Why doesn't the iphone have flash player?

why doesn't the iphone have flash player?

Because it *****, has security holes in it and your phone battery life wouldn't be as good as it's today. For starters.....
Flash is heading in the direction of a dying breed. HTML5 will take it over eventually, once the world buttheads finally come to agree on its final standards.

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Why doesn't the iPad have flash player

I really like to play Facebook games they need flash player so is apple planning on getting it or not if they are when will we be able to use it.

Flash is not, and probably never will be, supported on the iPad : http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ . Plus it would be up to Adobe to make a version of their flash player that works on iOS devices - something which they have never managed to do and which they have now given up on trying to do.
Browser apps such as Skyfire, iSwifter, Puffin and Photon 'work' on some sites, but judging by their reviews not all sites. Also some websites, especially news sites, have their own apps in the App Store, so you could try checking there for your sites (and there is the built-in YouTube app). Some Facebook games have their own app version in the store. The Photon browser (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photon-flash-web-browser-app/id430200224?mt=8) says :
Photon Browser allows you to play Flash games such as free Facebook games, use Flash apps, listen to music streamed via Flash player and watch Flash video.
If you use the search facility on the right-hand side of this page you will see hundreds of other threads about flash.

Why doesn't Apple support Adobe Flash player on the iPad? Very irritating!

Why doesn't Apple support Adobe Flash player on the iPad? Very irritating!

Look to the right under More Like This and you will see that you are beating a dead horse. Instead of doing a search for your issue you will be one of the obligatory 5 or 6 folks who ask this same inane question here every bloody day.
So there is you answer, just read a few of the links to the scores of other threads here on this very topic and you will have all of the answers. The primary one being that there is no Flash from Adobe for iOS devices. Never has been, and since Adobe gave up trying to make Flash that worked, likely never will be.

Why doesn't the iPhone 5 have the call bar feature like the 4S does?

Why doesn't the iPhone 5 have the call bar feature like the 4S does?

From the Swype website:
Why isn’t Swype available for iPhone/iPad/BlackBerry/Windows Phone?
Due to the technical design of some operating systems, it is not possible for third party keyboards (such as Swype) to be offered at this point in time. Please communicate to your device/OS manufacturer that you’d like to see Swype available as a keyboard option!
Here is the link:
http://www.swype.com/about/swype-faq-3/
Cheers,
GB

Why doesn't Apple support Adobe Flash Player?

Why doesn't Apple support Adobe Flash Player?
I recently traveled out of the country with a large group and we are sharing our photos on Snapfish and I need Adobe Flash Player to download them to my IPAD. Help!

No Flash for iPads, iPhones, or iPods
Here's why there's is no Flash available for iDevices or other mobile devices. Adobe was unable to provide a product that was suitable to the needs of battery powered mobile devices used for Internet browsing. Existing Flash technology used too much memory, ate battery life, and was buggy. Simply put Flash did not work well on mobile devices.
Apple's Steve Jobs led the escape from Flash dependency when Apple introduced the iPhone, and later introduced the iPad. There was a hue and cry over the omission. Time proved Jobs was right on target.
So this is why there is no Flash for your iPhone or iPad or iPod nor for most SmartPhones. Flash has been abandoned by many sites in favor of supported technologies such as HTML5 or by providing their own custom app.
Here is Steve Jobs official comment on his momentous decision to omit Flash from iDevices: Steve Jobs on Flash.
Here is Adobe's later announcement to cease development of Flash for mobile devices: Adobe on Mobile Flash. Adobe is not providing Flash for Apple iOS devices, and they no longer provide Flash for any other cellular phones. Flash is officially gone.
Now, you are not necessarily out on a limb. There are some apps that can display some Flash, but don't count on there ability to display anything using Flash.
A sample of Apps that can display some Flash content:
1. Puffin
2. SkyFire
3. Photon Flash
4. Browse2Go
5. Swifter
Also, note that many sites that use Flash provide their own app for accessing their material. So check with your favorite sites and find out if "there's an app for that."

Why doesn't the iPhone 4s charge to 100%?

Why doesn't the iPhone 4s charge to a full 100% when charing over night?

OK sort of an old thread now but this apparently is a common issue. Restore wont help. I have researched it for the past week (did several months ago too and gave up) but I now have somewhat of a solution to this phenomena. For whatever reason mine seems to stay at 100% most of the night than around 7:00am it would drop to 97% or so within a few minutes. This sorta stopped when iOS 5.1.1 came out. Now it stays at 100% until I unplug it then it drops. What I was doing was each morning when wake up, I unplug then plug back in while I was getting ready for the day and it would go back to 100%. So for the fix. What I have discovered over the past week worked 100% of the time. When go to bed I turn off the phone with the slider. Then plug in charger and let the phone come alive again by itself. But I do not log it in. Just let it sit at the lock screen. Now every morning its at 100% and stays that way for more than an hour (If not used). So it is being fully charged and remaining that way. iPhone will quick charge to 100% by meter but in reality it still needs longer to fully charge. Anyway this process has solved the waking up to less than 100% while still being connected to the charger.

Why doesn't the iPhone and ipad sinc?

Why doesn't the iPhone and ipad sinc?

Please read this article about syncing using itunes.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1386
Good luck Friend.

Why doesn't the iPad have a guest screen like the PC for extra security?

I just want to start off first by saying I just purchased my iPad about six months ago and I'm really enjoying it,but if you're like me,I believe in protecting my privacy.
I don't like to turn down any of friends or coworkers when I'm asked to use my iPad,but when you have such things as your personal pictures,movies,music,business documents,etc...you'd like to keep them from prying eyes. I thought that with the new iOS 7 update,that issue would've been fixed, but I was wrong. I'm hoping Apple would correct this problem with the next iOS update,it would make a lot of loyal Apple consumers & anyone who's new to purchasing the iPad for the first time very happy to know that feature is available.
Why doesn't the iPad offer a guest screen?

Tell Apple at the link below.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

Why doesn't the iphone 5 have swype?!

I don't understand why the iPhones before the 5 have swype but the 5 itself does not?

From the Swype website:
Why isn’t Swype available for iPhone/iPad/BlackBerry/Windows Phone?
Due to the technical design of some operating systems, it is not possible for third party keyboards (such as Swype) to be offered at this point in time. Please communicate to your device/OS manufacturer that you’d like to see Swype available as a keyboard option!
Here is the link:
http://www.swype.com/about/swype-faq-3/
Cheers,
GB

Why doesn't iPad allow adobe flash player?

Why does Mac support Adobe Flash Player, but iPad doesn't? And are they working on compatibility?

iPads and Mac computers are different hardware and software platforms.
No Flash for iPads, iPhones, or iPods
Here's why there's is no Flash available for iDevices or other mobile devices. Adobe was unable to provide a product that was suitable to the needs of battery powered mobile devices used for Internet browsing. Existing Flash technology used too much memory, ate battery life, and was buggy. Simply put Flash did not work well on mobile devices.
Apple's Steve Jobs led the escape from Flash dependency when Apple introduced the iPhone, and later introduced the iPad. There was a hue and cry over the omission. Time proved Jobs was right on target.
So this is why there is no Flash for your iPhone or iPad or iPod nor for most SmartPhones. Flash has been abandoned by many sites in favor of supported technologies such as HTML5 or by providing their own custom app.
Here is Steve Jobs official comment on his momentous decision to omit Flash from iDevices: Steve Jobs on Flash.
Here is Adobe's later announcement to cease development of Flash for mobile devices: Adobe on Mobile Flash. Adobe is not providing Flash for Apple iOS devices, and they no longer provide Flash for any other cellular phones. Flash is officially gone.
Now, you are not necessarily out on a limb. There are some apps that can display some Flash, but don't count on there ability to display anything using Flash.
A sample of Apps that can display some Flash content:
1. Puffin
2. SkyFire
3. Photon Flash
4. Browse2Go
5. Swifter
Also, note that many sites that use Flash provide their own app for accessing their material. So check with your favorite sites and find out if "there's an app for that."

Why doesn't Firefox auto-update Flash Player like Chrome does?

For security reasons and less hassle, I like Chrome auto-updates Flash Player. Why doesn't Firefox do this?

Google Chrome has it's own version of the Flash plugin that is apart of the Google Chrome installation files.<br />
So Google needs to do a full update with every Flash release.
Firefox uses the Flash plugin as installed in your Linux distribution,<br />
If your Ubuntu Linux distribution doesn't have an automatic update for Flash then you need to do that manually.
*http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

Why doesn't the iPhone organise music correctly?

I am running iTunes 10.7(21) on a 2011 iMac. I have an iPhone 5 on iOS6. I have never been able to correctly organise my music on the phone. Compilation albums showing up 100 times, with all 100 songs in each instance of the album... etc. I am no longer adding compilation ablums because I can't get them to display correctly. Shame.. Anyway.
With the iPhone 5, i added a load of music, and realised some of it was *missing*. It would show up under "Songs", with all tag info (artist, album track name), but the same tracks would not be listed under "Artist". All track info is immaculate.
I wiped all the music, and now have just begun re-adding it all. I have 3 Artists on there so far, and they all show up. Tapping on an artist brings up the one or two albums I have copied on, the tracks play. However if I try to view all albums, only one album apprears to be on the entire phone.
I sold my prefectly organised 160Gb iPod when I got the new iPhone.. Not happy that I can't get everything the way I want it on the iPhone!
Also how difficult is it to get artwork to add to an album properly!! I spend way too much time swearing at iTunes.
Anyone with any help or advice, I'd love to hear it!
Thanks. Tony

Seems to have worked. I think. The album has copied on, all 100 songs show up in iTunes and on the iPhone under "Songs". But in the album or compilations list it is not there? Frustrating as the files are obviously on the phone, they just don't show up where they are supposed to.
As for the artwork, it's just hit and miss. Sometimes perfect, other times it doesn't sync over. Can't seem to work out what causes the difference. It updates and syncs, then there is no change on the phone. Beats me!
It was so easy to organise music on an iPod classic. Compilations were all under the right heading, artwork copied every time, it was heaven! This is just rediculious. I know my way around a computer!
electronicsguy; I have Group By Album Artist enabled, and now all the other (non-compilation) albums are visible.

Why won't the 10.3 Flash Player work on my Mac 10.5.8?

I actually posted this as part of a discussion under the thread "Flash 10.3 unable to be recognized", but nobody seemed to pay any attention to it there, so I am reposting my question as a new thread, but that is the problem I am having. When I download the player it says at the end it is installed, but yet I can't play games on FB I used to play, no You Tube, and no live chat room access, problems I never encountered until messing with this "current" Flash available. So here is what I did so far:
Okay, so I need help with this same problem that Tombland began to describe best, same system, and I followed some of the suggestions you asked him to do Chris Cambell, and he got it worked out, and I didn't so I ran out of things to try, so here's where I am at with the apparent inability to recognize the 10.3. I have a Mac 10.5.8, run Safari on it. I would never have even updated the player if I knew it was going to be this big of a hassle, but I was trying to get a football game from ESPN3 to play(which never even ended up working!), so now that I did that, I get no You Tube videos, and a chat room I frequent often is unavailable to me as well.
Sooo....I went to that page where I looked for "Shockwave Flash" section, and I did NOT have one. So then I followed the instructions to go to the folder/Library/Internet Plug-ins and I DO have "flashplayer.plugin" being displayed in there. So now I have no idea what that means and what I am supposed to try next. I have tried uninstalling it, I have reinstalled it, I have tried to get archived Flash Players to go back to whatever I had that used to work(!), and I am not very good with computers especially a Mac, this is my first Mac I have had it for 1-2 years so I am still familiarizing myself with it, I have always had PC's. So please be VERY specific when you reply to guide me through the next part of the process to get this system working right. Please!? Thank you!(And I don't know how to show pictures of the screen being displayed, so please don't ask me to do that, although it has been very helpful what others have been able to visually show me to look for, sorry).

It sounds like you had Flash 10.1 or earlier previously installed. The older versions of Flash Player had "universal" support, which basically meant that it could run with either Intel or PowerPC based macs. The new version of Flash Player, 10.3, only works with Intel macs. That checkbox was telling Safari to run in the old, PowerPC mode, which isn't compatible with the updated Flash Player. In addition to getting Flash Player to work, you should see a performance increase in Safari as it's running in a native mode now
Glad I could help!
Chris

Why doesn't apple allow Adobe Flash Player to be downloaded ?

Why doesn't apple support and allow downloading of Adobe Flash Player?

Because there is no version available from Adobe that works on any iOS device.
Stedman

HT1338 Why doesn't safari run adobe flash player or adobe java?

I keep getting error messages that both adobe java and adobe flashplayer are out of date. I try to download the upgrade but it does not remain on the computer for future use. I have a couple of programs that require these programs. Are there any other programs that Apple allows me to use that will do the same as the Adobe programs?

Adobe Flash Player 11.7.700.225
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