Why is everyone making a big fuss about this? The most likely explanation is that this is a production error, and Apple will have to fix it soon or get sued. It isn't surprising if this is the case, because Apple's well-known secrecy concerning upcoming product means that Marketing probably didn't get much information until the last minute, and some errors could slip through. Remember the Polish MS ad that had a white guy photoshopped in a black guy's place? This isn't any more stupid than that, and is a better photoshop job, too, if that's what it is.
But there are several ways the apparent flash usages could be legitimate. Tom has pointed out one, and an idea I like because I seem to be the only one to have thought of it so far, is that the iPad isn't showing Safari in acton, but instead is showing the NYT reader app that was discussed briefly in the keynote. On Jan 29, 2010, at 8:15 PM, COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic digest system wrote: > From: tjpa <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Apple's homepage for ipad...how long till they fix it? Re: > [CGUYS] You Saw the Demo? Are you impressed? > > On Jan 29, 2010, at 6:46 PM, mike wrote: >> As reported on Engadget and other blogs, Apple is currently running >> a promo >> on their website for the ipad showing it running flash from >> Adobe..which it >> can't do. So the ipad that can do it all, but not flash, has to lie >> about >> doing flash? How long till Apple pulls it? > > How do you know that it is Flash and not HTML5? Both Safari 4 and > FireFox 3.6 now support enough of HTML5 to handle this. If you use > these up-to-date browsers you can even set your YouTube preferences to > use HTML5 instead of Flash. > > There is now some debate about who ships buggier software with some > proposing that Adobe has now pulled ahead of M$. Many report that > using the FlashBlock add-on has greatly improved their browser > performance and eliminated too-frequent crashes. Apple's message to > Adobe is to clean up their act if they want access. > > WFBs may find frequent crashing just adds to the excitement, but not > everyone does. > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
