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Entries Tagged as 'Apple'

Flashy iPhone excitement

February 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments

There is a lot of support from different sources (Apple Insider) that Adobe and Apple are going to support Flash. Boy am I excited. I love the aesthetics of the iPhone.  It is a very well made device.  However, as a developer that makes web applications, Flex/Flash is my tool of choice.  I mean REAL [...]

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Tags: Adobe · Apple · flash · flex

Apple behaving monopolistic. Bad Apple.

December 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Recently Apple Shuts Down iPod Interoperability Effort. The reasons stated was because those using it where taking advantage of the information to reverse engineer FairPlay.  This is not the case.  The real reason was because those using it where trying to develop software that let Ipods plug into NON-apple (Itunes) software. Ie, unlock the iPod [...]

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Tags: Apple · DRM

Here comes the Operating System (OS) WARS again.

December 5th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Apple, Microsoft, LINUX, the show down is coming.  An OS war to make all past OS wars look like a snow ball fight, is coming.  When will it hit…  Look for the sign of the “7″. Seriously, there has never been a more interesting time for operating systems.  They are mature.  They make your breakfast [...]

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Tags: Apple · Microsoft

Apple’s assault on web standards.

September 16th, 2008 · No Comments

In a recent post called “A fly in Steve’s soup (Apple’s path to online video)” I wrote about how Apple is bringing together a digital media ecosystem that could become a total end to end solution for playing all you media.  Buy once and play everywhere, but with a DRM systems.  Apple’s DRM system of [...]

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Tags: Apple · DRM · Standards

The industry is growing up. DRM is Dead. Long Live DRM.

September 5th, 2008 · No Comments

A long time ago, before I started this blog (Over 2 years ago), I spent a lot of time on writing comments to other blogs.  Specifically about DRM and its only real roll, if it had any at all, in the future of digital media. In general I was usually flamed with no one even [...]

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Tags: Apple · DRM · IPTV · Microsoft · Standards