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Tablet does not = iPad

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I’ve seen a lot of chatter about the Wired magazine “Reader” application that was shown at TED last week running on a tablet device. Let me say straight off that I love it and as a long-time subscriber to Wired (I currently subscribe to both US and UK editions) I would pay for this. The interface is beautiful and it has a tonne of potential for making it the first truly interactive magazine.

What’s funny though is how many people think they’re going to see this on an iPad and Core77 goes as far as saying this alone has sold them on the iPad. They should look again as this is more likely to come to a PC before it comes to an iPad. As a commenter on their post says, this is using Adobe AIR which, like Flash, won't be running on the iPad anytime soon. The reality is I could run this thing NOW on my Acer multitouch PC and it would work wonderfully. Adobe to their credit points this out on their page, noting that with their Packager for iPhone feature (available in an upcoming version of Flash Professional), these types of AIR content apps will run on the iPhone and iPad. I have to confess I have no idea what that means in terms of real availability (or fidelity) on iPhone or iPad and Gizmodo has similar reservations despite leading with the eye grabbing iPad headline. Fair play to CrunchGear who visibly edited their post butSilicon Alley Insider missed the point.

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It’s a stunning app for sure and should sell people on the notion of tablets but lets not forget tablet does not = iPad. Hats off to Apple of course that they have created the connection in people’s minds that tablet does = iPad but this thing could run on my PC or Mac for that matter. Right now. Today.

[update]  – NY Times has caught up to this story now but  All Things D has the real story around incompatibility.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    February 18, 2010
    C'mon, it does a bit.   If tablet != iPad right now, it won't be long before it does. I know that is probably hard to swallow from a Microsoft point of view. But portable media player does equal iPod and I expect the same will be true of iPad. The marketting, availability of apps and level of effort injected into the product means that it will almost certainly become dominant in this untapped market. Microsoft do a great job of creating a great platform for 3rd parties to build on.  But Apple take it a lot further and make the platform very useful in itself which gets the momentum going for the 3rd parties to jump on the bandwagon.