(A rant) Is it just me, or...

...is anyone else already throw-up-sick of "OMG, the iPad doesn't support Flash!!!" like, four full days after the release?

Drop-dead-seriously, I hate-Hate-HATE being sucked into what passes for "discussion" in a world of fanboys/fangirls and haters--not to mention the people who don't care either way, but can't stand to be outside the [cough] "conversation" [cough]. In true-green-and-gold-Wisconsinite terms, it's as pointless as listening to the post-game analysis of the Bears-Cowboys game--and a blow-out at that.

Get it through your heads, haters and fans: Apple is the rock star of rock stars (link NSFW) in the personal electronics market. Which basically means that it's making obscene amounts of bling and marrying Hollywood blondes for doing whatever the heck it feels is "the right thing" for its career. Up to and including hiring/firing its managers/roadies/backups based on their Celtic Zodiac signs. (Adobe, in keeping with the rock star metaphor, played/sang backup before the sellout became too obvious, and wants to know why it has to have a lawyer on speed-dial to see its royalty checks these days.)

That's the bad news. The good news is that the odds are inexorably against any AAA-list rock star. Sooner or later, the groupies and coke and trashed hotel rooms and awards show meltdowns will catch up. Personally, I don't have a horse in this race: I despise Adobe and Apple equally for their kindred attitude problems. So the day when both are in their Spinal Tap phase can't come soon enough for me. And if the iPad is Apple's "Stonehenge" (or even "Hello, Cleveland!" moment), so much the schadenfreudier.

In the meantime--and I'm fully aware that I'm tilting at windmills here--would the web's taste-makers please shut (the heck) up about it already?! Ultimately, it's the democracy of the user that decides these things, not the aristocracy of the punditry.