I have been researching websites for a particular application, and it seems like EVERY page that has any design thought at all is built with flash front and center. Granted there are a few really great ones using jquery and javascript; but those are limited to very simple rotating images with cross fading.

The answer is “everyone.” The question is, “Who is impacted by apple’s insistence that Flash be excluded from their iPhone OS?”

Who do you know that has had the audacity to take on EVERYONE?

And the question I’ve been asking myself the last week or so is, are people ready and willing to accept a tiered web experience? Specifically, are we at peace with being able to do things on our laptops that don’t work on our phones? I know I’ve had to be, because I haven’t succeeded in locating a flash plugin for my Droid, although I think I read that there is a solution. The fact that I haven’t researched it thoroughly tells me that I’m willing to forgo pages that I can’t view; I can look at it later on my laptop, if necessary.

I don’t hate Apple. We all make choices, and the fact is, the IPAD is a glorious achievement.

But I can tell you this: there are a LOT of blue legos. That’s what shows up in place of flash content on an IPAD. That’s a lot of businesses not getting their point across, a lot of schools and organizations and vendors not shining forth into their market. They simply cannot be viewed on an IPAD. Can we work around it? of course. Does it make sense? I’m not so sure.