58 days with the iPad and it finally happened

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Life with the iPad has gone really, really well. Performance is great, size is great, screen is really nice, the lack of Flash hasn’t hurt me at all…and then it happened. We started researching new cars and for the first time since owning the iPad and it became very difficult to do without Flash.

I get it, I’ve been an OS X user for 8 or 9 years now and I know what the Flash player can do. The CPU goes up, the fans kick in, and the performance goes down. I’ve been there many times. But even if the world decided to make html5 a killer Flash replacement it would not change over night. I would like to make the decision on running Flash or not. It ends up that I do want the “complete” web experience and good or bad, Flash is a part of that.

It’s a shame that Apple didn’t take the approach or working with Adobe to improve the Flash experience instead of an outright ban. Maybe all of that past Windows preference by Adobe had something to do with it. Steve has made his position clear I guess, but tonight was the first time that i had to use something other than my iPad to use the web and that is unfortunate.

  • BW

    Great commentary throughout this blog… nicely done.

    One thing I’d like to see more often,though, is acknowledgement that Apple’s no-Flash stance is due somewhat/mostly/exclusively to the fact that they want QuickTime and/or other Apple standards to be used instead of Flash. 

    Mister Jobs spins a good story, but the “too much battery life” story on Flash is a bit tired.