Pop quiz: What was the last smartphone to be built in the United State of America? If you gave any answer other than “none,” you’re wrong. Back at the start of 2012, the New York Times detailed why so much tech manufacturing is based out of China, which basically boils down to infrastructure. Odds are […]
Anyone who’s been following Apple events for a while is familiar with the concept of the “Reality Distortion Field“. For the uninitiated, the term referred to celebrity CEO Steve Jobs’s ability to make you believe what he wanted you to. The phrase has been used to praise Jobs’s charisma and equally used to imply something […]
Remember Steve Jobs’s “third screen” conceptualization of a tablet? In a nutshell, the idea is that the average user goes from their first screen, a desktop or laptop, to their second screen, a smartphone. Jobs had the idea of a tablet as a third screen, and as we’ve seen from Apple’s sales, he was right […]
Every once in a while, a story comes along so monumentally stupid, so thoroughly and transparently an attention grab, it takes two people to whine about it properly. Such is the case with the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences giving Steve Jobs a special “Trustees Award” Grammy. For this one, it’s going to […]
ZDnet has learned that Adobe plans on ditching their existing Flash Mobile platform to refocus on HTML5. Lots of us have had love/hate relationships with Flash, but no one more so than Apple. The hardware giant refused to support Flash on their mobile devices and often blamed the multimedia delivery solution for problems on the […]
Confrontational advocate of the open source computing model, Richard Stallman, blogged his own version of a eulogy for Steve Jobs last week. As a line item in his political notes section of his personal website, Stallman wrote, “Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their […]
According to a statement made from a Samsung rep to CNET, the debut of the Samsung Galaxy Prime Droid (or whatever they are officially calling it) and the latest update to Android, Ice Cream Sandwich, has been delayed out of respect for the passing of Steve Jobs, the guy who created their biggest competition. So […]
Forgive me, but this is going to be a bit of a rant. Apple ex-CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs passed away yesterday. The papers, internet, and social media are full of news and stories about the man, as well they should be. What’s insane is that the stock price has reportedly dropped ten points overnight. […]
Sad news arrived in the tech world this evening. A titan of the industry, probably the single most influential and publicly recognizable figure in consumer electronics over the last decade has passed from this world. I speak of course of Steve Jobs. His passing was not unanticipated. Jobs had battled with cancer for years, and […]
You may have noticed some news on the internet about Flash being compatible with iOS devices as of recently. Supposedly, Adobe has said a new Flash Server will actually convert content into HTML5-compatible streams, playable on devices like the iPad and iPhone that traditionally lack support for native flash. Some are trying to technically interpret […]
