Engadget has pointed out that the brand new MacBook Air does not ship with Adobe’s Flash browser plug-in preinstalled.
Amusingly enough, you know what’s missing from the new MacBook Air models? Adobe Flash Player. While preloaded on Apple’s past hardware, out of the box here it just says missing plugin, with no click to install option. To be fair, Flash doesn’t come standard on a lot of machines, even for Windows, but we wonder if past models will continue to ship out with Adobe’s plugin, especially once OS X 10.7 becomes de facto.
It appears that Apple is still pushing for the elimination, or at least the slow death of Flash. Yes, this is undoubtedly a political decision, but I wonder if it isn’t a technical one too. Has Apple dropped Flash from the MacBook Air in an effort to improve battery life? Think about it, the battery on the MacBook Air has to be pretty small, and Flash is a hardware intensive, and thus electricity intensive technology. Makes sense to me, but we’ll see if Apple ever explains their reasoning behind this move. It’s likely to get a lot of media attention.
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