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What am I missing when my tablet doesn't support Adobe Flash?

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Roven:
The Google Nexus 7 in many ways is the perfect tablet for me. Then I heard it wont support Adobe Flash which is weird cause I always thought Android always had it with other tablets.

My most concern is how is it gonna effect browsing the internet, but if there's anything else, I would like to know about it.

lapa321:
Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, ICS, all have flash support on the default browsers, but they stopped on Jellybean. Adobe decided to concentrate on flash apps instead.

Really sucks because it's much easier to make a dynamic media website in flash than HTML5.

Saras:
Adobe retracted flash support for version 4.1+

lapa321:
Well, i was browsing one of the forums i go to and suddenly got a notification that i have reached my bandwidth limit.

When i got home and checked the site, i found that they've switched over from flash to bitmap ads. I've worked for an ad company before and know that bitmaps use more bandwidth than swf's. We actually redraw bitmaps from clients into flash even for stationary ads to shrink the file size, a 200kb JPG can be shrunk to a 20kb swf with no artifacting. The new ads are GIF!!! WHAT THE HECK DO THEY THINK THEY'RE DOING???

Southrop:
The world is shifting to HTML5 now. Flash is old, insecure and less useful now (although admittedly, a lot of websites are still heavily reliant on Flash).

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