May 2010
15 posts
Gizmodo's gushing coverage of today's I/O keynote →
stammy:
nikf:
First there’s the gushingly sycophantic piece about Microsoft Windows Phone 7 back in February, and now this. It’s as though it’s written by Google PR, and painful to read.
The Death of Files →
mnmal:
wedontneedroads:
Dustin Curtis:
The iPhone OS completely removes the concept of a “file.” It promotes apps to being the primary level of user interaction, and it stores related things inside databases that are content-specific. When you pick up your iPhone and want to view photos, you open the Photos app, which connects to the photos database and shows you all of your photos. When you...
Jeff Croft on Adobe’s Android Flash Demo at... →
Adobe Shows Prototype Android Tablets Running... →
annoyances:
this video, showing the Android browser playing YouTube videos using Flash, where the guy narrating the video says “Good thing I didn’t buy an iPad, because this one does Flash”, and at that moment, the browser crashes.
So much for Flash being stable…
Adobe complains to the feds... →
mnmal:
And so it begins…
So, let just say for the sake of this discussion that Adobe wins and the US Gov. orders Apple to allow Flash and Flash-written apps for the iPhone together with any framework-crappy-dev-platform-independent thing you can use to write an iPhone app. Now you have a horde of developers that don’t really understand how the iPhone OS works or how an app should behave or the...
Minimal: I need to express my opinion →
Several sites are posting their “disgust” with Apple after Jobs’s post about why they don’t allow Flash on the iPhone OS. Others (such is this) are saying that an anti-trust investigation will begin about that issue…
I don’t know whether that’s true or not (the anti-trust investigation) but I…
Digital Domain - A Sea of History - Twitter at the... →
“Twitter is tens of millions of active users. There is no archive with tens of millions of diaries,” said Daniel J. Cohen, an associate professor of history at George Mason University and co-author of a 2006 book, “Digital History.” What’s more, he said, “Twitter is of the moment; it’s where people are the most honest.” Last month, Twitter announced that it would donate its archive of public...