Snap! My dad turned up for fathers day lunch and announced he'd bought one. Or rather my sister had bought him one with his money as he'd kept on and on about how he fancied one, so she called his bluff. He also is a bloody Luddite so apparently spent all weekend with my BIL trying and failing to get it to go online. I'm sat looking at the phone, daring it to ring.
Enjoy. Thoughts on Flash I do, oddly, find myself agreeing with Apple on this one. Ugh! I just was a little bit sick into my mouth.
Never had any problems with YouTube on the iPad. It will buffer a lot if your broadband is patchy as it looks for the highest resolution version of the video so you should see similar buffering times on the iPad as you would on your laptop if you selected the 720 HD version. Thankfully living in a metropolis, I've got 60Mb Infinity so don't suffer from buffering too much. re: selecting the quality - have you tried ProTube HD? makes the stock YouTube app look childish! can also download videos with it too. well smart.
Flash is too weighty for mobile devices. Adobe has basically given up the Flash ghost for HTML5 now, anyway (thank the lord).
Hear hear. HTML5 is here with a vengeance now but there is so much industrial inertia with Flash that we will be suffering it's clunky, ancient, virus ridden ghost for some time yet.
Enough said, Jobs hate for PC and his annoyance that they exist... and his hate for android and all other smart phones other than the iPhone. What he failed to see is the rest of us out side of apple, his decision locked his own devices out of the FULL web, and now we all sit and wait for HTML5 that may take years to be the standard? what about footage encoded in any thing other than 264?? who knows, will it be re encoded and if so what qual will be left, 264 is already being written out with new CCTV encoders so its already dead before its even hit the main market.... Apple does my head in, I only hope they see the light!
May be true, but the iPad if far far far from bug free, even though Apple claim it is! That's a crock, it may not throw up errors but they crash, randomly shut down apps and many other small bugs run riot in Apples OS, but they hide them from us, still a restarts not a crash right?
...and much as I hate Apple's proprietary ethos, they were right in shunning Flash (an inefficient, behemoth of a proprietary system) in favour of the open standards of HTML5.
I do still prefer rolling my own though... I think the best way for me to sum up why I love my iPad is that, this evening, I was sat in the recliner with the iPad and was able to ignore Jeanette, eat my tea, watch the telly, post on here, catch up with my minions in Paradise Cove and re-read Altered Carbon, all at the same time. Slam it shut when I heard the magic words "Are you listening to me?", then flip it open and pick up from where I left off the minute she'd lost interest in making me take interest.
I do still prefer rolling my own though... I think the best way for me to sum up why I love my iPad is that, this evening, I was sat in the recliner with the iPad and was able to ignore Jeanette, eat my tea, watch the telly, post on here, catch up with my minions in Paradise Cove and re-read Altered Carbon, all at the same time. Slam it shut when I heard the magic words "Are you listening to me?", then flip it open and pick up from where I left off the minute shed lost interest in making me take interest.
Problem is the mean time? Yet again there is a period of nothingness I mean an erra of devices that don't fully support the web, the web should be open and free and all devices should have full support and access to it...but no...
That's the problem with developing open standards over a proprietary system - time to market. Give it time. YouTube has gone a long way to help with the move away from Flash. What galls me is that the BBC are steadfastly refusing to follow suit, even though they are 'uniquely funded' by us poor buggers! They could spend a miniscule amount of the licence fee on making their copious video/audio content available to the growing number of licence fee payers who can't or don't wish to use crappy Flash!
