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Adobe predicting 250 Million Flash enabled mobile devices within two years

This number is ambitious beyond reason. I really don’t see that happening, when, as of today, they still haven’t got a working flash player on anything but demo devices.

This is adobe talking out of their asses, big time.

keep track of newly released extensions for Safari

Extensions for Safari are cropping up all over the internet. Jonas Wisser set up a Tumblr blog to keep track of them.

You should check out the blog, there are already a few very handy extensions available for download.

The WWDC 2010 keynote address is up on iTunes

The WWDC 2010 keynote address is now available in the iTunes podcast section.

Clients From Hell: CEO: ”Hi Michael, we wanted to talk to you in person (over the phone)...

CEO: ”Hi Michael, we wanted to talk to you in person (over the phone) to resolve the question of payment.”

Me: “OK.”

CEO: ”Let’s forget all of the stuff that has gone on in the past with this project. Let me put {Accountant) on the phone.”

Accountant: ”What we’d like to do is offer to pay…

Apple's HTML5 and Web Standards website

If these techniques catch on, Adobe is going to wish they hadn’t started a discussion about Flash’s position as a web standard and just accepted that it isn’t the best means to deliver video on the internet.

Take a look at those demos. It’s amazing what you can do with HTML5 and CSS3, what has only been possible in flash, until now.

via daringfireball and thijsjacobs:

html5watch:

Apple just launched a website which demoes some great examples of rich webpages made using standards-based technologies. A fantastic resource.

Some of the best examples I’ve seen so far. You’ve got to love the Javascript/CSS3 Transitions demo, which kicks serious ass.

Marco.org: Microsoft didn't lead the way to the iPad

As usual a well written article by Marco Arment, but I don’t completely agree with his conclusions.

Microsoft didn’t lead the way to the smartphone-to-tablet approach, and they didn’t lead the way to the iPad: they led the way down their own path that got them somewhere completely different, irrelevant, and unsuccessful.

In my opinion it’s hard to argue that Microsoft’s and other’s efforts, at creating a tablet directed at consumers (by downsizing PC hardware), have nothing to do with Apple’s approach or didn’t influence it.

There were a few good tablet computers which used Windows and pushed the technological boundaries of their time — remember the Compaq TC1100? What hindered these devices from being considered by consumers, was generally bad marketing and high prices.

I’d say that the constant failures to create a vital tablet market, have more to do with a generally narrow-minded approach to the concept of a tablet, than with the finer points of the technological execution.

Microsoft’s (and other PC maker’s) error was never having thought about creating a device that isn’t fully self sufficient, with a form factor bigger than a PocketPC.
At the same time, Apple gained experience in this area by creating the client-host-based ecosystem of the iPod, when nearly all competitors created portable recording studios, for consumers that simply wanted to listen to music.

Apple did —back then and lately— what it does best; take a step back and examine not only a device by itself, but evaluate how a device could be used and the environments in which it might be used.

HP CEO says he didn’t buy Palm for smartphones | Boy Genius Report

chartier:

Palm goes out not with a bang, but in HP’s grab for IP. Rest in peace Palm. I was rooting for you.

This is sad news for everybody who was hoping for another financially well endowed competitor in the smartphone business — and the young business of client-host-based tablet computing.

What bugs me, is whether HP is trying to avoid the risks of competing in the smartphone market, or if they simply don’t recognise the potential of WebOS as a smartphone operating system.