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Ada Lovelace. Born, 10 December 1815(1815–12-10) London. Died, 27 November 1852(1852–11-27) (aged 36) Marylebone, London. Nationality, British. Title, Countess of Lovelace. Spouse, 1st Earl of Lovelac…
Finally for the first time in more than a decade or so we are looking at a software product that has humanity.
At stellarvisions we believe it is essential to maintain humanity in a technological space.
Google has finally embraced this belief in what we see as a cultural shift within the organization that has surprised almost everyone. Google’s technical abilities are amazing. Its rise to dominance in search has given it undeniably
Thanks for leading the team Andy Hertzfeld.
Read MoreVentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi interviews Disney Mobile chief Bart Decrem about Appmates. This is a great interactive experience. This will be available in October.
Wow did he say unstructured play? Awesome.
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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Not a surprise.
For a fifth consecutive time, Apple ranks highest among manufacturers of smartphones in customer satisfaction with a score of 795 and performs particularly well in ease of operation, operating system, features and physical design. Motorola (763) and HTC (762) follow Apple in the smartphone rankings.
Read MoreSteve Wozniak talking about Steve Jobs.
“He thinks very much about getting technology out of the picture. From the very start until today, it’s about how you make something seem like it’s not a piece of technology in the way that you don’t have to learn all these geeky, techie steps to get something done.”
At Stellarvisions we’ve always felt the same way.
Two of our key beliefs:
technology should be transparent and intuitive and
it is essential to maintain humanity in a technological space
We hope we’re just a tiny fraction as successful as Steve in making that happen.
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