Motorola Xoom will ship without Flash support

Flash is a technology that had it's best days in PC era.<p>Probably noone can imagine YouTube or banner ads without Flash technology nowdays, but new devices are coming to market where Flash isn't best choice anymore. Just as floppy disks served world in it's days but are now replaced with USB keys or broadband connections and clouds storages so it looks like Flash had it's days and will be replaced by other solutons (like H.264 codec).<p>Putting Flash on Android tablets seems like they want to compete "has flash" VS. iPad's "does not have Flash", but that doesn't really serve to users.<p>It goes the way nature has invented long time ago and it's called evolution - where old dies (even very best of it's time) away and new takes over.

The Motorola Milestone advertised it was "Flash ready" on the packaging. That was in mid 2009. I bought the phone and have been waiting on Motorola to deliver the necessary upgrades ever since. Their release date for Android 2.2 Froyo for the Milestone changed, what, ten times - from mid 2010 to June to August to September to Q4 to end of Q4 to early 2011 to sometime 2011… in October a 2.2.1 test ROM from Motorola leaked (the "G.O.T." ROM), and they still haven't managed to put out a release.<p>I don't trust Motorola on anything anymore. Their hardware was pretty good, but their service and communication with their customers is abysmal.

So what is the competitive advantage that the Motorla Xoom now has?<p>And what does it have to justify it's $100 price premium over the iPad?

I go out of my way to avoid using Flash on my Android phone.<p>Steve Jobs and others are right: Flash apps are not meant for touch screens, or mobile devices in general. I miss it only a little when I'm using iOS.

Well, it seems like Spring 2011 is not actually Spring 2011. Here's Adobe's blog post on the matter: <a href="http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplatform/2011/02/update-for-fp-10-2-on-tabs.html" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplatform/2011/02/update-for-fp-1...</a><p>Money quote: <i>Adobe will offer Flash Player 10.2 pre-installed on some tablets and as an OTA download on others within a few weeks of Android 3 (Honeycomb) devices becoming available, the first of which is expected to be the Motorola Xoom.</i>

Will the browser have full HTML5 support? Can I go to YouTube in it and watch videos without flash? I admittedly don't know much about the Android 3.0 browser.

Why don't they adopt click-to-play trick to get the best from both worlds?

Adobe has been in a serious funk since they took over Macromedia. We shouldn't be surprised competition breeds better products.

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