There are plenty of excuses that Apple uses to explain why they can’t have flash on the ipad.
one of those is that flash drains the battery fast.
and my argument was simply - so, just make the battery bigger, there’s no reason why something should be thinner than it needs to be when you’re sacrificing functionality to make it thin.
I’m not saying make it bigger. I’m saying don’t skimp on the functionality because you want to shave an 1/8 of an inch from the depth of the device.
I made it clear that I may very well prefer a more portable 7 inch solution to a less portable 10 inch solution, even if the 7 inch solution is twice as thick.
Unless you have the new iJacket. it’s got a super thin, nearly invisible pocket covering the entire front of the iJacket. it’s so amazingly thin that only super thin apple products can fit in it.
Most people have normal jackets that my thicker 7 inch super powerful would fit in and the ipod wouldn’t.
Why would Apple want to follow my advice? They’re doing a fine job selling those products. I’m saying that I want functionality. I am aware that Apple fans, and there are a lot of em, like there are a lot of Democrats, don’t place a full feature set near the top of their list of important things in a device.
That’s why I like the android. There will be android devices just like I described. And android devices nothing at all like I described. A wide variety, offering any combination of features you want. To me, that’s all pretty exciting.
It’s not just sucking battery. It’s poor performance. It’s the fact that most Flash apps are not made for touch screens. It’s that Flash is notoriously buggy, causing browser or OS instability and crashes in pretty much every platform it’s on. It’s that Flash is notoriously insecure, the source of many vulnerabilities across multiple computing platforms.
The gift of Flash is a white elephant.