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Apple’s thoughts on Flash
May 1st
For a few days ago, Steve Jobs(Apple’s CEO) wrote a long message at Apple’s website about why they don’t accept Flash on their mobile devices, including iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. You should really read it, especially if you hate them for not allowing Flash.
Steve’s conclusions is:
Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.
The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content. And the 200,000 apps on Apple’s App Store proves that Flash isn’t necessary for tens of thousands of developers to create graphically rich applications, including games.
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.
I think he is pretty much right. I don’t need Flash 90% of the time I’m using my iPhone anyway. What do you think?
iPad released yesterday
Apr 4th
There has been a lot of about Apple recently, especially because the iPad (Wi-Fi model) was released yesterday, April 3rd, in USA. I do like the iPad pretty much myself, and it has already got some pretty good reviews. You can read some of them here:
Apple iPad Review (Engadget)
Looking at the iPad From Two Angles (David Pogue, NY Times)
Instead of writing a long post about iPad, I want to make your day a little happier by showing you a few of the parodies people have been making about Apple in the past years. Maybe people will start making a lot about the iPad soon?
Big Mac Air (MacBook Air Parody)
Apple parody
Apple’s new iPad
Jan 30th
After months of rumors and speculations, Apple finally unveiled their tablet, the new iPad, at January 27th. It was introduced at a keynote by Steve Jobs, Scott Forstall and others from Apple.
So… The iPad is a big flat device with a 9.7-inch touch screen, and it’s only 0.5 inch (13.4 mm) thick. It only has one button, a “Home”-button(like iPhone).
It has many of the features and apps from the iPhone and iPod touch, but according to Apple, they’ve optimized them for the iPad. It can run most of the applications from the App Store, but developers will be able to make applications specially for the iPad.
A brand feature new feature is iBooks. You can read and buy books on it. iBooks is going to be a free app in the App Store.
16 GB, 32 GB, and 64 GB Wi-Fi models starts to ship in March, and special Wi-Fi + 3G starts to ship in April. It starts at only 499$.
Engadget has made a nice post about the iPad – Apple iPad: The definitive guide (so far).
You can of course also find a lot information on the official Apple site – http://www.apple.com/ipad/.
Apple says this about the iPad:
“Our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price.”
Here’s a video from the keynote:
So what do I think? I like it! It might look a bit too much like the iPhone and iPod touch, but still… It’s awesome! I’m sure the big screen is a lot better to things like videos, pictures and internet. Also, I can’t wait to see all the new apps, which will be made for this new device.
The price is also pretty neat! It might not seem cheap, but I’m sure Apple could have charged a lot more for it, if they wanted. I’m also sure that it won’t be that cheap in Denmark, but I still think it’s a good price.
One thing, I’ve been wondering about, is the on-screen keyboard. I really can’t imagine it being used for writing long documents, but I’m sure it’s quite good for stuff like e-mail. Also the fact that the iPad isn’t all flat, so it might be a bit frustrating to type on it, while it’s lieing on a table.
Of course this isn’t a revolution, as when the iPhone was introduced… But it’s still a new category for Apple, and I’m sure they’ll keep introducing new iPads, as they’re doing with all their other products.
Of course, we can’t say anything before trying it, but what do you think about the iPad?
