The Apple iPad

[thatmariolover]

Flash isn't on iPad for the same reason it isn't on the iPhone.

The single leading source of application crashes on Mac OS X is Flash - a component that Apple can’t fix. And ignoring crashes, it takes a much more powerful Mac to play HD flash videos than on a PC - all because of Adobe's bad programming.

Flash has widereaching capabilities, and would have to be able to access the memory of any app in order to display something in them. Imagine if your favorite apps were suddenly slower and crashed more often just because Apple introduced a poorly written implementation of Flash. It doesn't make sense. Adobe needs to get their stuff together and prove that they can develop a version of Flash that Apple is willing to use.

Edit:
According to Tom's Hardware, the iPad can handle 10 hours of HD video without a recharge.