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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."
what kind of status seeking fuckwit would drop $599 on that shit? oh wait these are APPLE USERS, my smugness alarm just went off.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
I know that the "concept" is used as a CYA excuse for failures by failures. "Oh, but we used industry best practices."
And the iPad is an attempt by Jobs to get more licensing fees for h264 codecs (he and his other buddies in MPAG-LA own patents on it) as the default codec for HTML5 video. This is a direct assault on open standards. ("standard" != "open standard").
Jobs is pitching the iPad at the newspaper industry - an industry that is dying because they can't understand anything except fixed formats.
The iPad is not a tablet computer, despite all the hype. It's just one step removed from the iPDA.
Look at Apple's recent history. Launch the iPod, then route people to iTunes. Launch the iPhone, then route people ONLY to the App Store. Launch the iPad, and then route people ONLY to specific restricted formats.
Each device is more encumbered and restricted than the last.
What next - the iBrick? It does nothing, but it does it really well?
So you spread them for Adobe Flash instead?
God, I love when Apple-haters get upset. Any piece of positive press coverage sends their reptilian brains into a frenzy.