Comments on: Apple and Adobe Square Off Over iPad

By: John Easton

John Easton — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:47:35 +0000

Dave,

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I see the iPad as a bridge device (a friend said a bridge to nowhere) that is not intended to be the holy grail but rather a real world experiment in integrated multimedia devices (what works, what doesn’t).

Based on user input Apple (and the industry) will adapt as they move toward the future of disk free anywhere/anytime access to ANY piece of media (print, audio, video, etc.). Just my thoughts for whatever they are worth.

John

By: Hugh Cole

Hugh Cole — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:50:04 +0000

Love my iphone, but I don’t don’t see why I need the ipad. Besides Apple chose to release it now with availability still two months out. Almost like they were trying to lock the market up before other competing devices hit the shelf. I think I’ll wait to see what else is out there to support my video needs before I drop a kilobuck on a new toy.

By: Perry

Perry — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:48:40 +0000

Great post Dave. As someone using a lot of video, I have been standardizing on mp4 and h.264 since all devices seem to play nice with this including iTunes and iPods/iPhones. Even flv players like the ubiquitous JW player can play these files.

I only miss flash on my iPhone when the page developer has not seen it fit to either offer me the link to the mp4 or insists on only showing it through an swf player.

Lack of flash on iPods and iPhones has not stopped 8Mil+ from purchasing.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:38:32 +0000

I wouldn’t buy it without flash.

By: Doug Green

Doug Green — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:30:34 +0000

It’s about the user experience and quite frankly, I don’t miss flash. If users don’t miss it – then who really cares. I don’t support Adobe – I support (and my readers support) their individual needs. Meet my needs and you can do it in any software you like. If we can use html 5.0 to deliver video files – then that’s all good. Just one more technology (no matter how widely adopted because that was available at the time) which is being supplanted by another, more easily used one. It’s a non-argument from my perspective unless I’m an Adobe or Flash supplier.

By: Ron Pereira

Ron Pereira — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:14:30 +0000

I doubt I will ever buy one since I simply don’t see the value in the device.

I have an iPhone and love it. But there is no way I want to carry this ipad (terrible name by the way and I am not an Apple hater) around when it really does nothing more than I can do with my iPhone – short of a larger screen.

And the Flash thing is a big problem for me… namely because I earn a living selling Flash based videos! Hopefully Apple comes around and eventually supports Flash.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:03:25 +0000

For the same reason gazillions purchased the iPhone.

Flash is buggy, a battery hog and a CPU hog.

It will force people into HTML5 which is FAR more friendly AND not in the hands of ONE company, ie ADOBE.

YouTube is already supporting HTML5.