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ipad anyone?
protokatie:
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--- Quote from: protokatie on April 09, 2010, 08:34:28 pm ---...Luckily php is supported on the iPad...
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Sorry, but this is just kinda silly. PHP is a backend language. It spits out whatever you want it to (text, html, etc, etc...) ANYTHING with a browser supports 'php' as long as the php is outputing content the browser
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I should have known better than to say what I did in respect to a server side language. I was at work in between customers trying to tap that out on my iPad anD must have been thinking of something else. :banghead:
Level42:
Man is that HP slate thing lagging !!!
It already looks old-fashioned compared to the iPad before it is released....
(by the way, that video was not Flash ;) )
It's a format war people. Remember VHS, Betamax, V2000 ?
Also: the iPad is not targeted on any of us nerds who actually know what is going behind the scenes. It's targeted at people who want a device that does, like a TV or a coffee-machine, what they want it to do and not want to be bothered about the technology behind it.
The protective attitude is not something new or unique for Apple. Shall I remember the Atari 2600 ? Why did the videogame scene crash in 1983/4 ? Because there was a ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- load of rubbish released for that machine by companies who went for the quick buck.
Atari had no control over the contents on the machine. Worse: they started pumping out rubbish themselves.
Nintendo (just as an example) learned from that and changed the rules. I think, in the end it works for customers. And for the companies too, because Nintendo is still around and stronger than ever, while Atari is long dead.
O and you are still free to buy any product or not.
protokatie:
--- Quote from: Level42 on April 11, 2010, 04:18:44 am ---
Also: the iPad is not targeted on any of us nerds who actually know what is going behind the scenes. It's targeted at people who want a device that does, like a TV or a coffee-machine, what they want it to do and not want to be bothered about the technology behind it.
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Again, the flash point has been missed. Flash IS something that let's you access the web like you would turn to a certain tv channel. It is not a nerd thing. Not having flash is like having a tv that only let's you tune to channel 7 and 13, with all other channels just showing static.
The honest truth is that I cannot on the iPad that I am typing this reply on go to any and all web sites. Many of the popular ones simple do not work without flash. To the non-nerd, the lack of flash would be frustrating when surfing the web, as they would simply be locked out of a large portion of it, ESP many of the links their friends send them via email or even word of mouth.
Please, get this through your head; flash is not a nerd thing, it is one of the major aspects of the web experience, and if it is not there, you will not be able to see the full web at all.
That being said, the iPad is cool and all, and the lack of multitasking fits the form factor, but I would like to be able to access all of the web, not just part of it.
jfunk:
--- Quote from: shmokes on April 10, 2010, 06:42:17 pm ---
--- Quote from: jfunk on April 10, 2010, 10:39:43 am ---
But, I don't play many flash games, so... :)
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Well . . . in that case I suppose there really is no reason to support Flash. Surely if you don't play many flash games nobody else does either. :cheers:
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OK, poor phrasing on my part :) I honestly never notice the lack of flash (my point). HOWEVER, all this talk about 'geeks' being the only ones that care.. The one complaint about the iPhone that I hear from my wife, over and over, is the lack of flash. She's asked quite often why this site or that won't work, or why she can't view videos...
But seriously, that's her only complaint :)
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: Level42 on April 11, 2010, 04:18:44 am ---Man is that HP slate thing lagging !!!
It already looks old-fashioned compared to the iPad before it is released....
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Perhaps, but it does solve all of the objections to the iPad for those who object. It comes at the cost of half the battery life of the iPad (until the iPad battery deteriorates).
I'll probably pick up a Slate because it will be closest to what I want a tablet for (which includes streaming, video conferencing and running apps not available on iPad) and gives me more options for what I do with it.
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