iPad Seen in Apple Store

That’s just how it’s going to be. I really think it’ll be great browsing the web until we want to watch a flash based video and it wont play.

Chris, I would have thought since your audience is so big that Apple might give you one to test out.

HAHA When Chris was about to bring out the Ipad my flash player crashed………ARG

ooohhh Mean.

@Maysen LOL

No Flash support!!! Almost everything that’s fun at internet uses flash, now we cannot use it on the iPad? I don’t like the idea. I really liked the iPad to be very small…

Noooooooooooo!

That is just dumb you calling everyone making fun of the iPad a hater in a early video then you mock it.

And I could watch this video if my iPhone could handle it, too. Pretty ridiculous of Apple. I don’t get it. It’s overdue.

Where at? I will go buy one tonight! or tomorrow morning!!!

This is hilarious! :)

what the fuck , i fucking hate flash , it crashes every time i try to see your un-boxing of the ipad …..

hahahaha hilairous

LOL! Beaten to doing the same thing!!!!

Hahah! That was a really good one! xD

Flash is old. WebKit (the rendering engine used by Apple, Chrome, Android, etc.) already supports some parts of the HTML5 spec. When it has full support, Flash will go away. YouTube has already begun converting to HTML5, so it is just a matter of time before other sites do as well.

Bwahahaha!!! I don’t care who you are, that’s funny!

@Maysen, your flash player didn’t crash it was deliberate.

Yeah but don’t they, and I’m going to kick myself for saying this, have an app for that? I mean they don’t support flash but don’t they have a YouTube App? So you can still watch youtube videos even if everything else that doesn’t have a special app can’t run flash?

I’m, too subtle for this blog…
too subtle for this blog,

I’m an Apple, ya know what I mean….

Good luck with your oversized iPod Touch, brosef.

Um, your iphone CAN see the video. See, great things have taken place. Youtube, m.nbc.com, pandora, etc etc etc.. ALL work on the iphone/pad without flash!!

So now what…. you miss punching monkeys??
flash is quite 90s. leave it there please.

And you know what? I’ve heard it doesn’t support multitasking XD so it is an oversized ipod touch

1Ghz hasn’t been speedy since, oh, 2001. 16GB of storage? Your Mac Pro has that much _RAM_. My IBM ThinkPad 570 can play flash videos, has a built-in keyboard (they “allow” you connect a keyboard?), and is wireless. Heck, it even runs TWO, count ‘em, two USB ports. And does it all on Windows 98SE. We aren’t impressed.

And I’ve owned touchscreen monitors, five years ago.

Of course, I’m hardly the target market for this. And I already have a Tablet PC. That’s four years old.

This is just Apple’s netbook to replace the Air.

It’s an appliance for someone that wants new recipes from Food Network, check email and watch reruns of Desperate Housewives (or House) from their Laz-Y-Boy.

iPad is too little, too late, and too much

I’d rather buy a Dell Latitude D620 from Tiger Direct. OR perhaps a touchscreen Panasonic Toughbook for under 400 when they are in stock.

Fort, I’m kind of included to agree with ya. I’d love to get one, maybe a generation or two out when they make some crucial updates and get a better feel for what people expect out of the device. If I were to get one now, I’d primarily see myself using it as an eReader with some nice extras, but not enough for me to fork out $500 for it.

Though WE might think that Flash should be dead and buried, a lot of the world still uses it…

Try telling the (tens of?) millions of users that their Farmville game (or just about anything else they use on Facebook, etc.) won’t work on it, and Apple will lose BILLIONS ;);)

flash might be old and unreliable on a mac but heaps of websites rely upon it . I don’t think the IPad was going to be a big seller but having know flash is going to make the sales go down heaps. also why cant they run the IPad on a proper operating system like OSX or even windows??? get a laptop or an IPhone.
a giant IPod touch is not going to sell.

Chris, when you got a Mac because you didn’t want to deal with Vista, I didn’t blame you. I, however, was patient and stuck with XP until Windows 7. I’m not sure what compelled you to abandon your consumer knowledge and jump into a world you knew very little about. I’m not saying Macs are bad, but what you did could be viewed as a little foolish. Just like a Mac user randomly jumping in and buying a Windows PC out of nowhere is just as foolish.

The problem with Macs is their price. It has been for years now. They’re not worth the price. Neither are the iPod, iPhone, or the iPad. The iPod Touch is a glorified MP3 player that costs about $150 more than it should. The iPhone… Well, I shouldn’t even have to explain why it’s a rip-off. It’s $100-$200, sure. That’s deceiving, though, because the service charges to do everything it advertises is outrageous. Plus, your stuck with AT&T’s horrible service.

When it comes to the iPad, I don’t care. For $200, I’m expecting multi-tasking, I’m expecting a full web experience, I’m expecting connectivity to other devices, to list a few things. These are not unfair expectations for a mobile device. I know you’re going to say, “It’s not a computer,” but, Chris, let’s talk for a minute. People have been comparing this to a tablet computer since it was announced. People will buy this device thinking it’s a portable computing device when it isn’t. For the price, it should be. Since it isn’t, it’s a rip-off. That’s the reality.

Now, this iPad thing: how strangely excited you got over a mediocre device proved something to me and a lot of your followers. You’ve become a truly ridiculous Apple fanboy. You’re willing to pay insane prices for sub-par products just because it has Apple’s logo on it.

You have an iMac, and another Mac RIGHT NEXT TO IT. You have your Mac Book in its hideous glory sitting right on your desk too. You have THREE Macs within three feet of each other at all times. Why? Why do you need so many Macs? One is plenty. You’ve spent at the very least $6000 on all that equipment, when the equipment itself is maybe worth $2000.

All I can say, Chris, is that you really need to take a hard look at yourself. You still say that you’re neutral between the Mac and Windows, but your purchases say different. Your attitude says even more. Only a fanboy would get this excited about a product that doesn’t have a market niche. It isn’t a tablet computing device, it isn’t very mobile either, and it’s too big to be an iPod Touch. What does it bring to the table? Nothing. It’s simply another abomination from Steve Jobs.