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February 8, 2010 at 9:15pm

In the excitement of Apple's iPad announcement, Barnes & Noble forgets to cancel the Nook. →

I almost want to feel sorry for B&N but when they make such a bad product I can’t wait to watch the train wreck.

January 30, 2010 at 12:03pm
Reblogged from soupsoup
IPad might be the future, but without Flash, it could be alienating the present.

Mr. Milian writes: “As long as you don’t watch Web videos using Flash technology, and that’s about 75% of the streamed content online. Apple’s gadgets might be able to live without Web games — iPhone apps are generally more fully featured anyway — but the dearth of video on the iPad is going to hurt. Thanks to a partnership between Apple and Google, YouTube videos can be tapped without Flash on the iPhone and iPad. But everything else—Vimeo, Funny or Die, Break, Hulu—is inaccessible.”

Brought to our attention by soupsoup.

IPad might be the future, but without Flash, it could be alienating the present.

Mr. Milian writes: “As long as you don’t watch Web videos using Flash technology, and that’s about 75% of the streamed content online. Apple’s gadgets might be able to live without Web games — iPhone apps are generally more fully featured anyway — but the dearth of video on the iPad is going to hurt. Thanks to a partnership between Apple and Google, YouTube videos can be tapped without Flash on the iPhone and iPad. But everything else—Vimeo, Funny or Die, Break, Hulu—is inaccessible.”

Brought to our attention by soupsoup.