Is A Picture Worth A Thousand Words?

After watching the Will Ferrell short, embedded in this months issue of Wired magazine for the iPad, it gave me pause. Photographs have been used as an advertising vehicle in magazines, newspapers and many other print media. In the hands of a skilled photographer, concepts can be delivered in a concise format. The question, however, is always: did the the viewer “get it”?
Wired magazine and may other publications are experimenting with the iPad as a way to transmit media through the moving picture. In this short we are presented with the dilemma of weather or not a picture could tell the story as accurately as the video. You be the judge.

Filed under: Apple, iPad, Photography, Tablet, TV

A Flash Of Light At The End Of The Tunnel

Google announced that they will support Flash, natively, in the Chrome OS. This is huge for Adobe, who for a while, thought that Flash was in jeopardy.

The boys at Cupertino were ready to put the nail in Flash’s coffin in favor of HTML5. I still don’t understand the choice between the two. For the casual viewer, one would go away believing that Flash is simple a video player (this seems to be the only feature that gets discussed). Flash has the ability to create rich UI’s that I do not believe HTML5 will rival. So for now: “Viva la Flash”

Filed under: iPad, Adobe, Apple, Chrome OS, Flash, Google, HTML5

Will It Be A Thumbs Up?

It’s funny how a new device can spawn so many new patterns of behavior. As we sit on the cusp of Apple’s iPad release we will once again, gaze into the future, hoping to get a glimpse of the changes that such a device will bring to our lives.

The hotly debated issue of the iPhone was weather or not we would be able to hunt and peck out messages with equal alacrity to that of the Blackberry. This is the first time, if I’m not mistaken, that a virtual keyboard will be going up against a regular keyboard, and there will no doubt be just as many many opinions offering the thumbs up or down in support of this new format.

I’ve got to hand it to Apple, they certainly are willing to blaze new trails and push us kicking, if not, screaming into the future.

Filed under: iPad, Tablet, Apple, Blackberry, iPad, Keyboard, Research in Motion

Who’s That Over There? – Part II

So it seems like Steve is being tricky. I had previously written that a mistake had occurred as Steve Jobs navigated to the NY Times website and the Flash content didn’t work, during the iPad debue. It has been pointed out that this was no mistake. Judging from Steve’s attention to detail, this argument certainly has merit.

What was really going on behind the curtain? Well, it turns out, it was all orchestrated. It appears that Apple is dissatisfied with Flash performance and is making a push for HTML5 as a replacement. He was simply planting the seed in the minds of the viewers.

This could be a risky strategy. All it would take is another vender to come along with a compelling tablet running flash and the plan would fall apart.

Filed under: iPad, Tablet, Adobe, Apple, Flash, HTML5, iPad