This was probably a spam post, but I found it kind of funny, so I approved it (without the link).
re: #1) It depends on what you mean by multitasking. I think the iPad has a type of multitasking that best balances battery life and performance with usability. Desktop like multitasking would kill the top benefits of a tablet… battery life and performance on minimal hardware (needed for said battery life).

re: #2) USB is rather irrelevant, as the tablet would have to be a boat-anchor to include a standard full-sized one. If it isn’t full-sized, then you have to carry and adapter. At that point, it doesn’t matter too much if you need some other adapter or one of Apple’s. It’s never been an issue for me, and I’ve never heard it as a complaint from real iPad users.

re: #3) Minimal memory to do what? I’ve been fine with the memory in my iPad 2.

re: #4) Mostly irrelevant. You can add one via adapter and much happens via the cloud or wifi these days.

re: #5) This must be an old spam comment still floating around. iPad, past the first model, has cameras.

re: #6) Mostly irrelevant. You can get adapters if you are OK with a cable hanging off a mobile device (which I’m not), or use AirPlay to stream content wirelessly (which is my preference).

re: #7) I’m not sure what this is talking about.

re: #8) What ones would I want?

re: #9) Well, it’s interesting how accurate Jobs was, isn’t it??? 🙂 Flash is simply, for most people, a non-issue. Since Adobe killed it off on mobile platforms officially, the writing is really on the wall. Flash is legacy and soon to be no more.

HP Slate Wins again. Ipad is just a total waste of money below are important feutares it don’t have. Why I will wait for HP Slate in JUNE 2010: 1. No multitasking. 2. No USB port. 3. Minimal memory. 4. No slot for memory card. 5. No camera for video conferencing.6. No HDMI. 7. Cropped, shrunken, and de-funned videos.8. Runs only apps approved by Apple, not the ones you may want 9. NO FLASH (90% Web Browsers uses Flash watch Hulu, Youtube, Google Video and many more )

Cnet reports that online advertisements have been compromised with malware. The malware is loaded when the computer loads the advertisement and requires no action or response from the user.

“JS:Prontexi,” which Avast researcher Jiri Sejtko said is a Trojan in script form that targets the Windows operating system, looks for vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Acrobat, Java, QuickTime, and Flash and launches fake antivirus warnings.

I glad its limited to Windows – for now at least.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20000898-245.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.1

That’s a bunch of money.

The most telling quote though:
“There has been much discussion around whether or not HTML5 and CSS3 will make it easier for designers to reach new devices… We think it will.”

As for the argument about apps people are making (that Apple doesn’t want Flash to compete with the App Store)… that is just silly. Can you think of a Flash app off the top of your head? I can’t. I’m sure I’ve used one in the past, somewhere, but I can think of one. That was actually the intended use of Flash, but instead, people started using it as simply a universal video container (which it is horrible at).

I do think Jobs taking this stand on Flash will cause some pain for some, but overall, it is a good longer-term move.

The following quote from the Virgin article caught my attention.

“Simhambhatla reckoned Virgin’s young site wasn’t getting enough use out of Flash to justify its presence while the software was “too heavy” to load, consuming more than 40 per cent of the end-users’ CPU to load and run a page – bad news in the era of high expectations and short attention spans. Nobody could say with any certainty why Flash was so slow.”

Job’s, in his iPad presentation, left no doubt that Apple considers itself a portable devices company. A prominent features of portable devices is their use of lower powered CPU’s. If Jobs is right that the future belongs to portable devices then Flash is a dinosaur with an iPad asteroid headed at it. As Simhambhatla states in the article “This year is going to be the year of the mobile [for Virgin].”

Bloated, inefficient software need not apply.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/02/virgin_america_html_flash/