APPLE iPAD with no FLASH?

With such beautiful products, an ever strengthening position in the market and a history of serving the people and the arts, why would Apple not support FLASH?  Flash is a pristine video solution that has been embraced by the hands of people who are often driven by their Apple computers.  Flash is the leading embedded video web format.  Much of our Internet and business relies on Flash and it’s finally being applied in a way that users enjoy it.  The Adobe application is also helping to protect much of our intellectual property.

Die-hard Apple customers like ourselves are sitting here scratching our heads.  We were so excited and now we have no way to recommend the iPAD to our clients for mobile/distance learning programs delivered by our current network applications or sites.  We also can’t use the iPAD to present our work or deliver e-tools to a sales force without custom development.

If the iPAD can’t do it yet because it lacks the horsepower to drive the scalable FLASH, then they could just say they are working on it and many of the Apple consumers would dish out the bucks anyway, while helping to work out the GUI and potential issues with durability.

Our websites and online networks are using embedded FLASH just like the leaders, (HULU, YOUTUBE, CNN and more)  While it is true that many of these leaders are developing mobile apps so that their content can be seen, what about sites that truly have interaction, education and measurement/reporting?  Many of the organizations that offer this content can barely afford to create quality media in the first place.  I am sure that they are not interested in re-creating all their content outside of it’s current shell.  Wasn’t it Apple that was delivering computers for free to educational institutions and students to better serve our learning institutions?

We need to serve our clients and the public as this new tablet genre finally comes alive.  We have been watching and learning since HP and others built tablet PC’s years ago.  By the way, the HP Tablet that we looked at more than 5 years ago had a processor that was 900mhz.  The new iPAD is only 1000mhz?  Perhaps Apple should have reached out to INTEL and NVIDIA to build a better platform the same way they did to build their most powerful workstations?  Once the Apple computers seized the INTEL processor, we saw a massive improvement in power and stability.

The iPAD looks like a beautiful solution with it’s light weight and smooth interface, but without Flash and better (Verizon) connectivity, it falls short of so many peoples needs.  Recently, I found this link to a new selection of devices that are promising some pretty exciting options.  They are NOT ready for prime time, but it seems like in only months, there will be more than just options to the iPAD, there are going to be pretty exciting and sometimes even HUGE (16”) alternatives.  Check out some of the early news at the following link.

http://mashable.com/2010/01/27/9-upcoming-tablet-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipad/

RDA