The only reasons I can think of for not including it is it's more or less a buggy POS* that is increasingly a target for exploits. It's also a environment that's completely beyond Apple's control. I know it seems a strange omission, but I can see Jobs' point. I'm sure he's done the sums already.eduardo_b wrote:Not a reason. Like it or not, Flash is a standard now and so widely used that there are no excuses for not including support for it on the iPad. It's not like Apple isn't making money by the lorry load.brambos wrote:...more likely it is because they don't want to be at the mercy of Adobe for anything.
*YMMV of course.
Anyway, with regard to the original topic, who would need Flash on a touchscreen box that they were using as an OSC controller?
Bit of a chicken and egg scenario here. Apple apps (unlike dedicated music apps) are usually simple things that are priced cheap and stacked high. Developing a controller application to suit a wide range of users and their software of choice is undoubtedly a task, so the developer would want to be sure that there is enough of a market to make it worthwile. On the other side, musicians may be reticent about buying an iPad just as a controller until there are useful apps for it, because TBH (unlike the iPod Touch or iPhone) it's not really much use for anything else.
