Eeyore

You think? The number of commercial websites I can't browse on my iPad due to them using Flash has dwindled rapidly over the last couple of years. Now that mobile Flash is officially obsolete and there will be no further updates of it (and anyone buying a new Android device from here on in won't be able to install even the final supported version unless they go under the hood, which most normal users won't do), it's inevitable that the holdouts will have to change.

They don't care about the single fastest-growing sector of the computing market? Yeah, right. The iPad in particular has been embraced by a huge percentage of the Fortune 500, Global 500 and educational markets.

Bob

And yet those same sites still have Flash based apps/games and other features.

Sure, they might offer "lite" versions of their sites so that you can browse them on your tablet, but that's not the same as offering the same content or access.

scrubbedexpat141

Is it a bit like pissing in the bowl compared to a urinal?

Patsy Stoned

Sooo... Day 4 and I have finally managed to send my phone contacts from my old phone to my S3 via blue tooth ( that was a huge step forwards because I didn't even know what blue tooth was before ) ..the 1st time I did it I ended up with 345 old contact email details from MSN, I have no idea how that happened!!! It took me an hour to work out how to delete them!! lol.

Then I looked at the calendar thing on my new phone and it shows that I have a meeting every other Thursday at 8am..how the hell did it know that??? I feel violated!!! Did I ask it to put my meetings down? No! Mind your own business!! lol How did it do that please??
I am loving the speak to google thing and the fact that I can just talk my text message and tell it to send it.
Other than that I don't really know what else to do with it

NorthernLad

Doesn't it vibrate?

Eeyore

Now, yes. In a year or two? I wouldn't put money on it. What's the point of supporting a dead technology from here on out when all modern browsers on all computers and mobile devices support the vastly superior HTML5?

Only if they don't want to be taken seriously. The idea of only offering a "lite" version of a site for iOS and Android users is frankly risible. It would be like suggesting you're only going to support WAP-level internet access for mobile users. Perhaps a few very stupid companies will, but the majority will not.

Sure, companies will save a small amount of money by not converting any existing Flash content on their sites to HTML5. But where is the advantage to them to develop *future* content in Flash only, or indeed Flash at all? None whatsoever. It would be as pointless as using RealVideo (another former de facto standard that's been left by the wayside) for video clips. They'll develop in HTML5 for maximum compatibility with the maximum number of devices.

Bob

It is a bit.

It's a bit like thinking things should make sense and that they'll change quickly. They don't, unfortunately.

You only have to look at banking in the US to realise this

Patsy Stoned

yes..and it whistles

Bahtatboy

Victor Meldrew

So what's the score with the micro SIM card and the iPhone 5? Do you get your current sim cut down or do you buy from Etisalat?

Patsy Stoned

I have just got a micro sim from etishite. It was only 50 dhs. Or, you can get it cut down at a phone shop.

flood2

The iPhone 5 takes a Nano Sim card. Etisalat apparently had them available last month, but I am in Doha so cannot confirm.

TheShed

Recently changed to nano sim from Du. Process was 4 mins and ost AED 20. Plenty of stock apparently.

In case you're wondering why I previously said that the iPhone 5 was not for me and now I have a nano sim? Yep, it involved a party and a swimming pool :-(

Betty Bee

Love my iphone 5. The one thing that bugs me about iTunes is if you upload an album, you can't delete individual songs - unless someone can tell me how to do it?

mikewot

You could try this.