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Mentok

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Chinese groups slam Apple for environmental policies (TUAW.com)

Jan 20th 2011 5:41PM Apple doesn't have to comment on ANY of this, the Foxconn people do.

Foxconn / Honhai is a subcontractor for HP, Dell, and other companies. But you don't see these companies 'responding' do you?

Finally. The reason Apple doesn't do manufacturing in the US is *because* of all the environmental regulations. It's just EASIER doing it in China. Cheap is only part of the equation.

If you want JOBS (the work, not the guy) to come back to the USA, then VOTE OUT anyone who supports climate change, 'green jobs' and all that crapola.

Pika2000 is right on the ball. The Chinese politicians didn't get their spiff, so these 'environmental groups' spouted up.

Any *real* dissenters (like the Nobel Peace Prize winner) are either in prison or a reform camp. In the morning...

-Drunken Economist
http://twitter.com/drunk_economist

Switcher Profile: Joshua Kors has no idea how to use a Mac, returns it (TUAW.com)

Dec 14th 2010 12:37PM Oh, c'mon, linkbait on linkbait. This was a paid-for hit piece. The real question is who paid off Joshua Kors?

Adobe CTO defends Flash against battery life criticism (TUAW.com)

Nov 9th 2010 1:36PM Dear Adobe: Every time Apple 'carried your water' by including Flash they were beat on for installing / updating 'outdated plugins'. That YOU made. That suck on every platform except Windows.

It's YOUR plugin. It's YOUR problem. Carry your own damned water.

-Drunky

Adobe launches Project ROME preview, all-in-one content creation/publishing (TUAW.com)

Oct 25th 2010 11:24PM Adobe's largest, most pronounced MISTAKE was gobbling Macromedia and their sh*tty browser plugin. All their marketing blather doesn't matter, at the end of the day, Adobe put their entire fate in the frail hands of a browser pluging that developers SANDBOX and end users yell at.

Apple took ONE LOOK at this situation and basically said NO.

If there was any debt between the two companies, it was basically erased the minute Adobe arrogantly called Apple out, and Apple said its 'No' in that 'About Flash' letter.

Macromedia was out of ideas and money when they were consumed by Adobe. Now Adobe, with the same idiots at the helm, is out of ideas except for this cloudcrap.

Barring any acquisition by Microsoft I see their circling of the drain as not so slow and not for very long.

Moral of the story: Don't be arrogant, and certainly DO NOT piss off your major platform vendor. And certainly DO NOT call your sh*tty browser plugin a 'platform'... even MSFT knows that Silverlight is not a 'platform.'

World rejoices as Photoshop Express for iPad is fixed (TUAW.com)

Aug 15th 2010 11:00AM Adobe has gone out of their way to use PR instead of technical acumen, offshoring instead of real innovation. In short, Adobe has been running their collective mouths for years with little to back it up. Just like the 'old Microsoft'.. even the softies have abandoned that tack.

'Ubiquity' doesn't get you squat these days. Just ask every softy except Ballmer.

Maybe Adobe's recent behavior is suggestive that they're looking to Redmond to buy them out. It's obvious that whatever geek power they had over there is LONG GONE. Uncle Steve just refusing Flash outright on the iOS just made this painfully obvious.

Knowing all this, my questions are:

WHY shouldn't Mel have a 'Gawker moment' when they mess up? Gawker caps on Apple all the time. And this is the unofficial APPLE web log, right?

And more importantly, Apple vets Apps before they hit the AppStore. Why did this one just SLIDE THROUGH? So that (once again) Adobe can be shown to be the fools they are? Bueller? Bueller?

Photoshop Express for iPad is the spawn of the devil, avoid for now (TUAW.com)

Aug 14th 2010 10:59AM That's the 'Open in App...' API that nearly every other developer other than Adobe's offshore monkeys in India gets right. Read that again. Even kid programmers in the AppStore know how to use this API.

GoodReader, ReaddleDocs, all these allow you to 'Open in...' when invoked by the user ON A DOCUMENT (usually held via touch as a context menu).

I guess Adobe is so ashamed of this dog they just invoke another application instead on launch.

Photoshop Express for iPad is the spawn of the devil, avoid for now (TUAW.com)

Aug 14th 2010 10:54AM Photoshop's always been a festering pile of toilet paper on the Mac. Pretty much ported from Windows.

The icon is apropo, the fact that they give it away for free should tell you what the state of the app is on any non Windows platform.

myTexts for iPad, distraction-free writing to go (TUAW.com)

May 30th 2010 6:16AM Why wait for WriteRoom iPad if you've jailbreaked?

Just try the iPhone version and 'Full Force' it. It works FINE.

-Drunky

Apple making RAM affordable? Really? (TUAW.com)

Apr 17th 2010 4:41PM @Joanna, In other words, you use Adobe products to do WebDev.

Yeah, I'd say their applications (with a lowercase 'a') are pretty 'intense' via memory bloat, hard disk thrashing, etc.

Take her at her word, guys.... Drunky out.

Apple blocking Flash-built apps because of multitasking? (TUAW.com)

Apr 10th 2010 12:34AM +1 for Chris Rawson. Apple DOES NOT have a monopoly. iPhoneOS is not 'Ubiquitous' across 95% of all handsets like say, Windows is on the desktop.

Also, Adobe has been maintaining that in the video space that they *are* 'Ubiquitous' -- so that pithy little handset maker across the way who won't play ball with them shouldn't hurt their business. That much.

Adobe called 'ubiquitous, so support us (or else).'

Apple called bullshiat. Simple as that.

-Drunken Economist
http://mindtaker.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/drunk_economist