Like many, I am annoyed by Flash ads, yet love Flash when used responsibly.  My biggest peeve about my iPhone is that it doesn’t support Flash when I’m browing the web. This is a real problem. Nearly every site I visit employs Flash in some way or another. It also doesn’t multi-task very well. I have to close one application to use another. Okay, it’s a phone, not a computer. So mostly, I’m okay with those limitations. For my PHONE.

But for the iPad to have these same limitations? Are you kidding me? A computer that can’t do two things at once? Even a small netbook wannabe? I better be able to listen to Pandora AND read a book. At the same time. After all, that thing is far from cheap. It costs more than a netbook. To not be even half as versatile is just ridiculous.

I suppose if you really want a giant iPhone that doesn’t place normal voice calls or take pictures, more power to you, but personally I don’t see the point. If I were looking at a larger device like this, it damn well better be a good way to surf the internet, as Apple claims on their product page. However, when 90% of the sites I visit use Flash, and your device doesn’t support it, then it certainly doesn’t qualify as the best way to surf the web, now does it flyboy? In fact, it’s a really SUCKY way to surf the web. I would go as far as to call the iPad’s web surfing interface broken.

Sometimes we don’t even realize how many of the sites we visit use Flash. Download Firefox, if you don’t have it. Download FlashBlock extension, and use it. See just how broken your browsing experience would be if you didn’t have Flash on your browsing device. A few examples of popular sites seen in the iPad’s broken interface are here.

Sorry, Apple, but until iPad supports Flash and multi-tasking, I won’t be buying this fancy table decoration. Which is a shame, ‘cuz it looks really cool.