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Who owns the platform? Adobe? Google?

June 22, 2010

Kevin Tofel on the announcement of Android support for Flash: The key word in Adobe’s press release today being “expected,” which appears three times. Platforms other than Android are expected to integrate and work with Flash Player. All of the latest Android handsets are expected to see Froyo, which is required for Flash Player 10.1. [...]

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Why Apple doesn’t want Flash on iOS

June 19, 2010

If you want to know why Apple wants Flash kept away from iOS, you should ask Palm: Adobe hasn’t given any signs that it’s close to porting Flash to webOS, Palm said in an AT&T online app development seminar on Thursday. When asked about the multiple delays, a representative said that Palm didn’t ‘know what [...]

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ARM’s experience shows why Steve Jobs is right on Flash

May 6, 2010

Image via CrunchBase Think that Steve Jobs is talking out of his behind when he says  that Apple needs full control over its platform? Perhaps ARM’s experience with Smartbooks will help you understand: ‘ARM dominates the mobile phone chip design market and has since 2008 been trying to get into the subnotebook market as well. [...]

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Adobe set to sue Apple?

April 13, 2010

Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols: “Apples iron-bound determination to keep Adobe Flash out of any iWhatever device is about to blow up in Apples face. Sources close to Adobe tell me that Adobe will be suing Apple within a few weeks.” If Steven is correct – and he’s not the kind of guy to write this without [...]

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The best summary of the Apple/Adobe war

April 12, 2010

Want a a simple, single-paragraph on what the Apple/Adobe iPhone spat is all about? Jean Louis Gassee supplies it: “Who, in his right mind, expects Steve Jobs to let Adobe and other cross-platform application development tools control his I mean the iPhone OS future? Cross-platform tools dangle the old “write once, run everywhere” promise. But, [...]

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Will someone do to Photoshop what InDesign did to Quark?

June 1, 2009

Back in the days when I did proper print publishing instead of all this new-fangled online nonsense, everyone used QuarkXPress – and everyone hated Quark with a passion. The price of the product always seemed to go up, never down, and it cost a fortune. You could never get a decent discount, even if you [...]

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