The iPad Backlash is Here.

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The sites with the most visits use flash. That means the most popular.
 The average user isn't visiting feeby foo's howto weblog or phpbulletin, they're on myspace, facebook, or yahoo games. many embedded chat applications are flash.
Those stats are for all websites.

I'm glad to hear that you are such a web expert.  So what does that actually have to do with anything?  Or are you just posting for the sake of trolling?

[mr-bisquit]

You're cute. Aren't you a bit too old to be believing in fairy tales?

Go back to the story. These are popular sites with embedded flash applications.
I pray that you have a short neck.

[kpac]

The sites with the most visits use flash. That means the most popular.

Source?

[mr-bisquit]

http://www.alexa.com/topsites

Did you really need me to hold your hand for this?

[kpac]

Alexa rankings? That's funny. That's almost as bad as using website value calculators. I'm not sure where Google uses Flash anyway. Or Facebook. Or Wikipedia. Or Blogger, Twitter, or Wordpress.

[mr-bisquit]

In the original story, no one complained about accessing google, using wikipedia, signing into their blogs.
The facebook part, uninstall flash from all of your browsers and then visit those sites you normally do.
Come back and tell me how much doesn't work.

Another thing, since the ipad uses an ARM cpu, find an ARM laptop or desktop and see if flash works on it.

[kpac]

Come back and tell me how much doesn't work.

They will still work - that's what I'm saying. Almost all Flash-only websites have a HTML version as well. Flash is revolutionising the internet, and that's the way it should be. Computers are getting better at displaying high quality graphics and animation and are well able to keep up with the changing of internet technologies.

[rthompson80819]

It's my understanding that no Apple products support flash, since Apple considers it too unstable.

[evilfantasy]

If you are buying an iPad and are unaware of the compatibility issues from a Windows standpoint then you get what you deserve and have no room to complain IMHO.

Although, there is an app for that. If they ever get it working right that is....

Cloud Browse Browser App (free) for iPod, iPhone and iPad. Supports Flash & Java based browsing. http://www.techbargains.com/news_displayItem.cfm/204968?r1=1

[evilfantasy]

Although, there is an app for that. If they ever get it working right that is....

Cloud Browse Browser App (free) for iPod, iPhone and iPad. Supports Flash & Java based browsing. http://www.techbargains.com/news_displayItem.cfm/204968?r1=1

Apparently the Cloud Browse developers were not prepared for the huge amount of use this would bring and their servers couldn't handle it. All seems to be under control now.

[mr-bisquit]

They will still work - that's what I'm saying. Almost all Flash-only websites have a HTML version as well. Flash is revolutionising the internet, and that's the way it should be. Computers are getting better at displaying high quality graphics and animation and are well able to keep up with the changing of internet technologies.

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debian:~# uname -a
Linux debian 2.6.26-2-powerpc #1 Tue Mar 9 23:07:18 UTC 2010 ppc GNU/Linux
debian:~# vi /proc/cpuinfo
debian:~# uname -a
Linux debian 2.6.26-2-powerpc #1 Tue Mar 9 23:07:18 UTC 2010 ppc GNU/Linux
debian:~# cat PowerMac /proc/cpuinfo
cat: PowerMac: No such file or directory
processor : 0
cpu : 740/750
temperature : 31-33 C (uncalibrated)
clock : 400.000000MHz
revision : 2.2 (pvr 0008 0202)
bogomips : 49.79
timebase : 24934533
platform : PowerMac
model : PowerMac1,1
machine : PowerMac1,1
motherboard : PowerMac1,1 MacRISC Power Macintosh
detected as : 66 (Blue&White G3)
pmac flags : 00000000
L2 cache : 1024K unified
pmac-generation : NewWorld
debian:~#

System information is above. There is no flash compatibility.