If you have had an iPhone for more than a year, then you have more than likely been annoyed at least once by the impossibility of seeing the flash content of a web site. Apple has been stubborn over the years not to implement flash in iDevices claiming that it is a big consumer of resources and generates instability in the system so that almost 230 million iDevices work without it. As a solution for the lack of flash, Apple proposes the HTML 5 standard, which is starting to be used by most websites that cannot afford to lose the traffic generated by iDevices. In the last months, extremely many sites have adopted the new standard and until the end of the year, the degree of expansion will increase constantly.
To be honest, I don't know since when I couldn't access flash content on a site and I noticed that many of the Romanian sites follow Apple. Whether we are talking about video sharing sites or about newspapers, magazines, television sites, etc., the vast majority implement the HTML 5 standard because iPad tablets and iPhone terminals generate a traffic worthy of consideration. If there are still sites that have not taken the big step towards HTML 5 then Puffin it's the ideal solution because it displays any kind of flash content from any website and so far I haven't found a movie that this little browser can't run.
In conclusion, is the lack of flash a disadvantage for iDevices? At the moment, not really, because most of the websites have either made their applications for the App Store or switched to HTML 5, and for those that didn't think to switch, there is Puffin. My opinion is that the lack of flash is currently irrelevant for iDevices.
How much do you feel the lack of flash?
