Publishing with Silicon

Frustrating that the iPad seems to inherit more from the iPod than from laptops… I really think that’s less than desirable and I will probably not bother with it. I spent years lugging around 17″ laptops… my 15″ macbook pro feels portable enough. As far as Apple innovation, I am hoping for a Mac Pro that is smaller than a tank.

I would hope that big computing would flow into smaller devices, rather than the limitations of small devices flow up into larger ones, as seems to be the case with the iPad.

Of course I am unhappy that they would not support Flash on the iPad, if that is the case (a bit unclear from news today). There could be no performance excuse, as they had with the iPhone initially. It is funny how Adobe and Apple have oscillated between being friends and rivals: at several points Adobe software seemed to keep the Mac afloat. Now that Flash is a very powerful VM, and AIR can function almost like an OS, it is no wonder there is some rivalry. But kicking Flash out of the iPod was short-sighted, kicking it (and other laptop-level features) out of tablets would be self-destructive.