These iFails will be hitting the trash can really soon. I promise you this product will bomb so hard. If it does well, I have no hope for humanity.
I completely agree. It’s just another platform to require monthly contracts. It’s a sucker’s deal. Plus, what can you do on it that you can’t already do on your laptop (besides the touch screen)?
“Well, golly gee! It sure does look cool, and if Apple says it’s the next tech, then sign me up, Sarge!”
I’m trying to think of a single time that I used flash on a website that I didn’t find it incredibly stupid that I had to use flash… it irks me so fracking much that I have it blocked in my browser so that it only loads if I want it to because otherwise sites that use flash are utterly unusable (most of the time).
No, wait. Who am I kidding? I can’t use Addicting Games or the Disney site?! How am I going to get anything accomplished?!
Yes, yes. I understand both your comment and DieLaughing’s sentiments. I use flashblocker so I don’t need to be bothered with lag and and all that crap. However, a huge portion of the websites that provide entertainment on the web utilize flash in some capacity. That can’t be denied. Are they behind the times? Are they using something that isn’t as good of a format as some alternative? Sure. That may be true. That also doesn’t matter. What matters is that the iPad looks to be positioned as a tool for casual web browsing and web entertainment. Not having flash support severely limits its ability to be that tool.
The iPad wasn’t released in 2013, it was released in 2010. It should provide functionality within the environment that exists today and in the near future. Flash, for the near term, is part of that environment.
