if only I could start again a million miles away....

and you could have it all, my empire of dirt.
I won't let you down, I won't make you hurt.



Once again a few (yes they are few) people/developers flock against Apple regarding how apps are developed for the iphone. I don't think its a big deal. In my opinion its a small detail if you want develop for the iphone - you simply have to develop with tools that Apple say you can - so whats wrong with that? Nothing, its their creation and so let it be.

I agree with them on this one - as an individual developer I agree with Apple. Sometimes I feel that by placing limits on artist/developers you usually get better - more creative results. Throughout history man has done with little, then what he has done with a lot. I mean there are a lot of rich people now, and there tonnes of developer tools for the Windows platform, but there are only a few memorable apps for Windows. BeOS had some interesting apps, but then again it was way ahead of everything at the time...so the whole OS felt radical. Whereas the iphone has alot of apps that I want to show off to my mates who don't own one....I mean its like using butter, its so well crafted, and engineered beautifully that one just wants to show how marvellous it is to use.


So I have to admit around last year or before I was a bit disappointed with the whole Flash not being on my iphone, but now im over it, and it feels like an old argument. As a flash developer - I can see where Apple are coming from and regardless whether they say its buggy for the iphone, or if there is some ulterior motive to keep Adobe away, its Apple's choice and their decision and as a creative mind - I always like a challenge - thus I've been reading/learning more about CSS/HTML and just working on the idea of making more mobile friendly websites - I love touch screen.

What is interesting is how fans still argue about Hurt a song by Nine inch Nails (Trent Razor), which was covered by Johnny Cash in 2002, a lot of people still don't know it was written by Trent in 1994 and Cash covered it - what they automatically assume (like me) is that since Cash is such a legend he must have wrote it and every other artist covered it. Its funny reading the angry comments on youtube...personally I initially liked the Cash version, after hearing Sevendust live acoustic cover - I'm blown away by it - its my favourite version.



I have to be honest I don't look forward to Adobe CS suites, its not a joy for me to use. I remember everything about using photoshop/paintshop pro/ back in the day on a performa 5320 in school, photoshop was the dogs biscuit. I wonder what Apple have up their sleeve, they've nailed the video market with FCP, it'll be interesting to see what they do next.

Out of all of this - the biggest loser must be intel. I mean they don't make processors for mobiles and eventually mobile usage will surpass PC/Laptop. Now that we shall soon have Nvidia chips on mobiles dedicated to HD quality, low power consumption devices + ARM Chips - is there really any need for the Intel/AMD giants - in the long term? I wonder.