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Originally Posted by Maggie Leung
I see your point of view. From my perspective, Apple provides products that are easy to use and I essentially paid them to make technical decisions for me, because I have little technical knowledge. If Apple lets me decide, then there's less incentive for me to buy their products, because the simplicity is diminished. If I bought an iPad and flash or whatever gummed up the works, I wouldn't know enough to blame flash (just an example). I'd probably just end up an unhappy Apple customer and switch brands.
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That's a fair point. Apple's products are more for people that aren't uber tech inclined. At least that's their target market--not that knowledgable tech people don't also love their products.
They will just never be for the power user. Hell even their PCs aren't with the stupid 1 button mouse etc.!
So for me it's just a matter of waiting for Google, HP or some company using Windows to make a tablet that fits my needs as more of a power user and a person wanting a productivity tool and not a media consumption tablet. Though I'll always be interested in keeping up with the iPad as my girlfriend has one and I do play around with it regularly.
But, getting back to your post, I will say, leaving the choice of Flash up to the consumer, and not including it on launch devices wouldn't cause you ANY problems. You'd have the exact same iPad you do now--nothing would be gummed up.
Those who want it would have the option of adding it. Those like you who aren't tech inclined would never know the difference.
Being more open doesn't have to mean being less user friendly as casual users can just ignore all that stuff and use it out of the box--rather than using it out of the box being the only option (aside from jailbreaking).