Why Adobe Failed and Where Startups Can Swoop In. Editor’s note: Guest contributor Ben Savage is the founder of Spaceport.io, a native Javascript and HTML5 platform for mobile game developers. Adobe has discontinued development of Flash-Player plugin for mobile browsers. This is a very important moment in the history of the mobile internet. Since 1997, Flash Player has been an important part of the web. From flash games, to streaming video, to sound, and sockets, many of the most important and central components of the online web experience have leveraged Flash-Player technology. However, Flash-Player has failed to make the transition to the mobile web. How could this have happened? As Steve Jobs put it: “Flash was designed for PCs using mice”—which is true.
Mobile devices are not always plugged in. You see, in Flash Player, everything is done in the CPU, including the graphics. Back in 1997 when the Flash Player engine was created, the CPU was all that was available. The advent of the GPU changed everything. Where Adobe can still succeed. Google Chrome Can Now Clean Up Flash’s Cookie Mess. I still don’t particularly like the fact that Google decided to bundle Adobe Flash with their Chrome web browser about a year ago. Apple preference aside, the last thing I want is the buggy, often insecure, and performance killing plug-in shoved in my face. More importantly, I think it’s a maneuver that will only serve to slow the transition to HTML5.
But Google has their reasons. And today, we see one of the good ones. Google has maintained since they started bundling Flash that it was mainly to ensure they could make it more secure for their Chrome users. They do this by both sandboxing it and auto-updating it when the security patches regularly appear. But a new feature has just hit the Chrome dev builds which also now allows users to easily clear Flash cookies from within the browser. Normally, when Flash is run as a standalone plug-in (as it is with all other browsers), users have to visit an Adobe website to clear Flash Local Shared Objects (LSOs). Adobe throws in towel, adopts HTTP Live Streaming for iOS.
Adobe previewed some new streaming video capabilities of its Flash Media Server at the 2011 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) trade show, including new compatibility with iOS devices like the iPad. Instead of getting Steve Jobs to relent on his "thoughts on Flash," however, Adobe is instead adding HTTP Live Streaming support to Flash Media Server. HTTP Live Streaming is a protocol that Apple developed to stream live and recorded video using standard HTTP connections instead of the more difficult to optimize RTSP.
It uses H.264-encoded video and AAC or MP3 audio packaged into discrete chunks of an MPEG-2 transport stream, along with a .m3u playlist to catalog the files that make up the individual chunks of the stream. QuckTime on both Mac OS X and iOS can play back this format, and it is the only streaming format compatible with the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Adobe added its own HTTP-based streaming feature to Flash Media Server last year. David Kirkpatrick: Steve Jobs Was Energetic, Confident, And Uncompromising. Steve Jobs Was Always Kind To Me (Or, Regrets of An Asshole) I met Steve Jobs while I worked at Gizmodo. He was always a gentleman. Steve liked me and he liked Gizmodo. And I liked him back. Some of my friends who I used to work with at Gizmodo refer to those days as the Good Old Days. The first time I met Steve was at the infamous D conference where Walt Mossberg interviewed Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
From a 2007 Gizmodo post: Meeting Steve JobsI bumped into Steve Jobs in the hall a little while ago, on the way to lunch at All Things D.He’s taller than I thought he would be, and pretty tanned. A few years later, I remember emailing him to show him early versions of the Gawker redesign. “From: Steve Jobs <sjobs@apple.com>Subject: Re: Gizmodo on iPadDate: March 31, 2010 6:00:56 PM PDTTo: brian lam <blam@gizmodo.com>Brian,Parts of it I like, and other parts I don’t understand.
I don’t ever think I was comfortable with the idea that Jobs or anyone at Apple, like Jon Ive, was reading our work. “Hi, this is Steve. He wasn’t demanding. Steve Jobs liberated the creative class | steve, jobs, ranks - OUR VIEW. Steve Jobs, who died Wednesday, surely ranks high among history’s 10 greatest innovators and producers of wealth. Born to a single mother and adopted in 1955, Jobs grew up to liberate the creative class.
He freed artists, musicians, composers and writers from the oppression of technology that wasted energy on codes and technical maneuvers that are best left to machines. He co-invented the personal computer and began perfecting it with the Macintosh in 1984. In the 1996 PBS documentary “Triumph of the Nerds,” Jobs nicely explained Macintosh and everything else his company, Apple, Inc., produced: “Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.” They weren’t the best computer scientists due to computer proficiency. They were the best because they used computers to produce entertainment, literature, art and research.
The future of notebooks: Ars reviews the 11" MacBook Air. Apple CEO Steve Jobs is no stranger to superlatives. Every product Apple makes is "insanely great," "amazing," or even "magical. " So when he unveiled the latest MacBook Air models, declaring them to be the "future of notebooks," it was easy to dismiss his claims as nothing more than the usual Apple marketing. After spending some quality time with an 11" MacBook Air, however, it's hard not to hope he's right. The new MacBook Air is a great package, but there is one glaring weakness in it that will keep many potential buyers away: the CPU.
When the new machine's hardware specs were announced, we had concerns about its performance given Apple's decision to stick with older Core 2 Duo processors—let's face it, a 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo is laughably behind the performance curve of current mobile processors from Intel. We already answered a number of your specific questions about the 11" MacBook Air last week. Design. DeveloperWorks : Linux 专区 - 提供 IBM 关于 Linux 操作系统平台的技术资源.
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