Robert Haar wrote:

On 1/29/10 10:54 PM, "Mark & Juanita" wrote:

Some other things not so cool:
1) No flash support

This is a good thing. Flash should die and be replaced by HTML 5.

That's a fine sentiment. But if someone who happens to own an iPad *now*
(or when it really ships) and wants to view a web page *now* with content
that is important to them *now* that just happens to include a flash vid or
other flash content, that's more than a bit of a problem, isn't it?


2) Only allows you to run a single application at a time

Not completely true. On the iPhone, built in apps do multi-task, just not
third party ones.


Again, this is all well and good if everything one is wanting to do
happens to be built-in.


More like an iPhone on steroids than a real computer.

It doesn't seem targeted at that. It is described as a new class of
device, not a smart phone and not a laptop.

Now it may be that this new class doesn't meet your needs. I'm not
convinced that I want one myself. But recognize that Apple is pitching
this as something different.

Then they need to start making a case for how this new wonderful thing
that doesn't do what people expect is really better because of the different
things it does do. Hopefully for Apple, those different things people can
do are things that people want to do.




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