This will be an interesting test of Steve Jobs' reasoning on why Flash should be kept off the iPad. My predictions of Jobs' accuracy: -I think battery life wi

This will be an interesting test of Steve Jobs' reasoning on why Flash should be kept off the iPad. My predictions of Jobs' accuracy: -I think battery life will indeed be an issue. 10 hours has certainly set the bar high. I think people are going to expect significantly better battery life on a tablet than on a laptop now. -I think he'll be right about made-for-PC flash interfaces being awkward on a tablet, (e.g. problems with hover states). -I think performance will be acceptable for video but poor on most non-tablet optimized games. -I think he will be mostly wrong about Flash holding the platform back, because I think most devs who are making content for the tablet will use native code or web apps. Overall, I think people will be pretty disillusioned with the idea of Flash on a touchscreen once they use it and its limitations become evident, but I do think that it will still be seen as an advantage over the iPad among tech-savvy people, if just for the ability to use flash-reliant websites and to play non-youtube videos.