Apple & Mac Daily News Digest

In addition to new App Store software, National Public Radio and The Wall Street Journal also plan to create specific versions of their Web sites completely devoid of Adobe Flash for iPad users.

Filemaker announced the future availability of the version 11 of the famous database application. The main feature of this version stands in one word: cocoa. The entire application has been rewritten in cocoa, as Filemaker is a subsidiary of Apple, it would be weird to have Apple complaining about Adobe not coding its application in [...]

A comparison of streaming video via the Adobe Flash and HTML5 formats with numerous different browsers on both Mac and Windows produced wildly different results based on the operating system and browser, making neither a clear winner.

Virgin America has dropped Flash content from its new website in order to allow users with Apple iPhones to check in for flights using their mobile.

I’m still not personally sold on the idea that I need an Apple iPad, but I very much like what I’m seeing in the publishing industry in response to the fledgling product. First, consider the impending dust-up between Conde Nast, Adobe, and Apple. Conde Nast is the publisher of “GQ,” “Vanity Fair,” “The New Yorker,” [...]

Magazine publisher Condé Nast revealed this week it will create iPad versions of Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, but not all of the publications will receive full interactivity due to the ongoing dispute between Apple and Adobe over Flash.

It did not take long and Apple’s engineers already fixed numerous bugs and issues in Aperture 3. Despite the long list of fixes, this update only weights 30 MB. This is good news and might show how serious Apple might finally be for supporting its customer and Pro-oriented applications, probably the best way to compete [...]

We recently reported about the on-going fight between Apple and Adobe, initiated around Flash but expanding to the entire catalog of Adobe. We were also mentioning that it was weird to see some “leaks” of the future CS5 appearing and already announcing most of the long time expected features (Cocoa, 64-bits, etC.) So, the buzz [...]

Apple’s new iPad is being criticized for lacking the capacity to render interactive content built using Adobe’s Flash platform, but the company shows no sign of reversing course.

In a recent meeting with officials from The Wall Street Journal to pitch the Apple iPad, Steve Jobs allegedly and unsurprisingly had harsh words for Adobe Flash, calling it “old technology.”

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