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Apple vs Adobe

30/4/2010

Anyone who has used an iPhone will be well aware that that nifty little plugin Flash from Abode is well and truly missing. Flash is something that most of us use day in day out, even if we don’t realise it, with most video and animation being powered by it.

It’s been a long bugbear for users around the world as Flash is so prevalent in the non-Apple world.

Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, has at last come clean on the reasons for this in an open letter. His message: Flash is a failure on mobile devices. Don’t hold back Mr Jobs. And he didn’t. Jobs has gone to the trouble of listing 6 different reasons why Flash is a has-been and cannot exist on the Apple platform. These include the feeling that software if full of bugs and hence “Flash is the number one reason Macs crash”. ...read more

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HP Buys Palm

29/4/2010

In a sudden move, HP have bought Palm, the maker of the latest Pre and golden oldie, the iPaq.  This is actually a good thing for Palm that has been losing it’s share progressively over recent years, indeed, even with questions of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this year. 

Whilst it may have been a flag bearer for Smartphones back in the noughties, it’s nots been able to keep pace with the iPhone and, more recently, Android platform phones.  The price paid by HP?...read more