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Hewlett-Packard's upcoming slate PC boasts one clear advantage over Apple's iPad by supporting Adobe Flash, an HP executive suggests in a corporate blog posting. Apple is shunning Flash, which Apple CEO Steve Jobs suggested is buggy, for its upcoming device. The HP device will also be based on Windows 7. As the iPad heads for its April 3 release date, a number of competitors are planning to release their own offerings into the rapidly growing tablet PC market.
Hewlett-Packard’s upcoming tablet PC has an advantage over Apple’s iPad thanks to its ability to run Flash, an HP executive wrote in a March 8 posting on a corporate blog. As the launch date for the iPad rapidly approaches, it becomes increasingly clear that the iPad’s deliberate shunning of Flash support may be the hamstring at which its competitors aim their knives.
Whether the lack of Flash support hobbles Apple sales, and boosts the fortunes of its competitors, will likely be undeterminable for several months.
According to a Feb. 18 report in The Wall Street Journal, HP executives may adjust the price of their slate device, which was first unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer during a keynote presentation at January’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, in order to better compete against Apple’s iPad. During that presentation, Ballmer had suggested that the tablet’s capabilities would include e-reading, Web surfing and playing media such as movies.
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