Disney CEO Bullish on 'Game Changer' iPad

[prowlmedia]

Open Rambling Letter To Steve. (Seems to be the thing to do these days)

Apple does not want flash so you have to buy games. And that's all it is isn't it Steve....

As a flash designer from way back, it may be buggy but is so prolific that it's like releasing a browser and saying, "Sorry it's not going to support JPEG as PNG is better."

Flash is the best solution for
Multi Layered interactive video
3D Animation
Easy timeline based animation
Very Complex animation!

But the point is you have said that the iPhone (and iPad) gives the best browsing experience available - but what's the point if you can't actually see any interesting sites! Content comes in different ways and I for one like usable news / social sites but I love Rich media sites, interactive multimedia sites.

Not one of these sites works properly on the iphone...
www.disney.com (!!!)
www.tokyoplastic.com
www.nike.com
www.adidas.com
www.philips.co.uk
www.sony.com/index.php
www.bbc.com
www.facebook.com - no the app doesn't count.
www.myspace.com
www.prowl.co.uk (ours - slipped that in!)
www.vimeo.com
www.snow.com
All these....http://www.papervisionshowcase.com/
the utterly awesome site http://www.cinema.philips.com/?ls=gb_en
http://www.snow.com/

Blue boxes everywhere!

The web is not all play through videos - it's interaction and what annoys me the most is that the iPad would be an awesome interface for flash.

I'd like to see any of these done in HTML5 - certainly in the time it took me to make mine! The fact it that there are some HTML5 code that would take 100 lines of code and in flash maybe 2 lines... it's a huge step back.

http://html5gallery.com/ - Oh look it's 1997 again - and anything interesting on there… guess what… all done with flash!

If apple is so narked with it being buggy - grow up and sort it out. Seriously it was on the back of adobe and macromedia that People even started using Mac's ( Photohop / Illustrator for DTP ) I've spent my career learning it and making money form it and now Steve are dead set on killing it. And what do we all still buy… Apple!

But to be honest - this is all one step to far. Android for my next phone. A win 7 tablet - just but I'll still keep the macbook… It not apple love or hate thing, steve… the macbook is awesome bit of kit… but then again I can still play flash on that!

If you are so narked with it, Apple has $40Billion(!) in the bank, invest in Adobe and fix it Steve, Don't try and put all us designers out of work.

Andy

 

[fox10078]

And now please tell us where ANY of this is NEW?

Today, I thought about sending my wife to an Apple store and letting her ask the sales people there if they would recommend the iPad for her. After all, she mainly needs a surf board and something to watch movies.

The fun part here is that she uses commercial websites that are based upon Java and Flash - and that need to PRINT, and that she watches DVDs.

Oddly enough, the iPad has no support for the most commonly used vehicle for video content: DVD. Also, it's impossible to use the iPad to print anything. Which is a real issue if you need to print address labels for Hermes or Deutsche Post deliveries. (Now the latter would also require a functioning Java implementation in your browser.)

Oops.

But we all already know that Apple and Disney have paid-for, one-time-use-only streaming content in mind when they re-invented Microsoft's Tablet PC concept.

By the way, Disney: Why the heck are Playboy, Hustler and Penthouse not excited about the iPad and the millions of ways it could allow them to generate more revenue? Right. It doesn't fit into the Disney idea of "we are all sexless cousins here".

But don't worry, there is a simple solution available: Just buy a Tablet PC with Microsoft Windows on it. It has all of the features that Apple's iPad has, but NONE of its limitations. Tablet PCs, or Slates as they are called nowadays, are real computers, not just oversized iPods.

Sure, there is a niche for gadgets like the iPad. But it certainly doesn't fill one that I have a need for.

Didn't read anywhere it couldn't print. Source?

 

[$ahil]

When people start seeing the apps that will be developed specifically for the iPad, their perception of the device is going to be drastically changed...

How so?