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Steve Jobs on why Flash is not on the iPad

In what will undoubtedly be the hit read of the week, Steve Jobs has written a fantastic piece on why Apple has not included Adobe Flash in their mobile devices. One thing that resonated with me the most as it applies to PhotoCine News readers is his comment on H.264 and how web browsing via an Apple mobile device does not hinder a users access to the web as Adobe suggests.

What might the iPad offer to photographers?

Now it’s announced, and in two months it will be here. The iPad is Apple’s device that sits between iPhone and notebook, and competes with all manner of e-readers and netbooks.

But what will it offer to photographers?

Apple iPad Commeth

Update: Apple as their movie up about the iPad.

John Paczkowski at All Things D reports from the Apple event in San Francisco announcing the iPad.

Our own Michael Britt had a good comment back in November on how the iPad will change everything.

Mac Tablet Changes Everything

Whether or not the rumors are true about the Mac tablet, the idea of a multimedia enabled tablet is shaping the discussion about the future of media. Brian Lam at Gizmodo first connected the mulitmedia dots with his post titled Apple Tablet To Redefine Newspapers, Textbooks and Magazines.

But while the idea of print on the Tablet is enticing, it’s nothing the Kindle or any E-Ink device couldn’t do. The eventual goal is to have publishers create hybridized content that draws from audio, video and interactive graphics in books, magazines and newspapers, where paper layouts would be static.

Gizmodo mock up of Apple Tablet by Jesus Diaz