Brief follow-up to yesterday’s iPhone rant, when I said the iPhone will suck because it lacks a tactile keyboard, it’s on a 2.5G network, it’s Cingular only, and development is closed. 3 more reasons have come to my attention since then: 1. It lacks GPS capability. For a $500 phone, how retro! A terrible blow [...]
Archive for the ‘Flash’ Category
iPhone will still suck…
June 19, 2007
Problems with RIAs – #1 – Plug-ins
June 18, 2007
Currently, all RIA techologies require plug-ins of some sort. Microsoft SilverLight will be able to run cross-platform, and will require a plug-in download. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)will only run on Vista and XP SP2 (if the user downloads the .NET 3.0 framework, while JavaFX is still in alpha development, but will no doubt require some [...]
Four Horseman of the RIA Apocalypse
June 5, 2007
Welcome. My name’s Bernard Meisler, I’m the Technology Strategist for a rapidly-growing ad agency located in the Bay Area. Previously I was a software developer at MTV-Networks in NYC. I taught various courses in multimedia/interactivity at NYU for 10 years (till I moved out here last January), and also ran my own consulting company for [...]