It doesn't meet the needs for the demands that the Apple users have asked for. Its just an overgrown iPod touch with iBook, iWork, and iPhoto. Yeah it looks cool, but still no flash support and if you want to use 3G, you are stuck with AT&T. Nathan Mynarcik Interactive Web Developer [email protected] 254.749.2525 www.mynarcik.com
-----Original Message----- From: "allandt bik-elliott (thefieldcomic.com)" <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:53:31 To: Flash Coders List<[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] WIRED hates Flash "The iPad is a buggy rushed to market, compromised piece of hardware" what's this based on? it looks pretty slick to me, for what it is On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Kevin Newman <[email protected]> wrote: > The iPad is a buggy rushed to market, compromised piece of hardware. The > competition in that space at CES is staggering, likely cheaper, and mostly > based on Android. Apple isn't going to win this market, so I'm not worried > about it. > > Kevin N. > > > > > On 1/29/10 8:03 AM, artur wrote: > >> /i was wondering what the communities thoughts were about this:/* >> * >> >> * >> http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/01/ten-things-missing-from-the-ipad/ >> * >> >> *Flash* >> >> Many people will bemoan the lack of Flash in the iPad. It wasn't >> mentioned, but eagle-eyed viewers would have seen the missing plugin icon on >> the New York Times site during yesterday's demo, and given that Apple >> clearly hates Flash as both a non-open web "standard" and as a buggy, >> CPU-hungry piece of code, it's unlikely it will ever be added, unless Apple >> decides it wants to cut the battery life down to two hours. >> >> Who needs Flash, anyway? YouTube and Vimeo have both switched to H.264 for >> video streaming (in Chrome and Safari, at least -- Firefox doesn't support >> it), and the rest of the world of Flash is painful to use. >> >> In fact, we think the lack of Flash in the iPad will be the thing that >> finally kills Flash itself. If the iPad is as popular as the iPhone and iPod >> Touch, Flash-capable browsers will eventually be in the minority. >> >> >> go. >> >> >> -artur >> _______________________________________________ >> Flashcoders mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders >> > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
