1 no. Safari doesn’t support Flash yet. That either means advertisers will need to stop building ads in Flash (no chance) or publishers will need to build apps of their publications upon the iPad SDK, resulting in a lot more work. It also makes publishers more reliant upon Apple’s own ad-serving platform which was created through the acquisition of Quattro Wireless. Regarding this, the iPad seeks to revolutionize an existing marketplace (content publishing). If the company that owns the platform also owns the ad network, the ad format, and the ad tracking, is that too much control?
2 no. There is no multitasking. If this is supposed to be a replacement for netbooks, how can it possibly not have multitasking? If the CPU is so kick-ass fast, why can’t it multitask?
3 no. I can’t plug-in anything USB (without a special adapter). Not even download photos from my camera?!
You’d expect things like this to get killed in focus group, not touted as “the most important thing” Steve Jobs will ever do. I actually think Steve Jobs And apple wanted to lunch something like the iPhone OS 4.0 but after all the rumor they went with “what the hell, let’s give them what they want.”
For now, I’m willing to think of this thing as being to publishing what the original iPod was to music. Through partnerships, it stands a chance to change the publishing game. Later versions of it could get really interesting. If anything, the original iPhone had a heck of a lot more that sucked about! And look how well that did.
This article was very useful for a paper I am writing for my thesis.
Thanks
Bernice Franklin