PlayBook Engineers Get to Work on RIMs Fork of
Mobile Flash Player

post from Daring Fireball on 09 November 2011 11:05:11 PM. © Daring Fireball

Amateur hour is over.

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RIM Plans to Continue Development of Flash for
PlayBook on Its Own

post from Daring Fireball on 09 November 2011 10:04:33 PM. © Daring Fireball

Ina Fried, reporting for some website on how iPad rival tablet makers are responding to the Flash news:

Flash support isn?t immediately going away for devices thatalready have it, but it clearly has lost its luster as aselling point.

When, exactly, did Flash support have luster as a selling point for tablet computers?

RIM, for its part, says it has licensed Adobe?s source code andplans to continue supporting Flash on the PlayBook.

Good luck with that.

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Progress Isnt Always Additive

post from Daring Fireball on 09 November 2011 10:04:33 PM. © Daring Fireball

John Nack, last night on Twitter, in response to my wondering when Adobe will discontinue desktop Flash Player too:

In fairness, when will Web standards match all that Flash can do?Adobe’s contributing code to speed that along, but it takes time.

Totally fair question. My answer: It’s like asking when the iPad will match all that the Mac can do. Sometimes the next thing does less, and is better for it — not in every way, but overall. If we never let go of old technology, we’d be buried in complexity and crushed by outdated crap.

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Not Just Mobile: Adobe Is Abandoning Flash on TVs
as Well

post from Daring Fireball on 09 November 2011 09:04:53 PM. © Daring Fireball

An Adobe spokesperson, in a statement to Ryan Lawler at GigaOm:

“Adobe will continue to support existing licensees who areplanning on supporting Flash Player for web browsing on digitalhome devices and are using the Flash Player Porting Kit to do so.However we believe the right approach to deliver content ontelevisions is through applications, not a web browsingexperience, and we will continue to encourage the device andcontent publishing community down that path.”

Don’t forget that Google comes out of this looking pretty bad. They bet big on Flash over the last year or so, promoting its inclusion on Android and Google TV.

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Claim Chowder: Flash Player 10.1 Will Kill HTML5

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Fabio Sonnati, March 2010:

Flash Player, until now, might have problems because ofperformances on Mac and because of the lack of support in themobile market. But now with the 10.1 for desktop and with thefuture diffusion of 10.1 on almost all mobile plaftorms (exceptiPhone) plus the new set top box rising market, where are theproblems? I see only a bright future for Flash, and HTML5 notonly will not kill Flash, but it risks even to remain killeditself in the competition. The scenario is clear.

I agree with the last sentence.

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iTake Supplements and Pills Tracker - iPhone
application

post from prMac on 09 November 2011 08:53:00 PM. © prMac

iTake Supplements & Pills Tracker iPhone application enables users to organize supplements & pills into easy-to-read lists that show useful statistics such as how many days, capsules, and servings left, cost per serving, monthly and total order cost. With iTake, the user simply enters vital supplement information such as capsules per container, serving size, serving frequency, date when supplement was started, then add a photo of the supplement from Photo Library or take one with the Camera.

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New Greeting Cards And Frames For eCard Express
iPhone And iPad Apps

post from prMac on 09 November 2011 08:45:00 PM. © prMac

Bartsoft Inc, has launched 20 new greeting cards and frames for both versions of the application, eCard Express for iPhone and eCard Express HD for iPad. Categories: Thanksgiving, Love, Friendship, Thank You, New Home, Encouragement, Birthday. All of these new cards are free of charge for current eCard Express users. The total selection of available cards for each application is 240. Update includes both nice classical and humorous cartoon style cards and frames for existing app categories.

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Stuck Watching the Seahawks

I really enjoyed this week’s episode of The Talk Show. Dan Benjamin and I talk about Adobe killing Flash for mobile devices, iCloud, why there’s not yet an iTunes Match for movies, the future of TV, the curious shoplifting implications of the new Apple Store app, and, on top of all that, a long discussion about Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs.

Brought to you by Raven and Reinvigorate.

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Speaking Gig Tomorrow at Drexel

Local note: I’m giving a talk tomorrow at my alma mater, the beautiful Drexel University here in Philadelphia. My talk will be followed by a screening of Going National, an “entertaining and informative documentary chronicling the Microcomputer Project of the 1980s, where Drexel became the first University to require students to own a computer (the original Macintosh).”

Should be fun.

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Mobile Flash Claim Chowder: Why the Apple Crowds
Completely Wrong About Flash

JR Raphael, August 2010:

As the Android 2.2 upgrade makes it way to more and more devices(the Droid Incredible is receiving it as we speak and the Droid Xshould follow any day now), those of us who value choice intechnology are getting the opportunity to experience theFlash-enabled mobile world first hand. Having spent some timeusing it and seeing how it performs, I have to say: Stevie J. andhis legions of followers couldn’t be more wrong.

Nothing about mobile Flash from Raphael so far today.

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