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It’s Not Just Apple: Google Hates Flash Too (GOOG, AAPL, ADBE): ” While Apple’s battle with Adobe over Flash gets all the headlines, Flash’s troubles, especially for web developers lie even deeper.
When we at OMGPOP built our website, not just our games, entirely in Flash we did so to provide a rich, differentiated environment around our games. While it looks great, every day we are punished for using Flash.
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Very cool stuff and all in HTML 5 – bye bye Flash
Every new Apple mobile device and every new Mac — along with the latest version of Apple’s Safari web browser — supports web standards including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. These web standards are open, reliable, highly secure, and efficient. They allow web designers and developers to create advanced graphics, typography, animations, and transitions. Standards aren’t add-ons to the web. They are the web. And you can start using them today.”
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‘Microsoft We Don’t Feel So Good About’: “
David Gelles and Richard Waters, in a piece titled ‘Google Ditches Windows on Security Concerns’ in the Financial Times:
New hires are now given the option of using Apple’s Mac computers or PCs running the Linux operating system. ‘Linux is open source and we feel good about it,’ said one employee. ‘Microsoft we don’t feel so good about.’
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New King of Technology – Apple Overtakes Microsoft – NYTimes.com: “New King of Technology: Apple Overtakes Microsoft
By MIGUEL HELFT and ASHLEE VANCE
Published: May 26, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple, the maker of iPods, iPhones and iPads, overtook Microsoft, the computer software giant, on Wednesday to become the world’s most valuable technology company.
In intraday trading in the afternoon session, Apple shares rose 1.8 percent, which gave the company a value of $227.1 billion. Shares of Microsoft declined about 1 percent, giving the company a market capitalization of $226.3 billion.
The only American company valued higher is Exxon Mobil, with a market capitalization of $282 billion.
This changing of the guard caps one of the most stunning turnarounds in business history, as Apple had been given up for dead only a decade earlier. But the rapidly rising value attached to Apple by investors also heralds a cultural shift: Consumer tastes have overtaken the needs of business as the leading force shaping technology.
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