Honey, I Broke The Runtime. From Flash Lite To Flash Like
Earlier this week Adobe [client] announced support for Flash on the iPhone. Kind of. The story has been covered pretty extensively by both Adobe haters and fanboys. What do I have to add at this...
View ArticleSilverlight 4, Azure, Gears “death,” and Flash SaaS SDKs – RIA Weekly #67
This week, it’s Silverlight 4, Azure, Google Gears “death,” Flash with Salesforce and RIM, and more. The full roster of Coté, Ryan Stewart, and Mike Downey are back for this one: You can download this...
View ArticleWarning Signs ‘Flash’ing for Adobe
Leigh Drogen of Surfview Capital asked a question earlier today about $ADBE, specifically regarding their ‘war’ with $AAPL and $GOOG over Adobe’s Flash platform, which has become somewhat of a de facto...
View ArticleApple, Adobe, Punctuated Equilibrium, and Commoditization
Lots of kerfluffle around Apple’s refusal and downright blocking of Flash on its platforms. Developers like John Gruber are stating the obvious in explaining why Apple is behaving this way....
View ArticleTo iPhone Or Not To iPhone, That is the Question
Image credit: who knows... this image shows up on too many sites without accreditation:-( Apple’s strategy towards Adobe Flash drives me nuts. There’s yet another flurry of posts about it as Adobe...
View ArticleTim Bray’s Schtick: He Likes 3270 Green Screens as UI
So I’m reading Bray’s blog as usual, and I come across his argument against Flash that I see occasionally–namely, that all Flash UI sucks. Why? Here are his words: What’s not to like, then? Well, the...
View ArticleAdobe: 7 Things You Should Do With Flash/Flex
Dear Adobe: Apple has started the anti-Flash/Flex snowball rolling, and it is getting steadily bigger. It’s a perfect storm, because they’ve got the platforms that are perfectly suited to Flash, their...
View ArticleThe Irony of Mobile Users Preferring Apps Over Web
Apparently, mobile users prefer apps over the web. At least that’s Gowalla CEO Josh Williams’ view: “People love apps, but it drives a stake in the heart of the build-once-deploy-everywhere model, and...
View ArticleOn HTML5 killing Flash
There’s an HTML5 killing Flash scab that keeps getting pulled off, every 1-2 months or so. In the most recent round, as I often do, I answered several question from a reporter (Howard Win in...
View ArticleAndroid is so Open, it got Flash Back on the iPhone
How ironic. On the same day that MG Seigler was penning one of his characteristically snarky posts (snark is one of the ways Techcrunch pursues its Follower Economy) about how Android isn’t really...
View ArticleWrapping Up the Warfield/Lucchini/Flex/Javascript Smackdown
Come on, admit it, we all love a good smackdown! In response to my article about Flash coming back to the iPhone, Bill Lucchini wrote a well-reasoned rebuttal: 5 Reasons Adobe Flex is Doomed. Here...
View ArticleDatabase Benchmarks – The Gift That Keeps on Giving
Yes, I know – not everyone believes database benchmarks are useful. My position is that there is value in benchmarks’ role in helping engineers wring out bottlenecks, bugs and performance impediments...
View ArticleRIA is Dead – Adobe MAX 2010
Just flying back from Adobe MAX 2010 I’m coming away with the sense that Adobe has finally realized the value of the web over Flash, giving them a fighting chance where once they seemed a little too...
View ArticleWhat Silverlight Developers Should do After PDC 2010
For now. So Bob Muglia said HTML is the only true cross platform runtime. Well, no crap. What – is Silverlight going to jump through Apple’s business model hoops like a trained dog? From a governance...
View ArticleIBM’s IOD Showcases DB2, Informix, InfoSphere. Now, About Marketing….
It was hard to decide where to look first in Las Vegas this year at IBM’s flagship information management event. Coming as it did on the heels of a massive, sprawling Oracle Open World, it was also...
View ArticleHTML5 – A Wonder Drug
I was reading up on some of the commentary surrounding Amazon’s release of an HTML5 reader, one of the best comes from Constellation’s Charles Brett: Amazon’s announcement of its Kindle Cloud Reader,...
View ArticleFlash: Misunderstood by Adobe, Apple, the Haters, and the Press
Seldom have I seen a technology so widely adopted yet so poorly understood, so polarized between haters and fanboys, and so indifferently managed by its owners. It may have many other problems, but...
View ArticleOn Adobe’s recent repositioning
I have long argued Adobe needed to shit or get off the pot when it comes to the Enterprise business. Well – it recently decided to get off the pot. Adobe has decided that it can’t make a broad-based...
View ArticleTop 10 Reasons Why Steve Jobs and Apple Reject Adobe Flash
Apple FlashBlocks Adobe In the spirit of Top Ten lists, here’s Steve Jobs’ “Top Ten Reasons for Rejecting Adobe Flash” (for the irony-impaired, please note that this post is not based on the truth):...
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