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1. Adobe says his workaround to convert Flash apps to the iPhone is going to follow iPhone OS updates.
2. Apple doesn't believe them because his Flash client is still a security nightmare and lay waste to OS X CPUs. Even worse, they blame it on Apple because their steaming pile of crap is not allowed direct hardware access to the GPU.

In the words of Joe Clark:

This was the weekend those of us with high standards lost their remaining residue of patience for ideologues who hyperbolize about open systems without actually creating something people want to use.

This is not about you programming Python on your microwave, it's about users doing their fucking work. Are they going to benefit from some half ass attempt to run your shit on a phone? no? then go do that on the Android Market.

The motto "It just works" requires some level of control. Otherwise users (not you fellow ./, this was never about you) are back to square one worrying about installing apps that break, malfunction, or are plain retarded. Gruber said it right: "Apple doesn’t want everywhere, they just want everywhere good".

jeffasselin: The google guys are intelligent and pay a lot of attentions to details

True enough, but it's also possible to pay too much attention to details. There's always the chance of a misstep somewhere, but I think Google's most at risk if they pay attention to the wrong detail, or waiting for a large volume of data to make "the perfect choice" where the best course of action would be simply to make a different choice.

That said, it is still kind of hard to accept Microsoft as a credible threat, except that this is version 2 of their search engine. They might have some details right this time.

Yeah - really difficult to get americans to give up their http://fawny.org/blog/images/Bulgemobiles_Fire.jpg '58 Bulgemobiles, or the later day equivalent! :-)
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Yep, that one. Did you know that there's recent evidence to suggest that the assumption that print media and online media differ in the effect line length has on readability? You might prefer shorter line lengths, but that is your personal opinion and not an established general fact.

I know Jakob Neilsen attracts a lot of critics from web designers who don't like being told that they aren't doing things well, but as far as I know, no qualified usability professionals feel that way.

From Dave Shea: IE7 CSS Updates
From Joe Clark IE7 The saga begins
And finally Molly Holzschlag, speaking on behalf of WaSP: That's why it's called beta

My esteemed colleague Paul doesn't really understand the issues involved in Web standards, as I wrote elsewhere. Nonetheless, I certainly support the Anything's Better than IE/Win Campaign ("Abby-Wink").

Peter puffing faggot.

Vidal prefers the term "homosexualist".

-kgj