Apple's iPad, a broken link? --Adobe

From Adrian Ludwig, an Adobe PM: "a picture posted on Engadget shows (below), and many others have reported, there's something important missing from Apple's approach to connecting consumers to content.

It looks like Apple is continuing to impose restrictions on their devices that limit both content publishers and consumers. Unlike many other ebook readers using the ePub file format, consumers will not be able to access ePub content with Apple's DRM technology on devices made by other manufacturers.  And without Flash support, iPad users will not be able to access the full range of web content, including over 70% of games and 75% of video on the web.

If I want to use the iPad to connect to Disney, Hulu, Miniclip, Farmville, ESPN, Kongregate, or JibJab -- not to mention the millions of other sites on the web -- I'll be out of luck."

via http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplatform/2010/01/apples_ipad_--_a_broken_link.html#  

Note: The Engadet picture is amusing. During the Steve Jobs keynote, when Jobs attempted to demonstrate the New York Times on the iPad, he pulled up a blank frame where a Flash video should have been displayed.