Archive for the ‘Industry’Category

Apple Reaffirms Control Issues with iPhone 4

Apple announced iPhone 4 today, a markedly more aggressive OS overhaul than the previous 3. “Aggressive” in that Steve Jobs pretty much gave the proverbial middle finger to Adobe, Google,  Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft. Read the rest of this entry →

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04 2010

How Adobe Made the Flash Platform Beyond Future-Proof

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So I don’t think I need to tell you that some unbelievably sexy demos of incredible new versions of our favorite programs were shown off at MAX. Most people were beyond blown away by the Flash CS5 publishing to iPhone workflow announcement, myself included. This is an absolutely brilliant move by Adobe and it is significant for 2 reasons. Read the rest of this entry →

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10 2009

Tech tabloids, Project Harmony, and the proposal of a ‘Flash’ tag in HTML5

There are a number of unsettling trends in the world of web development, and one of them is not HTML5.  One major one is the number of formerly “credible” web news entities touting HTML5 as the sole and righteous assassin of Flash. Since Google I/O, a developers conference aimed at promoting and demonstrating new Google technologies and products, there have been a flurry of misinformed, thinly researched articles proclaiming that we should go ahead and start making burial arrangements for the Flash Platform. I’ve already touched on this once, before Google I/O, but since the web information giant has openly encouraged the adoption and standardization of HTML5, tech media sites and others who seemingly have been wishing for something like this, have decided to post some of the most uncredible, blatantly one-sided, and downright wrong pieces of “journalism” I’ve seen since the 9th grade. Need evidence?
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06 2009

RE: Is Canvas the End of Flash?

I was kind of in the middle of deciding how I was going to design/publish/host my blog (had been for years) but I finally found something that made me really want to write. So, with the disclaimer of this being my first FULL blog post and the design being a little rough right now, let’s get on with it.
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05 2009