“Why Flash Is Fundamentally Flawed On Touchscreen Devices”
Flash on the iPad will not (and should not) happen — and the main reason, as I see it, is one that never gets talked about: current Flash sites could never be made to work well on any touchscreen device, and this cannot be solved by Apple, Adobe, or magical new hardware. That’s not because of slow mobile performance, battery drain or crashes. It’s because of the hover or mouseover problem.
It’s a good point, and indeed often overlooked: apart from video (which can easily be made to work on Mobile Safari), 90% of the web’s Flash content would be unusable on the iPhone even if it did run, because most Flash interfaces hide everything behind mouseover.
So you’re going to have to redesign your website for touch-based interfaces anyway, and you might as well do it in HTML. It’ll even be cheaper.
(It’s funny that we’ve all been clamoring for tablets all these years, yet we never thought of future-proofing our interfaces.)
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