why ? why is the iphone the only device that does not support flash ? this is a big let down and even the advert for the playbook has a pop at apple for them dropping the ball on this one !!!

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Come on Steve - give us Flash!

Leslie McFadden,
Incredible!

Joachim Foerster,
Hey guys, just because of having trouble with adobe you can't fight homepages html can't handle (or only with so much more work nobody can pay his pages because of Apple)! Would return to buy your products if you change your mind!

Jack Wheatley,
apple, please add flash to your devices! i thought selling items was all about what the customer wants! the customers that use your products.. want flash! theres so much stuff that runs it, therefore so much stuff that we are missing out on on your devices!!

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I was happily multitasking on my beautiful iPhone when I came across the link to a website whose description interested me greatly. That's right- I couldn't view the site because flash was needed. Ruined my happy moment and made me want to throw my phone out the window. I IMMEDIATELY googled "iPhone Flash Petition" and now here I am. PLEASE, Apple. I wish you knew how frustrated I feel.

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Please allow flash or you will be left behind other brands. the blackberry playbook has already taken the mick out of apple for not having flash.

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What a disappointment in not being able to play the games on my iPhone.I can't believe apple wasn't thinking of it's users.please give us chance to enjoy the full potential of all apple products it is our right!

Douglas,
Come on Apple. WTF are you guys thinking

Chris Lona,
I have refused to buy iPhone and iPad because they don't have Flash

Andrew,
I was horrified to find that my own flash website which I purpuse built for my kids and their friends to safely play games on wont display on ipod/ipad or iphone. What a waist of time and money it was for me to go out and buy 3 new ipods for my kids so they could play games from my website only to discover they cannot.
And the amount of website that are missing bits is incredible, dont apple realise how widely used flash is?

Andrew Barragan,
I demand it

steve,
the only thing stopping me from completly appling my life!!!

Brpoke Watson,
Give the people what they want

Matt,

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Azmat Zuberi,
We need flash!

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Yell feather Bittner,
It would rely help since I got rid of windows for Apple products Now I have this issue. Please fix this. It messes with a lot of what I do online.

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Chris,
Without flash, apple's products fall short of the mark! Real shame, as no doubt it won't be long before microsoft sort it out!!

Orazio fantini,

Caleb Price,
I was considering an iPad but decided not to purchase one when I found out it did not support flash content.

Jane Liang,

Dennis,
Apple products are superior in every way except limiting the content that can be viewed on the device. It is very sad and frustrating!

Josh,
Why ob why, just bought ipad 2 having previously only had 1st gen nano. Then i see no flash!i waited ages on release. Day in amassive que justlike others for this then no flash! Ima football man but cant go on rangers.co.uk ATALL as requires flas, cant see highlights as needs flash, cant listen live on radio as need flash! Thatsjust football, dont get me started on games!

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Ray,
Why oh why does the proprietary apple iOS disallow a proprietary service like flash? We spend a lot of money on apple products only to be told that we cannot have the software required to make the device complete? How is this Amy different than the big brother mantra apple used in their ads so many years ago, only now apple is the big brother itself! Come on now.

Mary MB,
I'm happy that I can now open my unit website through my iphone, but dissappointed to know that I cannot view some of the contents because there is no flash player on my device. I hope Apple will reconsider their decision and allow Adobe Flash on their device. It would be a shame if in the future, I will make this as a deiding factor whether to update my iPhone device or buy a different brand. I am actually not decided yet whether to buy an iPad or not. All this restrictions is bad for business.

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Je veux flash sur mon i
pad

Magnus,

David Bertilsson,
Pretty please!

Dj Dent,
This is preventing adoption of local businesses who advertise via flash videos. Please remedy.

Felixius,
So... Flash player 10.2 uses predominately the GPU to render... AWESOME!

Now put flash on ios PLEASE! We know it works.

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I bought the ipad and iphone for business and encouraged our company to do the same. Now I regret that decision and dissuade others because the "only" flaw with these devices, not allowing flash, is a "fatal flaw" for business users. I can't even properly monitor my own webpages or show powerpoints posted on our website or view flash links sent from customers or EVEN pay bills on billing sites that require flash. All my ipad is now is an expensive toy ... without flash. Shame too, because it has everything else it needs to rock!

Mike Trigg,
Stop acting like a monopolist. You are killing consumers and developers alike with your selfish decision to ban Flash from iOS.

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Cupidity of money and power

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PLEASE!!!!!!!

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Apple by being stuck up and stubborn you are loseing possible costermers by not allowing flash on your devices, because of this instead of an iPad I am purchasing a moterola xoom or samsung galaxy tab, keep turning away costermers,
-will a disappointed costumer

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All big sites like ikea, TF1 etc sites have flash it s Time to folow the moove rim is coming and htc also

Dan,
We’re developing the first online and desktop app (and platform) that will provide instant and affordable business interoperability to anyone. Our UI is run on Flex and AIR technologies.
Apple will be missed in this upcoming business management revolution.
The bCommunities Team.

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Resistance is futile. We the people have spoken.

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Not buying another apple product if this practice continues. What's next, no flash on macbooks?

Jonathan Sparks,
As an artist that uses Flash and has a Flash bases webpage, it is irritating not being able to view my page or others like mine on the iPad and iPhone. I have not purchased these products because of it's inability to use Flash.

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GuyDan,
We all know it's about $$$ for Apple, they are protecting their Itune store. The only way they will understand is if it hurts their bottom line. I should have bought Android based tablets. My only option now is to jailbreak the Ipad.

Jean-Luc Guimpier,
Bored not to be able to see many interesting sites !!!

Kym Descente,
Please allow the use of Adobe Flash for the iPad and iPhone. Thank you!

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Ronald Geer,
Would buy an iPad if it supported flash.

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Mr. Jobs,
All of your objections to flash on mobile devices have been proven wrong, yet you still hold out. Samsung has been able to make a tablet and HTC a cell phone that both run flash flawlessly now what is your excuse. You are poised to repeat apples classic flaw and allow people to take your ideas and make them far more successful than you have, just as pc did to Mac. Give us what we demand or watch us all opt for other brands that will.

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Lack of flash support is really frustrating. Please remove the restrictions so that I may view flash based websites.

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Will be buying android tablet because of no flash

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I understand Apple's desire to keep Flash off of iOS. However, the reality is, many sites use flash extensively, and this is not likely to change. Apple should grudgingly allow Flash because their first priority should be to make the system the best, most capable system FOR THE USER.

Owen Budd,
Best phone I have ever had... But I am looking to go to an android if I can't find a way to get flash player... No wonder people jailbreak...

Havi,
ALLOW FLASH ON iPad!!!!!!!! i get it that apple doesn't like flash but it should definitely be a consumer choice. make it as a on/off feature

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As an Apple consumer (Currently using a Macbook Pro), I can say that blocking out such a large amount of content on the internet will only serve to lose you customers. Please return Flash capabilities to your newer devices, no matter what you think of it.

Remco de Groot,

Roel resurreccion,
Please Apple allow flash on your iPad and iPhone. You will lose a customer to Andriod or any mobile product that will support Adobe's new flash 10.1. I understand your views of third party software but this shouldn't be your choice it should be ours.

Mark,
Mr. Jobs, It's a travesty that Flash is not enabled on the iPhone. I don't pay exorbitant fees to AT&T to allow me unlimited access to the web and its resources only to have you consciously limit my access to those same resources. You make your share of profit from me, now allow Adobe to indirectly make theirs - and provide me with the functionality I demand!

Ian,
I'd buy an iPad if it had Flash... but it doesn't, so I wont.

Phillip Mosby,
Please, I really don't want to have to switch to a Blackberry. I LOVE MY IPHONE!

Gerhard Gruber,
I am missing a lot of informations without Flash. Need it urgently!! Let the users decide themselves, just give us the opportunity.

Paul Anthony,

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Sheldon Sims,
I have an iPod touch, iPad, and Droid. I can do so much more on my Droid due to Flash support. Please allow Flash on iPad, iPod, and iPhone; so we can see and do more with our Apple products. The first thing I was tought in Marketing Education is that the customer is always right. Please give us what we want.

Vsevolod,
When it comes to convenience and effective use of a device, there is no point in denying the whole technology that currently shapes the Web, even if you have an alternative to offer. Remember that customers’ interests are of a higher value than an ephemetic success in a commercial competition, for following them always provides customers' dedication and eventually leads to their more stable support of the company's products.

Ben,
The iphone is cool but without flash and suporting adobe software, apple is going to go the way of the dodo.

Mitchell Wells,
I understand it's to prevent crashes, viruses, and the like, but i want mah flash player!

Joshua Hagen,
Use frash

Niek,
I will not buy a apple as long there is no flash possible on the I phone or I pad.

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Dc douglas,

Al webhe,
799 for a smartphone that can't view a web site ! !what so smart about that?

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iPad' safari is useless !!! Please add flash

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I wonder how many other people are like me in that they are not buying an iPad specifically because Flash is not supported? Not having such a widely used piece of software ruins the browsing experience. I have an iPod touch and I hate so many web sites being ruined by having no Flash. I am certainly not going to have the same experience on a larger scale by buying an iPad.

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Flash is essential these days. We....want...flash!

Marcus Ferrara,
Please let me see the web!

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Lévêque,

Bob M.,
It just make sense. I could never buy another Apple product at this point

Mark stoute,
Thanks for making the web unusable, Steve. We want flash! I'm on an Ipad now! But boy when blackberry or google have An alternative, I'll be switching.

Jp Altier,
I am truly disappointed by the lack of flash on iOS platforms as they cannot play music on most music related websites such as mySpace/Soundcloud/lastFM/Beatport to list a few.

Mark,
If Jobs vendetta against adobe is truly the only reason that apple won't allow flash on the iPhone, your really a pathetic company. Your allowing one person to dictate what your customers can see in the Internet. Meanwhile Android is slowly catching up. I love the iPhone, but this will be my last unless this problem is not addressed. You allow apps like cloud browse to play flash video, so it's obvious that the phones have the capability. Board members wake up! All the bells and whistles don't mean a thing when your co-worker with an Evo is watching the latest videos online and your screen is blank.

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This is a huuge inconvienence. Please support java for iphone and ipad. I'll pay whatever it takes. Lets go!

Maria J.,
I just bought an iPad, and I'm seriously consider returning it despite the restocking fee at Best Buy. What's the point of having it if I can't play my Facebook games or update my Wix website? And yep, we order Dominoes pizza, too. In fact, I think I AM going to go back and get the small Toshiba netbook. I wanted something small and portable, but here I am still using my big, clunky laptop. As far as a touch-screen tablet? I'll wait for Google's. Many thanks to the commenters on this page for helping me make my decision. Maria J., August 1, 2010

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Daniel Landwirth,
Mr. Jobs, I own an iPod touch, nano, iPhone 4 32gb, 64gb 3G iPad (which I am typing on right now), and a macbook air. I am a loyal apple customer and I believe flash should be available for download so people can choose whether to have it or not. Once I buy the item it is my property and if i want to have flash on my devices then I should be able to!

Domx,
I want flash

Paul K,
I have an iPhone 3GS, upgraded with the 4G OS, though my only complaint ever since i bought the iPhone, is the lack of support for Flash. Now, i Know this is probably just a sneaky plou to get people to buy more apps instead of playing their online free counterparts, however there are many useful, and sometimes essential sites which require Flash. I believe Jobbs is loosely quoted as saying that Flash is not needed for a full experience, and can be avoided without hindrance. This is most certainly not true. I would like for someone to begin compiling a list of websites which require flash. One of which include several very popular sites: http://blog.theflashblog.com/?p=1703 . Now i believe that rather than including Flash, Apple is preparing websites with alternatives, however these are few and far between. I personally have no idea why Apple is waging this crusade against Flash, there is no logical reason I can see other than them trying to make their own pockets even fatter, not improve the internet for generations to come, because of these sites are as closed-minded as the design of the iPhone when compared to the Droid and other smart phones, then these sites are a step back. Before this problem is fixed, my advice to anyone is to get the Droid, and Jailbreaking for those of us unfortunate enough to have invested in an iPhone. I do believe the Droid lives up to its reputation as "The iPhone Killer", and the fact Apple is preferring to focus so much on a small battle to keep their customers on a tighter leash, rather than fully use the product they are selling and increacing its potential, leads me to ask this question: what does Apple really are about?

Kevin Foad,
Whether HTML5 is the future or not, flash is current and widely used. As is the iPhone. Releasing a car to market which does not run on a widely available fuel is the only other equally suicidal product I could think of.

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No support for Flash is the only issue keeping me from being a happy iPad user. If you keep up your war on flash, I will migrate to the first viable windows or android pad. I have already reluctantly migrated off iphone because of no support for iPad tethering and no flash support. Order shoes from Nike? Not on iPad. Order pizza from dominos? Not on iPad. View decent real time stock data? Not on iPad. Every time I mentally register that I can't do x on iPad, I end up back at my netbook for more and more of my surfing. I want to keep my iPad, but would like to buy from a company less wanting to control every aspect of everything.

Ross,
Steve Jobs. I hope that when you restrict people personally begin to hate you and your company. You could learn that by watching any govt that restricts freedom. It is apparent that this restriction is only based on your own greediness and fear of success of adobe products. Only reason i have iphone is because i am under a family plan at att so it would cost me 25 per month to pay for internet rather than 100+ for indiv plan at verizon. However i do feel that the android phones will be making the iphone only a dot in the phone industry mostly due to iphones dictatorship style on apps and flash. The fact of the matter is if the phone technologically the best you might be a bit disappointed but you still like the company. When a company has restrictions on people then people despise the company itself no matter how good their phones turn out to be. So a word of advice to you to not make things a way that people hate the brand apple itself. The antenna issue, even though a flaw, wouldnt stop me from buying other products. Something was overlooked. It doesnt change my feelings on the company. However your restrictions on flash and apps has made me despise you and the apple name. Hope you listen and put user's experiences ahead of your wallet.

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It's not up to apple to determine what content is viewable or not. It's clearly an attempt to control the content delivery mechanism in favor of QuickTime. If it uses more battery simply provide a toggle on / off capability and leave it to the user.

Nicholas Parkinson,
I have made several websites, both flash and non-flash, but don't always have access to my computer to check them out or work on them...allowing flash on the IPhone/IPad/Itouch would greatly help me and several others like me when we are away from our computer. Also, Apple's biggest competition--Droid phones--have this advantage and I see a lot of my friends, and others choosing these other devices due to Apple's decision to not support Flash (as well as open-source) although I find Apple's products to be superior in design, hardware, and many other areas. I can see a lot of customers turning elsewhere until Apple decides to address these problems. I've read the statement by Steve Jobs as to why Apple doesn't support Flash, and I understand that in the future we may not need a third party app to view certain websites...but this is now, and a lot of popular websites use Flash. To sum it up, Apple is destroying it's image by harsh restrictions. Allow people do what they want with their phones. If, by chance, they ruin their phones from a virus or something, it won't be Apple's fault. If Android can get away with it, why not Apple? I really think Apple has higher-quality products...but in the end, companies like HTC are going to end up on top. Really, I'm tired of all the criticism against Apple. Show people why they should buy your products...give iPhone owners a reason to stop jailbreaking their IPhones. This is a competition, and you're eventually going to lose if you don't allow users more freedom.

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Jason deBottis,
Flash on the iPhone would truly be magical.

Ian Humbert-Prince,
Mr Jobs.. get a clue.. I should be able to decide what plugins I want in my computer.. same on my smartphone.. you made a very very bad move here in my opinion ! If it had Flash Player I'd get an iPhone 4 without thinking.. now I'm all confused and possibly waiting for Droid X... And I'm a loyal Mac user of 20 years.. but you are losing me here..

Martin,

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Steve!!! In a free market what is more important the customer or the your ego? sorry iForgot I'm probably iPrison for that???? it's comunisme in apple. Thank god your not in politics. And if you are than I'd better be dead.

Lover of functional products,
I will not buy any apple product until I can use flash on it. Flash is everywhere and obviously apple is not worried About being useful... Just a hyped up flash in the pan.

Geofrey Mejia,
PLEASE APPLE ALLOW FLASH PLAYER EVEN IF I HAVE TO PAY FOR IT ITS WORTH IT.....

Gordon Ducker,
This would attract more people to Apple.

Nathan Peever,
Apple needs flash some how you just cant see that

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I am looking at ipad but haven't purchased as I constantly use a site that requires flash player, the ipad doesn't meed my needs without it

Leandra Burnett,

Jermaine West,

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Dear Apple, We all understand that would Flash compete with iAd, but you need to grow up and get over it. Stop trying to block competition like Microsoft.

Bonnie Krzyzanowski,
I agree. Apple, settle this or lose customers.

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Dylan Campbell,

Ray Gartner,
Such a great tool for surfing the web, yet so many sites that do not download. This will change my mind for the next apple product if it is not fixed.

Drazan,

Phil Beasley,
I will be buying an android as my next phone if apple don't get out of their tower and let adobe distribute flash to the iPhone, ipad, and iPod touch.

Andrew Badge,
I own an iPhone. But my old winmo did more than this. Get with it apple or you lose a customer

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I have been with Adobe for 11 years now, and with Apple for only 4 years. And the years with Google I cannot even count. The choice is clear.

Jonathan Morello,
I work with flash and I have been an apple customer my whole life, it pisses me off that apple would treat their customers like this. I will not be buying a Ipad until they support flash.

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Gary Butler,
PUT FLASH ON MY DAMN IPHONE AND IPAD.

Matthew Zaikowski,
I want hulu!

Justin Arey,
I will not buy an iPad until Flash is supported. Period.

Dru,
I'm on my 5th iPhone so I do love the products, but it would be loved more with flash!!! I want an ipad or two but I will not purchase one until apple realizes that just becasue they don't want to utilize flash, we the people do!! PLEASE FREE THE FLASH!!

Daniel Sterling,
I have read all of the debating from both sides. But the bottom line is if the customer wants to be able to view flash then the customer should have that choice and right now we dont.

Justin Ried,
Apple + Adobe = Happy Customers

Michael Higbee,
Come on Apple! I'm not getting the 4g without flash! Droids are lookin pretty sweet...

Gavin Brooks,
I bought two new iphones to only realise too late that my fav flash based web sites wont run! I am very disappointed in Apple. So I cancelled my order for two ipads.

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It's basically the only thing lacking with my ipod touch! (aside from the fact that it's not an iphone, haha)

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FLASH PLEASE !

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I totally love my iPhone but I truly hate how Apple is blocking flash only because they don't like Adobe.

John fedup,
Disgusted with this restriction, would never have wasted that much money on the iPhone if I had known!

Emanuel Pereira,

Arran,
Please, for the sake of making your products more open, allow Flash. Charge for it if need be!

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please not, do not leave good tool,
this can't be right
we please you to do the right thing and leave us flash as a excellent tool to do aesthetic webdesign,animation, streaming audio, rich interactivity, arbitrary fonts, two-way audio/video communication,hey don't be silly

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Big fan of both Apple and Adobe, but really annoyed that Flash is not allowed in the iPhone/iPad. Designers that are not too confident with coding love making things in Flash because it's so easy – now we are shut off from a big portion of the mobile world. It's just sad that they can't sort this out.

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flash on handelds is a must!
Apple come on! Just make it an option to enable flash player in the settings and display a warning message that the battery life might be unpredictable and that content might not appear correctly etc etc. Im sure no one cares about your excuses just give us flash and everybody happy, buys more iProducts, win win win.

Bernard Emby,
Have been a long time APple fan and user BUT this position on Flash by Apple is ridiculous hypocrytical and has really damaged my support for Apple.Apple do the right thing and listen to what users are saying!

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I am a big fan of Apple, but Steve Jobs “reasons” for not including Flash are nonsense. Flash may not be perfect but it is pervasive on the web and needs to be recognized and accepted. Most of his arguments apply equally to Safari on all Macs, but Flash is supported there. I’ll still get an iPad, but much of what I would want to do with it will be impossible until Flash is supported.

giulio fissore,

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It's absolutely ridiculous that the iPad doesn't have flash, let alone the iPhone. It was a VERY close call for me not to buy an iPad, and I'm a huge apple fanboy ( not afraid to admit it ).

Tristan Boudreault,

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iPad w/o flash a sad pad.

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Without flash, the iPad is less usefull for me, and i can’t justify the cost.

Audrey COZETTE,

Christophe Asso,
Flash... c'est ce qui manque pour que je me procure un iPhone.

Nicolas Fiset,
Flash... c'est ce qui manque pour que je me procure un iPad.

RP,

Joel Natkin,
As a graphic designer for 10 years, and now a web designer, I have been utterly loyal to Apple. I think Apple should return this loyalty to its core users, and incorporate Flash. Flash is the only technology that is independent of the goddamned browsers. Translate that to mean, the only technology in which a designer can translate a creative vision without compromise. Do the right thing Apple.

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@Apple: Allow Flash AND Java, and get off this very dangerous path you are on because you are losing developers for it. I will not buy iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad for myself or my staff until both are allowed to run. You are a hardware and software company and it makes no sense that Flash and Java cannot run just as well as they do on regular Macs.

Shawn Gilbert,
Why can I have Flash on my Apple iMac, but not my iPhone???

Daniel richter,

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As a web developer, I can tell you that the flash ban puts a heavy burden on designers. Yes, HTML5 and Javascript are very capable ways to code web, but the freedom of Flash still opens many more possibilities. Even if HTML5 is the mainstream solution, Flash integration should still be an integral part of the OS. Cutting it out of web browsing to me is the equivalent of using IE6.

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Dear Apple, stop being a control freak and a ruthless business company. Flash (and Adobe) do not deserve such treatiment. you are the one losing with this choice

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It's ridiculous that Apple won't allow Flash. They've worked with Adobe since the 80's, for crying out loud!

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Pride goes before the fall...

Geoff,
Flash has made growing up with the Internet a much richer experience for almost everyone. It's one of the best animation tools around. Great game making platform. Why ban it? Why keep great content from your customers? Pathological greed and hyper control-freaking is why. Boycott all things Steve Jobs. (You know he argued against expansion slots in the Apple ][...Fortunately Woz still had some muscle back then). F.A.

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don't leave your supporters frustrated. apple is losing customers! Wake up Steve!

Brian Beaumont,
I have an iPhone 3GS, Ipod touch 2nd Gen and 3 Macs and I want to decide what I can get and see. If they don't add this support I will consider switching devices and loyalties in the near future. I always thought this was the type of thing Apple was against and all the excuses are just that, excuses.

Nigam Shah,

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Brett,
Stop being greedy Apple

Mary L Cottingham,
I never appreciated how many sites I visit use Flash until I started playing with my iPad. The lack of Flash becomes quite apparent really quickly... and makes my iPad useless for many tasks for which I had hoped to use it.

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I would really like to purchase an iPad but
at the present time without Flash and Java it would be useless to me.

David Carey,
Stop putting small design firms out of business.

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No flash, no more apple purchases for me...