The iPad Fails Again: No Flash

I have been very critical of the Apple iPad. It looks like a good device, but I do have some criticisms which I cover in another article. This article is more focused on a specific failure that is very stupid on Apple's part.

During Steve Job’s demonstration of the iPad, tons of broken flash elements were shown. Apple is very good at revolutionizing the industry, but some times going rogue is really stupid, especially when the majority of large web sites on the World Wide Web is using flash on their sites.Sites such as Hulu depend upon flash, while other sites such as Facebook use it for applications and games. So here comes Apple, introducing a web tablet that they make seem like a computer, but is really just a over sized iPod Touch. The biggest selling point of this device is that it is a web device. Then, to add insult to injury, Apple fails to incorporate this vital program capability into the device. This device has not even gotten out of the starting gate and already it is falling on its face.

Knowing Apple, there is a very large likelihood that Apple will very slowly come to the conclusion to add flash or a similar program into their devices. If we are lucky, maybe in 5 years. There will be the die hard Apple fans who will spend the fortune necessary to get the iPad and then like with their Mac's they will flaunt their device and pretend that because they paid the Apple tax that that makes them a better person some how.Then there are the poor people who have no clue about these failings and will get them because of the ass holes mentioned above. So, the iPad is not likely to fail.

The positive results of this is that when other companies get around to making alternate device options that will be more open than the iPad. Hopefully they will be loaded with Windows Mobile, Android, Linux or even Windows 7. I am personally in favor of the latter two because then the tablet "whatever" would be a computer rather then a wanna be computer like the iPad.

Gasp! There is finally some rudimentary support for flash on iPhone & iPad. The update only supports streaming video, not flash based games. Additionally, the support comes from Adobe, not from Apple.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20103858-37/apple-ipads-iphones-get-flash-video-at-last/