The demo looked very impressive.
 | The Apple iPad By stevep |
The demo looked very impressive.
 | So what exactly is the ipad good for? I watched a little bit of wut he was sayingand heard u can get on the internet. But its hard to do a lot of thing without flash rite? From kristie on Jan 29, 2010 Post 317 via Howwl  |
| I suppose it depends on the sites you regularly visit, but I personally don't find the lack of Flash to be a problem when I'm surfing the web from my Touch. What is the iPad good for? Apple have a video here: http://www.apple.com/ipad/ipad-video/ Post 318 via Howwl, in reply to Post 317 |
 | WiFi versions ship worldwide in 60 days. No multi-tasking, and no Flash. Not sure I'm interested in 3G. But I agree, it does look impressive. From frank on Jan 27, 2010 Post 310 via Howwl |
| Yup, the lack of multi-tasking is disappointing. Not supporting Flash I agree with, given it's ridiculously CPU-intensive and a complete battery glutton. Also, see http://daringfireball.net/2010/01/apple_adobe_flash Post 311 via Howwl, in reply to Post 310 |
| While I'm sure that Adobe/Flash are responsible for the majority of OS X crashes I'm also aware that no Flash on the Touch/iPhone equates to more visits to the App Store. Games have been a big driver for the ipod Touch. And H.264/HTML5 isn't even close to replacing Flash at the moment. Post 313 via Howwl, in reply to Post 311 |
| You're a cynic, but you may have a point. :-) Apple and Adobe have always had a difficult relationship. In the early days, Steve Jobs was close to John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe, and even bought 15 percent of Adobe for $2.5m, which didn't go down well at Apple, given they were fighting over PostScript and the LaserWriter at the time. Later a post-Jobs Apple sold those Adobe shares for $89m. Post 314 via Howwl, in reply to Post 313 |
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