Animesh Kumar {itsAnimesh}

Walt tells Adobe CEO that Flash Sucks… »

During the All Things Digital D9 conference, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen got a slap across his face by Walt Mossberg…

Mossberg: What’s the deal between you and Steve Jobs? He was here last year, and he had a chance to expand on what he had previously written about [Flash], and summarized, he said “Well, I think our duty is to pick technologies in the ascendancy. We feel like Flash is not on the ascendency, we think HTML 5 is, so that’s who we decided to go with for iOS Devices. What’s your respons eto that?

Narayen: There are a lot of misperceptions out there. When it first broke, people talked about the fact that they thought it was a technology issue, and I think it’s become fairly clear over the last year that it’s not about the technology: it’s about a business model issue. It’s about control of a platform. It’s the control of the app store that’s really at issue here. The value proposition Flash has is that we allow people to author programs once and get them to as many devices as possible. We’ve done that with Android. We will have 130 million phone devices that will have Flash on them by the end of the year…

Mossberg: And I have yet to test a single one where Flash works really well. I’m sorry. They struggle on those Android devices.

Catch the full interview here…

JP Morgan –> iPad competitors in a fix… »

This was expected…

The report, which was issued on Wednesday, said companies building products to compete with the iPad have slowed production by as much as 10 percent since this time last March. At that time, the report said,  competing tablet companies created 81 million tablets; this year the number has fallen to 73 million.

Lodsys Still After Developers!!! »

Lodsys posted the following on their blog today…

We stand firm and restate our previous position that it is the 3rd party Developers that are responsible for the infringement of Lodsys’ patents and they are responsible for securing the rights for their applications.  Developers relying on Apple’s letter do so to their own detriment and are strongly urged to review Apple’s own developer agreements to determine the true extent of Apple’s responsibilities to them.

Looks like these guys are not going to give up so easily…

Apple will fix Bottomless MacBooks… »

Apple has launched a new replacement program for customers with white MacBooks who have seen their rubber base separate itself from the plastic casing and leave their notebooks with an exposed undercarriage.

The iPad 2 Gets Its Own Mini-Antennagate… »

Seems the iPad 2 has antenna gate also, I have noticed this for awhile. If I hold the iPad 2 on the sides my Wi-Fi drops to 2 bars but when I move my hand away from the left side it speeds up again.

Tried to validate it on my iPad 2 but wasn’t successful…

Apple “developers are licensed for Lodsys patents”… »

“Apple is undisputedly licensed to these patents and the App Makers are protected by that license,” wrote Bruce Sewell, Apple Senior Vice President and General Counsel.

Apple Fanboyism Is A Religion… »

Nothing new to an Apple fanboy, but still…

The cult of Apple is real, according to neuroscientists.

They compared MRIs of Apple fans’ brains to those of people who call themselves “very religious” and found that Apple and religion light up the same part of the brain. This means that Apple triggers the same feelings and reactions in people as religion.

I’m eagerly waiting for the documentary…

BBC highlights the finding in an upcoming documentary, Secrets of Superbrands.

10 years of Apple retail store… »

This Thursday marks 10 years since Apple’s first retail store…

Ten years and more than 300 stores later, it’s become a retailing venture unique in the world of consumer electronics.

The opening of that first Apple store was greeted with the zeal that’s become commonplace when new Apple products are released.

Looks like Apple is preparing to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its retail stores…

Apple employees will be putting up black curtains at all stores so that people walking outside cannot see inside.

More here

Apple looks into Lodsys’s claim… »

Article by Darrell Etherington on what is up with Lodsys’s notices to independent developers and what Apple is doing on this case…

If you’re wondering whether or not Apple will end up responding to the threats made by Lodsys, consider that these claims threaten to undermine the attractiveness of the App Store to developers. The quality and depth of the App Store is arguably Apple’s most valuable asset in the ongoing battle for smartphone supremacy. And now that Lodsys is broadening its efforts to include some of Apple’s higher profile software development partners, the stakes are even higher.

It would be interesting to see what Apple has to say on all this… I’m hoping for a humors answer by Steve Jobs on this issue…

How Google Instant Mix compares to iTunes’ Genius Mix… »

A nice article by Paul Lamere on how the playlist generation tools of iTunes and Google Music compare to eachother…

“Evaluating playlists is hard. However, there is something that we can do that is fairly easy to give us an idea of how well a playlisting engine works compared to others. I call it the WTF test. It is really quite simple. You generate a playlist, and just count the number of head-scratchers in the list. If you look at a song in a playlist and say to yourself ‘How the heck did this song get in this playlist’ you bump the counter for the playlist. The higher the WTF count the worse the playlist. As a first order quality metric, I really like the WTF Test. It is easy to apply, and focuses on a critical aspect of playlist quality. If a playlist is filled with jarring transitions, leaving the listener with iPod whiplash as they are jerked through songs of vastly different styles, it is a bad playlist.”