Warning Signs ‘Flash’ing for Adobe
Leigh Drogen of Surfview Capital asked a question earlier today about $ADBE, specifically regarding their ‘war’ with $AAPL and $GOOG over Adobe’s Flash platform, which has become somewhat of a de facto...
View ArticleHP buys Palm: Damn, That’s a Pretty Snug Fit
When I saw a tweet last night about HP agreeing to acquire Palm I immediately began spinning up scenarios. After about five minutes trying to work out some holes in the idea I was surprised by just...
View ArticleAdobe: 7 Things You Should Do With Flash/Flex
Dear Adobe: Apple has started the anti-Flash/Flex snowball rolling, and it is getting steadily bigger. It’s a perfect storm, because they’ve got the platforms that are perfectly suited to Flash, their...
View ArticleThe Irony of Mobile Users Preferring Apps Over Web
Apparently, mobile users prefer apps over the web. At least that’s Gowalla CEO Josh Williams’ view: “People love apps, but it drives a stake in the heart of the build-once-deploy-everywhere model, and...
View ArticleOn HTML5 killing Flash
There’s an HTML5 killing Flash scab that keeps getting pulled off, every 1-2 months or so. In the most recent round, as I often do, I answered several question from a reporter (Howard Win in...
View ArticleThe iPad: Nice Piece of Glass! Here comes HTML5
If you have followed RedMonk for any time you’ll know that we are strong advocates for open source and open standards. Open ecosystems create more economic and innovation opportunities than closed...
View ArticleLotus Gears Up To Embrace The Web, Rebuild its Developer Story, pwn Social...
I was at Connect before Christmas, the annual Software Group meetup for industry analysts that follow IBM. See some coverage here by Coté. IBM’s Software portfolio is insanely big these days, so its...
View ArticleHTML5 – A Wonder Drug
I was reading up on some of the commentary surrounding Amazon’s release of an HTML5 reader, one of the best comes from Constellation’s Charles Brett: Amazon’s announcement of its Kindle Cloud Reader,...
View ArticleOpal Targets Enterprise with Purpose-Driven Social Apps
Enterprise platform startup Opal Labs wants to make Enterprise work more like a consumer experience. The Portland-based startup launched officially in October 2012. The founders had previously...
View ArticleTop 10 Reasons Why Steve Jobs and Apple Reject Adobe Flash
Apple FlashBlocks Adobe In the spirit of Top Ten lists, here’s Steve Jobs’ “Top Ten Reasons for Rejecting Adobe Flash” (for the irony-impaired, please note that this post is not based on the truth):...
View ArticleRockmelt and the seismic plates of cloud
OK, I admit, that’s an appalling mixed metaphor I’ve conjured up out of Rockmelt, the new social media browser launched into limited beta today. But I do think that Rockmelt’s appearance, with its...
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