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Originally Posted by kilron
... it hasn't seemed to have had a large detrimental effect on the iPhone and iPod touch. why makes you think the iPad would be different? because it has a larger screen?
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Uhm, yeah.... Because people will actually expect to use the iPad to browse the web, which is something few do extensively on the iPhone.
I suggest you read the pretty balanced TechCrunch piece I posted above.
Flash is here now, and here to stay for the foreseeable future, regardless of what Jobs says. As I said, it does A LOT more than video, and for many multimedia purposes is still way more robust than HTML5.
As to "lots and lots of paid advertising," this is what pays for all the free content on the web. Without ads, the web will be much poorer.
BTW, since most content providers rely on ad revenue, and since as you point out ads are mostly in Flash, why would the content providers care to adapt the rest of their site for the iPad, which would be in effect a freeloader device?