Where is the People’s Internet?

Walter — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 04:37:00 +0000

The Future of Web Content – HTML5, Flash & Mobile Apps:

The recent introduction of the new Apple iPad has stirred the discussion over the future of web content and application runtime formats, and shone light onto the political and business battles emerging between Apple, Adobe and Google. These discussion are often highly polarized and irrational. My hope in this post is to help provide some balance and clarity onto this discussion.

My somewhat vitriolic comments follow

The article and the comments together make for a good read. I am now thinking of the Net, not in terms of open / closed, but as a sort of battle field for various economic and political interests. At least the enemy are in-fighting. Whoever wins is the enemy. The corporates determine the very shape of the net, there is no disintermediation, only re-intermediation by bigger sharks. If we favour “more open” that favours Google probably, to sell more ads. Ads! Who needs ads!

Freedom is a strange notion. The iPhone has freed me up from being at the desk, I read far more than before. I read this article on the phone, sent myself a liink and am now blogging on the PC. It has no Flash, I hate it when I get the blue lego tile on the iPhone! I hate it that to build in flash costs $$$ worth of tools. I hate it that Apple stops Amazon from allowing book sharing on the iPhone Ugh!

I learned in the comments in the article that Apple does not allow developers on the Mac to access the GPU! That’s it, I lost all my Apple, thing of beauty lust. Gone.

Where is the EFF? http://www.eff.org/ WC3, what could they possibly do to create a people’s Web?

Do they make a phone in Venezuela? Or Cuba? I’d like to not feel contaminated by the dirty technology I always use. Windows XP, iPhone Ugh!

iPad & art

Walter — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:41:16 +0000

Well the iPad does not meet my hopes. Not sure even a 2nd gen would do that. I think the philosophy might be flawed. Sad! Or is there something eklse brewing here?

Not pressure sensitive. Maybe someone will build it into a pen?
No Camera – (But it can import photos – so that is ok.)
No Usb (no mouse? would it take the magic mouse? or do I need to get over the mouse thing?

No removable battery (limiting trips into the hills – or will my iPhone kengsinton charger work?)

Not a great processor (Lag in painting aps?)
No multi tasking (Not all that bad, most things are tabs on the browser anyway, but does not bode well for art, so I can have various art apps open)
No stylus option (maybe it could be 3rd party?)

It is not as good as a netbook for work, not as good as a Windows Tablet for art, what are they thinking? Maybe it is touch all the way and that is ok?

I’ll stick with my iPhone for reading books too, best e-reader I’ve had – but a bigger screen would be nice.

Makes me think I’ll look into a Toshiba Tablet and run Windows 7 when this M200 has had it, but it is still OK! And it is a clunky messy thing!

Apple – iPad – Technical specifications and accessories for iPad.:

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Where is the People’s Internet?

iPad & art