Tag Archive for 'apple'

In Which The Geeky Political Drama Regarding HTML5 Video is Explained By a Kindergarten Crayon Drawing

Published by Zacqary Adam Green at 3:44 AM on February 6, 2010 in Commentary. View Comments Tags: , , , , . Short URL: http://plankhead.com/EN

Okay, you see, there are some major advances to watching videos on the web that everyone would be able to experience right now, except all of the browser makers are fighting over what type of video standard to use. It may be confusing to you, so I drew you a picture to explain it in the distinctive art style of Zacqary Adam Green at age five:

You see, Theora and H.264 are shooting guns at each other and Theora is shouting about freedom and H.264 is talking about money and Firefox is a fox and he likes Theora and Opera is a singing fat lady and she likes Theora too and Apple is an apple with leaves and a bite out of it and it likes H.264 and Google is a rainbow and it likes both of them and Dirac is hiding in his room and crying because nobody pays attention to him.

There. Now you know.

The iPad Might Mean the End of Intel Macs, and That Scares Me

Published by Zacqary Adam Green at 10:33 PM on January 29, 2010 in Commentary. View Comments Tags: , , , . Short URL: http://plankhead.com/wt

Yeah, yeah, the iPad wasn’t all that great, and it’s underwhelming, and it won’t cure cancer like we thought it would, blahdeblahdeblah. We all know that, and that’s not what I’m going to rant about right now.

The iPad is the first device to use an Apple-designed processor. This is something one could easily have predicted when Apple bought PA Semi in 2008, but now that Apple’s finally gone and used their newly acquired chipmaker to actually make their own chip, the potential ramifications begin to sink in. Now that Apple makes their own processors, what’s to say they’ll still be putting Intel’s in their Macs?

One can see why they wouldn’t want to. Continue reading ‘The iPad Might Mean the End of Intel Macs, and That Scares Me’

The Annoying iPhone App Process Was All Part of Apple’s Master Plan To Make Developers Build Web Apps

Published by Zacqary Adam Green at 6:00 PM on December 16, 2009 in Commentary. View Comments Tags: , , , . Short URL: http://plankhead.com/ZH

Steve Jobs with iPhone
Robert Scoble just Sc-c-c-cobleized us with this post speculating that iPhone app developers, fed up with the App Store approval process, are abandoning apps in favor of websites that do the same thing.

Lately I’ve noticed that some developers are avoiding building apps and, instead, are building custom web pages that are designed specifically for the iPhone. [...] Yesterday another one came along from Nextstop, which is a cool new app for sharing cool things to do near you (great for travelers to check out) and they, too, decided on HTML5 instead of doing an iPhone app.

Some reasons Nextstop likes HTML5:

1. Rapid iteration. If they code a new feature tonight, you get it tonight. No waiting three weeks for you to get their latest.
2. It prepares their systems for building a native app. Why? Because apps can include a Safari browser instance inside, so all of this work is reusable, even if they do a native app.
3. It’s easier to build and debug because you don’t need to do a lot of specialized coding to make the native app work properly.
4. It fits into the greater web easier for users. In an iPhone app it can be jarring to take users out to a web browser, but if they already are in the browser they are used to going to other pages and back again using Safari’s navigation.

That sounds like a really great idea, doesn’t it. You know who else thought so? Steve Jobs:

WWDC 2007, SAN FRANCISCO—June 11, 2007—Apple® today announced that its revolutionary iPhone™ will run applications created with Web 2.0 Internet standards when it begins shipping on June 29. Developers can create Web 2.0 applications which look and behave just like the applications built into iPhone, and which can seamlessly access iPhone’s services, including making a phone call, sending an email and displaying a location in Google Maps.

But then the developers were all like, “Nooooooooo!” and Apple was all like, “Fiiiiine!” in October 2007 and announced a way to build native apps. But submitting an app to the App Store and going through the approval process is annoying as hell for developers, so they’re getting around that by doing what Apple wanted them to do anyway in the first place.

That Steve Jobs sure is a crafty one.

China is the Apple of World Powers

Published by Zacqary Adam Green at 7:11 PM on December 7, 2009 in Commentary. View Comments Tags: , , . Short URL: http://plankhead.com/MR

People's Republic of Apple

China limits people’s freedoms and rights, exhibits harsh and total control, keeps a tremendous amount of its operations secret, and yet makes a ridiculous amount of money. Who else does that make you think of, hmm?

The only difference is that Apple actually designs good products. Oh snap, China.

PreThinking.com Article on iPhone Smasher Accidentally Creates Lol Image

Published by Zacqary Adam Green at 10:15 PM on June 7, 2009 in Commentary. View Comments Tags: , , , , . Short URL: http://plankhead.com/VG

Palm Pre-enthusiast blog PreThinking has posted an article about a first-generation iPhone user who got a shiny new Palm Pre. Now he has no more use for his iPhone. Instead of coming up with a better solution, such as selling the old phone to someone who might want it, the man smashes it with a hammer:

Happy Palm Pre owner smashes his old iPhone...Pre Thinking.

PreThinking added their logo to the image, as is common practice in the interblogosphernetwebs, where anyone can take your image and claim it as theirs unless you put some form of identifier on it. For what this man did, the phrase “pre-thinking” is coincidentally appropriate.

[PreThinking via Gizmodo]