I say that the death of Flash can’t come too soon.
With the growth of mobile units in the hand of consumers and the massive growth in web traffic originating from mobile devices, it is imperative that we begin to leave Flash behind. This announcement couldn’t have come too soon.
If Flash were rolled out as a new technology today, it would be found completely inadequate.
Michael Hyatt puts it like this-
It quickly became apparent that he didn’t want to change. In fact, the entire conversation was about why he couldn’t change, why he didn’t need to change, and why he wasn’t responsible for the results he was getting.
Ten minutes into the discussion, I realized I was dealing with a fool. There was no point in continuing the conversation. More talk would not change anything.
I’ve certainly believed that I knew the difference between wise men and fools, but I’ve never heard it put so clearly before. This is one to add to my daily self check list.
Michael is great and I’d suggest you add him to your daily reading.
People complain about a lot of stuff. I tend to be a bit of a complainer myself. With all that has happened around me the last few days, it is so clear that my life is good. I have so little to complain about and so many more things to be incredibly thankful for.
I’m going to do my best to remember this going forward and let it change me.
Lately, I’ve had quite a few folks ask about apps for their new iPhones. I have a lot of favorites, but the photography stuff is really a great place to start.
Here is a post from last July, but it still contains all my go-to favorites.
I have been watching the ranting and criticism that folks have been leveling at Google over the past few months, but I haven’t felt compelled to join in the trend of moving away from their services.
This article on Read Write Web encapsulates my thoughts pretty well.
They are still doing some pretty awesome stuff and almost all of it free to the user. Of course the question that folks are asking is whether we are paying too much with our private information.
If you follow me, you’ll know that I’m not overly concerned with what’s out there on the web connected to me. I gave up any semblance of internet privacy years ago when I was pursuing a music career. Google me and that much is clear. For me it is worth the trade off.
Is it worth it to you? Would you pay with cold-hard-cash instead of personal information for services like Facebook, Google search, Twitter, and email?
I think it came as a surprise to most everyone that Apple released a preview of the upcoming OS X mountain Li0n, the successor to the Lion operating system just released this past year.
They rolled it out differently, and it is documented well in this post on Daring Fireball describing how Apple pulled in a handful of journalists for one-on-one media events.
Why not hold an event to announce Mountain Lion — or make the announcement on apple.com before talking to us?
That’s when Schiller tells me they’re doing some things differently now.
I’m especially interested in the evolution of iChat into Messages. Now anyone with a Mac, who downloads the new Messages app can “text” with anyone that has an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. I also really like the simplification of, and unification of apps which were previously wrapped in the calendar and email apps. The to-do list is now its own app, as is Notes. iCal has been renamed Calendar.
Now if they’ll just fix that awful Address Book/Contacts app and get a new Design going for Calendar.
