Radley Marx

Adobe: stop playing CalvinBall with Apple and move on

Great news from Apple today: their platform is such a success that they’ve decided to take over all money-making verticals. They already had communication and media, but now they’ll be in charge of advertising, social gaming, location, and especially development.

With less than 48 business hours to launch CS5, Adobe must scramble to change their story. If not, the news cycle won’t move on to Adobe’s new product and features, the story will remain “Flash blocked by Apple: is Flash washed-up?”

This isn’t time to keep playing CalvinBall with Apple. This is the time to quit the games and move on to your real platform: anything that isn’t iPOS.

Here’s my 5-part game plan for Adobe: More »

Detailed instructions for installing AIR 2.0 SDK (for OSX)

My friend Mike posted instructions for installing the AIR 2.0 beta a couple of months ago which was really helpful for non-programmers like me. Unfortunately only a week later the AIR team changed the file type of the download which essentially nixed Mike’s instructions.

The good news is that the new file version is actually pretty easy to install, but the instructions are geared towards people who think like a programmer instead of us Creative Suite people.

The new instructions are available in the Release Notes, which non-programmers might find a little confusing. Here’s detailed instructions (for the rest of us) on how to install AIR 2.0: More »

Five Myths of HTML5 (vs. Adobe Flash)

First off, the inevitable disclaimer: I’m a Flash guy, not really an HTML5 guy. But I’m also an Apple guy  - I’ve owned 8 Macs, 2 iPhones, and 0 PCs over the last 20 years. I’m naturally receptive to Steve’s ideas, so maybe this HTML5 stuff does make sense. Or does it?

I don’t mean to come late to or prolong the argument. Rather, I actually wanted to dig a little deeper into the HTML5 vs. Flash debate and offer a fair rebuttal to the most fanatical of claims.

Let’s get to it…

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iPad/iPhone/iPod (iPOS) as Open Platform… Why Bother?

A friend asked me on Twitter this morning:

Why is flash such a contentious issue for Apple? licensing? processing overhead? them wanting to own everything?

Really it all boils down to this: the iPOS is Apple’s end-to-end platform from the processor to the hardware to the operating system, media and communication software, all the way up to the point of sale for music, video, books, and applications to the end users. All of it 100% Apple.

So why bother? More »

New Old School DJ Mix: “Hamsters Hoovers and Toy Pianos”

Happy to announce I just finished up a new 90+ minute old school mix full of the great sounds of early techno and UK hardcore (’91 – ‘94):

Download (220MB, 320k)

or

Mixcloud (web player)

For those that need an explanation, the title comes from nick-names from the genre: hamsters for the sped up vocal samples, hoovers for the Juno stabs and builds, and toy pianos for that slightly out of tune, tinny kiddy piano sound. More »