No Java either--what are they thinking?
My wife is a teacher and can't stand sitting at a desk to do some of her necessary paperwork like filling out the grades and comments on students using the school district's online system. I've thought about getting her a laptop so she's not tied to a desk.
She likes Macs (uses them at school), but they're twice as expensive as Windows machines and I don't want to learn how to support them. So since we already had a Windows desktop, she's just been using that.
But when the iPad was announced and I started reading about it, I thought this was the answer: web browsing on a comfortable, easy-to-use "tablet" and it's not too expensive, either!
But when I found out about its refusal to support Flash or Java, it killed the deal. Why does Apple continue to be so snobbish? They're shooting themselves in the foot. It doesn't matter how beautiful or easy-to-use the system is if it doesn't meet people's needs. There are a lot web sites that use Java. What is Apple thinking?
