The following article was posted on the Apple Website by Steve Jobs showing his thoughts on Adobe’s Flash.
Quote from: Steve Jobs
Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe and owned around 20% of the company for many years. The two companies worked closely together to pioneer desktop publishing and there were many good times. Since that golden era, the companies have grown apart. Apple went through its near death experience, and Adobe was drawn to the corporate market with their Acrobat products. Today the two companies still work together to serve their joint creative customers – Mac users buy around half of Adobe’s Creative Suite products – but beyond that there are few joint interests.
I wanted to jot down some of our thoughts on Adobe’s Flash products so that customers and critics may better understand why we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads. Adobe has characterized our decision as being primarily business driven – they say we want to protect our App Store – but in reality it is based on technology issues. Adobe claims that we are a closed system, and that Flash is open, but in fact the opposite is true. Let me explain. » Read more: Steve Jobs’s thoughts on Flash
Apple iPad has been selling like hotcakes and in fact the iPad 3G version is due to come out this week.
No offense to Apple iPad owners, we dedicate a whole section in our Top iPhone Resource site for iPad news.
WePad Tablet
WePad tablet computer from Germany has an interesting concept. Check out their opening lines which takes a direct hit at Apple.
Some of the WePad specs are here
11.6” Multi-touch 1366×768 pixel display
1.66 GHz Intel Atom N450 Pineview-M processor
1 GB RAM
16/32GB, extension with SDHC card up to 32GB possible
1.3 Megapixel camera
Upto 6 hours battey life
Wepad is based on Android and Linux and has some impressive hardware specifications. In fact, you can see how WePad compares with Apple iPad in a chart provided conveniently by Wepad people.
WePad hopes to stand out from the competitors with their interactive reading experience from WeMagazine ePublishing Open Platform.
Most of the website besides the WePad page is in German so I wasn’t able to gather more information about the background of the company behind WePad. If anyone fluent in German does so, please leave your thoughts in the comments.
Is WePad the iPad Killer?
Like the proverbial ‘iPhone killer’ now everyone is starting to talk about a iPad killer. Again, I really really like that Apple isn’t the only one making tablet computers and that there are several good competitors coming out.
However, Apple has an unique advantage and headstart over the others with the App Store ecosystem with over 180,000 apps and the iTunes managing the media delivery to the tablet.
I am excited that Android’s app store is catching up steadily and look forward to more Android based tablets bringing more choices to us, consumers.
Just sharing a nice video from Google about Website Development & Optimization for Search Engines.
Learn techniques to help bring your site more users through search engine traffic. This session focuses on how to maximize your site, your content, and your application’s exposure to search engines.
The world’s largest array of radio telescopes are joining together for 24 hours in order to observe some quasars.
In the next 24 hours, 35 telescopes on all seven continents will be linked to listen to 243 specific quasars. The point is to establish a baseline for further observations, since the quasars are stationary in the night sky, and provide a good basis for mapping.
The last time this attempted, the total number of 23 telescopes were used. These quasars are also used to set up the GPS system.
due to be released in a couple of weeks – Content-Aware Fill!
The world’s largest array of radio telescopes are joining together for 24 hours in order to observe some quasars.
