[X4U] iPad news

[Zane H. Healy]

At 8:49 AM -0500 1/30/10, Neil Laubenthal wrote:
>I'm guessing the lack of Flash is due to a combination of it being 
>buggy and causing crashes, it being a popular security target, and 
>the fact that Apple doesn't want to be beholden to anything that 
>Adobe owns. Combine that with the fact that we're starting to see 
>new ways of doing video on the net with HTML5, etc and you can see 
>Apple's logic, even if you don't completely agree with it.

Actually you just reminded me of my major problem with flash, it is a 
privacy risk.  Everyone knows about the cookies that browsers store, 
the problem is, now many sites use flash to hide cookies that are 
harder to find and remove.

Personally as I said the other day I view the issue as being the lack 
of a USB port.  It will be interesting to see if someone makes a 
docking port adapter with one (or if the one camera adapter provides 
one), though I assume that would also require someone to write 
software to pull stuff other than pictures off of the drive.

Zane



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