Adobe Attacks Apple on Lack of Flash in iPad

Adobe once again has been outspoken in attacking Apple’s Berlin Wall of a Walled Garden. This time though, it’s on iPad.

Quoting Adobe’s Flash Platform Blog:

It looks like Apple is continuing to impose restrictions on their devices that limit both content publishers and consumers. Unlike many other ebook readers using the ePub file format, consumers will not be able to access ePub content with Apple’s DRM technology on devices made by other manufacturers. And without Flash support, iPad users will not be able to access the full range of web content, including over 70% of games and 75% of video on the web.

If I want to use the iPad to connect to Disney, Hulu, Miniclip, Farmville, ESPN, Kongregate, or JibJab — not to mention the millions of other sites on the web — I’ll be out of luck.

Apple has cited a poor mobile experience in refusing to integrate Adobe Flash into their browsers. The company was even ordered to remove advertisements in England that declared iPhone had “the full web, on the iPhone”, over the lack of Flash.

Because Flash is a web browser plugin, Apple would have to ship it as a part of iPhone OS. Adobe recently began offering a Flash conversion tool, porting Flash code to Objective-C, so as to allow individual applications built in Flash to have a path to the App Store. Still, that’s cold comfort for those who want to take advantage of Apple’s A4 to watch Hulu on their iPad.