Charlie Stross: Why Steve Jobs hates Flash
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- comicsans
An interesting contribution to an increasingly predictable debate, long
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/…
It ends:
"This is why there's a stench of panic hanging over silicon valley. this is why Apple have turned into paranoid security Nazis, why HP have just ditched Microsoft from a forthcoming major platform and splurged a billion-plus on buying up a near-failure; it's why everyone is terrified of Google:
The PC revolution is almost coming to an end, and everyone's trying to work out a strategy for surviving the aftermath."
- kpl0
+1
the computers will completely different in 10 years. we're in for a rough ride folks.
- doesnotexist0
I imagine life will get harder for programmers and easier for the designers.
- Only if the programmers provide you with the toys.comicsans
- instrmntl0
this has been my view, its a shift to the subscription based model
- Pixter0
I would like to code iphone apps, but I'm not buying a mac just for that, nor paying 99$/year
- IRS0
I guess it's back to using the usps, a pencil and papyrus.
- stewdio0
And yet it's still all going to run on UNIX and C++. That's a little bit sad to me. Not because I have anything against C++ or UNIX (I actually think they're great) but it's been 40 years now. Shouldn't we have some new killer ideas about digital infrastructure that can actually beat the old ideas in the marketplace?