Via Daring Fireball, a pretty smart analysis of Apple’s so-called “anti-competitive” moves in restricting third-party advertisers accessing user data for their analytics.
Fri 11 Jun 2010
Via Daring Fireball, a pretty smart analysis of Apple’s so-called “anti-competitive” moves in restricting third-party advertisers accessing user data for their analytics.
Wed 14 Apr 2010
Joe Clark gives Apple a well-earned serve over its lack of leadership in computer typography. (via Zeldman)
(edit to fix typo)
Interesting Ars Technica forum post by eVITAERC on some of the complexities that Flash acolytes don’t get when they complain about the lack of Flash support on iPhone and now iPad.
How are the Flash advocates out there suggesting to solve the interface problems anyways? The two biggest uses for Flash right now are:
- Video
- Games
The first one of which is in a state of flux. With HTML5 support and YouTube already a non-issue I’m gonna call this one on the road to solving itself.
That leaves games. How the hell are Apple going to emulate all of the following common Flash game mechanics:
- click
- drag
- keyboard
while clicking is fairly trivial, implementing drag and keyboard presses seem hopeless to me. Is Flash supposed to tell Safari which keys to pop up? What about a whole keyboard that pops up to take up 1/2 the screen real-estate everytime you click on a Flash object? How can Safari tell between, say, a game or a video player flash applet? There’s nothing in the API that can be used to distinguish the uses of the Flash apps. Changing that would require every Flash app on the web to be re-written. Besides, Flash is designed to be device-agnostic.
The iPad is not exactly built for device-agnostic tasks.
Except for maybe web browsing.
Actually the device is tailored for web browsing, so scratch that.
I simply can’t see Flash doing well at all on a tablet situation.
Don’t get me wrong — Apple has an ideological problem with Flash. And, as someone who does web standards, so do I. But it’s clear that Flash is problematic for more reasons than corporate rivalry.
Wed 27 Jan 2010
Derek Powazek, a designer who’s had a great deal of success moving between the web and print, on what the magic tablet thing might mean for web and print industries and business models. (via Daring Fireball).
Sat 19 Sep 2009 5 notes
Apple made dozens of tiny wordings and grammatical fixes in Snow Leopard, including this one from engaging screen sharing via iChat. In Leopard, the message read “their”; now, “his or her.”
“Their” is perfectly grammatically correct and is far less awkward than “his or her”. Disappointing change.
Tue 19 May 2009
And this, my friends, is why no-one trusts MobileMe or iDisk.
Sigh. Heavy sigh.
Nick Caldwell is a professional web designer and unprofessional writer who thinks far too much about aesthetics, the contemporary sociopolitical condition, video games, Doctor Who, and spaceships. This is his Tumblelog.
