"Apple has enjoyed significant success recently accompanied by a widespread sense that they can do no wrong in
business or design."
Don't forget the "Just blame Steve for all the issues" that the media uses.
Having flash and java coming directly from the developers its what I'm use to and seems to be the best solution in order to get always the latest securest version.
No problem, if Apple is found guilty I have no problem to grant it back to you.
Meanwhile lets wait a couple of days and see if this Bloomberg rummor turn out to be fake also.
No one works for free. If you pay then you get the content without ads, don't pay and you have to watch ads.
How many example of Apple doing lock down of content do we have?
By content I mean music/videos. And by lock down I mean Apple forcing the media creator dot to distribute the same content by other means.
You are being a little paranoid, that is not going to happend
Its not the 7th, its the 1st of Setember
http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/25/apple-to-hold-special-event-september-1st-well-be-there-li/
iPad is between phone and computer.
This means: you don't use it as a phone, you don't use it as a desktop computer.
You don't call 911 with the ipad but you can use skype. You don't develop a software in iPad but you can create and show your presentation in keynote, etc, etc
You tried a netbook and then decided, give iPad a try and then decide.
Do you use the terms "The PC", "The Windows", "The Linux", "The Twitter", "The Facebook", etc ?
Sometimes you don't need to use the article in order to refer to know subjects. Also, insulting the other person does not help in the discussion.
Again, the problem is not the screen size in this case, it is the input device.
With the mouse, the pointer is 1 square pixel(just 1 pixel), with your finger the pointer is at least 3x3 pixels, sometimes 10x10 pixels and all your current swf won't work 100% exactly as in your desktop.
So, pleople need to understand that you can not use the same swf in the same way using 1) a smaller screen and 2) a totally different input device.
About 3.5" I made a point against "I need to go to my desktop to visit some sites"
About the iPad, I made a point regarding the input device. You can have a nice menu done in flash but wont be able to "click" on it until you zoom 400% back and forward
iPad is between phone and computer. If you call a netbook your computer, then so be it. Then, the iPad will fit between your netbook and your phone.
How is that supposedly smart people does not understand the basic of math?
A 3.5 inch display is not the same size as a 19 inch display.
You can not use flash UI (or any other UI) in such a tiny display, its not Apple/Adobe's fault.
You just can not replace 1 square pixel pointer (mouse) with a 9 square pixel pointer(finger) and expect everything to work the same.
Computer Science is merely the post-Turing decline in formal systems theory.
