Adobe today:
We will no longer adapt Flash Player for mobile devices to new browser, OS version or device configurations
Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash, April 2010
New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.
Don’t get me wrong, the Android Gingerbread interface isn’t bad, it’s just not always smooth. In just a few days with the iPhone 4S and iOS 5 I had come to expect operation to be fluid and consistent system-wide. That’s just not the case with Android, and every little interruption in smooth operation now accumulates into a feeling of frustration as I use the phone.
Basically the N9 has a much more muted color dynamics. Which one is more natural? I can’t say but the photos from the 4S certainly look much more vibrant, attractive and lively. The N9 benefits from having a wide angle lens though.
More and more tweets from iPhone or Android apps in my timeline. Last year almost all comes from Blackberry apps. Shift happens, RIM.
According to Nguyen, Color is built on some serious technology. The company has six patents pending and sees itself as “much more of a research company and a data mining company than a photo sharing site.”
As such, Nguyen explains that Color can ingest and analyze four times the amount of data than Google did in its early days. This, not a tech “bubble” or an early exit, justify the $41 million investment.
CEO Bill Nguyen explains the massive seed funding from Sequoia Capital ($25 million), Bain Capital ($9 million), and Silicon Valley Bank ($7 million)
the Microsoft of 2011 doesn’t compete effectively with the Apple of 2007
Not happy enough playing the game all day long on your iOS device? Rovio has made the game’s theme song available as ringtone files for your mobile phones in mp3 and m4r formats to drive everyone else crazy every time someone calls your phone number.
You can buy Android apps from the Android Market in only 13 out of 46 countries and you can only develop paid apps in 9 countries.
Of course there are third party Android app stores but who knows about them? Do they advertise? Are they being promoted to potential Android buyers? How do operators fit in to this equation?
Google is an advertising company. Android’s existence is a vehicle to deliver ads in the mobile space. Having
a large library of universally accessible paid apps is counter to Google’s reason to have Android.
“$2,500 average per paid app isn’t enough to cover the costs of an app, especially those that require constant updates to stay ahead of the competition. Remove the Angry Birds best revenue apps from that average and I am sure the average revenue of the average paid apps will be around $500 or so.”
Loic Le Meur: How much can you really make developing mobile apps?
I’ve pretty much offloaded most of the things I used to do on my Mac to the iPhone and the iPad for a much lighter traveling set.
Last week I spent four days out of town and left the MacBook at home. It was a test to see if it might be time to return to the desktop should I decide to replace my notebook. For the most part, it worked especially when time came to look for a power outlet. There was much less need for this ridiculous exercise.
Aside from browsing and email, Notes and Pastebot took care of my writing needs, I’ve got plenty of games in both devices to keep me entertained, iBooks works great as a portable library, and I’ve got almost a full folder of apps to play around with my photos.
What I haven’t found is an app that can fully replace Pixelmator on either the iPhone or the iPad. There are apps like PhotoForge and Photogene but they cover strictly photo manipulation processes. iDraw is an interesting proposition but will need to see convincing reviews for it.
Sometimes I need to come up with a quick image that’s not necessarily based on a photograph and I haven’t found the right app for it. Wanted to check out iDraw on the iPad but I need to know if it’s worth buying or if it’s overkill.
One last hurdle for replacing the Mac as my primary workstation is the fact that there’s no way you can embed a URL inside text. I consider that a deal breaker.
Aside from that and being the hub for the iPad and iPhone, there’s not a lot that I use the Mac for anymore.
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