iPad – Yeah I Want One

Even in spite of the problems I’ve mentioned before. Ideally I will wait for at least the inclusion of the camera which will be there in the next version and a 128GB drive so I can actually carry around my photos as well as have enough space for movies. I still don’t understand the choice of a 4:3 1024×768 display instead of a 16:9 720p display but I don’t know if that will get “fixed” anytime soon (as opposed to 3yrs+ from now or never).

Great hands-on via slashgear – just look at them play with the giraffe:

Ironically, you will need flash to see it…

Going from irony to hypocrisy, it’s funny that the same blogs that applauded Google for listening to its users and providing an alternative to flash in youtube now post about how it’s a tragedy the iPad doesn’t support the plugin they professed to hate just days earlier.

And let’s not forget that this was the most requested feature for youtube. People’s hate for flash was greater than their love for Freedom of Speech (or copyright infringement) with better handling of DMCA takedowns coming in at second place on the request list.

But when Apple takes steps to rid the net of the garbage that is flash, however self-serving you might think it, it is suddenly tragic.

Than there’s the fuss surrounding “multitasking”. So ummm you want to split the screen in two and read on safari while you write to Pages… so you now have pages, safari and a huge virtual keyboard on scream… doesn’t seem very appealing but it’s a valid request. Allow me not to care though. It’s just too much of a minor issue for there to be such a big fuss. I think it’s mostly FUD being spread around by parrots and people suffering from reverse-fanboyism which is a lot more disfunctional than fanboyism.

Update: Apple customers don’t want flash on the iPad - Flash will become one the textbook example of why alienating a relatively small (in this case, mac & linux) customer base can be fatal.

Adobe are you surprised that he people you mistreated for years now want flash gone?

I wonder if internal pressure played a part in the speed with which google introduced HTML5-video into youtube. After all many of their engineers are mac users and open source types who probably use/used linux.

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