Originally Posted by
UALOneKPlus
It doesn't matter what the argument is.
Can you imagine if Microsoft charged 30% for all content you purchased using Windows software? People would have massive outcry about evil Microsoft doing that.
microsoft takes 30% for the windows phone store as does the google android market and you don't hear any outcry. microsoft windows phone also has a single app store just like apple, and you don't hear much outcry about that either.
Yet here people give evil giant Apple a free pass on doing the same exact thing.
actually the opposite. people bash apple for doing exactly what everyone else does and give other companies the free pass.
Same thing with Flash. I as a consumer bought the damn thing, I have a right to use flash on it if I wish. Why should Apple prevent me from doing that? Imagine if Microsoft / Windows did the same thing, prevent you from installing software that it deemed not good for you.
it's their product and they can design it however they want. if you don't like it, don't buy it. if you need flash, buy something that runs flash. very simple.
what i don't understand is why someone buys a product knowing full well of its limitations and then criticizing it at every step of the way.
How people are being blinded by Apple's insidious behavior, and yet then defending them, is unblievable.
Further more, outside of these discussions, the impacts are real towards consumers, such as myself. Android was slow to gain steam against iPhone, but now it is the top mobile OS for phones. Tablets shall evolve the same way. The iPad is dominant right now because there is no really good Android tablet that can compete right now, but slowly they are chipping away iPad's dominance. In another year or two we shall see Android tablets that will be as good, if not better than iPads, dominating the tablet market.
time will tell how it plays out. the ipad isn't sitting still and the market is big enough for more than a single player. competition makes better products for everyone.
Back to this topic, using the iPad is a pain in the butt, because of the lack of a real file system. Android has a real file system, on top of flash, on top of the freedom to have apps you choose to use, that makes it really appealing as a real mobile tool, as opposed to the toy, that my iPad 2 is.
sell it.