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29 Oct 08
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Flash, Silverlight and JavaFX. And wondered if Apple has an ace up its sleeve.
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other companies are already bringing their plugins to Apple’s platforms, so the company may feel no urgent need to reinvent the wheel on Mac OS X.
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Another “Apple should really…” item that refuses to die is the porting of core Apple media technologies to (at least) Windows, with a runtime for Cocoa. The “Yellow Box for Windows” which would have made write-once, deploy-anywhere possible still remains a dream of Cocoa developers.
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Yet another option is #1 in Apple fans’ perennial Top Ten wishlist: buying Adobe (for Flash). This one’s quite unlikely
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Finally, Apple may choose to leverage an open source project such as OpenLaszlo, capable of outputting to multiple runtimes:
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One huge barrier to that approach is distribution, however. It’s easy for Microsoft to distribute Silverlight through its OS monopoly. Flash, which Adobe claims is on 98% of desktops, has an unrivaled uptake rate for upgrades. Sun has close relationships with mobile device manufacturers and carriers and Java already runs on hundreds of millions of phones.
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Apple’s Trojan horse in multi-platform, multimedia runtime is a piece of open source technology that’s already on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Adobe Flex/AIR, iPhone, iPod touch, Nokia S60 smartphones and Google’s new Android/Open Handset Alliance, with 30+ partners around the globe: WebKit 3.0.
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Client-side storage
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Enhanced Rich Text Editing
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Downloadable fonts
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Style-able form controls
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Advanced CSS styling
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Faster JavaScript and DOM
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HTML5 <audio> and <video>
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Remember Apple makes money mostly by selling iPhones, AppleTVs, Macs and related services. To the extent that these devices can have access to non-propriatery runtimes, not controlled by competitors like Adobe or Microsoft, Apple would be happy to sponsor open source development, as it’s doing with WebKit.
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15 Aug 08
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18 Jun 08
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Apple’s Trojan horse in multi-platform, multimedia runtime is a piece of open source technology that’s already on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Adobe Flex/AIR, iPhone, iPod touch, Nokia S60 smartphones and Google’s new Android/Open Handset Alliance, with 30+ partners around the globe: WebKit 3.0.
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