The Macalope Weekly: Repeat offender

12.03.2011

Now the brown and furry one is somewhat concerned that the rays of stupidity that emanate from Arends’s body might have winged the s Walt Mossberg. In , Mossberg’s list of “Drawbacks” seems to be trying too hard.

As , Mossberg phoned in his complaint about the iPad 2’s cameras. Probably literally. He phoned Apple and they wouldn’t tell him how many megapixels the cameras were and he decided not to figure it out for himself.

Finally, there are two big omissions, one old and one new. The old one is that, like Apple’s prior phones and tablets, the shiny new iPad 2 still won’t play Adobe’s Flash video in its built-in Web browser. This is a deliberate decision by Apple, and puts its devices at a disadvantage for some users when compared with Android tablets, which can play Flash, or say they will soon, albeit not always well.

Well, delivering a sub-standard user experience is still, technically, delivering an experience!

The other omission has to do with cellular data. The iPad 2 can’t use, or be upgraded to use, the new, faster 4G cellular-data networks being rolled out.