Posted on May 5th, 2008 by Raj Gajwani
Bob Cringely, everyone’s favorite gossip-columnist-cum-technology-strategist, is back with more juicy gossip about Apple and Adobe. Cringely asserts that Apple is quietly advertising its professional applications business for sale — in order to clear the way for an acquisition of Adobe.
Cringely’s job is to entertain and incite his readers and he’s certainly doing a great [...]
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Posted on May 1st, 2008 by Raj Gajwani
There’s a bunch of excellent commentary and backstory around the web about Adobe’s push for mobile dominance (relevance?) with today’s Open Screen Project announcement.
Ed Burnette at ZDNet points out that pretty much every mobile handset player (Nokia, Motorola, Siemens, Samsung, Intel, ARM) has lined up behind Adobe. Who’s left out? Apple and Google. [...]
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Posted on May 1st, 2008 by Raj Gajwani
Big news today: Adobe is opening up the Flash platform for their new “Open Screen Project“. You know they’re serious because they’re giving up $50 million of annual revenue (see item #4 below).
In geek-speak summary, here’s what Adobe’s doing:
Allowing outside developers to access the guts of the SWF and FLV/F4V viedo specs. This [...]
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Posted on February 25th, 2008 by Raj Gajwani
Several readers left thoughtful comments about my recent post, Flash for the iPhone? It’s Apple vs. Microsoft all over again…
Ird writes: Steve Jobs has no intentions of supporting Flash; especially on the iphone. Apple’s pushing the H.264 open standard and will stick to its guns because Apple want to use it this standard for AppleTV, [...]
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Posted on February 21st, 2008 by Raj Gajwani
There’s a lot of speculation about whether Apple will soon offer Flash support on the iPhone. Insider rumors say yes (cf. Dan Rayburn at Streaming Media), published news reports say not-so-fast (cf. the Wall Street Journal, quoting an Adobe spokesman).
Why is this important? Because the iPhone is not just a smartphone. It’s Apple’s opportunity [...]
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