iPad without Flash
Jan. 31st, 2010 06:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The people complaining about the iPad not having Flash sound a lot like the people complaining when the original iMac was released without a floppy drive. The product is going to fail, how can people get along without such a requisite technology, etc.
Well, people did, and finding a computer with a floppy drive has become rather difficult these days. Flash is a resource-hogging, bloated security risk on computers these days, and while technologies like HTML5 might not be a complete solution just yet, Apple leaving Flash off of such devices as the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad are a nudge in the correct direction.
Well, people did, and finding a computer with a floppy drive has become rather difficult these days. Flash is a resource-hogging, bloated security risk on computers these days, and while technologies like HTML5 might not be a complete solution just yet, Apple leaving Flash off of such devices as the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad are a nudge in the correct direction.
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Date: 2010-02-01 07:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-01 10:44 pm (UTC)If someone owned a laptop and an iphone, does the ipad still have a value?