Bye Flash :(
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After reading so many things an hearing all the gnashing of teeth and speculation about Apple's motives, I finally realized why Steve Jobs would not allow Flash on the iPad/iPhone.
It was purely a defensive move.
IF - they released the iPad and had flash on it, many of the flash sites (think of all the flash game sites that people LOVE - my kids for example) would immediately be visited. And there would be massive disappointment that they ran slowly or not at all because the processor speed was probably 1/2 what the person's laptop/desktop computer was.
This would make the iPad look bad. People would say - hey I'm getting a laptop instead or something like that. I mean, you can buy a quad core AMD desktop with a kickass Nvidia card for the same price and a basic iPad (if you build it yourself).
So this way, with Flash not on it, people can look at the web, play video, play games that are specifically designed for the device - and it looks like a marvelous thing. It was not a sure thing that the iPad was going to be successfully. No one was sure how popular it would be.
So because of that brilliant move which did stir up a lot of emotions in the design community, the iPad came out looking like what it is: a cutting edge device that stands on its own. And no one compares it to a laptop or desktop - it just is what it is.
Steve Jobs - master marketer.
- SO TRUE! But the whole "master marketer" part is misleading after you justify the decision on a tech basisdoublespaced
- I mean, you're right, it was a performance decision, not a marketing onedoublespaced
- yeah but they didn't say it that way. they didn't say: this is not a real computer. they sidestepped it.
twokids - actually, that's not true...they said it wasn't a computer, it was a tabletdoublespaced
- but they didn't say: this wont run a lot of things your computer will. like those cool flash games you liketwokids