With no jokes now, why the hell would you buy a "state of the art" tablet PC, or smartphone - also know as a POCKET PC if it can't do the basic functions LIKE A NORMAL PC.

Flash player support is around the PC's from a long time (LINUX, Windows or whatever). Most of android devices lack Flash player, apple in 2013 is still missing Flash on all devices, and I don't know about older versions of the Windows Phone but my WP 8.0.10211.204 have the latest version of Flash player for IE 10 and constantly getting new updates for it.

When I first installed Win8 on my Tablet PC, I tried to use it as stock as possible, so with Internet Explorer 10 I could use YouTube (because YouTube now runs with HTML5 also) but couldn't get on my favorite 18+ website that uses only Flash player. I sent a message about this to Microsoft and in about 1-2 weeks we got in the Windows Update section the Flash Player plugin (for IE10 you can't download flash from Adobe) and since than with every Windows Update we get updates for Flash Player for IE10.

Looks like MS learned it's lesson, Apple has to be sued to listen to their customers...