Month: April 2010

Hey Adobe, Quit whining and start competing. Use your market position to become dominant in the open HTML5 world instead of continuing to exploit the same kind of walled garden that you don’t want Apple to have.

“The media to me is like the same thing as the telephone,” he said. While clearly intriguing, his analogy begged for further explanation. Mr. Packer was happy to oblige. “Instead of calling my folks, let’s say, I’ll go on TV,” he said. “My mom will usually call back later saying: ‘Hi, Greg, this is Mom. You won’t believe this, but we saw you on TV at the …’ ” Just fill in the blank.

There are literary techniques, there will be iPad techniques. I’m 21, I can say with a lot of confidence that the ‘books’ that come to define my generation will be impossible to print. This is great.

Remember, if you don’t like it, no one will make you buy it. Obama’s ACORN goons aren’t forcing you to an Apple store. There are alternatives that are “open” systems, if you like to tinker with your machine, blah blah blah.

But for me, this thing rocked.

Q: How do you close applications when multitasking?
A: (Scott Forstall) You don’t have to. The user just uses things and doesn’t ever have to worry about it.
A: (Steve Jobs) It’s like we said on the iPad, if you see a stylus, they blew it. In multitasking, if you see a task manager… they blew it. Users shouldn’t ever have to think about it.