Most things are sold by hype and advertisements Rocket River Seriously. . .are hanes that much better than fruit of the loom?
I thought Adobe and Apple were working on Flash for the iPhone...meaning it will eventually be available for iPad as well? Be patient. Not everything can be ready the moment you want it. Apparently, it is a pretty big deal redesigning Flash to work on iPhone.
I find it hard to believe it could be that difficult, but I'll wait and see. Certainly have been waiting a long time with my iPhone.
No, Apple won't give them what they need to do that apparently. Adobe is actually releasing Flash 10.1 for every other major mobile OS within the next couple months. If you go to Adobe's Flash homepage you can see their message explaining why iPhone won't get Flash. It's all up to Apple, now. Do they want smartphones outdoing their tablet?
The problem is that Apple doesn't want to give up control. Enabling flash would kill some of the apps on the app store since most of those apps could be written in flash.
Frantic Steve Jobs Stays Up All Night Designing Apple Tablet CUPERTINO, CA—Claiming that he completely forgot about the much-hyped electronic device until the last minute, a frantic Steve Jobs reportedly stayed up all night Tuesday in a desperate effort to design Apple's new tablet computer. "Come on, Steve, just think—think, dammit—you're running out of time," the exhausted CEO said as he glued nine separate iPhones to the back of a plastic cafeteria tray. "Okay, yeah, this will work. This will definitely work. Just need to write 'tablet' on this little strip of masking tape here and I'm golden. Oh, come on, you piece of ****! Just stick already!" Middle-of-the-night sources reported that Jobs then began work on double-spacing his Keynote presentation and increasing the font size to make it appear longer
Not going to happen. First of all Apple are making tons of money with from their iTunes store and second. Steve's afraid and thinking by allowing Flash will give hackers opportunity to make a fool out of their secure products.
The way Apple is hyping this thing, I've got to believe they have a couple of tricks up their sleeve that will be revealed before the iPad ships. The rhetoric clearly exceeds the product they've introduced (so far). Apple loves to yank everyone with surprises. There is more to come. Apple has enough self-awareness to know people won't buy 5 million of these in 2010 just because they say it's great. That would make them look clueless. They aren't Sony.
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Like OS X? I somehow don't think that's the issue. Also, whoever said it was due to music through flash, I can't see that as the (sole) reason either, because that also isn't a problem on the desktop OS X. They have flash there, and tons of people buy music from the itunes store on those machines/os's. Perhaps these things are considerations or even factors, but I can't see them as the core reason they are so reluctant to include flash on these devices with pared down versions of OS X software.
Apple has had it share of product failures too - we just tend to remember the iPod and iPhone. AppleTV, for example.
Apple TV is a good thing to bring up. I don't remember it getting nearly the hype from Apple that the iPad is getting now. IIRC, it was the media and Apple-freaks that over-hyped Apple TV because they found it intriguing and hoped it had potential. Seems to me some people were bitter about the Apple TV because it wasn't what they wanted it to be, not because Apple hyped it too much. Did Apple say a lot of over-the-top stuff about Apple TV that matched yesterday's hoopla? If so, then I stand corrected and agree we have a repeat situation here.
Apple's chief concern regarding Itunes revenue is most likely in the mobile experience, hence their indifference to Flash availability on desktops and notebooks.
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I'm very bummed about it. I'm the perfect customer for this thing. My old laptop is toast and I didn't like it much, anyway. I use a PC at home, not a laptop, and need a laptop/netbook/e-reader thingy that I can relax in an easy chair with, or in bed, and surf the net, read books, write on, maybe watch something. In short, something light, easy to use, and powerful enough to actually do something with. Flash is a big item on my list of things I want the thingy to do. This doesn't do it. Bummer.
