Apple playing fast and loose with iPad Ready web sites

Have you noticed that some of the web sites which Apple calls “iPad Ready” are not really ready at all? Dan Rayburn in Business Insider:

While videos on the home page work or featured content works, many times when you go a layer down, you can’t get the content. For instance, on the New York Times site, all it takes is clicking on a few links to get blank pages that tell you, “In order to view this feature, you must download the latest version of flash player here”. What? According to Apple, I thought the New York Times site was “iPad ready.”

The same holds true of other sites on Apple’s “iPad Ready” list.

It’s simply Apple’s being fast and loose with their words, thinking we won’t notice. “Some” content on these sites works on the iPad, but to imply the “site” is iPad ready is a flat out lie.

Agreed.