Reflecting the comments we have had here from iPad owners, lack of flash is the number one negative with the iPad. For all the “flash is dead” talk, its simply everywhere and its annoying to try to surf the web without it for average users. Apple need to factor the people into their calculations!
Good analysis by the Register of the challenges facing Google in trying to create a tablet to rival the iPad. They make a perceptive point that the real competition is things like TV, books and games consoles, not the rest of the tablet/netbook/ereader market. This is where Apple’s intensive emphasis on design, familiarity and ease
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The early adopters bought their iPads with a defiant stance towards flash – (ie: “who needs it” “I always block it anyway” “Flash is the past, HTML5 is the future”). Add a few weeks, the iPad purchase compromises are forgotten and the trash talk and slagging has started about anyone who dares still have a
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Report and video of hands on with prototype Android tablet, including running flash. And Steve Jobs claim that flash and touch would never work technically? Oh yeah, that was FUD.
The reviewer says:
“It runs Adobe’s Flash and Air apps flawlessly. That was the first time I saw Adobe’s Air apps running on a tablet and totally impressed
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What’s up with those iPad sales figures being collected by the Chitika network? On Monday Apple announced that the iPad had sold 1 million in 28 days, but merely 2 days later the the feisty Chitika counter of sales is just shy of 2 million mark. Previously the figures dropped by 800,000 on a weekend
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Google have released their voice app in HTML5, bypassing the App store altogether (Link courtesy of John Gruber, Daring Fireball, who commented “Cross-platform mobile development, no App Store in sight.”). This is what Apple have (I believe somewhat cynically) blessed as the official way to overcome the lack of flash on iPad.
Adobe should jump right
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John Gruber of Darling Fireball calls this article by Mark Bernstein about platform control “exactly right ” (unsurprisingly perhaps, the article he links to in turn calls John Gruber “almost exactly correct” – is this commentary or mutual admiration?)
Bernstein argues that Apple is only protecting itself, in memory of its near-death experiences in the ’90s,
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