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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 1216561" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>I think we tend to be a little sensitive to trolls here, because Apple products tend to attract them. Apple tends to be a "love it or hate it" kind of company. </p><p></p><p>But I think in this case, it is just a little difficult to believe that someone would part with this much cash without really understanding what they're buying. As far as limitations go (and you keep saying that it "...should be able to do more than a stupid phone...."), the iPad will do just about anything on the Web that a typical PC will do, the main limitation being Flash.</p><p></p><p>Much has been said about the pros and cons of Flash, so I won't get into that divisive rhetoric here. The limitation is not one of technology, but instead, it's one of philosophy in design. Apple has taken great pains to try to not duplicate the mistakes that past Tablet PC makers have made. And one of them is to avoid trying to make keyboard/mouse driven apps run in a form factor they weren't designed for. </p><p></p><p>Flash was originally designed to provide a richer web experience in a time when HTML couldn't do much more than very basic webpages. That time has come and gone, but Flash hasn't. Today, most Flash sites use it to play videos. But really Flash was designed to do much more than that - and Flash apps were really intended to be driven with a keyboard and mouse.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 1216561, member: 24098"] I think we tend to be a little sensitive to trolls here, because Apple products tend to attract them. Apple tends to be a "love it or hate it" kind of company. But I think in this case, it is just a little difficult to believe that someone would part with this much cash without really understanding what they're buying. As far as limitations go (and you keep saying that it "...should be able to do more than a stupid phone...."), the iPad will do just about anything on the Web that a typical PC will do, the main limitation being Flash. Much has been said about the pros and cons of Flash, so I won't get into that divisive rhetoric here. The limitation is not one of technology, but instead, it's one of philosophy in design. Apple has taken great pains to try to not duplicate the mistakes that past Tablet PC makers have made. And one of them is to avoid trying to make keyboard/mouse driven apps run in a form factor they weren't designed for. Flash was originally designed to provide a richer web experience in a time when HTML couldn't do much more than very basic webpages. That time has come and gone, but Flash hasn't. Today, most Flash sites use it to play videos. But really Flash was designed to do much more than that - and Flash apps were really intended to be driven with a keyboard and mouse. [/QUOTE]
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