Comments on: Macworld 2007: Steve Jobs’s keynote rocked

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:24:33 +0000

So I recently watched this on my iPod (which does enrich my life) and as a technologist yes apple’s products are amazing and excellent. But although with all my other human instincts and faults I do also have a humanist instinct. This keynote did not rock in my opinion, it rocked if you’re too greedy or uneducated to recognise where human civilsation is currently headed

Job’s attitude towards patents I found very distasteful. As I did with all the mindless audience reactions, some American’s are hard to love (but some are not! check out film “this is what democracy looks like”). I love apple’s products but such blindness* to humanist issues by leaders like jobs (for example http://www.greenpeace.org/apple/about.html) means our current civilisation is doomed – but it doesn’t have to be that way

*benefit of the doubt

By: LEE

LEE — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:13:07 +0000

Geez, just came across a post sourcing Apple Germany’s confirmation that Safari on the iPhone will have both the flash & java plugins.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=3238293#post3238293

By: LEE

LEE — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:08:29 +0000

I’m sure you’ve read this, but just in case:

A full version (optimised) version of OSX? Sounds unbelievable.

http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipod-itunes/news/index.cfm?newsid=16927

By: Ali N.

Ali N. — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 08:49:46 +0000

If it doesn’t have Flash Lite Feature…it’ll surely be possible to install this, i think.

By: David Bamford

David Bamford — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:16:44 +0000

I am so envious that you got to see the premiere of iPhone. I don’t know about ethics, but Apple sure has design down to Art… Please let us all know what you have been able to find out about uploading FlashLite or J2ME development to the svelte new handset. Best regards – come to NYC once in awhile

By: Burak KALAYCI

Burak KALAYCI — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:47:26 +0000

The phone indeed looks cool, but Apple’s ‘lack of ethics’ prevents me craving for it.

http://www.asvguy.com/2007/01/apple_lacks_eth.html

Best regards,
Burak

By: LEE

LEE — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:11:31 +0000

But yeah, personally I don’t think that the iPhone will/can have the same version of Safari that we have on our desktops. Can it? Naaahhh. And of course it’ll have it’s own specialized version of OSX mobile or whatever they’re calling it, with it’s own unique set of software development specs.

lol, if the world was suddenly able to play a scaled version of WoW on their iPhone, I think it would all fall apart. But at least it’ll have Flash Lite, right?

By: LEE

LEE — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:01:27 +0000

Dashboard widgets can display Flash content since they’re built on top of Web Kit, but Apple hasn’t broadcasted that much, if at all. Not that they should, just using this to suggest that perhaps Safari on the iPhone will be just a robust as Safari on any Mac, and Apple isn’t interested in discussing how to activate plugins just yet. I really don’t know, but Jobs did seem eager to communicate that the iPhone’s version of OSX, or Safari isn’t going to be a stripped down version. = } But flash can get realy hairy, real fast = }

By: aral

aral — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:54:01 +0000

Hey Pete: The keynote did run over so everything else was pushed back. There was some improvisation involved :)

Miles: That’s really cool — thanks so much for sharing. *Goes off to fumble with his phone*

Lee: Not sure. But that would rock! I would love a custom Flash player for this phone that takes advantage of all the neat usability features. I don’t know if Adobe are even talking with Apple about this though. I sure hope so.

By: LEE

LEE — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:42:25 +0000

It’s going to run OSX, so I suspect installing the Flash Player may be identical to installing it on your iMac…That’d be nice.