*IDEAorangeFYI: Apple’s profits ($13 billion) exceeded Google’s entire revenue ($10.6 billion).
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A cohort was originally one of the ten divisions of a legion in the Roman army, containing from 300 to 600 men. The most common use of cohort today is in the sense “group” or “company”: A cohort of hangers-on followed the singer down the corridor. In a development emphasizing the idea of companionship, cohort has also come to mean a single companion, associate, or the like: Steve Jobs was in my chort.
Read MoreMicrosoft follows Apple’s lead and jettisons Flash with ‘plug-in free’ Windows 8 Metro IE10.
For the web to move forward and for consumers to get the most out of touch-first browsing, the Metro style browser in Windows 8 is as HTML5-only as possible, and plug-in free. The experience that plug-ins provide today is not a good match with Metro style browsing and the modern HTML5 web.
Running Metro style IE plug-in free improves battery life as well as security, reliability, and privacy for consumers. Plug-ins were important early on in the web’s history. But the web has come a long way since then with HTML5. Providing compatibility with legacy plug-in technologies would detract from, rather than improve, the consumer experience of browsing in the Metro style UI.
What was it the Steve Jobs said in his letter?
Conclusions.
Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.
The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content. And the 250,000 apps on Apple’s App Store proves that Flash isn’t necessary for tens of thousands of developers to create graphically rich applications, including games.
New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.
Apple made this decision in April 2010. It took Microsoft almost a year and a half more to come to the same conclusion.
You can read Steve Jobs full letter here:
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
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“The Tweets Must Flow,” in which co-founder Biz Stone and Twitter’s general counsel Alex Macgillivray said: “We don’t always agree with the things people choose to tweet, but we keep the information flowing irrespective of any view we may have about the content.”
Twitter refuses to censor for the UK.
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Yesterday out of the corner of my eye I caught a glimpse of something about Sylvia Harris on twitter or something. Always excited by what she was up to I following that lead — searching on google I found a post that she had died.
I was speechless.
I remember when we met at Stellarvisions on Walnut Street. Her work was being included in Designing Brand Identity by Alina Wheeler, who shared studio space with us at the time. I was taken by her gentleness, joy, and excitement about a project she had recently completed, Voting by Design. You can see it in the cellphone shot I took of her (above) in our meeting room.
I was able to pull out the Voting by Design copy she gave me and show it off yesterday when I told friends about her life and her death.
We tried to be concise in our tweet:
Speechless. The brilliant and inspiring Sylvia Harris is gone. 1953–2011 http://ow.ly/5O29m #designer #humanist #citizen
She will be remembered as “A citizen designer who made a difference.”
Read MoreWe’ll it has been a wild technology week.
We’ve been catching up on reading and video as quickly as we could. We had watched the twitterstream for #wwdc live as Steve Jobs was ringmaster for a number of presenters. You can watch the Keynote here.
It was exciting to watch where Apple would innovate. The keynote wasn’t so much about innovation as throwing down the gauntlet as Steve Jobs often does – we’re post PC. Remember when he introduced the hard 3.5″ floppy and then just a few years later declared it dead?
Apple is moving us forward in mobile computing when we’re all longing to go there. We want our technology everywhere. We want it wireless and small and easy to use. We don’t want to think about it — we just want it to work.
Apple has the software, the hardware and the imagination to take us there. This developer conference proved they’re working on it.
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Nokia and Apple Settle Patent Dispute Over Smartphones
Well, Nokia has to make money some how. No one is buying their phones. They do however have a pile of intellectual property that lead the industry before and will bring them earnings again. Question is can they be competitive again.
from the NYTimes:
The agreement settles all outstanding patent litigation between Apple, the leader in the smartphone market, and Nokia, its main rival. The companies also agreed to withdraw complaints against each other with the International Trade Commission over the use of intellectual property.
The NYTimes article: http://ow.ly/5hlgP
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A powerful solar eruption has disturbed radio communications and could disrupt electrical power grids, radio and satellite communication in the next days, NASA said.
Read MoreAnnouncement today wasn’t earth rocking. We all knew the iPhone was coming to Verizon. But the good news is if you didn’t want to switch networks here’s your chance to have what’s still the hottest smartphone on the market.
Don’t know what the data plans are going to be like yet but we do know you can make a personal wifi hotspot. Sweet if you wanna share.
But CDMA is old technology. Not dead, just old. We’re interesting in moving forward. So we’re staying put for now. If you switch let us know if the network actually performs better based on your use.
Tags: iphone, verizon, wifi, CDMA
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