“Another big negative as I understand is that IPads do not come with Adobe Flash Player, which is used for many sites I visit. Also, Adobe stopped supporting Android last year (my cheap Android has the last Flash Player version for Android devices).”
Flash is on the way out, that’s why it’s no longer being supported on Android (which was originally supposed to be a big deal in competing with iOS).
Almost all Flash content will be moved to HTML5 instead, which will work great on iOS.
Which has nothing to do with what someone might have wanted from a tablet over the past year and before. Without Adobe Flash over the past months, I would have had little reason to own a tablet. There is much sports content around that still runs on Adobe Flash.