
12-03-2010, 10:37
I agree with all of the points in the above posts, but I think one of the biggest problems seems to be Apple's refusal to integrate Flash on their devices. They have their reasons: Be it technical or commercial, but the simple fact remains that Flash is a fairly established method of making websites just look and feel good! The fact that iPad won't have Flash either, (especially considering it is primarily aimed at being an iBrowser), seems to be an ever clearer attempt by Apple to keep hammering the nails into Flash's coffin.
In terms of App development, I do see their other roles for ease of input, but I also hate to visualise how the hundreds of thousands of Apps that have been made for the comparatively tiny screen size of an iPhone will look on the iPad. To save their Apps looking like sites tailored to visually impaired people, it looks like app vendors will need to go back to the drawing board and now develop and maintain a parallel app as well.
To me it all seems a bit of a major U-Turn on what the web was supposed to be in the first place. i.e. One remote content and clever local software to get the hardware to display the content and to make it look good regardless of the device parameters. In the same way, shouldn't the hardware also be able to make finger input easier, regardless of the site?
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