How the iPad Is Already Reshaping the Internet (Sans Flash)

The Internet's already starting to look different, says Gizmodo, in a piece of interest not only to everyone with an iPad floating around the UPS system, but also those of us thinking about some other kind of tablet in the medium-term future. As they put it, "The iPad doesn't run Flash. If your website uses Flash, it won't play well on the iPad. Turns out, a lot of people want their sites to look pretty on the iPad." And an anonymous reader adds this snippet from Webmonkey: "In anticipation of Saturday's release of the iPad — which doesn't run Flash — Apple has published a list of 'iPad Ready' websites. The sites are all big league sluggers like CNN, The New York Times, People Magazine and MLB.com. Surprisingly, there are also a few video-heavy sites in the mix (Vimeo, Flickr, and TED) which would traditionally rely on Flash Player for video playback."

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Re:Geeks will never learn.

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Of course, the iPod was a flop until it supported USB and Windows. When Malda said it was lame it was lame. The iPhone has not overtaken BlackBerry or Nokia, and Android phones are currently outselling them. And iPhone didn't really explode in popularity until it could run real applications. Web apps were precisely the failure every Slashdotter claimed they would be.

I'd say its collective armchair technologist predictions have been fairly accurate.

Of course, I would also like to see evidence of credible people predicting Linux taking over the desktop. That seems so ridiculous as to be apocryphal.