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When I am on vacation, I don't take movies from home. I'm on vacation. I might take a movie for the kids, that is digital and they really don't care how the movie looks on the screen.
That would be a big reason Apple brought and Ad company.
Let Advertisers make money without flash.
NFS as in, Need for Speed.
I know OpenGL is a very capable, much more so than directx, API, however the ports from windows based directX games are terrible. Native OpenGL games run GREAT.
The worst thing for Adobe at this point is that Steve Jobs just slagged all over their product.
When Apple sneezes, everyone grabs a kleenex.
WTH is a Tracfone?
When Apple sneezes, everyone grabs a kleenex.
Agree!
WTF! Tracfone? ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha rotfl, can't breathe,laughing so hard.
WTH is a Tracfone?
It can't deliver the full console feeling without buttons. Also why would current gamers spend $500 to play inferior games? Bottom-line is you can't get games like Mass Effect 2, Uncharted 2, Bayonetta, Dragon Age, No More Heroes 2 etc... running on this thing. Yes it's more powerful than the PSP and DS but it lacks buttons and it doesn't fit in your pocket!
Do you see any reason why they *couldn't* make a game like Mass Effect 2 or Dragon Age for the iPad? The screen is certainly large enough, and they would control really well with touch... It would actually be easier to select a character and tap an action than it is with a mouse (and certainly better than selecting it with an arcade style controller).
I highly doubt it! I'm an avid gamer that has purchased every console under the sun!(Atari Jaguar ugh
Now don't get me wrong it's going to have some great games! But it's not a real threat to Nintendo, Sony or Microsoft!
It can't deliver the full console feeling without buttons. Also why would current gamers spend $500 to play inferior games? Bottom-line is you can't get games like Mass Effect 2, Uncharted 2, Bayonetta, Dragon Age, No More Heroes 2 etc... running on this thing. Yes it's more powerful than the PSP and DS but it lacks buttons and it doesn't fit in your pocket!
And for the record I do a ton of gaming on my iPhone(Touch-Arcade is one of my favorite sites). Still nothing beats the real thing!
GTA Chinatown Wars on the iPhone. Great touch controls are possible, and getting better every day.
Someday there will be no buttons. Prepare for it.
The Droid does flash? Can you show me a link?
(I thought it was coming soon but as of this second?)
Not exactly!
No you read that wrong, it is about people that build companies like MS form the ground up. In that regard Steve is in many ways made from the same mold as are a lot or other successful businessman. There has actually been much studying of such personalities, how they lead and what makes them successful. It is not that one is better than the other it is just that one needs leadership abilities, vision and aggressiveness that common folks don't have. Part of that is a drive to push people and frankly not concern themselves with the impact of doing so, a lack of empathy if you will.
In a way this conversation is very iPad related. If the reports of his return to Apple are correct, he literally took ahold of the whole development and marketing process to push the tablet forward. It is that ability to get all the ducks in a row without regard to the personalities involved, that marks a good executive.
Yes I know. In any event we added a little to the thread and we are now over a thousand posts so good has come from this.
Privately or not, what I'm saying is that it is none of our business. More so I really want to know why you think it is so important for somebody to disclose things that are a private matter? As to to private giving there are private schools that owe their existence and continued operation to private donations, in some case from the big wigs on wall street. Is it really a problem for you that such giving is done privately?
No you read that wrong, it is about people that build companies like MS form the ground up. In that regard Steve is in many ways made from the same mold as are a lot or other successful businessman. There has actually been much studying of such personalities, how they lead and what makes them successful. It is not that one is better than the other it is just that one needs leadership abilities, vision and aggressiveness that common folks don't have. Part of that is a drive to push people and frankly not concern themselves with the impact of doing so, a lack of empathy if you will.
In a way this conversation is very iPad related. If the reports of his return to Apple are correct, he literally took ahold of the whole development and marketing process to push the tablet forward. It is that ability to get all the ducks in a row without regard to the personalities involved, that marks a good executive.
Yeah, Yeah yeah. We get you. It's just not true. Sorry.
There are a million reasons why your argument might work with something else, like Sports Teams. I could be a Lakers fan one year, and a Celtics fan the next. Wouldn't bother me. Maybe I moved. Maybe my color preferences changed; maybe a player I like switches team. Whatever. You lose some, you win some with any team. Big deal. Maybe I just like Basketball period. One team gets a new coach and starts doing better. Whatever.
Some people might even say this about cars. If you drive for a living or spend hours per day in your car, maybe it makes a difference to you whether you drive a comfortable car or a Yugo. Others will stand by a preference for BMW over Mercedes. Me, I'd take either one.
But if your computer is your tool, and you are using it hours per day and you have to accomplish certain things: then chances are you have made a choice about certain aspects of that tool. Most diehard Mac users (Fanboys to you) have used both platforms (have had to) and make an informed decision -- a decision designed to save themselves frustration.
So, sorry, but I don't agree. I don't care what it is called, I would use the one that we are calling the Mac, because at the end of the day, if I want toast, I want to use a toaster, not stick my bread on a fork and hold it over a fire.
I doubt the iPad can't do this, since the existing iPhone can. I can, for example, use the Voice Memos app, switch to something else, and keep recording. I can start a text message, go do other things such as find a web page and copy the link, then come back and continue the message as if I'd never left. So I'd be quite surprised if the iPad couldn't do likewise. Generally people use the term multitasking to mean running the apps "side by side", not what you are describing. Either way, the iPhone works the way you describe and I can see no logical basis for a claim the iPad won't.
With regards to Flash vs. HTML5 YouTube, arguably one of the largest Flash based websites for the general public, is moving to HTML5 over Flash.
Ummm, where was the iPhone torched? It was heralded as a game changer from the minute it was unveiled. The iPod was mostly torched for its price (iPod = "idiots Price our devices"). The iPad is not being hit for its high price -- it's being hit because it is blasé.
The Uk store is still up and running, and with the American prices for the iPad.
That's fine. IF you want to be an AVERAGE company pandering to the lowest common denominator.
As for me, it's a PC, windows XP, and BD Powerstation. I've had it.
Bye Steve-O.
