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iPad Mania

Ben_Hoffman
Apple unveiled its iPad tablet in San Francisco, and infoMania Tech Reporter
Ben Hoffman was there. Kind of.

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  • teachdworld
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      teachdworld  

    • Oh I definitely didn't like the Filipino joke! Well I don't have difficulty pronouncing iPad!!! Dude you don't talk cool at all... There are a lot of Filipinos who might speak and write far better English than you do... Next time just comment on the product and don't go mocking our race just so you could say something.

    • 1 year ago
  • UtopianSky
    • +1
      UtopianSky  

    • While Apple's decision to not suport Flash was petty, in the end this won't hurt Apple in the least- it will only hurt Adobe, and benefit us.

      Yes, there are many websites that use Flash NOW. But those websites are all working frantically to get rid of Flash and use web-standards to present video, and use Javascript to do the interactivity they need.

      Flash was created to be an animation program, and it was fine for that. Not great, but OK. Macromedia then kludged on a bunch of programming tools that just did not fit- who ever heard of a programming environment that was based on a timeline? Adobe then purchased Macromedia, and then pushed the heck out of it, making it go from common to ubiquitous.

      People use Flash way too much on the web, even for very simple things like menu bars that can be done with regular HTML, CSS and Javascript.

      Apple has forced those websites to realize that, and make the necessary changes inorder to get the sizable audience of mobile users.

      We were in danger of the web becoming dependent on an Adobe-proprietary technology, and Steve Jobs' childish rant just might save us from that.

    • 1 year ago
  • GodOfBiscuits
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      GodOfBiscuits  

    • @Chinese_Democracy: Because it's more than just that. Consumer choice here is: Choose an android device.

      Adobe wants Flash everywhere because they want to control how you access video and how and which APIs on other companies' platforms get implemented.

      Adobe nearly destroyed Apple in the 90s because they had control over which of Apple's innovations ever got out there, and Apple, shockingly (yeah, that's sarcasm) wants to control its own destiny and wants to prevent Adobe from ever again having that power over it.

      The world moves ever forward and Flash is just the ActiveX of the 2000s.

      It will die.

      until then, Apple has no problems selling iPads and iPhones and iPod touches without it.

      By the way, what good is Flash for anything besides video playback on a touch device?

    • 1 year ago
  • GodOfBiscuits
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      GodOfBiscuits  
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    • Brazil617MA, I'm saying that the LARGEST VIDEO WEBSITE IN THE WORLD already DID bypass Flash

      And Netflix bypassed Silverlight on the Mac and went straight to h.264 video.

      And Hulu is bypassing Flash.

      I'm NOT saying all the websites in the world "would have to" let Flash go, I'm saying THEY ALREADY ARE providing either both Flash-accessed AND pass-thru video, or are abandoning Flash in favor of a more streamlined approach.

      Even Microsoft, ferchrissakes, is supporting native h.264 playback within the browser without need for a plugin.

      The Flash problem is in Apple laptops, but it's not what you think: Mac OS X can play any/all Flash content, using Adobe's plugin, but that plugin and the Flash player app are the single largest source of crashing on the Mac.

      It was one of the reasons Apple rearchitected Safari (that would be Apple's web browser) so that each plugin runs in its own process instead of as part of Safari's process: so that when Flash crashed (not *IF*, but *WHEN*), it wouldn't take all of Safari with it.

      While the rest of the world is blown away by Apple's lack of Flash support, Mac users are installing a free download called ClickToFlash (clicktoflash.com), which *BLOCKS* Flash by default. You either click on the flash DIVs to load them manually or there's a way to always allow certain sites to always load Flash, but only Flash content that comes from that site (e.g., the video from a given site, but not its ads).

      Buh-bye, Flash. Don't let the door hit your sagging, spaghetti-code a*s on the way out.

    • 1 year ago
  • chinese_democracy
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      chinese_democracy  
    • GodOfBiscuits:

      Leave it up to the consumer whether they want to utilize flash or not. It's shit like this that makes me not want to switch to 100% apple products. I bought an iPhone 3GS a couple months ago, and I am starting to regret not getting a droid instead.

    • 1 year ago
  • Brazil617MA
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      Brazil617MA  

    • Not a specialist here, so let me get this straight. If you want to watch videos available on line on your apple device, ALL the websites in the world would have to let flash go and try something else, instead of apple adapting to the world?
      lol I cant wait to sell my iphone as soon as my att contract expires. Is the flash problem also in apples laptops?

    • 1 year ago
  • GodOfBiscuits
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      GodOfBiscuits  

    • Hey, how's Current TV doing?

      Wouldn't it be GREAT that, instead of making tired old useless unoriginal jokes about an unarguable zeitgeist of a product, you put a CurrentTV app on the thing, play your videos as straight-through h.264, bypassing Flash in this one case, and along the way create a user experience that lets people get at all the wonderful content that Current has accumulated?

      How about that instead of Ben Hoffman having to sit in front of his PC instead of his iPad with his pants around his ankles watching MILF hunter?

      I'm an iPhone/iPad/Mac developer. You can even hire me.

    • 1 year ago
  • GodOfBiscuits
    • 0
      GodOfBiscuits  

    • To make your point you had to skip the largest online video site in the world.

      And netflix, too.

      Jacktard.

      Stay with Flash, though, cuz, y'know, there's a need for all that crud in between you and just playing plain old h.264 video.

    • 1 year ago
  • TargetMouse
  • seanjames
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      seanjames  

    • the philipino thing was the best thing Ive heard about that iPAD ............. why bother i played with it Id rather read a book and turn real pages

    • 1 year ago
  • sircamels
  • Justin_Hunter
  • RodneyE
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      RodneyE  

    • Ben hoffman is so funny. I love this guys dry humor. He is like a modern day Ben Hoffman. Seriously though, The iPad looks like a freakin joke. I would like to buy one but then again, I dont think i need to carry around a giant piece of plastic that looks like a iphone. When i first viewed the iPad I thought of the first cell phone. Do you remeber the first cell phone, it was huge and ugly. The iPad is like the first iPhone. I think steve jobs woke up one morning and said, "Hey I bet if I put on my black turtle neck and some jeans I can change the world with something that I have already created, and sell it to idoits!" that's right steve jobs already created the iPad long ago, it was just his proto type for an iPhone.
      Also do you think Jobs is going to make an iPad for light days and heavy days? Just a question.
      -Rodney E,

    • 2 years ago
  • dalistuff
  • lordsbassman
  • PigFarmington
  • UtopianSky
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      UtopianSky  
    • PigFarmington:

      So, what you are saying is you ignore the best multi-touch platform that exists now, in favor of one you think might be possible in the future, also ignoring that Apple is constantly working on new upgraded versions of their products which will come out long before the first "surface" ever surfaces.

      Basically: You are a Microsoft fanboy that will never denounce B-Gates, and will take any opportunity to trash Apple.

      How about this- instead of the tired, old, "fanboy" rhetoric, we treat electronic devices like any other consumer commodities- they are things. If you like the thing, buy the thing. If you don't like the thing, don't buy the thing.

      Just because I like a different brand of breakfast cereal then you do does not make me a "Frosted Wheat Fanboy". The rest of us can like products and use products WITHOUT religious devotion or religious hatred.

    • 1 year ago
  • quanpete
  • HaloedGriot
    • 0
      HaloedGriot  

    • Apple FAILS again...plus, the moment you guys drop the ridiculous sums of money to buy it, Apple will release a 2.0 version, only 6 months later, with Skype features, a webcam and flash support.

      You blew it, Jobs.

    • 2 years ago
  • alexandrek
  • joe_shaffer
  • digiyaya
  • jfill
  • cmruready
  • ptdlugosz
  • ptdlugosz
    • 0
      ptdlugosz  

    • "It just feels right, to hold the internet in your hand as you surf it..."; Scott Forstal, Senior Vice President of iPhone software, about the iPad.

    • 2 years ago
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