You sure you want to support FP 10? It kind of goes against everything else you said in your post. It appears you do not know quite as much about the world of flash as you purport.
Why not go after the content providers to use a better platform for presenting their content than attacking apple for not supporting what is far and away the buggiest piece of software in wide spread use on personal computing devices of all types.
The problem is every touchpad with a standard OS has been a commercial failure. Apple decided to try making a tablet with an OS designed from the ground-up to work with a touchscreen. Really not as terrible an idea as a lot of people try to make it out to be.
The battery lifetime and the form factor of the devices are both clearly related to the fact the battery is not a user accessible part. Apple liked this system so much they moved it into their laptops too. The replaceable battery mantra is another one that is just not important to your typical consumer. They would prefer a real 8 hour battery in a 1 inch thick laptop without a massive bubble sticking out of the back..
Flash is a garbage app and has been for a long time. users cringe when they encounter a page using flash for anything other than streaming videos, and it is certainly not needed for that any more. The best reason to not include flash is that real people really don't want it.
And the people in Apples Economic demographic will pay the extra money for a much better engineered product. People who can not afford may well use the tablet with a lower quality touch screen and no applications designed to take advantage of it in a thicker heavier form factor because they can not afford the iPad. The people who can afford it and are looking for a mobile tablet device instead of some weird hacking platform will opt for the iPad.
Of course Apple spent $100s of millions to figure out how to do all of those neat things in the most user friendly way possible, so no you can not copy them without compensation.
The only app of any consequence (and even it is very minor) I recall being rejected is Google Voice. It hijacked core functionality and changed the user experience on the core device. (Apples claim anyway). I would prefer they did not do that too.
Of course you missed the tiny adapter that allows you to plug inyour camera via usb or insert the SD card. Read before whine, it will save you some humiliation.
Of course VoIP application support on AT&T 3G was enabled yesterday and tethering works (unsupported) on AT&T iPhones (without jailbreak) and will work supported soon.
My iPhone is far more robust than my blackberry. If I do not power the blackberry off once a week it becomes essentially unusable. I could count the number of dropped calls on my iPhone over the past couple of years on 1 hand. The nice thing about the app store model is that I can get all the cool apps I want without worrying about it impacting the reliability of my phone.
BlackBerry's suck. It is silly to discuss any blackberry in an iPhone conversation. It is like comparing apples to poison coated shards of glass. The blackberry os sucks, the multitasking causes a lot more problems than it solves, their fastest model does every task slower than an original iphone.
This differs from Windows PCs how? I will just ignore the fact you made it sound much more complicated to lock down than it actually is since you are clearly an anti-mac troll.
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You sure you want to support FP 10? It kind of goes against everything else you said in your post. It appears you do not know quite as much about the world of flash as you purport.
Why not go after the content providers to use a better platform for presenting their content than attacking apple for not supporting what is far and away the buggiest piece of software in wide spread use on personal computing devices of all types.
I'd expect you are wrong..
Apple is making a fortune distributing free software through the app store, I see your point.
Only if you want to share with more than 100 others. Maybe if you want to do that, someone should take a look at it.
Of course you have no reason to believe this will ever happen, and in fact it never will.
Google would beg to differ..
If you think Macrumors is primarily populated by apple fans, you need to get out more..
Java,
thanks for that.
The problem is every touchpad with a standard OS has been a commercial failure. Apple decided to try making a tablet with an OS designed from the ground-up to work with a touchscreen. Really not as terrible an idea as a lot of people try to make it out to be.
The battery lifetime and the form factor of the devices are both clearly related to the fact the battery is not a user accessible part. Apple liked this system so much they moved it into their laptops too. The replaceable battery mantra is another one that is just not important to your typical consumer. They would prefer a real 8 hour battery in a 1 inch thick laptop without a massive bubble sticking out of the back..
I doubt you even own a Mac-mini since you seemingly know nothing at all about OSX.
Flash is a garbage app and has been for a long time. users cringe when they encounter a page using flash for anything other than streaming videos, and it is certainly not needed for that any more. The best reason to not include flash is that real people really don't want it.
I am pretty sure apple would not only support Photoshop on the iPad you would probably see it in a commercial.
And the people in Apples Economic demographic will pay the extra money for a much better engineered product. People who can not afford may well use the tablet with a lower quality touch screen and no applications designed to take advantage of it in a thicker heavier form factor because they can not afford the iPad. The people who can afford it and are looking for a mobile tablet device instead of some weird hacking platform will opt for the iPad.
Link to 1/2" thich, 1.5lb computer with 9.4" 1024x768 touch screen for less than $499....
Don't bother responding, there is no response.
Maybe those sites should leave flash behind. Lots of people do it. Flash is archaic and useless.
Of course Apple spent $100s of millions to figure out how to do all of those neat things in the most user friendly way possible, so no you can not copy them without compensation.
The only app of any consequence (and even it is very minor) I recall being rejected is Google Voice. It hijacked core functionality and changed the user experience on the core device. (Apples claim anyway). I would prefer they did not do that too.
OSX has to exist as a platform to run the tools needed to develop iPhone OS apps :)
Of course you missed the tiny adapter that allows you to plug inyour camera via usb or insert the SD card. Read before whine, it will save you some humiliation.
Actually for consumers who bought Linux netbooks just to use as browsers, it will be an attractive option.
Of course VoIP application support on AT&T 3G was enabled yesterday and tethering works (unsupported) on AT&T iPhones (without jailbreak) and will work supported soon.
My iPhone is far more robust than my blackberry. If I do not power the blackberry off once a week it becomes essentially unusable. I could count the number of dropped calls on my iPhone over the past couple of years on 1 hand. The nice thing about the app store model is that I can get all the cool apps I want without worrying about it impacting the reliability of my phone.
BlackBerry's suck. It is silly to discuss any blackberry in an iPhone conversation. It is like comparing apples to poison coated shards of glass. The blackberry os sucks, the multitasking causes a lot more problems than it solves, their fastest model does every task slower than an original iphone.
This differs from Windows PCs how? I will just ignore the fact you made it sound much more complicated to lock down than it actually is since you are clearly an anti-mac troll.