iPad from Apple... thumbs up or thumbs down ? -or- Another Adobe Flash Crusade
Hmm, can anybody guess what my first question was about the new Apple tablet computer-like-device-thing ?
Does it support flash ? Answer: nope.
Sorry, but this one issue kills any interest I have in the device. I am a supporter of people who "make things work" too -- remember I have a dell mini 9 netbook hacked to run Mac OSX -- which I still love by the way. It costs was less than an iPad too. Oh, oh, and it supports FLASH.
Am I a hypocrite because I also have an iphone which does not run flash? Good question :) In a mobile platform there are NO good choices for flash support, so I simply need to live without it. Would iphone be better with flash support? heck yeah...
From my experience, it isn't Adobe that is holding up the deployment of flash on Apple's devices, so at some point, people will give up and go wherever they CAN get flash on their mobiles. I seriously hope Apple figures their stuff out and makes it work. They will get a lot more happy developers if they do.
Now, if Apple follows up their iPad with an iPad PRO, which has a full powered CPU, and full featured OS (assuming mac osx of course), then I think they will have something newsworthy.
Just my $.02
It may not work with flash, but I can see it revolutionizing the way college students deal with text books.
can you imagine how easy an update to a textbook could be???
I see it being great for newspapers, if the articles become interactive.
It is a start, just like the Nextus One, which I want to see, touch, play with, buy (maybe)...does that run flash?
does any of the driod phones run flash?
Dan
If they are going after Amazons kindle, then it is nice and fun, but expensive; If they are going after netbooks, then they are underpowered, underfeatured and expensive; If they are going after tablet PCs, then they are underpowered and underfeatured.
The nexus one is going to get flash soon: http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2010/01/googl...
in fact google and the android project have been very clear that they are working toward broad support for flash. That makes android a golden platform. Its not as slick as apples interface, but when flash support rolls around, that wont matter.
Like I said above, if were talking mobile phones, I can live without flash for a while. But something that is intentionally designed as a personal computer, tablet, or whatever you classify this, to leave out flash support from the beginning is just silly in my opinion. They know that people everywhere want flash. Why wont they compromise, even a little bit ?
http://gizmodo.com/5389166/how-to-hackintosh-a-del...
and if you REALLY need to have a touch screen, check this out: http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/10/dell-mini-9-mod...