Those billions of clips couldn't play without Flash multimedia software from Adobe Systems.

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Unlike the iPad, all four tablets will support Adobe Flash, a multimedia platform that adds animation and interactivity to web pages.

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Business is booming in the cell phone business because as you go from the second generation to the third generation of wireless communication, you need higher density flash to do all of these multimedia tasks in addition to the basic code storing.

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Perhaps we sound ungrateful, but this sort of acceleration for Flash -- the internet's most popular multimedia delivery method -- is long overdue, and we're not overly impressed with the idea of waiting until mid-2010 for it to happen.

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For every thousand people who watch a Flash clip online or fill out an online Adobe Acrobat Reader tax form (without paying), there's a Web programmer or graphic designer who paid several hundred dollars for the right to create that digital content using Adobe's multimedia production and editing tools such as Flash, Acrobat, Illustrator and Photoshop.

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