I think it has something to do with this.
Update: Throw Google and Intel into the mix as well. And, to be fair, note that however close their revenues are getting, Microsoft is still way out ahead in terms of net income — the margins on software are better than hardware.
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Merlin Mann on what Lee Brimelow’s iPad demo would have looked like if it had itself been rendered in Flash instead of a JPEG.
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Fraser Speirs gets it:
What you’re seeing in the industry’s reaction to the iPad is nothing less than future shock.
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I’ve been wondering for a while how much of the angst over iPhone OS’s lack of Flash is about porno. And as for Flash games, isn’t it utterly obvious that existing Flash games, which work via keyboard and mouse, wouldn’t work at all on devices which lack both keyboard and mouse?
Anyway, I presume Brimelow put [...]
Thoughtful piece from Adobe’s John Nack on Flash. Nack works for Adobe, but on Photoshop, not Flash. The whole thing is worth reading because I think he’s genuinely trying to be fair about the whole situation. But this bit betrays a bit of pro-Adobe mindset:
And today, more than 15 years after Netscape debuted, Flash
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David Worthington interviews Brandon Watson, “director of product management in the developer platform at Microsoft”:
Watson claimed that many developers of applications for the iPhone
OS–which the iPad uses–are not making money. Developing
applications for the iPhone and iPad is expensive, he said,
because iPhone OS uses the Objective-C language rather than
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My thanks to 37signals for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote Sortfolio. Sortfolio is a web site that helps web designers find clients and clients find web designers — visually. The best way to find a designer is to browse examples of their previous work; the best way for designers to pitch themselves [...]
The New Yorker has made available all his stories from their archive. So great.
I’ve always hoped against hope that Salinger did not stop writing, that he’d only stopped publishing. And that yes, there’s a vault with a few manuscripts, and instructions for posthumous publication. A secret lonely safe containing one — two, dare we dream? [...]
Automatic Transmission
Used to be that to drive a car, you, the driver, needed to operate a clutch pedal and gear shifter and manually change gears for the transmission as you accelerated and decelerated. Then came the automatic transmission. With an automatic, the transmission is entirely abstracted away. The clutch is gone. To go faster, you [...]
