Motorola to release Devour with Verizon!!! The Keyboard will be a huge improvement over the Droid. Sadly, they have not kept up with their great 5MP Camera, so this phone will only have 3MP's. I guess there are three great things to point out about this phone. It runs ADOBE FLASH LITE! It runs Motoblur, a more socially oriented operating system that is much more appealing to the eye than plain old Android. Lastly, this phone will also be one of the few phones that Verizon will be allowing a Skype app. It would be very exciting if these phones would be available only with a data plan!
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Apple takes jab at Google and Adobe!
Apple's Jobs takes jabs at Google, Adobe
In the latest display of Silicon Valley's "frenemy" culture, Apple CEO Steve Jobs took a few swipes at Google and Adobe Systems during an all-hands meeting with employees last week, according to several online reports.
At one point Jobs disparaged the "Don't be evil" motto of Google's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, calling it "a load of crap," according to one report. However, a different report said Jobs used an even cruder term.
The verbal jabs at Google, in particular, come at a time tensions are mounting between the two valley giants, who have a long history of collaborating on technologies for consumer gadgets, such as Apple's iPhone.
Until this past summer, Google CEO Eric Schmidt served on Apple's board. He resigned amid a months-long inquiry by the Federal Trade Commission into whether the companies' close relationship violated antitrust laws.
Google's decision to directly sell the Nexus One smartphone, which it developed with Taiwan gadget manufacturer HTC, placed it squarely in competition with Apple. Apple, meanwhile, is reportedly paying $275 million for Quattro — after Google paid $750 million for rival mobile ad company AdMob that, analysts say, Apple had been eyeing.
Google's Android mobile phone operating system runs on about a dozen other devices made by HTC and other manufacturers, including Motorola and Samsung. Google's Chrome browser and Chrome operating system, meanwhile, are potentialcompetitors to Apple's Safari browser and Macintosh operating system.
"Make no mistake: They want to kill the iPhone," Jobs told employees, according to weekend reports from Wired, MacRumors and blogger John Gruber. Envisioneering Group analyst Richard Doherty said people he knew who attended the meeting corroborated Jobs' reported comments.
Gruber wrote that one attendee clarified Jobs' comments, saying the Apple co-founder specifically said "teams at Google want to kill us," not the Mountain View company as a whole.
Regarding Adobe, Jobs reportedly said, "They are lazy. They have all this potential to do interesting things but they just refuse to do it."
Apple does not support Adobe's Flash animation software on the iPhone and its just-announced iPad multimedia tablet computer. The Flash Player is used for viewing videos on sites such as YouTube.com. In the past, Jobs has complained about Flash.
Apple does not support Flash, Jobs reportedly said, because "it is too buggy." When a Macintosh computer crashes, it's usually because of Flash, he said. "No one will be using Flash (in the future). The world is moving to HTML5," Jobs said, referring to the latest iteration of
the markup language of the Web that could reduce the use of Flash technology.
Representatives of Apple, Google and Adobe did not respond Monday to requests for comments on the reports.
Google's recent launch of the Nexus One smartphone is more than an annoyance to Apple, Doherty said.
"If you are distracting people from the iPhone, you are my enemy," he said of Apple's point of view.
Jobs reportedly also said Apple will aggressively work on an "A-plus" update to the iPhone and that Google's Android mobile software won't be able to keep pace; that the iPad is as important as the iPhone and the Mac to Apple; and that the company recently acquired digital music download and streaming service Lala.com because he wanted to combine the startup's team of engineers with Apple's iTunes group.
He also reportedly said the next generation of Macs will boost the computers to the "next level."
Adobe fights back!
Claim that Adobe Is 'Lazy'
Sarah Jacobsson, PC World
Adobe responded yesterday to Apple CEO Steve Jobs' latest attack on Jan. 30, when Jobs called Google's "Don't Be Evil" mantra "bullshit" and characterized Adobe as "lazy."
According to Wired, Steve Jobs says Adobe is lazy, Flash is buggy, and the world is moving toward HTML5 anyway. Whenever a Mac crashes, it is most frequently because of Flash, Jobs asserted.
Adobe's response, in the form of a blog entry by Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch, begins with a jab at Apple's iPad: "Some have been surprised at the lack of inclusion of Flash Player on a recent magical device."
Lynch then goes on to explain that Flash was presciently designed for "pen computing tablets, about 15 years before that market was ready to take off." He mentions that Flash is currently used in more than 85 percent of the top Web sites, including Nike, Hulu, BBC and Major League Baseball. Also, Flash is a vital part of the smartphone market; Adobe is "on the verge" of Flash Player 10.1 for smartphones with "all but one" of the top manufacturers, including Google's Android, RIM's BlackBerry, Nokia, and the Palm Pre. Even the Nexus One will be Flash 10.1-equipped — and, according to Lynch, it "will rock."
Lynch says it is unlikely that HTML5 will supplant the need for Flash in the foreseeable future. "If HTML could reliably do everything Flash" can, it would "certainly save us a lot of effort," Lynch says. But because Flash is still enabling more than 75 percent of Web video, according to Lynch, Flash will be around "even as HTML advances."
This is not the first time Apple and Adobe have clashed over Flash — Apple's been resistant to adding Flash to the iPhone for more than three years now. On March 6, 2008, Steve Jobs made another public jab at Adobe, saying that the Flash Lite Player wasn't "advanced enough" for use on the iPhone, and that it performed "too slow to be useful."
In October 2009, Adobe announced a workaround solution to Apple's lack of cooperation — their next version of Flash Professional would allow Flash developers to export their code in a format that would nable it to run on the iPhone as an application — a solution that Adobe hoped would please Apple. Not that it matters — Adobe's Creative Suite 5 (which includes Flash Professional) is currently in private beta and will be released soon.
Sure, the iPhone has gotten along fine without Flash thus far (although it's recently taken a hit in the smartphone market — could lack of Flash be an issue?). But Apple may need to step it up when it comes to the iPad, as many find the lack of Flash on a tablet computer — especially as tablet computers are designed to offer an enhanced Web-browsing experience — simply unacceptable.
According to Wired, Steve Jobs says Adobe is lazy, Flash is buggy, and the world is moving toward HTML5 anyway. Whenever a Mac crashes, it is most frequently because of Flash, Jobs asserted.
Adobe's response, in the form of a blog entry by Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch, begins with a jab at Apple's iPad: "Some have been surprised at the lack of inclusion of Flash Player on a recent magical device."
Lynch then goes on to explain that Flash was presciently designed for "pen computing tablets, about 15 years before that market was ready to take off." He mentions that Flash is currently used in more than 85 percent of the top Web sites, including Nike, Hulu, BBC and Major League Baseball. Also, Flash is a vital part of the smartphone market; Adobe is "on the verge" of Flash Player 10.1 for smartphones with "all but one" of the top manufacturers, including Google's Android, RIM's BlackBerry, Nokia, and the Palm Pre. Even the Nexus One will be Flash 10.1-equipped — and, according to Lynch, it "will rock."
Lynch says it is unlikely that HTML5 will supplant the need for Flash in the foreseeable future. "If HTML could reliably do everything Flash" can, it would "certainly save us a lot of effort," Lynch says. But because Flash is still enabling more than 75 percent of Web video, according to Lynch, Flash will be around "even as HTML advances."
This is not the first time Apple and Adobe have clashed over Flash — Apple's been resistant to adding Flash to the iPhone for more than three years now. On March 6, 2008, Steve Jobs made another public jab at Adobe, saying that the Flash Lite Player wasn't "advanced enough" for use on the iPhone, and that it performed "too slow to be useful."
In October 2009, Adobe announced a workaround solution to Apple's lack of cooperation — their next version of Flash Professional would allow Flash developers to export their code in a format that would nable it to run on the iPhone as an application — a solution that Adobe hoped would please Apple. Not that it matters — Adobe's Creative Suite 5 (which includes Flash Professional) is currently in private beta and will be released soon.
Sure, the iPhone has gotten along fine without Flash thus far (although it's recently taken a hit in the smartphone market — could lack of Flash be an issue?). But Apple may need to step it up when it comes to the iPad, as many find the lack of Flash on a tablet computer — especially as tablet computers are designed to offer an enhanced Web-browsing experience — simply unacceptable.
iPad with Camera?
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