Apple’s misleads on iPad Flash capabilities, draws FTC charge
Jan 30, 2010 phones
The deficiency of Adobe Flash support on the iPad is causing Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) some grief this workweek. Not only has Adobe implied that your iPad fapping [definition] sessions won’t be as fulfilling with support for Flash-based pornography sites, one electric potential iPad customer has filed a complaint with the US Fed Trade Commission that calls Apple out for displaying Flash-based content on iPad promotional materials. Apple has been flaunting the iPad all over the web recently, but as web designer Saul of Tarsus Threatt (a damn cool surname) pointed out to the Federal Trade Commission, it’s been showing off websites as if the gimmick supports Adobe’s Flash engineering. It doesn’t, and that’s the problem.
Whether or not you believe Flash support is a critical feature in a web-surfing tab, or that Flash needs to dice off and bequeath its hold over rich web media to HTML5, there’s no denying that it’s wrong to mislead consumers into thought that websites using Flash media will render properly on the iPad. That’s exactly why Threatt filed his charge with the Federal Trade Commission. “I don’t clutch anything against them for not supporting Flash,” said Threatt. “It’d be great if they did, but what I don’t want them to do is misrepresent the gimmick’s capabilities.”
In his iPad announcement demo, Steve Jobs showed off the iPad browse the full New York Times website without any of its Flash subject displayed – showing instead a missing plugin ikon. A subsequent promo video recording then showed the iPad browsing the NYT website complete with Flash content. Apple apparently does this in several iPad ads, and folks like Mr. Threatt are crying foul over Apple’s false advertisements.
We’ll have to waiting and see what military action the FTC takes on Threatt’s charge. This could get interesting.
[Update] Apple isn’t waiting for an official FTC inquiry. MacRumors reports that Apple has already pulled Flash content from their iPad promo materials. All Flash subject is now replaced with the all-too-familiar little blue lego icons that indicate that Flash is not supported on your web browser/device.
[Via: ITWorld]
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