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Originally Posted by harryE123
I am not evangelising apps. You soon will be very able to use both your fonts as the ipad expands to more locales (but you can already do so in an app...) and browsers almost completely for video in the ipad as most of the major players abandon flash and switch to html5. In the meantime youtube and loads of others can do that already almost perfectly. As for apps lots of people love and actually PREFER them to constant browsing, they are a good paradigm that combines web interfacing apps and apps as we came to know them on the mac (later copied on the wintels). I don't think apps are the holy grail of course, but they are a good shift in terms of interface for tablets for sure.
What is more I like the way the cut the horrific middleman and cash cow that is google by diverting google ad dollars off them. No more will google say pimp imdb and others with their ads (which make dollars in the ranges of tens of hundreds of billions by snooping on users and pimping ads to everyone using the internet - google unlike what they would like you to think is the biggest ad agency on the globe and that's the ONLY way they make money). Instead the owner of the app will manage their ads or get paid via subscription.
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I do agree that apps that are using a good touch api are better than non-touch built ones. No questions about it. What I am saying is the power of the mobile OSs are totally ridiculous. Your assumption of the HTML5 thing is yet to be seen. Especially after the control the mafia has over the encoding licensing. My problem time and again is apple's control on even the most basic of customization. Can you install a custom font (even an english font)? NO, and how are you starting to expect that expanding to more locales will solve that. the iPhone has been around for 3 yrs now. Have they allowed expansion to this? File association will solve a lot of problems I have with the iPad but that will not be allowed in the name of keeping things uncomplicated to those bat-ass eating computer illiterates. If you want such a device make another range for the dummies.
Yes, Google is bad. I am a bigger hater of google than most people you know. But apple is also a pimp. In apps, now in ads. While touting their ad remover extension in Safari on the PCs, they ignore their own words in the apps. Moreover, it is the developer that puts the ads in there and he decides about it. If the user does not want to see ads, let him get a version that does not include ads or just not get the apps
Your assumption that apple will keep improving may be true. But so do other mobile OSs. There are some fundamental flaws in approaches and that is what I want to point out here. I am in favour of mobile OSs if they allow customization to at least the level most power users expect. Mind you, I am not crazy enough to tout registry and stuff. Apple's control is the problem here. And you know what the worst form of problem is? Ceding control. The only cringes I have about getting the Slate are having to pay for the windows7 copy AND the battery life. When I do get the Slate, I promise to give out a fair review. You don't know me. I return stuff for the most trivial of things even if it costs me restocking fee. I care about what I want out of a product. In this case, it so happens that a lot of people are on my side.
Try typing this on a touch screen device that does not recognize scroll bars that are written in an unsupported language.
Case in point, don't reinvent the wheel where you are not improving the experience.