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Comment Re:iphone (Score 1) 393

by theridersofrohan on Thursday July 08, 2010 @10:28AM (#32839726) Attached to: No iPhone Apps, Please — We're British

But it's something that effects even pseudo-public sector- look at the BBC, their iPlayer app prioritised the iPhone well ahead of any platform, despite being completely against the BBCs requirement of providing equal access to content that license payers pay for.

(emphasis mine). Hello Mr Murdoch! Let me correct you: There is *no* BBC iPlayer app, you just go to the BBC iPlayer website, click on the program you want to watch, which launches quicktime / the movie player on the iphone. No iphone specific app. In fact, a lot of the bbc website (including news), does not fully work on the iphone as it's using flash.

But thanks for trying ;-)

Comment Re:Android 1.6? Is this a joke? (Score 4, Insightful) 167

by theridersofrohan on Saturday June 05, 2010 @06:29AM (#32467836) Attached to: Hands-On With Dell's Streak Android Device

I wonder where's that article about android fragmentation now? I remember comments claiming that talk of fragmentation is FUD!. How can you come up with an android 1.6 device in June 2010?

Comment Re:We Want to (Score 1) 731

by theridersofrohan on Thursday May 13, 2010 @07:12PM (#32201718) Attached to: Adobe Calls Out Apple With Ads In NY Times, WSJ

The point of blocking flash is to encourage people to ONLY develop for the iPhone. Development costs generally prohibit most apps from getting cross developed for multiple platforms. Sometimes things like Flash facilitate cross-platform development.

No. Apple / The Steve are advocating HTML5 as an alternative to flash. HTML5 is as open and cross platform as you can get. You don't develop for Adobe's platform, you develop against a standard, that can run on the iphone, android, windows mobile, web os and any html5 compatible browser. Encouraging people to use HTML5 is a terrible way to make iphone-only apps.

Comment Re:We Want to (Score 1) 731

by theridersofrohan on Thursday May 13, 2010 @03:47PM (#32198666) Attached to: Adobe Calls Out Apple With Ads In NY Times, WSJ

The point of blocking flash is to encourage people to ONLY develop for the iPhone. Development costs generally prohibit most apps from getting cross developed for multiple platforms. Sometimes things like Flash facilitate cross-platform development. If they get developers to only create apps for the iPhone instead of cross-platform, then people have more reasons to buy the iPhone hardware as the apps they want would only exist on the iPhone.

No it's not. Apple is promoting HTML5 as an alternative to flash (which is valid for 99%of the uses of flash). Guess what? HTML5 is not apple-specific, and runs on android etc. HTML5 is as cross platform as you get.

Comment "Religious Difference" (Score 1) 94

by theridersofrohan on Wednesday May 27, 2009 @12:54PM (#28111551) Attached to: Rates Lowered For Streamed Music In the UK

Mr Shaw said PRS had a 'religious difference' with YouTube over the
video siteâ(TM)s continuing efforts to push for a flat-fee model.

What a dinosaur!

Comment Re:Swine Flu (Score 1) 557

by theridersofrohan on Thursday April 30, 2009 @12:04PM (#27773999) Attached to: WHO Raises Swine Flu Threat Level

it's Parmageddon!

Comment Heavy Metal (Score 1) 571

by theridersofrohan on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @11:27AM (#27586669) Attached to: I prefer to consume my caffeine from a vessel of ...

I prefer to consume my caffeine out of the skulls of my defeated enemies! With a hint of milk.

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