Will Apple and the iPad Kill Flash?

Goodbye FlashWith the explosive sales and popularity of the iPad, I’ve been thinking a lot about the future of Flash.  The lack of Flash support for this device has been no secret since the moment it was demonstrated by Steve Jobs.  With popular sites like CNN.com, Vimeo.com, and even the White House scrambling to make their sites “iPad friendly”, what does this mean for Flash? Should we be preparing an early grave for what was, up until recently, arguably the undisputed king of online video and interactive websites?

What do you think?  Can Adobe recover from this?  Does the fact that Android powered devices support Flash matter at this point?  Is anyone else concerned at how easily Apple has been able to put the usefulness of Flash into question so easily?


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