I founded omnes.tv, host the Device Drivers show and produce/engineer the Revelator show. With the little time I have remaining I delve deep into tech topics and publish my findings here on TenFingerCrunch.
Few of us who were in this business that day — June 29th, 2007 — will forget the sense of anticipation and history that accompanied the countdown to the release of the iPhone. There was certainly a lot of silly hype, and a lot of bemused condescension from mobile companies such as Palm (now dead) and RIM (which might as well be). But the difference between the launch of the original iPhone and just about every other tech event before or since was the degree to which average people realized just how much this new product would change their lives.
Jump over to GigaOm and give it a read. The post links to other stories about the iPhone’s impact on the industry and how it pushed Apple to the top of the tech world.
Last year, Adobe announced it would no longer develop mobile Flash. It now appears Adobe will ensure you are not able to install Flash on new Android devices and they’ve set a date. From Adobe’s Blog:
Beginning August 15th we will use the configuration settings in the Google Play Store to limit continued access to Flash Player updates to only those devices that have Flash Player already installed. Devices that do not have Flash Player already installed are increasingly likely to be incompatible with Flash Player and will no longer be able to install it from the Google Play Store after August 15th.
And to think that, at one time, there were mobile hardware makers using Flash support as a selling point.
A 13-year Apple veteran, Mansfield oversaw the engineering of every major piece of hardware Apple has debuted in the past decade — iPod, iPhone, iPad, MacBook Air.
He oversaw the hardware development of an amazing line of products. Those are some big shoes to fill.
[…] functionality for [Google] Play that lets users update and uninstall apps by way of the My Android Apps tab in the browser-based version of the store.
I wish Apple had an option to install iOS apps remotely via the web or desktop versions of iTunes. As for uninstalling remotely, I don’t see how beneficial that would be, although I could see companies using this feature for their corporate users.
With Steve Jobs, everything was expected to “just work.” One way to ensure that it just works was—and still is—to integrate technologies seamlessly when it makes sense. This is Apple’s bread-and-butter, and has been a key aspect to their success.
all About Steve Jobs.com created the video below, showing many instances where Steve used his famous catch phrases: “just works” and “seamlessly.” It makes you understand why many Apple faithful describe their Macs and iDevices as just working.
