Why Apple Banned Flash
There’s been a lot of discussion of late over the “Apple doesn’t/won’t support Flash” topic. Thanks to my personal Buddha, Paul Eng, for alerting me to Steve Job’s explanation in Thoughts on Flash. I won’t summarize the article here, so read it for yourself. Jobs closes with his 2 cents for Adobe: “New open standards [...]
Expectations of Apple’s iPhone 4G
Rumors surrounding the highly anticipated Apple iPhone 4G are spreading like wildfire all over the Internet. I’m sure tight-lipped Steve Jobs loves every minute of it. Who needs a multi-million dollar marketing campaign when people all over the Internet are talking about buying the phone before it or its specs have even been officially released?
If [...]
Adobe v. Apple Standoff
Has the long-running rivalry between Steven Jobs and Adobe Flash finally come to a head? Although no law suit is currently pending, rumors of a possible law suit spread like wildfire after Apple changed its SDK language; thereby keeping Flash off iPhone and iPad platforms. While neither party is commenting about the potential suit, the [...]
What Are Apps Worth?
Although five years ago there was no app industry, today the app economy is growing rapidly and could top $20 billion in just a couple of years, says Wendy Kaufman, author of Mobile Apps Market Scales Up From Zero To Billions. But if roughly 80% of all apps are free and most of the others [...]
Bye-Bye Blackberry?
Although Blackberry handsets have gained popularity with executives who needed them for work purposes, smartphones like the iPhone or the Droid offer their users much more. Mike Schuster, author of Why Blackberry Users Will Defect, blames the predicted mass exodus on fun. “Put simply, iPhones, Droids, and Nexus Ones just look like more fun. And [...]
Google Android & Apple iPhone Smackdown
Now that mobile phones do a lot more then call people, purchasing one is not as simple as it used to be. Two of the most advanced mobile phones on the market today are the Apple iPhone and handsets with Google’s Android. So which one is better?
When comparing the two companies it’s important to note [...]
eBay Continues to Revolutionize the Way We Buy and Sell
First eBay revolutionized the way people buy and sell on their computers. Now eBay is revolutionizing the way people buy and sell on their mobile phones. eBay has introduced a Selling App and a Classified App for the iPhone, the Android and the BlackBerry. While their selling app allows the seller to keep tabs on [...]
Microsoft Hopes to Compete with Flash in Mobilsphere
I know a lot of very talented animators. They can create amazing stuff both in Flash and on paper. But when I ask them if they know Silverlight I’m answered with blank stares.
This isn’t stopping Microsoft from hoping to wage stiff competition in the mobilsphere when it comes to animation and apps. Tony Dennis sheds [...]
More Evidence of Google’s Enthusiasm for the Mobile Market
As we mentioned yesterday in Google Projects Mobile Ad Rates to Pass PC Ad Rates, Google is anticipating higher ad rates for mobile than PC. According to Google Expects Big Things From Future of Mobile Technology by Michael Barkoviak (Daily Tech), “The company said it has seen a significant increase in search traffic on phones [...]
Google Projects Mobile Ad Rates to Pass PC Ad Rates
The mobile web is growing. Fast. Companies are spending their ad dollars to market the mobile user, so much so that Google is predicting that ad rates in the mobile sphere will surpass those of the PC.
Reuters, in its article Google sees mobile ad rates passing PC rates, states that Google doesn’t have a hard [...]