(motto: "I'm wearing a suit so you know my Apple analysis will be top notch!") smells a rat! Did you know that the iPad It's true! And the big media reviewers don't want you to know it!

But when the lucky group of [pre-release] reviewers is as small as it is, which of them wants to write a negative review that might prompt Apple to choose someone else next time? This seemed all the more obvious when I tried to find some objective criticism about the Flash issue in the many iPad reviews I read.

For "objective criticism" read "people who want to moan on and on and rend their garments about it." All but one of the reviewers Kiernan links to mentioned the issue, which seems as more and more content providers .

Kiernan's got a "conflict of interest" itch to scratch, but he hasn't really thought out his metaphors yet.