Monday, February 9th, 2009
I've read the Economist religiously for over 15 years. For many of those years I bought a copy every week at the newsstand, and I've subscribed for the past couple of years. A few weeks ago, I let my subscription lapse. The reason is a web service-cum-iPhone application called Instapaper. ...
Tags: amazon, apple, clay shirky, instapaper, iphone, media, money, offline | 30 Comments »
Friday, July 25th, 2008
The launch of the iPhone App Store got me thinking about the future of web apps. After all, Apple had initially announced that the SDK for the iPhone would be Safari. In other words, iPhone applications would be web apps. As a proponent of using web technologies for application development, ...
Tags: apple, iphone, software | 3 Comments »
Monday, March 31st, 2008
While industry observers focus on AIR and Silverlight, efforts by Adobe and Microsoft respectively to implement their vision of a more compelling web experience, Apple is slowly slipping in through the backdoor. The other day I hypothesized that Apple's aggressive tactics for pushing Safari on Windows users were all about ...
Tags: apple, html5, iphone, offline, ria | 2 Comments »
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Well, actually he didn't. When CNet initially reported on the last Apple shareholder meeting, his comments about Flash on the iPhone, buried in a list of bullet points, seemed innocent enough:
Turning back to the iPhone, don't expect support for Adobe's Flash technology anytime soon. The full-blown PC Flash version "performs ...
Tags: apple, flash, iphone | 7 Comments »
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
There's a reason that they call them rumors. The other day, a lot of sources (including Just Browsing) were pointing to a Gear Live article claiming that Flash support for the iPhone web browser is just around the corner. Ryan Stewart, who works for Adobe, doesn't rule out the possibility ...
Tags: flash, iphone | 6 Comments »
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Support for Adobe Flash is high on the list of iPhone browser improvements I've been yearning for. According to Gear Live, the wait is nearly over. As rumors go, this one is pretty plausible, as is the author's speculation that the launch will be timed to coincide with the release ...
Tags: flash, iphone | 1 Comment »
Friday, February 8th, 2008
MacRumors is reporting that Apple has shipped a new Safari beta to developers with a number of HTML5 features: audio/video tags, SQL storage, downloadable fonts, CSS transforms/animations and a new DOM function (getElementsByClassName). This puts Apple in pole position among browser vendors with respect to HTML5 support, although Mozilla is ...
Tags: apple, iphone, offline, ria, safari, webkit | 10 Comments »
Monday, January 21st, 2008
Is the television next in line for a big technology-driven overhaul as the transformation of mobile phones into miniature computers continues apace? A panoply of set-top boxes are vying to serve as the brains of the humble boob tube, from PVRs (TiVo and company) through game consoles (XBox, Playstation, Wii) ...
Tags: apple tv, google, iphone, media center, opera, playstation, pvr, slingbox, tivo, trends, tv, wii, xbox | 1 Comment »
Friday, January 18th, 2008
Since I'm now a total iPhone fan boy, I'm officially allowed to say that I was a little disappointed by the 1.1.3 firmware update announced on Tuesday at Macworld. I'm actually still running the 1.1.1 firmware, since I couldn't find a freely available hack to unlock 1.1.2 for use here ...
Tags: adobe, flash, iphone, offline | 4 Comments »
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Michael Calore of Wired delved more deeply into the Opera video that I mentioned yesterday. In particular, he took the logical step of contacting Opera PR to ask about David Rosen's off-the-cuff assertion that they are planning an iPhone port. Opera communications honcho Michelle Valdivia Lien's response is a PR ...
Tags: android, apple, browser wars, iphone, microsoft, mobile, mozilla, opera, webkit | 1 Comment »