1. An Observation

    For the last few months, I’ve seen so many group reviews of a certain iDevice point out a ‘lack of Flash’ as a negative point. Besides the small matter that I never consider ‘a lack of Flash’ to be a bad thing, I genuinely believed (at least until the Google I/O announcement) that the lack of Flash was deemed a Bad Thing because Flash was already on other competing devices. It’s still not available on my Palm Pre (and trust me, I’d like to try it) but it’s also only just become available for review-unit Android devices. Somehow that escaped many a reviewer’s notice.

    I’m all for pointing out the iPhones flaws: it may be polished, but we’d all agree it has some. But to sting it in reviews based on the promise that a third-party will ship a media plugin at a yet-to-be-determined date, seems petty. Remember, at the time of the Nexus One’s launch neither it nor the iPhone could run Flash.

    I guess judging a device based on actual features and user experience, instead of its ‘inability to run a hypothetical, hither-to-unseen media plugin’, isn’t particularly exciting…

    Posted on Wednesday May 26th, 2010

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    1. danielpietzsch reblogged this from nikf and added:
      so share this observation…
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