It ’s goodbye Kin , au revoir smut via Flash , goodbye 3 G receipt bars , and cheerio Macalope as he heads off for some well - earned holiday !
Only the dumb die young
With the news that the Kin has been cancelled , the Macalope just had to call up his sure-enough pal , the Winotaur .
MACALOPE : Dude , sorry to hear about the Kin . What happened ?
WINOTAUR : Well , you ca n’t make a iPhone - kill omelet without breaking a few eggs , you know what I ’m saying ?
MACALOPE : Hmm . Yeah , well , there ’s using up a few eggs to try thing out and then there ’s just drunkenly throwing eggs against the wall .
WINOTAUR : Hey ! Idrinkbecause I have a lot of stress ! OK ? !
MACALOPE : You guys are hard to keep up with . The Macalope was all set to give you crap becausethe Kin ’s price got cut off in halfjust seven hebdomad after the thing launched , and then a couple of days later it ’s just dead .
WINOTAUR : We , uh , we did n’t betray a lot of them .
MACALOPE : But you ’re giving gift certificates to the Microsoft Store for former adopters though , veracious ?
WINOTAUR : Huh ?
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MACALOPE : Well , yeah , you cut the terms , so are n’t you hold up to make it up to your loyal customers ?
WINOTAUR : What the Scheol are you talking about ?
MACALOPE : That ’s what the Macalope thought .
WINOTAUR : tell apart you what , though . I ’m starting to believe there may actually be an Apple fifth pillar working within Microsoft .
MACALOPE : You do n’t say .
WINOTAUR : C’m on . bet atthe grounds . Someone who work in the MacBU , then oversaw the Danger debacle and now the Kin ? Maybea million dollar down the hole ? It ’s all so obvious , man !
MACALOPE : You make a compelling head . But usually the right solution is the dim-witted one .
WINOTAUR : Which is ?
MACALOPE : You masses are incompetent .
WINOTAUR : [ sigh ] That ’s another cause why I drink .
MACALOPE : Are you trusted it ’s not the other style around ?
WINOTAUR : That ’s the thing ! There ’s no way for me to tell anymore !
There goes our biggest market!
Flash bewilder something of a boost from YouTube this week as a blog post by an engineer on the teamdetailed all the thing that HTML5 does n’t do that Flash does .
Yay , for Flash ! Flash advance the week , right ?
Eh , not so much . Turns out the porn industry has seen the writing on the men ’s room wall . And , in addition to that , they’ve realized that Flash ’s days are number . Ari Joone , the director of Digital Playground , one of the big porn manufacturer , said :
Mobile browsers run hypertext mark-up language 5 very well . Flash brings everything to a crawl and has an impact on battery life . With HTML 5 , there is no reason to show our content in Flash .
Adobe ’s run around try on to stimulate the all of a sudden soft support for Flash , but these are n’t the kind of mass that Adobe ’s going to stimulate .
Now , Adobe ’s not depart to overtly seek to invoke to the porno industriousness , because it would just look bad , but regardless , Adobe simply has no leverage over these multitude . The company ’s not going to fake some kind of tacit strategical alliance like it has with Google because all the porn people are concerned in is eyeballs . openhanded , bounce eyeball . And if more people can “ consume ” their “ mental object ” if they “ deliver ” that “ cognitive content ” in HTML5 , then expect to see them start pushing that “ message ” into HTML5 .
Gently at first and then gradually faster and quicker , building to a crescendo of …
Well , you get the approximation .
First world problem
The Macalope ’s not one to holler “ Frivolous suit ! ” ( although he once woke up in a cold effort call “ Fabulous pants suit ! ” and , no , he does n’t want to talk about it ) but are people reallyfiling cause over receipt problemsalready ?
“ plaintiff are leave behind with a gadget that can not be used for the normal purpose and in the normal manner in which such gadget are intended to be used , ” reads the lawsuit . “ Plaintiffs are unable to return the phone without find a strong restocking fee . ”
Well , purely speaking , it can be used for normal purposes in the normal fashion . First of all , not everyone hold their earpiece with their odd hand . And evensome who dodon’t notice anything dissimilar because they ’re not hold close it like it ’s the last ticket out of Saigon and it ’s April 30 , 1975 .
The situation is actuallyrelatively complicated(tip o ’ the antlers toDaring Fireball ) . Other phones — including other iPhones — have somewhat much the same job to alter degree . Well , except for the Kin , because no one ’s in reality held or cared about one . All things considered , response on the iPhone 4 is actually fairly skillful .
Apple says the drop appear more dramatic than it is — presumably because the company ’s beenjacking up the indicator all along — and a approaching software update will take off those fake bar posthaste ( uh , yay ? ) . Andfrom the insistency release , it appear the ship’s company has drop the restocking fee ( which is only veracious ) .
So , what ’s this suit about again ?
There is distinctly a job here and it ’s not just sweaty palms , unless it ’s the sweaty palms of some designers at Apple who are a small too clever for their own good . But if it ’s such a fully grown problem , how come the Macalope still ca n’t lay a hoof on one of the blamed things ? Because they ’re sold outeverywhere .
Programming Note
Taking down dizzy pundits is tiring , so the Macalope will be on vacation for the next two weeks . He hopes to return with an iPhone 4 but who know ?
