gugalpm
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I don't think you need flash to browse through Bangbros' website. You can't watch videos off it, but you can download them for sure. 
So what does one think of the iPad (not iSlate/iTablet/iWhatever) ?
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woody60707
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What kind of screen is it? I got a E-book, and it's E-ink reads just like paper and is the size of a paperback. While Reading a computer screen gives you headaches after a while, the smallest netbooks are just to a tad too big to fit in your cargo pocket, and batter battery life.
Does this Ipad improve on any of that? Still seems too big, but the color screen is nice for comicbook reading (But I do that with my laptop already).
So what about Battery life and the screen causing headaches?
Does this Ipad improve on any of that? Still seems too big, but the color screen is nice for comicbook reading (But I do that with my laptop already).
So what about Battery life and the screen causing headaches?
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
Sounds like a feminine product*.
*note: I've had a used pad placed on my face while asleep.
*note: I've had a used pad placed on my face while asleep.
What's the reasoning for no flash? Some conflict with iTunes or something? Or Apple's MO of releasing a crippled first version so that people will run out and buy the next one in a year? (Like they did with the iPhone).
Mise
isle of lucy
Well, this is probably being extremely generous to Apple, but HTML5 <video> tags are probably going to supercede Flash for video rendering in webpages (eventually).
Most likely, though, it's the crippled early version MO thing...
Most likely, though, it's the crippled early version MO thing...
SS-18 ICBM
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Apple fanboys are responding by saying "Flash sucks", "HTML5 will save us", and "who needs online games and videos anyway?"
Mise
isle of lucy
It can't do it over WiFi?
I guess one reason is that Apple wants control over every piece of software on the iPad via the Appstore. Flash apps would undermine this control.
My fiancee has an iPod Touch and I'm not sure it can do it over WiFi. She hasn't synced in over a year.
I just googled it, and i don't see anything about iPod Touches syncing wirelessly.
That makes sense. That reminds me, it allows Apple to offer "exclusive" deals with providers, such as their MLB.tv deal to stream games on the iPhone (as they already do on the web) but only through MLB's app, that costs another $10 or something. If they had flash I could just use my current mlb.tv subscription and watch whatever I wanted already via the iPhone's Safari, but if they handcuff me I have to go buy mlb's stupid app and do it through their program. Bastards.
It's amazing how capable mobile technology is, and what the average, buy-the-popular-product-off-the-shelf user could have on the go, if not for all the stupid licensing and corporate crapola that goes on behind the scenes.
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This has got to be some horrible joke. I have no idea what Apple is thinking; I could understand a media player and phone, but now they're only making products that are going to compete with their previous ones. Come on, what does an iPod Touch do? Really? It holds about as much music as an iPhone does and it calls people as well as an iPod does. I don't know if there is some strange sect of people who love to view the internet when it's only the size of their hand, but if there is no one like that, then Apple is wasting their energy. So what does the iPad do that their previous products haven't done? Ooo browsing the internet without input devices... sounds sleek and innovative. If I want to browse the internet on the go, I'll bring a laptop so I can do pretty much everything a really computer can do, instead of settling for a computer with all it limbs chopped of that uses that as a selling point. What do people see themselves doing? Walking while using the internet? There is no place this thing could be used that wouldn't be better suited by a laptop, hell a macbook if you want to pay 3 times the money.
Mise
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Abaddon
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These comix make me lol.
What are the obvious improvments for version 2?
What are the obvious improvments for version 2?
gugalpm
Veteran of psychic wars
Apple won't hand over their absolute control over hardware and software. Allowing Flash for the iPhone OS means allowing applications to be utilized in the phone without going through Apple's approval (app store).
Mise
isle of lucy
That... is going to bite them in the ass. I assume there is a rational reason why not, but I can't see it.
Mise
isle of lucy
Folks have said - Apple want people to spend money in iTunes rather than getting their stuff for free via flash on the web. They don't want people playing free flash games, for example, when they could be spending money in iTunes!
Excellent point, should have seen it. Then again, I don't really use flash much.
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