Do You Want Flash on Your iPad? (Spoiler: Tough)
Posted by The Blogging Desk on Wed, Sep 01, 2010
Pause the episode of True Blood so we can talk about much more important things. No, not Glenn Beck's fashionable reading glasses, I'm talking about Flash on the iPad. Let's get into it.
Recently, several tech pundits have blogged that they are getting sick and tired of hitting pages that include Flash. These important pages include, but are not limited to: press releases, bike trails, and movie trailers. Ah, not press releases!
I use my iPad as a consumption device about 98% of the time. Mainly Instapapering, Google Reading, Tumblring and reading comics. I literally cannot think of one instance where I went, “Dammit, I with this had Flash.” Sure, it would be nice to be able to watch Hulu on a mobile device, but even Android devices with it do not allow for Hulu.com to work. (Also, the Hulu+ selection is worthless.)
The one instance I can think of getting annoyed regarding Flash would be looking up a restaurants website and finding that their page is entirely in Flash. This isn’t an annoyance that the iPad cannot display it, but more often than not it’s because the website looks terrible once I walk over to my laptop. Have you even tried looking at a menu from a website like that? Chances are you need to download it as a PDF. Did we lose a war?
It sucks that press releases and movie trailers would be in Flash, but I know I never come across them when I use my iPad. That’s just me. In fact, who sits down to watch movie trailers? Or even press releases, to be honest?
I tried commenting on the pundits page about what sites he visits on the iPad that require Flash, but apparently most of the people commenting were out of line, and mine were quickly deleted. Ah well.
I guess it's not OK for Apple to block Flash from their iPad, but it is OK to deleted and lock comments from your own blog.
END RADICAL FASCISM! (or something.)