Apex charts and IPad

http://www.anychart.com/blog/2011/03/24/html5-version-of-anychart-coming-soon/
They will release AnyChart HTML5 version.
Is there any way to incorporate these charts into existing apex applications?
Goal is simple: get charts working on IPad...

By the way,
Anychart will release HTML5 charts this month.
So we can embed them into APEX.
This is answer from their Director of Sales:
Hello Alex,
Not at this time. We’ll be releasing our HTML5 charts later this month. We are in discussions with Oracle about including them as part of APEX but that would be some time away at this point. However, once the HTML5 comes out, you could implement them into your APEX environment directly just like our other charts.
Regards,
Mark
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