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Sorry, Adobe, you screwed yourself — In 1996 when Apple was seemingly on the ropes, Adobe made a crucial business decision and one that is coming back to bite them in the ass. They declared that their primary development platform would be Windows; subsequently, every new application …
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Exclusive Video: Adobe CTO Lynch Smacks Back at Apple's “Protectionist Strategy,” Calling it “Bad for Consumers” (But He'll Swing Chickens If Forced!) — Yesterday, BoomTown helmed the ATD motorboat through the torrential rain to Adobe Systems' San Francisco HQ for yet another sitdown …
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Has Steve Jobs gone mad? — Or is he trying to ensure that Apple apps continue to “just work?” A guide to the latest flap — Photo: gdgt — The hottest topic in tech these days — and the lead item all weekend in Techmeme — is an obscure clause in Apple's (AAPL) …
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Steve Jobs' response on Section 3.3.1
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Tensions Rise for Twitter and the Outside Developers Tapping In — SAN FRANCISCO — It was the beginning of a beautiful relationship. — Twitter made it easy for programmers outside the company to build 70,000 applications that made the microblogging service more usable.
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Twitter Officially Responds To Developers. Tries To Calm Fears. — Full message at the bottom of this post. — In Twitter's development talk Google group, API lead Ryan Sarver took some time to try and calm developers fears regarding Twitter's recent moves to acquire certain apps and effectively wipe out others.
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Twitter's Developer Conference Starts Early, With A Group Therapy Session — Twitter was supposed to be assembling its far-flung network of developers in San Francisco this week for a pep rally and a peek at the company's future. — Instead, it's trying to prevent a mass freak-out …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Is 2011 like 1994 for Apple, Twitter, Facebook, and the Web? — Fact: In 1994 I thought Apple was going to own it all. By 1999 most magazines thought it was dead. — Fact: In 1992 Pointcast shipped. By 1999 it was dead. — Fact: In 1994 Microsoft was beta testing a system called “Blackbird.”
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Flash CS5 will export to HTML5 Canvas — In a previous post, I'd wondered why Adobe didn't spend their time building HTML5 Authoring tools rather than putting so much time/energy/money into their Flash->iPhone Apps exporter tool for Flash CS5. — As it turns out, Adobe does have some …
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Entelligence: What can Courier teach the market? — Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech. In these articles …
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Square Motorola Android slider leaks out, causes consternation — We swear we've seen a Motorola phone that looks like this odd square thing before, but it's also possible we're crazy. Either way, it looks like Moto's working on a new Blur set running Android 2.1, and if you thought screen size …
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Chris O'Brien / Mercury News:
Google's commitment to the Open Web — As Google, arguably the most powerful company in the Internet industry, needs to find ways to continue growing, it inevitably faces a temptation: Does it keep developing features that work with those of other companies, even competitors …
Andrew Jacobs / New York Times:
I Was Hacked in Beijing — BEIJING — The reality — and my fears — dawned only slowly. — For weeks, friends and colleagues complained I had not answered their e-mail messages. I swore I had not received them. — My e-mail program began crashing almost daily.