Microsoft is certainly finding every last duck and throwing them into line aren’t they? I mean, WinPhone 7 is shaping up to be quite the mobile OS savior. Windows 7 is right up their with 10.6 as far as desktop OS’s go (subjective, I know). And now, one of the most criticized Microsoft products, Internet Explorer, is shaping up to be quite the looker even it’s extremely early preview stage. The biggest news on the IE 9 front is the move to a...
If those accidental shots of the iPad running flash on Apple’s sight the other day created any sense of hope in your little heads, it’s best to go on ahead and chuck said hope right out the window. Shortly after the flash supporting iPad video was spied on Apple’s site, the video was removed and replaced with a blue brick displaying video indicating that flash was in fact not present. But the real knee-jerker is El Jobso response when questioned about...
The App Store is for mobile devices what iTunes was for mp3 players. Apple’s 180 on native applications after first announcing web apps were the way to do back in 2007 was a shock to many and welcomed by most. Since the App Store’s launch however, numerous complaints have been made and even websites created to highlight Apple’s draconian and sometimes senseless decisions concerning the App Store and polices within. It is that negative image and bad press...
Even though Apple’s App Store continually gets knocked for god awful delays in getting apps approved, updates issued, etc., Apple will never close down the actual approval process. Sad as it is, it’s just something we’ll have to live with. But devs who don’t want to deal with App Store woes have a new tool in their arsenal — HTML5. The iPhone’s Safari browser supports HTML5. What’s the big deal? HTML5 allows web pages and web...
If you had a sibling growing up, you may remember that more often than not, actually agreeing on something together was like asking a nun to swear in church — it was something you just didn’t do. In the corporate world, such childish bickering and failure to comprimise in order to find a common solution is sadly the norm. The path to a finalized HTML 5 requirement for audio and video has unfortunately fallen to corporate drama and politics. Because of the...
