Life without Flash, as bad as you thought?

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As a ColdFusion developer and aspiring Flash/Flex developer I was pretty upset with Apple's decision to exclude Flash support from the iPad. I promptly went out and bought the first Android 2.2 phone I could in protest! I don't regret that, I love my Droid X. However, a couple months back I was gifted an iPad. My wife and I both got one. I don't care how bias you are, you can't argue with a gift.

As much as I want to dislike this stupid thing, I just can't. In fact, I love my iPad. It hasn't left my side since I got it. Aside from Flash, I haven't found anything I can't do with it, and iOS 4.2 cleared up some of the small annoyances I had with it prior to the update, primarily multitasking.

My biggest surprise is that the lack of Flash isn't as earth shattering as I thought it would be. I think I can count on one hand the number of times either my wife or I have been inconvenienced by it. Granted, it was a pretty big inconvenience. But the number of them have been small.

This is just my experience. I'm sure there are other use cases out there, so I'm curious to know how my fellow Adobe community iPad owners feel about the lack of Flash? Is it as bad as you feared? Worse? A few inconveniences? Or maybe you don't own one strictly because of it? Let me know.

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