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Steve has new thoughts on Flash

Blogged on 9 September 2010

In a development absolutely nobody had predicted (counter-examples welcome in the comments, but I’ll believe it when I see it), Apple has reversed its decision to ban apps based on Flash from the iOS App Store. continue

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So Steve Jobs finally posted the reasoning for his decision to kill Flash, in any form, on the iPhone/iPad platform. continue

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So Apple has finally done it: having prevented Flash Player from coming to the iPhone (and iPod touch and iPad), it’s now, with the revised clause 3.3.1 of the iPhone developer agreement, closed the door to Adobe’s constructive and innocuous workaround of allowing Flash developers to convert their projects to iPhone/iPad apps. continue

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Apple’s ‘pod’-trademarking shenanigans reminded me of Google moaning about people using ‘google’ as a verb. Trademark dilution is a serious issue, but who told trademark holders they were in charge of the vernacular? continue

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Why web design sucks

In print on 5 August 2005

Creating a website used to be so simple. With two lines of code you could make a grey background, print your name on it in big black letters, and win an award from Jakob Nielsen. continue

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