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Originally Posted by Sonist
Anyway, my whole point about Flash is not to defend Adobe, but to point out that Flash is very widely used, and any device which does not support it cannot be deemed a good web-browsing device, since a good portion of the web will not be accessible with it.
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Very true, but you (and I and others) could probably be a bit more cautious in our wording so as to not offend the people who truly don't need it and won't have their personal web browsing experience lessened. This is an avid reader/bookworm site. Many have made it clear that they do little with their free time but read--and their net use is thus largely text for reading. And that's fine.
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But whatever the reason, bashing Flash is not going to change the fact that the iPad, in its currently rumored state, has some serious shortcomings.
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But I agree 100%. That's it's not a shortcoming for them, doesn't mean it's not an objective shortcoming of the devices. It is an objective shortcoming that many web pages that rely on flash won't display properly. That it doesn't matter to them doesn't mean it's not a flaw.
Every device out their has flaws, and it's silly to let company loyalty lead you to defend those things as not really being flaws just because they don't effect you personally.
Everything has flaws. All we can do as consumers is find the devices that work the best for us and don't have flaws in areas that are critical to our personal needs for the device.
It's silly to argue about what is or isn't a flaw, to have any loyalty to these companies who's only interest in us is how much of our money they can get us to fork over etc.
Use what you like, and don't worry about whether it does or doesn't fit someone else's needs IMO.