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To: Tea Party Terrorist
Another big problem with the iPad is that one cannot use Microsoft office on it. No spreadsheets? Can’t use it for business.

No spreadsheets and no Adobe flash player either.

37 posted on 03/06/2012 2:47:17 PM PST by mc5cents
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To: mc5cents; Tea Party Terrorist

Spreadsheets work perfectly fine on an iPad. You can get browser apps for flash if you have to have it. I don’t miss flash one bit on mine though. iPad hasn’t completed replaced my laptop, but it makes it much easier to do most things in places I couldn’t before.


51 posted on 03/06/2012 3:34:48 PM PST by Chipper (You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
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To: mc5cents
No spreadsheets and no Adobe flash player either.

While my current build of Android on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 has a good working Adobe flash player, it may be the end of the road. The Adobe support is going away. They have conceded that HTML5 is good enough. The player that services Firefox on the PC is at end of life. I don't have a good flash player on my 64-bit Chrome or Firefox browser in Fedora 16. About time to put that technology away.

55 posted on 03/06/2012 3:54:40 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: mc5cents

http://www.apple.com/apps/numbers/

Spreadsheet app for the iPad and iPhone - $9.99


66 posted on 03/06/2012 5:21:16 PM PST by LearnsFromMistakes (Yes, I am happy to see you. But that IS a gun in my pocket.)
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Screenshots of MS Office for the iPad have already been leaked. It is coming. The enterprise IS adopting the iPad. And if you cannot wait for Office, there is iWork. And with iCloud and Versions, anything I do to a doc on my iPad is automatically updated on my Mac, and vice versa.

And Flash? I have installed Flash inhibitors on all of my Macs, and the only time I have an issue is when traveling, and looking for restaurant menus on my iPad or iPhone. If they do the menu in Flash only, we skip that place, and if we can, we let them know it.


71 posted on 03/06/2012 5:37:03 PM PST by ace2u_in_MD (You missed something...)
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To: mc5cents
No spreadsheets and no Adobe flash player either.

Strange. I am working on a spreadsheet on my iPad right now I just imported from Excel and I watched a Flash video just before reading this thread. It's amazing the things people THINK they know that are just flat out wrong!

81 posted on 03/07/2012 5:10:46 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft product "insult" free zone.)
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