Ontopic Yet another reason the iPad is not on my list

[Syrup Beaver]

People talk on planes all the time. I don't think I've ever been on a flight we everyone seated near me was dead quite..

Ayuh, and the last few flights I've been on have had so much background noise from the plane itself that people's conversations were almost inaudible from a seat away.

Heck, people around us couldn't hear CL on the few occasions she cried.

 

[polo]

I was wondering about that. I've never gotten a signal on a plane after a few 1000ft but I keep hearing you can make calls now

some have it built in of recent. the only thing i really want on a plane is an internet connection... or even more modest, a power adapter for my laptop that is actually switched on during the flight.

 

[Duke]

lol Isreal is now banning iPads, so much they are confiscating them at the border.

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/isreal_blocks_ipad_imports/

 

[JAXvillain]

I was just discussing the ipad with one of my execs who got one last week. he said the lack of flash is devastating.

 

[Syrup Beaver]

Wow, why is flash so important to some people?

 

[Coqui]

I was just discussing the ipad with one of my execs who got one last week. he said the lack of flash is devastating.

Then why did he get it?

 

[polo]

i would never have one - it's absolutely no fucking use to me. i have an ipod touch that sporadically deletes my music when i sync it with the PC. it's also just generally shite and i barely use it.

my next purchase will be an alienware 11.6" - though this is meeting resistence, as it's plundering my holiday fund

 

[polo]

Wow, why is flash so important to some people?

the drudge report is all he needs

 

[Coqui]

Wow, why is flash so important to some people?

Because some people don't want to pay an additional $17/month to read the NY Times

 

[JAXvillain]

Then why did he get it?

because he's a C level exec and it's a new toy

 

[dbzeag]

Wow, why is flash so important to some people?

Because you can't claim as Jobs did in the press release to that the "world's best internet experience" and not support the current world's standard of flash for web sites.

 

[Syrup Beaver]

Because some people don't want to pay an additional $17/month to read the NY Times

Reading that is their first mistake.

 

[Syrup Beaver]

Because you can't claim as Jobs did in the press release to that the "world's best internet experience" and not support the current world's standard of flash for web sites.

Who cares, flash is annoying.

 

[dbzeag]

Who cares, flash is annoying.

Annoying or not, it is still the pervasive standard throughout the internet. And yes it will go away, with much pushing by Apple to be replaced by HTML 5, but that's not the point. I want a device that works today, not in 3 to 5 years when most sites will have gotten away from flash.

 

[Syrup Beaver]

Or, you could just not use flash.

Internet still seems to work without it.

 

[JAXvillain]

Who cares, flash is annoying.

no youtube, hulu, etc is WAY more annoying

 

[dbzeag]

Or, you could just not use flash.

Internet still seems to work without it.

Depends on where you go.

My Farmville doesn't work without flash. Hell it barely works WITH flash.

 

[Syrup Beaver]

Pfft, who needs those things.

 

[dbzeag]

no youtube, hulu, etc is WAY more annoying

Um youtube has upgraded to HTML 5 already.

 

[Duke]

Or, you could just not use flash.

Internet still seems to work without it.

Not all the internet is on HTML5