I am a late Apple convert. I once equated Steve Jobs to Darth Vader and steadfastly refused to purchase any Apple products. The conversion is now complete.
It began with an iPhone for my wife. (I was holding out for a Blackberry for myself.) After playing with her iPhone for a few days, I decided to get one instead of a BlackBerry. Then I got an iPod Touch at a conference. Then the biggest leap of faith was the MacBook Pro. I fell in love with the MAC OS X and never looked back. The household tally is now 2 iPhones, 2 iPod touches, 1 iPod Nano, 2 MacBook Pros, and 1 iMac.
So while I didn’t know what I would do with an iPad, I was a good candidate to get one. My thought was to get one and let it function as a notebook replacement for my two young daughters, and then I would “borrow” it as necessary.
My kids primarily use the internet to play on various Disney themed websites, which unfortunately are Flash-based. I say unfortunately, because like the iPhone, the Ipad does not support Flash.
To see which of their sites might be affected I disabled Flash on my Firefox browser.
Go to Tools -> Add-ons -> Plugins, and then disable Shockwave Flash.
Let’s check out the site my oldest daughter likes the best: www.pixiehollow.com
Whoops! Won’t work without Flash and tells you that you must download Flash, which you won’t be able to do with an Ipad.

Here’s what it looks like with Flash enabled.

How about a site my youngest daughter likes, www.lpso.com.
Same thing. Doesn’t work without Flash.

Here’s what it looks like with Flash enabled.

I also checked out the Nickelodeon website: www.nick.com , and the first game I tried, a Spongebob Squarepants game wouldn’t work.
So for now, no iPad for us. At least not Adobe and Apple come to some workaround or if HTML 5 will allow for a way to get around Flash based sites.
One more note: In my research for this article, I learned there are websites on the Internet that feature videos meant for “adults only.” Some of these websites have these videos shown in a Flashplayer, so you can’t view the content on an iPad. So you can’t use an Ipad for Disney Princesses, or other princesses.
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