Follow me on TwitterFor the past 20 years, the world has experienced computing through an IBM invention called Personal Computer through the user experience controlled by Microsoft. A generation of users have come to expect to see the world through the Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office interface. Microsoft has reaped the benefits by becoming world’s largest technology company, making Bill Gates world’s richest person (second richest as of March 10, 2010) and creating an ecosystem of tens of thousands of technology companies. Today, May 26 2010 marks a very important event in the history of technology. Today Apple has surpassed Microsoft [...]
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Last week I asked a question if Apple went too far in its attack on Flash. This question generated a lively discussion on reddit. While my point was that Apple iPhone SDK restricts choice of development tools/languages to be only Objective-C, most comments centered on the merits of Flash. Steve Jobs felt compelled to add more fuel to this fire and published an open letter Thoughts on Flash. In this letter Steve Jobs explains why Apple has banned Flash. Basic just is that he believes it is proprietary, buggy, security challenged, battery draining technology and that Apple’s (his) [...] I don’t speak for IBM and I don’t express opinions of IBM if there ever was such a thing. I spend the last 25 years in the IT industry and I have to say that I have rarely seen such blatant disregard for the freedom of choice as Apple has done in its now infamous Clause 3.3.1 of the Apple iPhone OS SDK License. It reads like this: Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, [...] A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the coincidence in the release date for the iPhone 3GS and the new release of DB2 v9.7. I was in New York on the iPhone 3GS launch date and dropped by the Apple store before it opened just to see what the lineups would be like. I did not find the sea of people I was expecting so I thought this was a ho-hum launch for the iPhone. Imagine my surprise when I saw this article that claims that according to internal AT&T memo iPhone 3GS broke a bunch of [...] This was my first look at Safari 4 beta. My conclusion is that Safari 4 shows a lot of promise and once it is ready, I will likely make it my primary browser on my Windows machine. For now, I am going to have to rely on IE 7 and Firefox on Windows. On the Mac it may be an entirely different story. We have recently released DB2 Express-C for Mac OS X and I am expecting MacBook Pro to show up some day soon. I will have to give Safari 4 another try on the Mac to see how it holds out. [...] |
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