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Apple has just ended a silly debate that stole the headlines last week and quietly updated its promo video to reflect the fact that the iPad won’t do Flash.
Apple has updated the iPad promotional footage over the weekend, clearing up any confusion about the tablet’s ability to render Flash content. An updated web browsing mockup in the new video shows the blue legos in place of the actual Flash content that was present in the original video. Seeing the Flash issue snowballing into a PR catastrophe, Apple has updated the video in order to avoid potential false advertising lawsuits that might have ensued. According to 9to5Mac, the company’s advertising agency wanted a prettier mockups so they enhanced the footage with Flash content:
We’ve just got word from our source at Chiat/Day Media Arts Lab that they make fake optimized web pages for all of Apple’s commercials / which load faster. In this case they made optimized images to take the place of Flash and are redoing them as we speak. So probably no Flash.
FLASH OR NO FLASH? The original iPad promo footage showed the device rendering Flash parts on web sites (above) whereas an updated version has missing plugin errors in place of such content (below).

As Geek noted the day following the January 27 iPad introduction, a prototype unit Jobs used during on-stage couch browsing briefly displayed missing plugin legos where Flash content was supposed to appear. While a rare few had spotted this during the Stevenote, those pesky journalists have thoroughly inspected the keynote video that Apple posted a few hours after the event. Our colleagues immediately knew those blue legos meant that the iPad won’t do Flash.
When Apple posted the original promo video on its web site that depicted Flash-enabled web browsing on the iPad, fans had been given some hope. Perhaps Jobs’ prototype wasn’t finished, fans reasoned, and maybe iPads scheduled to ship late March will run Flash out-of-the-box. The updated video, however, has dashed all hopes of Flash on the iPad. Nevertheless, the device will play YouTube videos embedded into web pages via its dedicated YouTube player, just like the iPhone. With major video sharing sites like YouTube and Vimeo beginning to upgrade to HTML5 video players, the future doesn’t seem bright for Adobe’s proprietary multimedia runtime anyway. And what of all those Flash games, you ask? Don’t worry, there’ll be an app for that.
Eagle-eyed readers could note that Apple said “no” to Adobe’s Flash far earlier, back to a prototype unit that Jobs held in his hands during the original iPhone introduction in January 2007. Like on the iPad, the New York Times homepage that the CEO loaded up on the iPhone showed a missing plugin error in place of Flash content. Three years later, the iPhone still doesn’t support Flash. Jobs had called Flash on several occasions both a security risk and a resource hog.
It has been reported last week that Jobs allegedly told employees after the iPad introduction that Adobe is “lazy,” suggesting that no one will be using Flash because the world is moving to HTML5. The CEO allegedly criticized the buginess of Flash and hinted it may never be supported on iPhone OS devices like the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
 
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