Lee Brimelow, a flash evangelist for Adobe, made this site mocking Apple for not having Flash on the iPhone/iPad.

He had some porn in there I guess, and removed it.

In the end he mocks “Millions of websites use Flash. Get used to blue legos”

Apparently this fellow Lee hasn’t realized that some of us have been using iPhones for 2 1/2 hears just fine without Flash.

The other message that should be conveyed on his page is this:

“Hey Disney, Aviary, Google Finance, Addicting Games, FWA, CNN, Hulu and others, there are millions, no, tens of millions, potentially hundreds of millions of eyeballs that won’t see your content. Maybe you should find a better alternative”

The iPad is here.

In this edition, it is a large iPod with a 3G data connection option. The iPad can run older iPhone applications. It can run one application at a time, which is a disappointment to some.

The iPad did ship with a publishing system, the standard ePub ebook format and an application dubbed “iBooks” to read them.

The iPad has an optional keyboard dock connector. This makes me smile, as I asked Apple for this back in 1991. Sadly I cannot find proof of that, but I did, I swear. I wanted a screen that I could take with me or sit at the desk with a keyboard. I wanted the screen to run simpler applications and take some of my data with me. Sounds like the iPad!

You will be able to use a bluetooth keyboard as well.

Apple claims 10 hours of battery life, but we’ll see how that translates to real-life usage.

You will be able to buy iPad versions of iWork applications for $9.99 each. Not bad. I wonder how you print from an iPad?

For Developers

The iPad complicates iPhone/iPad software development. Developers now need to develop two user interfaces if they want to take advantage of the extra screen space.

Developers are also required to support landscape as well as portrait mode, a change from the iPhone.

There are many more APIs in 3.2 of the iPhone OS, but it is still unclear to me which APIs will make it back to the iPhone.

Summary

Will I be buying one? Someday. However, the iPhone goes with me everywhere. Until there is a killer app for the iPad that I need and cannot use on the iPhone, I have no need for an iPad. That is, unless someone hires me to develop for it.

The iPad will be a success in education; One the killer app ships, whatever that is, we’ll all be likely wanting iPads.

1. ihnatko
2. engadget
3. ars
4. gizmodo

1. Apple won’t call it a tablet
2. It’ll be around $999 with 64GB
3. Apple will discontinue the MacBook Air
4. We’ll see a new publishing tool for creating content that goes directly for sale in the iTunes Media Store
5. We’ll get a new iLife (maybe the aforementioned publishing tool will be part of iLife)
6. The iPad will be the true beginning of the transition from computers to communication devices
7. We’ll subscribe to newspapers and magazines via iTunes

Stuff I would like to see, from a technical standpoint:

1. Apple’s patent that integrates a camera into the screen for face-on video conferencing
2. Able to use the table as a screen for a machine in other room
3. Able to use a bluetooth keyboard with the iPad

I could really see myself using something like this for most of my computing needs, such as email, web surfing, billing tracking, you name it. I would just like to see my data synced to my desktop machine more often than when just plugged into a computer, much as my laptop is synced hourly via time machine. Maybe the iPad will be able to back itself up to a time capsule wirelessly?

Hmm. Many rumors about this. Any truth? Who knows.

I decided to take another look at bing. Searches ok. Maps don’t scroll well with two fingers on trackpad at all. Maps use Silverlight, vs. standards. That sucks.

Decided to look up local pizza places. Clicked on the map. Got:

Awesome.

go here and sign up for YouTube HTML5 beta if you use Chrome or Safari.

No more flash on the YouTube site, just HTML 5 delivering H.264 video.

Yes, even the President has an app for that: >

Today, we’re excited to announce the new White House App available for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. The White House App delivers dynamic content from WhiteHouse.gov to the palm of your hand.

One feature that stands out is live video streaming. Now anyone with this app can watch the President’s public events at the White House, frequent web chats with Administration officials, and other events like key speeches and press briefings in real time.

This is great and I’m not sure why I didn’t find it earlier.

Here is his interview with Felicia Day, after some funny larry king game bits.

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CES 2010 keynote. Streaming via MS Silverlight. They go to demo their own upcoming product, Halo Reach and guess what? They block it for intellectual property rights reasons. They block their own demo!

haha. brilliant.