Apple finally announced its tablet. It can be summarized as an iPod Touch with a bigger screen which disappointed a lot of people. Among the main drawbacks are those that where made to the iPhone when it was released:

• Impossibility to run several applications at the same time;
• No Flash Player, hence, no full web experience;
• No camera
• No standard connectivity.

It is still quite hard to bet on the success of this new device even though a lot of developers have already started developing applications for it. Will this tablet get its own market share, as a big video player, a video game console or a substitute for netbooks ?

Another potential problem is the absence of the Flash Platform. Apple has made a big bet on HTML 5, the new standard for the Web, which could suppress the obligation of running Flash to play video for instance. But Flash is not only about video. With Flex, Flash is still a great platform to build web applications which presents some advantages compared to HTML/JavaScript:

• Compatibility with all browsers and Operating Systems: Flex applications can run in any browser and as stand alone application on any Operating System thanks to the AIR runtime;
• Better software architecture: ActionScript, the language used to build web applications in Flex is more convenient than JavaScript from this point of view.