Biggest number of new signatories ever on a single day* following Steve Jobs’ “Thoughts on Flash”!
Things should “just work”, “magically”, you see. After the weasel words our readers are still saying “just make it friggin’ work, Steve”.
Apple-lovers stumble upon this site through google to complain: read their stories and multiply (oh, and sign our petition). Apple
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- Steve Jobs has personally posted his thoughts on flash. He’s defensive! In decades of following Apple, I can’t recall him communicating this way before. His public persona has been the turtle neck guy with the cool device to show off. Obviously feeling vulnerable about flash, and backing off the aggressive trash talk. If
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John Gruber from Daring Fireball posted a link to canvasmol, an example of HTML5 canvas animation. It is a very beautiful animation that is hard to do in flash, and it is impressive. However after opening 6 molecules the frame rates started to stutter visibly on my machine. Complex atoms such as Adenovirus would
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The news that various US universities have banned the iPad for technical reasons is an embarassment for Apple, but that problem will be temporary. There are larger problems with iPad’s suitability for education purposes:
- For primary aged kids, non-access to Flash is a real problem, given the number of free, quality flash educational sites
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Blend it, hit it with a baseball bat rather than this! We at Flash4ipad could arguably be accused of wishing ill to Apple’s iPad. But even we, even probably Cory Doctorow would draw the line at running windows 95 on it (assuming this is for real). Even if it will allow you to play Farmville;
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The iPad is often described as a polarising product. David Pogue did a smart, deliberately schitzo review for it, the theme being the head/heart dichotomy (“techies” and “others”). Viewed rationally: issues everywhere. Emotionally: love at first sight. For me, it is not that clear, I’m conflicted on an emotional AND rational level.
iPad combines the best and
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The “iPad ready” (according to Apple) New York Times website features a beautiful exploded interactive illustration of the iPad … in flash! It can’t be viewed on iPad. Arrgh… you’re messing with our heads, NYT!
Be inspired…NOT. Ebay on iPad – you see a big white space on the home page! There is of course, an easy solution for ebay: buy an iAd (Apple revenue cut – 40%).
Update: as of 21 April ebay have released a highly regarded iPad-specific App, to bridge the gap between the Flash-broken web version and
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Rumour today that the levels of buyers remorse and returns on the iPad are unusually high.
Another commentator has found obvious evidence that Apple have designed the iPad hardware and software to take a camera.
Apple’s obsessive need to control the iPad makes the workflow for word processing etc. on it all but impossible, a combination of the
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Today Apple undermined Adobe’s new Flash product that would allow developers to use the Flash environment to produce iPhone and iPad apps. Steve Jobs confirmed explicitly, when launching the iPhone software v4 that it will not support flash, and it seems most likely that however badly the iPad sells, flash will never be allowed on
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The last article on these pages expressed the fear that, with all the criticism out there, the iPad might turn out to be another Newton (Apple’s brilliant, ahead of its time, failed, handheld of the 90’s)
S0 this is the “on the other hand…” article.
If one could dissect Steve Job’s brain, a good deal of it
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There is an app for iPad and iPhone called teleport that allows you to access your desktop screen through the mobile device via internet. This could include a browser running farmville. Apparently it takes a bit of getting used to, but for all you desperate Farmville addicts out there, that want to play Farmville on
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I’d love an iPad, but some of the buyer’s remorse around the internet is sounding decidedly Newtonish. You know, the Apple device people could see was cool, but no one quite had a use for:
“people’s reactions to my MessagePad generally depend on whether they see it as a ‘big Pilot’ or a ’small laptop.’”
“As might
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One of my favourite quotes of 2009 was “the web devalues everything it touches”. It refers to the consumer expectation that on the web, things should be free. Music, video and print vendors know the principle too well. Chrome, the OS being developed by Google, is the future. It pushes to the web virtually everything you
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Analysts agree that iPad sales are likely to soar, however they nominate lack of flash as the number one limiting factor
“Until Apple addresses this issue one way or another, its decision not to support Flash … will have a limiting effect on the iPad’s sales potential,”
Hopefully, as with iPod sales will get to a certain
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The visualisations in Google’s popular analytics tool are rendered in Flash, so if this is important to you don’t count on an iPad to access them!
Nice try Apple, but the approved list of “iPad ready” sites are still full of holes where flash should be, because Flash does a whole lot more than just play video. As for the rest of the internet, as David Pogue experienced: “thousands of Web sites show up with empty white squares on the iPad —
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The first iPad reviews are in from the traditional Apple chosen ones (pogue, mossberg, ihnatko et al) as the iPad juggernaut follows apples patented hype template. We’ve never doubted the thing will be brilliant, and that actually using it, everything would make sense. My favourite lines: “one of the best computers ever” “elegant, satisfying” “profoundly different”
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