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#1 I was being sarcastic, I never "saw your point" because you never made a valid one... HTML4 CAN NOT SERVE VIDEO PERIOD. FLASH or QT or WHATEVER can serve video... so Jobs and his deuchey minions can WANT AND WISH AND HOPE for the iPad to be able to watch web video all they want... but it won't make it happen because the iPad doesn't support the necessary plugins... and HTML5 is NOT ****ING HERE YET. I have not been defending Flash, I have been attacking a lack of Flash support as a good idea by Apple... BIG DIFFERENCE. And don't comment on VP8.. what the **** is YT support? YouTube? You do realize Google owns YouTube and can convert the entire library over to VP8 in a matter of days, right? Ok, I'm done, this has gotten silly, you clearly don't have a clue and at this point you are arguing based on the reality you WANT to exist not the observable one we actually are stuck with. |
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Also, I don't care if IE and Safari are 60 or even 80% of the browser market.. if Google decided to put it's weight behind VP8... either IE and Safari will support it as well OR Chrome, Mozilla and Opera will replace them... end of story. People will use whatever browser supports the content .. and right now Google controls the lion's share of content. |
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Flash or QT can serve video. HTML4 allows flash or QT. Thus, iPad and iPod can, in fact, view H264 video via QT at the very least. Quote:
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Does my video play on an iPod touch? Yes. Does my video play on an iPad? Yes. Is my video flash? No. Flash is important, for video, how?
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You guys are on fringe land. I get where both sides are coming from, but both your arguments are meaningless to end consumers.
Unless Google can make a hardware move that counters Apple on the smartphone and tablet market, they'll have to capitulate. They can play hardball, but google survives off of advertising, not people downloading Chrome. **** Apple, and everything they've done with the iPad. I think it's a shit product, as far as anything I'd buy. But they've made a huge success out of the iPhone OS product. So more power to them. Google, it's your turn. |
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I don't know if you're being serious or not, but I agree that the iPad is awesome for certain situations. It's a dream travel companion. I'm tempted to buy it just for flights. Watch shows, movies, read, and so on. Incredible.
The closed architecture annoys the shit out of me. But that's how they make their money. At some point you get over it being a large iPhone and not an OS X tablet. Until someone creates something better, like I said, more power to them. That's not to say I support them on Flash, or any of their other decisions. It's BS meant to support their bottom line. But that's what companies do. Apple doesn't give a **** about Adobe. With their consumer base, they don't have to. But I don't get the anger either. It's Apple. Are people not used to this? They make a business off of pissing people off while still making a killing. Google is the only company with the ability to counter Apple in this market, and we'll see what they do. |
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No, I'm serious! I really did. Of course, I use it for other things, but this is by FAR the coolest thing. I feel like a kid again. I put a bunch of eBooks on there, too, but they're all PDFs because Kindle books are too ****ing expensive.
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I don't mean replace, but to compliment I guess. But why buy an iPad when I can carry around my Macbook? It does more, I have full control, and then what...? I have my cellphone, and I have my laptop. Where does the iPad come in? |
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I dunno. I see how it's not at all useful for some people. But for me, I just toss it in my bag and take it to school without worrying about batteries because it lasts for damn near 12 hours. I can stream movies from my home computer over the internet to my iPad, as well as music. I can surf all the sites I need to. It's much easier to read PDF files that are thousand pages long with it than on a computer.
All of that stuff you CAN do on a computer, and more. But for me, it's pretty damn handy to have around. I totally get why other people wouldn't care for it, though. |
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The form factor is perfect for me personally.
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Yes, they won't make any money off Chrome but they do make boatloads off ads and they can make money off their OS if they play their cards right. Having said that, if they took the vertical approach Apple has with the key difference being "open" on the app/software front, they'd have a considerable product. But google, thus far, hasn't been interested in that. They've outsourced the hardware building - HTC, for example. Quote:
As I've said numerous times, I don't think the current iteration is something that's for me. I just wonder what you wanted more of/less of, etc.
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