Apple announced yesterday it’s awaited tablet, the iPad, which runs on the iPhone OS and features a much more powerful processor. There was no mention as to whether or not the device would support Flash, but engadget reported that Flash cannot be displayed in the Safari browser of the iPad. This doesn’t come as a big surprise as the iPhone still currently does not support Flash at all. While this might be a big drawback for most consumers, Flash developers are not left completely without a solution as the new version of Flash CS5 will allow packaging Flash into native iPhone applications which will run on the iPad. However, it is very unlikely for the initial release of Flash CS5 to support any of the custom APIs for the iPad as opposed to the iPhone, but we can hope that Adobe takes that into consideration in later updates.

The iPad is expected to be released in March 2010, there is no release date for Flash CS5 yet.