iPad

[Deckard]

Isnt MS now avoiding Flash too http://onlygizmos.com/windows-phone-7-s ... e/2010/02/ Doesnt seem to be a lot of corporate love out there.

[HGFB]

WANT ONE DAMMIT! C'mon Steve. Make with the preorders.

[RiK]

Isnt MS now avoiding Flash too http://onlygizmos.com/windows-phone-7-s ... e/2010/02/ Doesnt seem to be a lot of corporate love out there.

Maybe so, but the thing is, we're a bunch of geeks who understand the argument. I'm not so sure that the target audience of the iPad are going to care about the tech, only what works and what doesn't *right now*

[Deckard]

And this will help the iPhone and iPad too http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8519783.stm Good old Beeb

[Misfit]

And this will help the iPhone and iPad too http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8519783.stm Good old Beeb

As long as we can get all the live radio/video feeds that they have embedded on the site then I will be very happy.

Or lose the flash player and switch to HTML 5 for them...

[juice]

Getting BBC content onto the iPad is cool, but there's still an issue in the fact that Apple doesn't let 3rd party applications run in the background.

(which may or may not be the same as multitasking, depending on your viewpoint).

I can see people getting frustrated with it when they try to do "casual" stuff - for instance, chatting to friends on Facebook while watching a video stream: every time they switch back to the video, it'll have to restart/rebuffer.

For instance, I quite like booting up last.fm onto my iPod Touch, but if I want to do anything else then the music goes away.

Admittedly, it's doubtful Apple will ever enable background music-streaming, as it's a direct competitor to the iStore - though they're still positioning the iStore as a loss-leader which drives their hardware sales.

[Deckard]

I still think the "faithful" think this will arrive shortly before the iPad launch as the new software update for both the iPad and iPhone.

[RiK]

Some form of multi-tasking is far more likely than Flash I reckon though it will be interesting to see how much mainstream media attention the lack of Flash gets once it's out there.

[HGFB]

STILL WANT

[RiK]

STILL WANT

ME TOO

[Misfit]

I still think the "faithful" think this will arrive shortly before the iPad launch as the new software update for both the iPad and iPhone.

I think it will come, but not at launch or they would have been touting it at the launch event.

The only things I have to keep my iPhone jailbroken for are SBSettings and Backgrounder, the rest is nice but could easily live without, so the sooner we get multitasking the better.

[Deckard]

Very interesting article from AppleInsider about multi-tasking http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10 ... sking.html

The only things I have to keep my iPhone jailbroken for are SBSettings and Backgrounder, the rest is nice but could easily live without, so the sooner we get multitasking the better.

And MyWi surely ?

[piku]

I still think the "faithful" think this will arrive shortly before the iPad launch as the new software update for both the iPad and iPhone.

I think it will come, but not at launch or they would have been touting it at the launch event.

It will be released as an upgrade one year from the iPad coming out. Steve will then parade around showing how wonderful it is to chat to someone while watching a video AT THE SAME TIME, as if it was some brand new feature he'd personally invented. But it'll only work with selected Apple applications.

I bet you 1st gen iPads don't have flash, nor will they have "background" applications. The 2nd gen iPads will have, they'll know about these issues but will be waiting to see what we think. They're counting on people not really caring until after they've bought the device (and then Apple don't care as they have you then).

After all, it's a 1st gen Apple product, it may as well have "Prototype" stamped on it in US-Army style lettering.

It'd be cool if the device paired with an Apple wireless keyboard and mouse.

[RiK]

It'd be cool if the device paired with an Apple wireless keyboard and mouse.

It does with the keyboard. Says so on the Apple site.

[RiK]

According to The Steve "Dropping Flash is no different than the decision to drop the floppy drive from the iMac"

http://www.electronista.com/articles/10 ... uted.ipad/