Steve Jobs has published an open letter regarding his thoughts on Flash. This well-written outline of Apple’s relationship with Adobe lays out why Flash is not on any iPhone OS device. This sums it up pretty well: Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for [...]
…”I guarantee you it will be hard to sell an iPod five or seven years from now when every cell phone can access your entire music library wherever you are.” — Sun CEO, Scott McNealy in a 2006 article at The Register. Being big tech industry news, MacRumors posted a note on the Oracle buyout [...]
The MacWorld San Francisco keynote by Apple CEO Steve Jobs came and went yesterday. I have to admit that I’m left pretty unimpressed. I haven’t watched the full keynote, but judging from the announcements that came out, nothing really blew me away. Of course, I bring higher than reasonable expectations into each keynote. Here are my impressions of the high points.
c|net’s News.com has posted an interview with Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor regarding the release of songs from his collaboration with Saul Williams on the album “The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust.” The album, similar to the Radiohead release of “In Rainbows”, was made available for $5 or free to see who was really willing to pay for high-quality, non-DRM music.
The Apple iPhone is a reality (despite Cisco’s trademarks). I had written a long blog entry about Apple’s latest beauty. Unforunately, my browser crashed in the process, and I lost it all. I don’t have the energy to go through it all again when you can go to Apple’s site and get a better rundown than I can provide.