What content would you like to see on Ipad or Tablets?

Stories written around the medium of the Internet, rather than the medium of the codex.

Everyone says they love books and they’ll never want to read stuff on a screen instead of pages. But this obviously isn’t true since you’re reading this on a screen. We all spend huge amounts of our days reading stuff on screen. And the Internet has created new kinds of reading and writing. For example, Fluther, and other message boards, could not exist as “books.” Wikipedia, with its hyperlinks and infinite space, could not exist as a physical encyclopedia. These are entirely new kinds of writing—new kinds of “literature,” if you want to define it broadly, adapted around the new medium of the Internet.

So far, the books you can buy on e-readers like the Kindle and the iPad are still just books in the form of codexes. Instead of turning the page of a codex, you click a button to turn a “virtual page.” (Or worse, they’re pdfs, or long scrolls of badly formatted HTML.) But there’s no reason that stories have to imitate the technology of the codex to be told on the Internet. And there’s actually a lot of new stuff you can do with a narrative using hyperlinks and show/hide tags and whatnot.

Flash and multitasking.

Pretty much everything a PC or laptop can do, but with the ability to use multi-touch and the accelerometer.

Interactive pornography.

Linux.

I would love to see magazines and daily newspapers on the iPad. All that paper gone to waste, blehh.

@KoolKats Why the hell would you want something so unstable and so power hungry on a device? Also imagine flash games on a touch screen without a keyboard or mouse, hmm. Everyone is moving to HTML5 anyways and the popular websites like Hulu are working on an iPhone/iPad friendly version of the site. I read a while ago that if Flash where on the iPhone it would have less than an hour of battery life. Do you still want flash on the iPad?

@rawrgrr Absolutely. Theres more to flash then just games and movies. For example Tinychat. That thing is brilliant. And if they just used the mobile version of flash like all the other smartphones then they wouldnt be having all these “battery” issues.

@KoolKats I have to disagree with you. Flash is not the only way to get sites like Tinychat useable on mobile devices. Not only is Flash a CPU hog, it’s full of security holes. Remember when Apple discontinued the floppy disc? Yeah when was the last time you used one? We’ve got to stop latching on to old technology and embrace the new. It’s people like you who complain about Apple controlling everything yet the same exact people actually want Adobe controlling their web experience. Adobe could have fixed it, but they decided not to. Instead they are whining about why Apple doesn’t support flash on their mobile devices.