Beware - the Apple multi-tasking is on their terms. They will only allow certain (determined by them) apps to be in the multi-tasking scheme. Again - Apple deciding what is best for us.
Edward Fultz [email protected] (978) 807-4225 ----- Original Message ----- From: "ldouglas" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, April 8, 2010 1:30:13 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [Treo] Flash? speaking of stealing thunder, I saw two interesting articles today online: 1. "Multitasking is coming to your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Apple claims their method will save battery life and resources, unlike the competition." http://gizmodo.com/5512656/iphone-multitasking-will-let-you-run-apps-simultaneously and 2. "A year has come and gone and we have heard nary a peep from Sunnyvale about the future of Mojo Messaging Service. While we fully admit that Palm has a lot on its plate right now, a measure of the webOS platform’s success in our day and age is going to be both the quantity and quality of apps available." http://www.precentral.net/oh-mojo-messaging-service-where-art-thou On 4/8/10, Levi Wallach <[email protected]> wrote: > Approximate 1,842,439,107 websites support HTML5 ;-) I have no idea, but I > do know that you can access Youtube via HTML5 instead of Flash. I'm not > sure if that's just via a Chrome plugin or what. HTML5 for video stuff is > still in its infancy, so Flash will be around for a while, but there are > some viable competitors now so Adobe is really going to have to get its game > together or it will eventually be irrelevant. You can only sit on your > laurels for so long before something better comes along and steals your > thunder... > > > Levi Wallach > blog: http://twelveblackcodemonkeys.com > tweet me @dvdmon (http://twitter.com/dvdmon) > > > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:42 AM, ldouglas <[email protected]> wrote: > >> how many websites support HTML5? I assume it's standards based and >> thus no royalties need be paid for implementing it? >> >> On 4/8/10, Levi Wallach <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Someone on Twitter that I follow (can't remember now) recently >> > speculated >> > that it might be App #2000 in the catalog, which would mean fairly soon, >> > however that's just a wild guess as they admitted. We really haven't >> gotten >> > anything more specific since they first made the claim that it would be >> out >> > "first half of 2010." So I guess we have, theoretically, a max of about >> 2.5 >> > months to wait. Then again, Adobe initially had said it would be out >> last >> > year, so there's no guarantee of anything I suppose. All I know is that >> the >> > main advantage of having a device that can do Flash will become less of >> an >> > advantage over time with the competing technologies out there (such as >> > HTML5, Silverlight, etc.), so I would hope that Palm is yelling at Adobe >> to >> > just put something out there already! I know many Palm Pre users are >> > fed >> up >> > being teased by the demos at every trade fair and the longer the wait >> > the >> > more it looks like vaporware and false promises... >> > >> > >> > Levi Wallach >> > blog: http://twelveblackcodemonkeys.com >> > tweet me @dvdmon (http://twitter.com/dvdmon) >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Jim Griffin <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> It's been a while since Palm and Adobe announced plans for Flash. >> >> >> >> Anyone heard any info/rumors on the implementation date? >> >> >> >> Thanks. >> >> ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
