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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Browsing in an iPad is terrible - Part III

Today I received a text message of my daughter asking me to pick her from a car repair business. I'm an old guy so every time I drive to a place that I don't know the first thing I do is to check the address in Google Maps. And I'm glad that I did it. From the satellite view of the address I noticed that something was wrong because that place looked to me like a house not like a business. In these cases and to be sure I check the place using the option Street View of Google Maps. But... Why this option is not in my iPad? The answer is simple. This feature uses flash.



Come on! I have this feature running in my Nexus ONE! Why I can't have it in my iPad, the same one that was supposed to bring me a "magic experience"! In a bigger screen!

Well thanks to my phone again, I checked the address and found the right address.

Now, my question to Steve Jobs is how long he thinks that will take to Google to switch that feature to HTML5. Of course, knowing Jobs I know his answer: Ask Google. And if I was Google I would be thinking, why I should change it if it's working fine in the way it's.

So here we are iPad owners no enjoying fully or at all that magic experience promised to us by God Jobs.

Note: if you use the Maps application included in the iPad there the Street View option works. The case I'm referring to is when you are using the browser.
Posted by Frank J Garcia at 8:29 PM
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6 comments:

  1. Javier Fernandez1:24 AM, September 16, 2010

    I'm using the Street View in the iPad without a problem but you need to access it from the Maps App included not from the website.

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  2. Frank J Garcia6:17 AM, September 16, 2010

    Thanks Mahjong. Thanks God we have for this one a solution.

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  3. Vince DeGeorge7:27 AM, September 16, 2010

    Never understood this way of thinking. If I try to run a native Windows app on a Mac and it doesn't (of course) work, do I blame Apple for not interpreting Windows code? Of course not. Why do we do we hand out the blame when it comes to a browser? Not quite fair.

    There's no blame and google has no obligation to change... But it up to them if they want to appeal to the masses who have bought a iPad.

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  4. Frank J Garcia7:38 AM, September 16, 2010

    Vince, this way of thinking is easy to understand. If you are selling me a magic experience while browsing that means to me that I'll be able to access all pages without any issue. And that I'll be able to watch all pages without restrictions and that all pages will be fully functional. And that's far from being the case here. What Apple is selling me is a restricted version of the Web.

    Just today, less than 24 hours after I posted this I found another page that complains about me not using Safari to access that page. And I was accessing it from my iPad. So I missed another functionality of that page.

    This is what's all about. Do not tell me that's a magic experience when everyday I find a page or two that I can't access or that's half functional because of stupid restrictions from Apple. And do not tell me that the only use of Flash is Porno.

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  5. Juan Luis Chulilla7:26 AM, September 17, 2010

    I am starting to think about naked emperor tale. At the end of the story, the emperor starts to walk among the people, totally naked. People force themselves to simulate that they are viewing the most magnificent dress.

    There are at least 2 differences between emperor's tale and ipad's tale.

    1) in the emperor case, people simulates because their heads would be in danger; in ipad case, people just don't accept the terrible limitations of the wonderdevices they bought... and, although devices were sold using lies (that "magical browsing experience"), to acknowledge a mistake would be too harsh so its better to maintain the farce that browsing with an iPad is magical

    2) Nothing happens to the child that say that emperor is naked; if you (or me, for the case) say that iPad is a naked lie, apple fanboys find it as a utmost outrage and religious heresy.

    Anyway, this question is a endless source of fun :D

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  6. Frank J Garcia8:02 AM, September 17, 2010

    And still have more issues to report. Issues that do not have anything to do with flash.

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