iPad 4? When will we see the iPad 5 and what of the competitors?

[rocketpig]

selnor said:

rocketpig said:

selnor said:

None of that is rellavant right now. In 12 months great, but that will be a dual for Ipad 5 or 6 against whatevers on the market then.

Android devices don't support Flash anymore, either. It's a dying platform for web use.

I'm a web developer. It's what I get paid to do. Apple did us all a favor by taking a hardline on Flash and preventing it from being installed on iOS devices. It sped up HTML5 adoption by at least a year, probably two.

Thats all fine. But it still has issues for me as a consumer now, while the changeover takes place. 

This right now makes Surface RT a real contender right now. It could steal alot of marketshare from Ipad due to things like this. Office is also great to have as is a Keyboard/cover that you dont have to drag around seperately or charge. USB 2.0 among other things. Its convienience.

Few care about Flash today. No one will care in a year. Every major video site has supported HTML5 for at least a year already. The ones that don't have their heads up their asses (this is speaking as a web developer). The writing was on the wall four years ago when Apple prevented Flash from being installed on iOS. If site devs still haven't switched over to HTML5-compatibility, their site is probably not worth using because they are very bad at their jobs. End of story.

(One single site I frequent still uses Flash today... One. Flash is a non-issue at this point.)

I could make a good argument that Safari, being a Webkit browser, actually offers more access to the Internet than Surface, which uses IE. Webkit is more fully supported on the Internet than Internet Explorer.