way to ruin the movie for everyone!!

... it might be the worst device on the market in terms of features and specifications, but why I have an iPad over a Xoom, Galaxy, etc is simple. It's the software. I bought an iPhone when it was first launched and was amazed at how well the experience was. When Apple allowed third-party applications, that just heightened the experience ten-fold. When I heard about the iPad, I knew that was the tablet for me, not because it was by Apple, simply because the apps I bought for my iPhone would work on the iPad and I wouldn't have to purchase them again. This is the same reason I'm not jumping to get an Android phone/tablet. It would mean I would have to re-purchase my applications again and that will cost more money than saving $100 or so on buying the same device from a different manufacturer. If I knew the apps I bought on my iPhone/iPad would carry across onto a Xoom then get out of my way, I'm going shopping!

You can already picture the new marketing campaign "The new Intel is retarded!"

open source flash, and I don't mean just parts of it but the whole shebang. This would stop Apple from using the excuse that it's too buggy/slow/Adobe and force them to take action on it's implementation on the iPhone/iPad. I don't know the actual feasibility of Adobe doing such a move, especially because it uses a lot of licensed technologies such as MP3, H.264, etc but they could just leave the licensing to be the responsibility of those who are distributing the runtimes and Adobe could still be main distributor of the official runtime.

it's 30% for app purchases. I don't think 40% is too bad of a cut for providing a simple ad service that would be easy to implement. If you don't like it, use someone else, you still have the freedom of choice for your ad agency.

I hate ads like everyone else on the Internet but I can understand that we developers do need to eat and usually to eat you need food, and to have food you need money. That said, Apple are giving developers another avenue for income. I'm sure there are many iPhone apps that would see a greater audience if it were ad-supported instead of being bought or even have two versions of the same app (one with ads and one without). Of course this also leaves the gates open for the system to be abused with ads on purchased ads etc but this is not a new problem. Everyone criticizes Apple on they're closed architecture of the iPhone/iPad (me being one of them) but they are protecting it from being abused, and it has been abused with the flood of cookie-cut applications etc. Don't get me wrong, this isn't Apple's only motivation for locking down the system, I'm just pointing out one of them.

this is the perfect tool for grunts as it will indicate the direction in which they are heading and also visibly tells surrounding people how far away they should be from this person should they throw up.

I know flash for the iphone is an apple decision but I kind of agree with. I always tend to think of flash as a heavy plugin, a couple versions ago it would make my system crawl with all the animation and effects, obviously flash developers didn't factor in that not everyone had a 3ghz computer dedicated for flash. Even youtube occasionally spikes my system now and then when loading videos, imagine the poor lil iphone. I'm a believer that the "web" should be in a "web browser" and not need 3rd plugins at all, but instead bring out features more frequently and target particular versions. ie. HTML6 might have 3d so in order to utilise that feature you must run a HTML6 supported browser, instead of creating a plugin and backporting it to vintage browsers.

this is the beginning of the no-plugins trend and I for one think its about time. Sure some 98% of people have flash installed, silverlight much much less and java (well I tend to steer away from that as much as possible, besides when was the last time anyone ran an applet these days?) but the problem we are seeing is that single vendors take there time to migrate to other platforms, and usually then they lack features and what nots. Look at flash, it isn't even available for the iphone and it's linux support is very limited (alpha still?) not to mention lacking 64bit in windows, fucking windows! If flash was an open platform then more external resources can be used to address these situations but then this is where html5 goes one step further, instead of making it a plugin for everyone to download why not just make it part of the browser and save the hassle.

that goes well with my MrCoffee and MrRadar

We're getting with the times alright but we wont make it easy for you.

People like YouTube and Google Video have an awesome idea, the only problem is its not us! We want to milk it for what its worth.

We want to pull a YouTube but we're pretty confident we can get away with all the legal threats and fines.

Screw user content, we want to be paid to host your shit and there are people willing to pay lots of money for us to shove it in your face.

Theres a slice of the pie for us but we want to eat the whole damn thing!