I have the archos 7 and have no problems with it although I'm aware some folk have net issues with being stuck with flash 9 etc. But I don't use it for the web.
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I have the archos 7 and have no problems with it although I'm aware some folk have net issues with being stuck with flash 9 etc. But I don't use it for the web.
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Well, that's the idea they ripped off Kindle and I think it's quite a persuasive one too, but the device I read it on would have to be cheap.
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Structaural
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Yep. But Cocoa's been out for ages now. If Adobe wanted to keep Photoshop as fast and efficient as it's been in the past they should have started on that some time ago. Photoshop's been pretty slow for the most part for years - it's barely multi-threaded, uses RAM haphazardly (and that's the main reason to go 64-bit so it can use more than 3GB, I've got layers bigger than that) and it still doesn't save prefs until you quit (grrrr - most annoying when you've made 10 actions and it quits). I'm not letting Adobe off either, they're getting a bit complacent, bloaty apps with underlying bugs that haven't been fixed for years. But no-one will be switching to GIMP anytime soon...
pinkmonkey
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I'm tied to CS - because we do character licensing, all the graphics and all the style guides are always in the latest edition of cs. When they upgrade, we have to, too - I can't see the BBC or ITV (some of the licensors we work with) swapping to anything else anytime soon.
Structaural
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Init, but look what happened to quark. That'll teach them, though they're on a bit of a comeback because of inDesigns bugs (geez sort out the Pdf export), but they'll never get that sort of market share again
Enough from me on this derail...
Enough from me on this derail...
It's a little sad to see such a decline in the relationship really. A long time ago we did a tie up at Cannes with Adobe and their bigwigs and general crew seemed like huge Apple fans. There was a real buzz around CS starting and all seemed well. It's difficult to know when things began to turn really, but they both seemed trapped in a bit of a symbiotic relationship now.
From my point of view I still resent Adobe for the truly shit performance of Flash on PowerPC chips. An awful bit of slow and jerky software that really never got better.
From my point of view I still resent Adobe for the truly shit performance of Flash on PowerPC chips. An awful bit of slow and jerky software that really never got better.
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elbows
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Yeah I cant bet my life on it and obviously I am wary of my own bias, but with every passing hour now that I have time to recover from the vast quantity of words and initial opinions that have emerged, Im betting its going to be a huge hit, and am pressing ahead with my development plans.
Watching the full Apple presentation in decent quality helped - the graphics performance of games looks like it will be just about good enough to satisfy that segment, and I think it is cheap enough with just enough features to be a big hit with business.
The very nature of the tablet form factor certainly means there is more risk of this failing to take off than most Apple products of the last decade, so it would not be completely stupid to bet against this device, but at a minimum it is far too early to write this device off.
ChrisFilter
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Yeah, but as with the iPhone, less than amazing controls let down the high-end graphics titles. You need an analogue stick for 3D to be worth it.
elbows
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Only with the most recent updates to flash player 10 have performance factors such as cpu use when playing back video reached acceptable levels on os x.
Sometimes we lose out when corporations collide, but there has been quite a lot of good stuff happening as a result of intense competition between the likes of adobe, google, apple, microsoft in certain areas of the internet & related technologies. Flash for video playback in browser helped to kill quicktime & wmv plugin horrors, then h264s rise forced flash and silverlight to support that standard. Now various mobile devices are reversing the tide of flash domination, as well as making it even harder for Silverlight to take off and are giving momentum to proper web html etc standards. Its not a perfect picture, with some mess remaining over video format used by html5 video tags, but its better than we'd have if all these corps had cosied up and played nice with eachother more unless part of that cosying up involved voluntarily abandoning some of their proprietary technologies such as flash.
elbows
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True except developers try to turn this limitation into an advantage by finding new ways to use the multitouch and accelerometers to control games, and indeed new or modified forms of gameplay. There is room for all kinds of different gameplay and control in the world, its been quite a joy to see the wii and iphone alternatives, and I look forward to microsofts project natal a lot too. Its still relatively early days for touch & multitouch games in general, this is a good platform to see what can be done with a larger screen and touch/accelerometers.
Bob_the_lost
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You know what, this is really good for the premium eReader market. With the ipad sat around $499 it's going to kill virtually any eReader around that price. The main reason the damned things cost so much right now is the lack of competition, goodbye premium pricing.
elbows
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Plus h.264 was already catching on for years now and most modern sites that use flash for video already have all the actual video files in h.264, the flash is just a wrapper round it, so it was really trivial for youtube to do a version of the page that didnt have this flash wrapper. It'l take them a while to add all of the other functionality they built into their flash video player to non-flash versions, and I assume flash as a video playing wrapper will live on for years due to the usual enemy internet explorer, but yeah I cant see how ogg theora is going to compete with h.264. Thus firefox may be the big victim in this battle, as its hard for their open model to work with the h.264 license. Google gets the best of both worlds by supporting both video formats in chrome, and Apple stick to the h.264 strategy that they have persued since around 2005.
Kid_Eternity
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Apple iPad is announced
Heh the iPad got two front pages today in the Times and Indy. Apple are PR masters!
Heh the iPad got two front pages today in the Times and Indy. Apple are PR masters!
pinkmonkey
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FridgeMagnet
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I have recently been amused by Opinion Pieces On The Internet that have simultaneously criticised the iPad for being "locked down" and not open, and at the same time for not supporting Flash.
Personally I want Flash to die. If a browser plugin could die painfully I'd like that, but I don't think it can, so I'll settle for simple demise, and if Apple can help that I'll clap my flippers in delight.
Personally I want Flash to die. If a browser plugin could die painfully I'd like that, but I don't think it can, so I'll settle for simple demise, and if Apple can help that I'll clap my flippers in delight.
FridgeMagnet
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I've got two flippers inaye?
pinkmonkey
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On core77 they wanted a stylus.Flippers? This multitouch lark isn't for the likes of you.
FridgeMagnet
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On core77 they wanted a stylus.
if you can't run illustrator on something, what's the point?
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
FridgeMagnet
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That's a good thing surely? "Oh dear you won't be able to buy stupidly overpriced ebooks with DRM that lets us delete them if we fancy it."
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
But of a fucker if you buy expecting to see lots of lovely colourful books on it.
FridgeMagnet
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Only if you expected to just be able to buy them from Apple; you could still read other ebooks, just like you can on the iPhone. Though I bet they'll internationalise it fairly swiftly.
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