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Friday, June 18, 2010

Why I still hope for a Verizon iPhone

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I watched Steve Jobs' two hour keynote at the Apple Development Conference for one reason and one reason alone: to hear news on a potential Verizon iPhone. Don’t get me wrong, my Blackberry Tour has done a lot for me… that is, when the trackball actually works. But I’m looking at all of these large screen phones and it is making my Blackberry look more and more inadequate. I get annoyed when I see a website that I use on a daily basis come out with a mobile app and then it is only available on… the iPhone. And if the company is really devoted to the mobile platform, the next one up is… the Android OS. Blackberry is a distant third, and sometimes the Blackberry app comes crippled with limited features; examples at the time of this writing include Dropbox and Mint. This makes me very sad. Read More

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

On Adobe Flash and HTML5: does anybody care?

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If you bury yourself in the tech world as I do on a regular basis, you will hear about this war between Apple and Adobe, between HTML5 and Flash, and how the iPad does not support Flash. The battles have been riveting, with Adobe executives writing biting comments to Apple on their blogs, and Apple writing a specific article on why they chose HTML5 over Flash when it is usual Apple practice to not comment so actively on major technological decisions. Read More

Saturday, June 12, 2010

The Post PC Era?

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During the “All Things Digital” conference, Steve Jobs talks about how the PC (Mac and Windows included) as we know it will not be as prevalent as it was in the past. He makes this somewhat grand statement that devices like the iPad will soon take the place of full fledged PCs. And as I listened to this interview, the first reaction was to say that this notion is ridiculous; but then you have to think about the rather controversial moves that Apple has made in the past that was before its time and they were right on: Read More