For Michelle

No man is an island, so stop being one.
He who tries to be lonely is simply no fun.
Don’t try to be sheltered, take care of yourself,
Don’t hide all your problems and fears on a shelf.
Go open your heart up to others like you
Be glad that your natural glow will shine through.
You are who you are, and your life is but thine
But don’t hide the reasons to show how you shine.
Your life is a treasure that cannot be sold
It never is purchased, is tarnished, grows old.
There’s no need to worry; make friends and you’ll see:
Be happy, be healthy, but mostly, be free.

~David Carlson

The War is Over

Apple VS Adobe
FIGHT!
-Guile’s Theme goes here- (Guile’s theme goes with everything)

A brief history:

Apple is a contender for dominating the computer market [it is, at the least, the fastest growing].

Adobe develops some of the most successful and popular software [Photoshop, Flash, Acrobat . . . ].

Problem:

Flash doesn’t work so well on Macintosh devices. Often, it’s downright awful.

Adobe wants Apple to allow for Flash support on iPod devices and the iPads.

Steve Jobs says, “Heck no, HTML5 is far superior.”

And there’s been a conflict ever since.

But wait! There’s more! [Call now, and we’ll double your offer! (I’m an ad major. I watch infomercials… sorry.)]

Adobe recently unveiled Wallaby, “an experimental new drag-and-drop tool for developers that converts Flash files into HTML5″ (Amy Gahran, CNN Tech). Cool, huh?

Basically, if developers start to use Wallaby, then iPhone and iPad users will suddenly be able to access much more online content, which makes everyone happy. 

This is especially good news if, as predicted, most internet access is mobile by 2013.

In closing, an excerpt from Daniel Eran Dilger’s entertaining mock-biblical chronicle of the history of Apple and Adobe.

“...And Adobe saw four horsemen of the apocalypse ascending from the sea, the rider of the white horse was Steve Jobs and he was bent on conquest. And a second horse, red, was given to iPhone to take away market share from smartphones, and to cause phone makers to wage war and to fall upon their own swords.

“And a third horse, black, was carrying the scales of the iPod touch, and it measured out music playback from iTunes and sold many apps and starved other mobile platforms of mobile application demand. And fourth horse, pale, had a rider named iPad, which pundits called Death. And it caused famine for tablets and plague for slates and killed with a sword. And none of the horsemen used Flash.

“And Adobe frightfully woke from its vision of terrors, and realized that its days of monopolizing the web with Flash content were over.

“…And then Adobe began building HTML5 development tools, and it charged reasonable prices and built cross-platform products and the people rejoiced and Adobe’s death was spared and it lived comfortably for many days next to Apple.

“And Steve Jobs said thank you and Adobe said no, thank you. And they all lived happily ever after.”

Things are looking up. [Now I just need to get me an iPad or iPod Touch… Anyone? My birthday is coming up…]