 The media also praised the quantity of applications , as well as the bookstore and other media applications . In contrast , some sources , including the BBC , criticized the iPad for being a closed system and mentioned that the iPad faces competition from Android @-@ based tablets . However , at the time of the first @-@ generation iPad 's launch , Yahoo News noted that the Android tablet OS , known as " Honeycomb " , was not open source and has fewer apps available for it than for the iPad , though Google has since released the source code for Honeycomb . The Independent criticized the iPad for not being as readable in bright light as paper but praised it for being able to store large quantities of books . After its UK release , The Daily Telegraph said the iPad 's lack of Adobe Flash support was " annoying " . 
