[truthfreedom]

don't forget animated gifs all over the place. but flash is still there now, and it isn't up to apple to pick and choose, or it shouldn't be. I want to make the decision about the flash myself. I do remember the days when flash was first becoming popular and rock bands all had to have a flash intro to their websites. Never liked it. Back then it was somewhat complicated to get flash to get indexed on search engines. And then bands, after removing all the indexable content from their site, become creative with the punctuation in the

[Swordmaker]

don't forget animated gifs all over the place.

What makes you think the iPad doesn't play animated gifs???

[antiRepublicrat]

and it isn't up to apple to pick and choose,

It's up to every vendor to pick and choose, especially when it comes to support for proprietary plug-ins.

[ReignOfError]

t isn't up to apple to pick and choose, or it shouldn't be.

Yeah, enough of this picking and choosing. Both Apple and the Android tablet makers think they can just leave off RealVideo and iPix. Makers of Android phones act like they have the right to leave out support for AAC, which is the standard used by the world's largest music retailer. None of the phones can play my old Atari 2600 games. Who do these people think they are?