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Saving Microsoft
The last few years have been trying times for Microsoft. Late to jump on the web bandwagon, they’ve never owned that platform the way they owned the desktop. Internet Explorer remains a decidedly un-sexy choice for web browsing, and Microsoft might never recover from the black eye that was Vista. Office now faces some really [...]
Nothing short of world domination will do
A good friend of mine sent me an email commenting on the changes in Apple’s Developer Program license for the 4.0 iPhone OS, and I decided to share my thoughts here, as my email grew to become the tome you see here. Image via Wikipedia Apple has, as you’ve probably heard, indicated that it will allow [...]
More on “HTML is dead”
Microsoft‘s S. Somasegar (“Soma”), who heads the Developer Division, posted on his blog yesterday about “Key Software Development Trends“. I was pleased to see him include “Proliferation of Devices” among the top trends in development, but there was obviously an acute case of tunnel vision at work here, because Soma completely neglected all the non-Microsoft devices that people [...]
If HTML is dead, what’s next?
The introduction of Apple‘s iPad got a lot of people talking about “apps” again. There’s no denying the oppressive popularity of apps today; everybody’s got an app store and everybody’s playing catch-up with Apple. Apps are the new hotness. Yesterday, Stephen Forte (Is the iPhone (and Android) the harbinger of death for web pages?) observed [...]
Apple is really pushing its luck
Apple has been the undisputed darling of electronics marketing since the introduction of the iPod. Everything they touch turns to gold, and they’ve built the mystique of the Apple brand into a legendary golden goose. Image via CrunchBase But it’s been a tough week for Apple. People have been grumbling about the arbitrary and seemingly [...]
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