Will the iPad follow these other Apple products that failed?

[ua549]

IMO the e-book reader and the iPad will follow different paths to different customers.
The iPad screen cannot be read in daylight, a major failing for an e-book reader.

I recently returned from a trip to Central America where there was an abundance of e-book readers. The most common use was to read US newspapers that were delivered each day via internet. Personally I won't consider one until the DRM issues are settled. No one wants to lose the content they've purchased because a DRM server goes dark as happened last year.

[Nater]

Why did young weezy get banned after only one post? It wasn't an offensive post or anything...

[wh666-666]

You could be referring to Flash with your second paragraph and it would be far more accurate than the iPad. I wish nothing supported flash so that horrendous pile of garbage would die. I'm thankful to the iPhone and its brothers that it's pushing the web to move away from Flash and into something decent like HTML5.

Lack of Flash support in a device that is bound to be very popular is not a bad thing at all. Flash and Acrobat Reader are probably the two least secure products you have installed on your computer.

Individual feelings about flash are irrelevant.

The fact is a lot of sites utilise it. So therefor a product that offers browsing capability but doesnt have the option to show content on most pages on the internet is a retarded concept for those wishing to browse websites in a fully functioning view.

Lol, you totally missed his joke.

I got the joke, I was just pointing out it wasnt realistic.

[ImaNihilist]

Individual feelings about flash are irrelevant.

The fact is a lot of sites utilise it. So therefor a product that offers browsing capability but doesnt have the option to show content on most pages on the internet is a retarded concept for those wishing to browse websites in a fully functioning view.







I got the joke, I was just pointing out it wasnt realistic.

Flash is a desktop standard, not a mobile standard. HTML5 is the mobile standard. 80%+ of page requests in the US come from HTML5 enabled devices (iPhone and Android). Even if you look at a worldwide market, more page requests now come from HTML5 enabled devices than Flash-enabled devices.

[wh666-666]

Flash is a desktop standard, not a mobile standard. HTML5 is the mobile standard. 80%+ of page requests in the US come from HTML5 enabled devices (iPhone and Android). Even if you look at a worldwide market, more page requests now come from HTML5 enabled devices than Flash-enabled devices.

Doesnt matter what page requests are, it matters how websites are coded.

For example, if websites I visit on a regular basis have java applets essential to navigation, I need to have java enabled.

[Timman_24]

A strawman argument at best. It is true that Flash is one of the buggiest pieces of crap (especially on OSX, which the iPad (not really but kind of) runs). Of course people will initially be pissed off that their favourite niche streaming site doesnt work or that they cant play this and that game on miniclip or newgrounds, but those content providers will just release their stuff for a dollar on the app store and make a fast buck. I don't like it, but it's already happening.

********. No strawman, simply pointing out the error of trying to stat a bad thing as a good thing. Just as Flash is somewhat a backdoor waiting to happen, so is the internet the most unsafe feature of a PC.

A strawman would be me trying to relate it to something totally unrelated which this is not.

[Timman_24]

Why did young weezy get banned after only one post? It wasn't an offensive post or anything...

He probably has the IP of someone previously banned. I remember someone that constantly threw around the "strawman" label on every post.