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Wednesday
03Feb2010

The Fall of Flash: Adobe Flash

DateWednesday, February 3, 2010 at 6:58PM

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The modern story of the fall of a platform is being lived out by the once great Flash.  In a world where it was becoming the most important feature of the web, Adobe's Flash has somehow squandered it all and looks to be on the verge of being displaced by HTML5, which isn't really out of the gate yet.

The nail in the coffin seems to be the continued issues Adobe is having with Apple, and its mobile products.  Apple has made a concerted effort to avoid the technical issues which surround Flash.  And that is to avoid Flash all together.  Many complain about this stance, but if you look at what is happening in hardware and the web, Apple is really just getting ready for the future, a less buggy future.

Steve Jobs comment at a recent Apple Town Hall meeting summed up the point:

"Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it's because of Flash. No one will be using Flash. The world is moving to HTML5."

The main issue that Apple would have had is that Flash is heavy on systems with few resources to spare.  And with the push to Net-books and mobile devices, the future is not heading to more power as much as it is heading towards more portable power.  This sort of move just doesn't have a place for Flash, unless of course Adobe can come up with a better, leaner and faster version.

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Thursday
28Jan2010

Apple iPad: Australian look, Launch day

DateThursday, January 28, 2010 at 10:42PM

SAN FRANCISCO - JANUARY 27: Apple Inc. CEO St...

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Waking up this morning I finally got to re-live that feeling you get when you're a kid, when the presents, or the family vacation was about to begin.  As a geek, the launch of a new Apple product can be just like <insert generic religious holiday here>, so today was always going to be fun with the promise of a new device revolution.

There are a lot of negatives when it comes to the launch of new hardware products and living in Australia.  The main one is that we only seem to ever get access to a small percentage, and it's normally months after the North American launch.  I guess you could look at that and say that means that we only get the successful devices. 

Having the time to analyse and access the real world use of a new device/platform is a plus that in some instances can make up for the delays in access.  But when it comes to Apple products I have to admit to a pang of jealousy after a launch.

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Thursday
01Oct2009

Apple vs Google vs Commonsense

DateThursday, October 1, 2009 at 6:00AM

You may have heard about the Google Voice app that may or may not have been rejected by the Apple App store.  It seemed to be all the Internet was caring about there for a while, and Techcrunch have brought it up again.
Am I the only one that doesn't care what Apps Apple allow in their own Apps store, for their own platform, to run on their own hardware? The reason the device is as good as it is has a lot to do with the way Apple manages and implements the rest of the ecosystem, so for craps sake people, get over it, or buy another phone/device.

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Thursday
18Jun2009

iPhone 3.0 OS Wrap up

DateThursday, June 18, 2009 at 6:27AM

On June 26th we (those of us with iPhones and iPhone 3G's) will be given the new 3.0 Software for our phones. Apple will also be releasing the new iPhone 3G S, but as interesting as the new hardware sounds, the real story is going to be the 3.0 Software. So to build anticipation, here are the links to the details about the new iPhone software and the features it will bring.

 

 

Gizmodo looks at the new features.  And here is a great article about thebest 40 features.

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Sunday
31May2009

What is Apple going to do with all those servers?

DateSunday, May 31, 2009 at 7:58PM
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There is some speculation floating around that Apple is in the market for some space to build a nice new server farm in North Carolina.  It seems that the US state is offering the computing giant some substantial tax breaks to sweeten the deal.

There are two angles to this, 1). Apple is just looking to expand its increasing online operations, of which it has many.  I would think that just iTunes alone would use a little rack space. Or 2). With the rumours of netbook/tablet-like products in the works, Apple is looking to provide its own cloud backbone so the faithful don't need to get their hands dirty with Google's and Microsoft's offerings.

I could see Apple offering a suite of cloud App's to create an Eco system around a suite of products, just look at the example of Mobile Me.  But something about them being this late to the game just doesn't feel right.  By the time this facility is built, Microsoft will have had plenty of time to eat their lunch, so to speak.

But again, if Apple was to create a tablet PC and/or Netbook-like device, it would be just like them to create a whole backend (eg. iTunes for the iPod/iPhone) which could be the thing that is missing in making the whole ultra portable computing platform work.


Jason Remnant
..if it is broken, look for the tax break.

 

 

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