Month: May 2010

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Apple iPhone

Verizon and Apple

John Gruber: “Verizon wants the iPhone. It’s a popular and profitable phone; iPhone users pay high monthly service fees. AT&T’s current iPhone exclusivity is its biggest, maybe even only, advantage against Verizon. AT&T’s plans aren’t cheaper, and their service quality is infamously worse. If Verizon had the iPhone, surely many current AT&T customers would switch. And, some number of existing Verizon customers who would have switched to AT&T just to get the iPhone would instead stay with Verizon. Simply put, a Verizon iPhone would be terrible for AT&T. That’s reason enough for Verizon to want it.”

I think the iPhone would be gigantor on Verizon. Not only would some people switch, but existing Verizon customers would buy like crazy.

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Apple Development iPad iPhone

We ❤ Choice

Adobe: “We believe open markets that allow developers, publishers, and consumers to make their own choices about how they create, distribute, and access content are essential to progress. That’s why we actively support technologies like HTML4, HTML5, CSS, and H.264, in addition to our own technologies.”

I love Adobe, and Adobe products, but… and there’s always a but, the article talks about openness and freedom, and yes all those technologies called out are open, but I still don’t get the article.

It’s about freedom, right? Here’s a fact for you. Developers have the freedom to choose to develop for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad by choosing to use Apple’s development tools. They also have the freedom to choose to not use those tools and not develop for the platform.

I don’t get it guys, I really don’t.

Flash changed the web experience, admit it. Like other technologies before it, it opened the door, opened eyes, and led to a new standard that is poised to supplant it.

The other thing you have to remember is Adobe can run Flash on a bazillion other platforms. If those platforms, running Flash, start to outsell, or cause Apple to start losing market share, they’ll change their tune.

The Free FreeHand folks have something to say about freedom.

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Business

Ellison critical of blogs

Information Week: ‘Praising Sun’s engineering prowess while damning the company’s leadership, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said Sun’s engineers were given direction that “was so astonishingly bad that even they couldn’t succeed.” Of former Sun CEO and ardent blogger Jonathan Schwartz, Ellison adds, “Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales.”‘

I’m not sure it was the blogging that was a problem, rather lack of sales, Sun was giving stuff away. With that in mind I say “DUH” to the collapse of the company.

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Life

Rob’s 2010 Summer Blockbuster Must See List

Yeah, I like to go to the movies. Here’s what I’m planning to see, I won’t make them all, but I’ll certainly try.

Kick Ass April 16
Iron Man 2 May 7
Shrek Forever After May 21
George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead May 28
Splice June 4
Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage June 10
The A-Team June 11
Toy Story 3 June 18
Jonah Hex June 18
Knight and Day June 25
Grown Ups June 25
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse June 30
The Last Airbender July 2
Predators July 9
Inception July 16
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice July 16
The Expendables August 13
Machete September 3 (Originally April 16)

Just for grins, here’s last years list.

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MLOTW

Movie line of the week

Watchin' it on the big screen!Good morning movie liners, ready for line? I thought you were.

Here it is, good luck!

Dammit, man! I’m a doctor, not a physicist!

Ok, quick, what movie! Send your guesses here.

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Design

Should I?

Remember, April showers bring May flowers.I’ve been running at the new site, with a new look, for a while now and I’ve had a little feedback on the look. It’s been described as “Ugly”, “Baby Poo colors.” I’m being nice using the word poo.

That brings me to my point. Should I bring back the look of my original site?

Do you like the apple cores?

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Business Development Life

NY: Help Wanted, Coders

Matt Mireles: “New York City has a shortage of entrepreneurially minded technical talent. It’s not that there’s not enough engineers. Hardly. Columbia, NYU and the rest of the eastern seaboard spits out engineers in spades each year. But somehow those aren’t funneled into, aware of or interested in the NYC startups, at least at the early stage. Local engineers, it seems, want to be employees, not co-founders.”

I’d imagine a lot of kids just out of school would like to learn a bit about the business before they venture out on their own. Maybe they’re interested in working for one of the biggies; Apple, Microsoft, Google, or maybe they’d like to work for one of New York’s own exciting startups like Tumblr, those guys are kicking some major butt at the moment.

It is interesting to see this happening in New York City.

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Life Social

Good luck boys

Watch out! It's a blog fly!NY Times: ‘Mr. Sofaer says that centralized networks like Facebook are not necessary. “In our real lives, we talk to each other,” he said. “We don’t need to hand our messages to a hub. What Facebook gives you as a user isn’t all that hard to do. All the little games, the little walls, the little chat, aren’t really rare things. The technology already exists.”’

Sounds like they’re talking about creating a weblog.

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Life

Agreed

Newsweek: “3-D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension. Hollywood’s current crazy stampede toward it is suicidal. It adds nothing essential to the moviegoing experience. For some, it is an annoying distraction. For others, it creates nausea and headaches. It is driven largely to sell expensive projection equipment and add a $5 to $7.50 surcharge on already expensive movie tickets. Its image is noticeably darker than standard 2-D. It is unsuitable for grown-up films of any seriousness. It limits the freedom of directors to make films as they choose. For moviegoers in the PG-13 and R ranges, it only rarely provides an experience worth paying a premium for.”

I’m not all that impressed with 3D, I can live with or without it, and to top it off it makes my wife nauseated.

If we have the choice we’ll go to the 2D version of films. I must be getting old.

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Development iPhone

Rx… Redacted? RxDacted?

No, I didn’t find these pictures in a bar, ok?