Comments on: Apple’s iPad and the censorship of Apps and Internet http://www.designartculture.com/2010/01/29/apples-ipad-and-the-censorship-of-apps-and-internet/ Thu, 20 May 2010 21:17:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: justin http://www.designartculture.com/2010/01/29/apples-ipad-and-the-censorship-of-apps-and-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-17249 justin Thu, 06 May 2010 20:04:16 +0000 http://www.designartculture.com/?p=381#comment-17249 To be fair, Apple didn't delete it from their device. They just never included it to begin with. Also, no other mobile OS supports flash, which won't be available until the second half of 2010 (After being delayed for a couple of years). Multi-tasking is being added to the iPad with firmware 4.0 this fall (and in a month for iPhones) as mentioned by Jobs during the keynote. <i>You can’t just take a major component of the Internet, whether it’s HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, XML, etc, etc, or Flash, and completely remove it from your device.</i> Can you guess which one of these doesn't belong, because it is a closed, proprietary standard? That's right, flash. Everything else is an open standard. Again, it is hard to remove something that was never added to begin with. I recommend you read Jobs' Thoughts on Flash here: http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash Many of Apple's arguments make perfect sense, and it seems like a reasonable decision to leave it out. Although, I agree that the iPad missed the mark in many regards, I don't blame Apple for leaving off flash. There are several native apps for the iPad that blow their flash, web-based counterpart out of the water both in terms of functionality and aesthetics. MLB At Bat and ABC apps are perfect examples with many more content providers making their sites flash-free, including ESPN, CNN, Disney, NY Times, Vimeo, National Geographic, etc. http://www.apple.com/ipad/ready-for-ipad/ Finally, the app store dominates every other platform when it comes to gaming and makes on-line flash games look pathetic. And yes, there are even thousands of free games! To be fair, Apple didn’t delete it from their device. They just never included it to begin with. Also, no other mobile OS supports flash, which won’t be available until the second half of 2010 (After being delayed for a couple of years). Multi-tasking is being added to the iPad with firmware 4.0 this fall (and in a month for iPhones) as mentioned by Jobs during the keynote.

You can’t just take a major component of the Internet, whether it’s HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, XML, etc, etc, or Flash, and completely remove it from your device.

Can you guess which one of these doesn’t belong, because it is a closed, proprietary standard? That’s right, flash. Everything else is an open standard. Again, it is hard to remove something that was never added to begin with. I recommend you read Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash here: http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash Many of Apple’s arguments make perfect sense, and it seems like a reasonable decision to leave it out.

Although, I agree that the iPad missed the mark in many regards, I don’t blame Apple for leaving off flash. There are several native apps for the iPad that blow their flash, web-based counterpart out of the water both in terms of functionality and aesthetics. MLB At Bat and ABC apps are perfect examples with many more content providers making their sites flash-free, including ESPN, CNN, Disney, NY Times, Vimeo, National Geographic, etc. http://www.apple.com/ipad/ready-for-ipad/

Finally, the app store dominates every other platform when it comes to gaming and makes on-line flash games look pathetic. And yes, there are even thousands of free games!

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