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• Gary Coleman – not doin good. http://bit.ly/ #
• No Impact Man: great documentary on walking the walk when it comes to consuming less. http://bit.ly/ #
• $AAPL Q1: record revenue, record profits, $40B cash reserves, blah blah blah http://bit.ly/7uvacU #
• All 2's day is coming: at $222 $AAPL will be a $200B market cap company (joining the mega cap co's like MSFT, GE, Wal-Mart). #
• Brought dead cable modem to Comcast retail store. Rather than exchange, they set up appt for tech visit to do it. Way to do it the hard way. #
• wow "McGraw-Hill CEO" is actually a trending topic. #
• "within five years I predict it (tablets) will be the most popular form of PC sold in America." -Bill Gates, CES 2001 #
• Running epiphany: midfoot strike with New Balance 800's. Instantly improved my run. So excited. #
• Become One with the Tablet. http://bit.ly/cyx3RI #
• The nerd world is atizzy. I wonder if SJ even gets nervous. Doubt it. #
• Watching live broadcast to the mothership in Cupertino. Packed house. #
• the ipad video could do without the extreme closeup of forstall's face #
• RIP Howard Zinn. Great man. #
• My *parents* just watched the Steve Jobs keynote with me. How weird is that. #
• So we're in phase 2 now, where the haters and doubters complain about everything it doesn't do. In ph 3, when it ships, they all shut up. #
• christ, I can't stop watching Jersey Shore. so trashy yet so fun. #
• State of the Union transcript: http://bit.ly/dBVNv8 /via @siracusa #
• re: the ipad no multitasking gripe: it's rumored to be in iPhone OS 4.0, expected soon after ipad launch. #
• iMac i7 in the house. Heartrate elevated. #

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with the iPad announcement, the whole debate about Apple’s lack of support for Flash is ignited again.

unfortunately, some of the public seems believe be that the reason Apple doesn’t support Flash is to sell more games via the App Store. not true. Apple makes money selling devices, not apps. so Apple would actually make a lot more money by supporting Flash in the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad – because they’d sell more devices.

Flash (and Silverlight) is bad for the web: it’s the only ‘de facto’ web standard (for delivering video) that’s proprietary and controlled by a single company. That’s bad for the web. “How you get video on the web” shouldn’t be something owned by a single company. Fortunately, HTML5 is well supported and on it’s way to obviating the need for Flash for video.

Flash is bad for the Mac: Gruber gets it: customers can send their Mac crash reports to Apple, and it turns out the #1 reason they crash is because of Flash. Flash is written well for Windows, but not for Mac/Linux. It uses a lot of CPU and it’s buggy. So the main reason Apple computers crash is because of this buggy app that Apple can’t fix for it’s customers. Clearly, it doesn’t make sense to perpetuate the situation with it’s new mobile devices.

At first glance, the $15/mo 250mb AT&T plan for iPad seems laughable in this day and age. But I think it might actually be perfect for me, and as Steve said, “most people”.

I’m mostly at home and work, both of which have wifi. When I go out to do work, it’s often in an Internet cafe or Starbucks (which has AT&T wifi, included for free in the plan). Wifi is nearly ubiquitous at places where you’d stop for a while. And I’d sync all my big iTunes content (music, video, podcasts) directly over the USB cable.

And if I’m out and about (truly mobile) out of wifi range, chances are I’ll be using the unlimited data on my iPhone. And *finally*, if I really need mobile data to my iPad, then I’d start tapping into that 250mb plan. I think I could totally stay under that limit.

exactly:

Today Apple finally unveiled its tablet computer, the iPad. Thus concludes Phase 1 of the standard Apple new-category roll-out: months of feverish speculation and hype online, without any official indication by Apple that the product even exists.

Now Phase 2 can begin: the bashing by the bloggers who’ve never even tried it: “No physical keyboard!” “No removable battery!” “Way too expensive!” “Doesn’t multitask!” “No memory-card slot!”

That will last until the iPad actually goes on sale in April. Then, if history is any guide, Phase 3 will begin: positive reviews, people lining up to buy the thing, and the mysterious disappearance of the basher-bloggers.

[From The Apple iPad: First Impressions - Pogue’s Posts Blog - NYTimes.com]