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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 5074053" data-attributes="member: 8158">Ah well, when put like that, Apple is doing us users a big favor by making Flash unavailable. For instance, right now as I type this post on my PC, I have Hulu playing on another tab, and sure enough it's eating up a lot of resources. They're absolutely right on that count. My computer might very well freeze up at some point as a result. Were I surfing under Apple's paternalistic aegis, this wouldn't be a concern. Rather, after having weighed and measured the risks of Flash gobbling up resources against the benefits of being able to view all of the content on the web which requires it, the good folks at Apple would have done me the service of deciding on my behalf that I shouldn't have it. They are looking out for me by protecting me from the perils of self-determination. How splendidly this model will work for the iPad!Alas, with a Windows device I must suffer Microsoft's apathy. Once they've gotten their filthy luchre, they could care less if I blow up my property by downloading filthy virus-encrusted crashtastic software. Imagine a malfeasant father teaching his children to swim by tossing them into the deep end of the pool, then going out to grab a pack of smokes and a six-pack. Now you need only affix the visage of that mouth-breathing sonuvagun Steve Balmer to the errant parent's face and cast all Microsoft consumers in the role of hapless child. It is just so. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Well, the selling point is as that, as Jobs says, "it just works". You'll have a little pseudo-computer that can sit on the coffee table so that you can do email, Facebook, tweets, check on the weather, read a book, do some word processing, view some photos, and whatever else there's an app for. This is like the D&D 3e/4e differential. Reduced complexity means reduced options and control. There is that casual user who sticks to the shallow end of the pool. They don't need options and control. They desire access to the features a computer offers without actually having a computer. Basically, they want that Star Trek datapad. Seeing how desktop computers aren't selling anymore, there are a lot of folks the iPad may wind up working for. I just don't think that happens to be you or me.</blockquote>

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