en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/870939 Comments by Adobephile http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/06/10/opinion-lets-forget-this-mac-is-dead-crap-and-get-back-to-work/#IDComment79491314 Sage words, Mr. Cohen! Out of all the whiners, I wonder how many of them don't physically fit into big boy pants, and also how many others may NEVER fit into them (figuratively and emotionally speaking, not necessarily because of physical girth). Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:05:13 +0000 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/06/10/opinion-lets-forget-this-mac-is-dead-crap-and-get-back-to-work/#IDComment79491314 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/06/08/the-loop-celebrates-its-first-birthday/#IDComment79155145 Happy Birthday, Jim, et al, I read your articles regularly. I like your style of writing and find I agree with you more often than not. Tue, 8 Jun 2010 18:20:40 +0000 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/06/08/the-loop-celebrates-its-first-birthday/#IDComment79155145 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/06/05/iphone-os-has-triple-the-market-share-of-android/#IDComment78856164 I don't think we're going to see a repeat of the "theft" of the Mac's windows by Windoze in the new context of iPhone OS devices. I was talking to a stranger in a doctor's waiting room who had some sort of HTC Android phone. He had it in his hand, but didn't show it to me, nor did I ask to see it. When I did some web surfing on my iPhone, though, he looked at my phone enviously. He said he had to get his phone because his company was with T-Mobile. He said it was difficult to surf web pages without hitting an unwanted link. He said he'd love to have an iPhone. I really didn't say anything before he said all that. He just volunteered it. He had a Mac at home he used for his music. He was also a musician. Mon, 7 Jun 2010 02:37:47 +0000 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/06/05/iphone-os-has-triple-the-market-share-of-android/#IDComment78856164 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/06/04/apple-shows-off-the-power-of-html5/#IDComment78548407 Not odd at all. This is new stuff and first impressions count a lot--especially with this timing around WWDC. Why risk this golden opportunity by letting it run on other browsers. That'd be reckless, if not foolish. No harm in promoting one's own browser, anyway. Fri, 4 Jun 2010 20:05:20 +0000 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/06/04/apple-shows-off-the-power-of-html5/#IDComment78548407 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/05/26/analyst-apple-will-not-release-a-verizon-iphone-at-wwdc/#IDComment77225128 You must not have much (or much good) experience with relationships. My marriage is good _BECAUSE_ of exclusivity. Must be a foreign concept to you that two companies could have such a relationship which was very good for both entities and then want to preserve it and be mutually faithful to it. And just like a couple, it's nobody's business but theirs exactly why it's so good. Wed, 26 May 2010 18:29:34 +0000 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/05/26/analyst-apple-will-not-release-a-verizon-iphone-at-wwdc/#IDComment77225128 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/05/26/analyst-apple-will-not-release-a-verizon-iphone-at-wwdc/#IDComment77209892 It doesn't suck. It makes sense to continue successful actions. We don't know what all kinds of cooperative actions are involved with the Appple/AT&T exclusivity agreements. They have the right to determine their own strategies. The factual bottom line is that the iPhone continues to sell well, most likely due in no small part to the exclusivity. Wed, 26 May 2010 16:29:53 +0000 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/05/26/analyst-apple-will-not-release-a-verizon-iphone-at-wwdc/#IDComment77209892 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/05/24/flash-slows-down-web-browsing-on-android-2-2/#IDComment76946545 Apple caught Adobe sleeping with the sudden success of the iPhone OS and its devices. Suddenly there was created a huge demand for content on mobile devices, and Flash was complacently gobbling resources on PCs. So where's the meat, Adobe? Where is a more efficient version of Flash for mobile? Is it even technically feasible? Perhaps not. Perhaps Flash is indeed old technology like Steve said. Not an attack, really. Just a candid statement of fact. But now that even a Flash converter to iPhone native code is not welcome for other reasons, it seems that Flash has been dealt a KO 1-2 punch. Media clients are starting not to want it on their sites. So developers have to make careful decisions as to whether to support one or the other or both. No sympathy there, as the bottom line of client specification will dictate their operations. I think we have yet to witness the full impact of iPhone OS devices. I think their general demand will escalate even further to the end that Flash will simply be dropped of necessity. Hopefully, for Adobe's sake and ours, it moves on gracefully and develops new creative tools to support HTML5. Mon, 24 May 2010 20:50:30 +0000 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/05/24/flash-slows-down-web-browsing-on-android-2-2/#IDComment76946545 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/05/24/iphone-ipad-popularity-forces-designers-reconsider-use-of-flash/#IDComment76940642 Flash is about my only contention with Adobe. They simply need to eat some crow, count their losses, and move on, or at least prepare to move on by gracefully stepping in with new tools for HTML5 composition to hedge their bets. This move by Steve Jobs prohibiting Flash is simply similar to others such as dropping floppy drives and making some batteries non-removable. It's high time. Also Apple shouldn't have to kow tow to third party development tools which compromise Apple's control of its third-party software development. There's plenty of wiggle room with Xcode and within Apple's developer policy for freedom and creativity while yet preserving the integrity of the iPhone OS ecosystem. Customers and developers have already and will continue to vote on this issue via their iPhone OS device purchases, and continuing app submissions. None of this is anti-competition. Quite the contrary. It's simply defining the rules of the game. Others are not being prevented from competing via other product/development systems. Mon, 24 May 2010 20:01:22 +0000 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/05/24/iphone-ipad-popularity-forces-designers-reconsider-use-of-flash/#IDComment76940642 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/05/22/retrospect-joins-roxio-family/#IDComment76684377 We used to use Retrospect, but these days I just like Time Machine. It's so easy to use. And it's saved my bacon more than once with its easy restore procedure. Sat, 22 May 2010 19:08:16 +0000 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/05/22/retrospect-joins-roxio-family/#IDComment76684377 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/05/21/iphone-ipad-iad-destined-to-fail/#IDComment76653711 We keep hearing these keywords: "Choice", "Openness", "Freedom." And we keep hearing various rants about how Apple is somehow preventing those in various aspects of its business models. But even if those weren't the competition's feeble attempts at propaganda, if they were temporarily taken, for the sake of argument, as facts, they'd be CONTRARY to the much larger and more important FACTS of Apple's sales statistics. Who is twisting anyone's arm at this point or at any other point over the past three-odd years and more to buy Apple's products? And how are any of those individual purchases (in the hundreds of millions--and BILLIONS if you count iTunes songs) NOT the products of CHOICE, OPENNESS, and FREEDOM???? One of our clients, a staunch hold-out Blackberry user for years now, just yesterday "confessed" to my wife that she wanted an iPhone because she realized the Blackberry's limitations in keeping her from viewing her emails with their graphics attachments, while talking to my wife on the phone. Hers was not grim resignation to being "forced" to buy an iPhone, but real excitement over the prospect of the iPhone being a better tool for her in her business activities. This is the true and obviously widespread news of Apple and its iPhone OS products which clearly refutes Brandt Dainow's parroting of his retainers' FUD. He his clearly a shill. Sat, 22 May 2010 14:00:21 +0000 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/05/21/iphone-ipad-iad-destined-to-fail/#IDComment76653711 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/05/17/apple-vs-adobe-using-wisdom-of-crowds-to-track-the-battle/#IDComment75833773 Sorry Jim, but the "Wisdom of Crowds" is a profound fallacy. It's more akin to a "lowest common denominator" than anything else. Just because there seems to be some coincidence of poll results is no verification of "wisdom." Well, at least you haven't resorted to tea leaf or entrail reading! But whatever happened to "common sense"? Problem with that is that whatever is "common" these days has itself been in a veritable nose dive. So what is there left? Just what Steve and company are doing: doing what you know is right and not wasting a whole lot of time and effort on explaining to anyone. If it's not obvious to any given individual, it's because they're operating on some other agenda of either chronic ignorance and/or vested interest. Mon, 17 May 2010 15:04:40 +0000 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/05/17/apple-vs-adobe-using-wisdom-of-crowds-to-track-the-battle/#IDComment75833773 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/05/13/adobe-founders-hit-back-at-jobs-and-apple-in-flash-debate/#IDComment75330573 I've worn my screen name proudly for nearly two decades, and I'm a professional Creative Suite user, about to happily upgrade to CS5, but on the subject of Flash, I take exception. Steve's position is clear and rational. Until Adobe can produce a version of Flash that works well on the iPhone, it will not be allowed. And even more importantly, Adobe will not be able to use its Flash converter to produce apps for the App Store. That stipulation is even more important for the continuing integrity of Apple's iPhone OS ecosystem. They must maintain control, clear and simple. But in stating and affirming such terms, Steve is not at the same time asserting Apple's intention to dominate the Web. Such an irrational deduction tends to reveal the deducers own sordid intentions. Steve Jobs is to be commended yet again for taking such a bold position which, its immediate purpose being to protect the iPhone OS ecosystem. This backlash from the highest places at Adobe does more to reveal Adobe's own profound misgivings over Flash's future than to refute at all any of Steve's stated position. Thu, 13 May 2010 21:59:15 +0000 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/05/13/adobe-founders-hit-back-at-jobs-and-apple-in-flash-debate/#IDComment75330573 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/04/29/steve-jobs-says-apple-is-not-de-emphasizing-mac-os-x/#IDComment71501399 Hey, people, get the point here. No one should need a silly design award to create a great app. The sudden absence of one should be an, "Oh well." The only implications of this are and should be that the iPad and the iPhone OS are the current and coming BIG THING and the vast majority of Apple's attention at WWDC should be on them. It's an annual event and the timing is very good for really punching up these new products. Apple is moving into the mobile space big time and that reward--for all of us--is far bigger than any Mac Design Award. Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:22:31 +0000 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/04/29/steve-jobs-says-apple-is-not-de-emphasizing-mac-os-x/#IDComment71501399 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/04/29/steve-jobs-speaks-out-on-flash/#IDComment71318567 Steve's statement is excellent. Very well thought out, comprehensive and concise, non-confrontational, etc. He simply lays the facts on the line. The issue is simply that Flash is old technology and that Apple can't afford to be hobbled by it on its mobile products. It's a clear statement of policy designed to set the stage for Apple's mobile device future. He in fact invites Adobe to come along and be a part of it--but to leave Flash behind. I can't imagine how he could have said it better. Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:08:39 +0000 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/04/29/steve-jobs-speaks-out-on-flash/#IDComment71318567 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/04/23/police-investigate-lost-iphone-prototype/#IDComment70282500 I agree, and hopefully the engineer learned a lesson. Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:18:03 +0000 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/04/23/police-investigate-lost-iphone-prototype/#IDComment70282500 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/04/22/the-ipad-cant-be-compared-to-netbooks-or-notebooks-heres-why/#IDComment69861267 Part of what some of us value science fiction for is that it brings to the reader's awareness and brings into the realm of feasibility various technologies which don't exist yet in the real world. Though touch screens do indeed exist in the real world, they were "summoned" by science fiction. The iPad brings into reality a touch screen tablet that looks futuristic, thanks to Jonathan Ive and crew. It is indeed the first product in a new self-created category, and it remains to be seen what fictional features will appear on it and with it. It'll be very interesting to witness the ensuing "patent wars" with the competition. Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:05:12 +0000 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/04/22/the-ipad-cant-be-compared-to-netbooks-or-notebooks-heres-why/#IDComment69861267 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/04/22/ninety-nine-year-old-gets-her-first-computer-and-its-an-ipad/#IDComment69817309 I can see why Steve said the iPad is his most important product. It's going to sell like hotcakes and like no other computer before it. The aesthetics of its design and user interface are going to usher it into new areas and applications far broader than was possible with legacy machines. Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:18:22 +0000 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/04/22/ninety-nine-year-old-gets-her-first-computer-and-its-an-ipad/#IDComment69817309 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/04/21/apple-fires-back-at-adobe-in-flash-debate/#IDComment69729510 It makes total sense to me that Apple is maintaining positive control over the development of the third-party software which runs on its products. They have absolutely no obligation to accommodate interlopers in order to appear "fair." What IS fair is Apple's iPhone developer program which offers yet a lot of freedom within its defined boundaries for developers to be creative and to make some decent money, all while enhancing the value and desirability of its products. Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:58:03 +0000 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/04/21/apple-fires-back-at-adobe-in-flash-debate/#IDComment69729510 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/04/20/adobe-abandons-iphone-app-building-technology-in-cs5/#IDComment69303123 I continue to wear my screen name proudly, but I take exception with Adobe's strategy involving its Flash converter, as I can see Apple's logic in this matter. You whiners can yap yap all you like with your "sucks", "control freak", and "unfair" rhetoric, but it won't change the fact that Apple must maintain control of its products, which in this case includes both hardware and software. They're maintaining the whole ecosystem surrounding the iPhone which is the main reason for the iPhone's desirability. It doesn't matter whether you whiners understand that or not. Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:13:48 +0000 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/04/20/adobe-abandons-iphone-app-building-technology-in-cs5/#IDComment69303123 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/04/20/apple-reports-3-07-billion-second-quarter-profit/#IDComment69084160 Steadily rising statistics like these PROVE that Apple is doing far more things right than wrong. These are FACTS which far outweigh any OPINIONS to the contrary. It should also show one and all how to handle a "bad" economy: PRODUCE AND DELIVER! Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:46:13 +0000 http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/04/20/apple-reports-3-07-billion-second-quarter-profit/#IDComment69084160