If you’re reading Engadget today (and let’s be honest, you’re reading it right now), then you might have noticed that Adobe has launched a pretty full-force campaign to call out Apple on its anti-Flash mission. If you don’t know what we’re talking about, it’s the advertisements that start with “We [heart] Apple.” Along with [...]
Opera Software already caused quite a stir with the release of the iPhone version of its browser, and it looks like it’s now starting to make itself heard in one of the biggest browser-related debates going. Speaking with Tech Radar, Opera’s product analyst Phillip Grønvold started out with something of a diplomatic approach [...]
Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch says Flash works just fine on the Apple iPhone, thank you very much — and he thinks that’s exactly why Apple keeps on denying it access. Speaking at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, he explained his belief that by eliminating Flash, Cupertino is forcing developers to build apps [...]
Steve Jobs just posted an open letter of sorts explaining Apple’s position on Flash, going back to his company’s long history with Adobe and expounding upon six main points of why he thinks Flash is wrong for mobile devices. HTML5 naturally comes up, along with a few reasons you might [...]
Some alleged spy shots of a brand-new Android tablet materialized in our inbox this afternoon, and after sending a few e-mails and making a quick phone call, we can confirm they’re 100 percent legit: boutique PC retailer Velocity Micro’s getting in the tablet game something fierce, with a whole new lineup of touchscreen devices [...]
There couldn’t possibly be any less fanfare from Apple on this, but the company’s recently released Technical Note TN2267 for OS X 10.6.3 might just be the GPU-sized opening that Adobe and, consequently, Flash users have been waiting for. Here’s the key bit:
The Video Decode Acceleration framework is a C programming interface providing [...]
A company named RipCode has an interesting solution to Apple’s blocking of Flash on the iPad. Simply transcode Flash video to play right in Safari, much like you can stream various video codecs over your home network.
According to RipCode, their TransAct Transcoder V6 requires no special clients or modifications to host sites. Rather, RipCode [...]
