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Entries Tagged as 'Apple'

A fly in Steve’s soup (Apple’s path to online video)

August 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

There has been much discussion over the motives behind Steve Jobs not allowing Abode Flash player on the iPhone.  In general, as a developer, there is no reason why flash lite could not work on the iPhone. Full version of flash, yes that is questionable, but not out of the question either.  The real reason, [...]

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Tags: Adobe · Apple · DRM · FinalCutPro · IPTV · codecs · flash

Where to now developer

July 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments

There is no denying that the future of how we use computer is changing.  The advent of applications that live on the network/Internet is making the developer think twice about where he should be headed.  As a developer, you need to be ahead of the curve as by the time your product is ready your [...]

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Tags: Adobe · Apple · Development · Microsoft · Silverlight · Standards · flash · flex

Apple Quicktime X, a new Flash/Silverlight competitor.

June 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments

The Apple hype engine has been going into overdrive lately about Sproutcore. “What is Sproutcore?” Well, to a long tooth net developer, its JUST ANOTHER JAVASCRIPT FRAMEWORK.  But to the Apple alumni, its the biggest thing to happen to net applications in a long time.
My Web/Javascript programming friends do not even consider sproutcore is as [...]

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Tags: Adobe · Apple · Silverlight · Sony · flash · flex

The tend towards an open STB continues.

June 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments

A common topic I cover on my blog is what the Set top box of the future is likely to be. Recently in my post named “Discussion with Philip Hodgetts about the digital TV future.”, Philip and I covered many aspects of this idea.  Recently a number of developments connected to this topic have surfaced.  [...]

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Tags: Adobe · Apple · DRM · Film Making · IPTV · Microsoft · Sony · Standards

Music Downloads, a panel discussion with downloaders and Artists.

June 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Recently “Insight” an SBS TV show that holds panel discussions did a story called “MiTunes“.  This panel is made up of younger confessed downloaders.  A number of local semi successful artists and some heads of record labels and industry organizations.
Unfortunately, there was considerable miss-information based around the fact that most of these people are mis-informed [...]

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Tags: Apple · DRM · IPTV