Oookay. So I, and many web designers from the 1990's, are at the head of this pack! I optimized my page designs to work with 1024x768 screens with NO Flash.
I don't like Flash. It's a resource hog and is usually used for glitz or flickery ads, neither of which I like seeing.
I like smaller web pages because they don't take over my whole computer screen.
This 'redesign' is a good thing. Retro-time! Back to the good designs.
Yeah, man..., back to primitive designs and primitive user experience...! Then call it progress, because Apple made a sub-standard device, which despite a 9.7" cannot provide a desktop browsing experience.
You must be a really great "web designer," if you can't manage to do optimize your Flash sites to work well, like most others do.
I love all these "web designers," who are basically backroom programmers who don't have a design sense, and who think every site should look like a Google search page.
What a joke! This is a bad thing - not only does it fragment the market, but it also means that iPad users are relegated to dumbed-down, large-screen mobile versions of sites. Waste of money by NPR (I am NOT renewing my contribution for a year because of this).
I just wonder how often these will be updated, once the rest of the mobile world gets full Flash capabilities this year?
For most sites, mobile browsing is an afterthought (if thought of at all), and this is despite there being a gazillion mobile devices users. Once most of these users can view full Flash sites with Flash 10.x, then the incentive to prepare such dumbed-down mobile sites goes away. The iPad users, even if they become several million, are not worth the development costs for most companies.
The general public doesn't care about Flash, or Java, or HTML5. They just want to browse the web and get the same experience they get on their desktop. They'll be disappointed in the iPad experience, particularly since most mobile sites are designed for a much smaller screen.
I kind of wonder, if in addition to hating Flash because it screws Apple's "pay Apple for everything" model, all this bellicosity from Jobs is not due to the fact that he put in a previous generation chip into the iPad (based on Cortex A8), which is not a good as the new Cortex A9 chips, and it is having problems handling Flash without some serious development from Adobe.
And if Adobe did not think it's worth it, particularly since they are not given sufficient access by Apple to do a good job, then Steve had to do something to hide the fact that the iPad is underpowered and based on old tech. So he attacked Adobe.
