The assertion by several writers is, if the iPad takes off (and it will, li’l droogies, like a Saturn V rocket, magnificent and terrible), by not supporting Flash, Apple is challenging Adobe’s mind-share monopoly over the entire Webosphere. Cringely has been insisting for years Apple was going to use it’s pile o’ cash to buy Adobe to get its hands on Flash in its bid to own the web, but think about it, why go into debt and risk a bad case of indigestion trying’ to swallow and assimilate an alien corporate culture when it’s much cheaper to simply crush it like a bug or simply make it seem irrelevant instead of essential?