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Thoughts on Flash - Steve Jobs

Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short. New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.

Steve Jobs - April, 2010

via apple.com

 

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A Weekend with the Hipstamatic

Over an impromptu Valentine’s run to Vegas this weekend (to check out Cirque du Soleil’s LOVE), I had the pleasure of toying around with the Hipstamatic for hours upon hours across the California desert.  The iPhone app lets you toggle between retro films and lenses, and features a hard-to-resist internal store with which to further equip the iPhone’s otherwise lame camera.  The result?  A lot of sometimes-in-focus, analog-style fun that kept me entertained along the way… and netted the developer more than a 5-fold increase in incremental revenue as a result of my insatiable appetite for new lenses, films and flashes.

Here’s an awesome gallery of other Hipstamatic devotees on Flickr.   

(Thanks to @3px for the recommendation, and to @russellgolding for the steady drive!)

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Solving the iPhone's Joysticklessness

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via kotaku.com

The implications of this are limited outside of side-scroller perhaps; but I can see how it'd work well here... now, how long before we get a tactile, extruded game surface that will allow players to FEEL the controller?

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