Due to the nature of Adobe Flash plugin, Adobe’s pro­pri­etary soft­ware would need to be recom­piled and opti­mized for the ARM archi­tec­ture for run­ning on mobile devices like the iPhone/iPod Touch, so is stated by many web­sites. Quick­time wasn’t build from the ground up to sup­port these devices either (power and memory con­sump­tion wise). But not all QuickTime’s codec’s are sup­ported only H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-​Complexity ver­sion of the H.264 Base­line Profile…(see iPhone Specs for more infor­ma­tion). My ques­tion is: IS THIS TRUE? Adobe is oper­at­ing on Apple’s play­ground (Format Wars). HD-​DVD has left the build­ing in favor of BR-​DVD. But the dig­i­tal format for video isn’t decided yet! H.264, Win­dows Media or Adobe Flash. Adobe has an install base of 90%> it even comes bun­dled with Mac OS X. Quick­Time is installed on every com­puter with iTunes (Apple’s Trojan Horse) and every Mac. Apple and Adobe are com­peti­tors busi­ness wise: Final Cut Pro isn’t one of Adobe’s favorite appli­ca­tions. Apple is expand­ing hor­i­zon­tal in the soft­ware market. Rumors even point to trou­ble in the mar­riage of Apple/Adobe when Apple released iPhoto. Apple had to down­grade iPhoto’s fea­tures. When Adobe bought Macro­me­dia, there was no com­peti­tor left in the market and com­pe­ti­tion is always good! Either Apple will solve our prob­lem or Adobe will the market demands a solu­tion. I am not a big Flash fan as you prob­a­bly know so I am not cheer­ing on Adobe side.

iTunes (Music) (Games) (Movies) Store hence the name! iTunes already left it’s origin a long time ago. Apple should work out some­thing (iMedia Store or what­ever). iTunes is a strong brand, but it doesn’t cover it’s orig­i­nal propo­si­tion any­more! Apple lost the Com­puter in it’s name to state: more then just com­put­ers. The iTunes brand has to be updated! It’s an online store where the con­sumer can buy music, games, movies, audio­books etc. not just music! If I’ve under­stood cor­rectly Apple’s is going to offer soft­ware in it’s line-​up. The iPhone/iPod Touch are the first to receive it’s apps through iTunes.

Online ser­vices are the next big evo­lu­tion­ary thing after Web 2.0. You already see some com­pa­nies making the shift, like Adobe with it’s Adobe Pho­to­shop Online (PSX), Adobe even branded the Pho­to­shop line with a new very much dis­cussed (Web 2.0 Aquaish) logo. Google is also exper­i­ment­ing with online apps (Cal­en­dar, Docs, Talk etc.) and Apple already has it’s .Mac ser­vices for years (thanks to WebOb­jects). I think and pre­dict that a lot of com­pa­nies will offer these kind of ser­vices in the future and see a tighter inte­gra­tion between web-​based appli­ca­tions and desktop-​based appli­ca­tions, maybe even elim­i­nat­ing their desk­top cousins and trans­form into a sub­scrip­tion based model.

Sonnet released a 21-in-1 Mul­ti­me­dia Memory Card Reader & Writer. The ExpressCard/34 is a simple and fast solu­tion for moving files between your elec­tronic devices’ memory cards and Mac­Book hard drive, with no cables required. This device works with the most pop­u­lar memory card for­mats, includ­ing Memory Stick, MMC (Mul­ti­me­dia Card), SD (Secure Dig­i­tal), XD-​Picture Card, and all their variations—wide com­pat­i­bil­ity enables you to work with memory cards used in devices such as dig­i­tal cam­eras, cell phones, MP3 play­ers, dig­i­tal pic­ture frames, and more!

Web appli­ca­tions are becom­ing more and more ver­sa­tile and fea­ture rich. Hoping to get a jump on Google and other com­peti­tors, Adobe Sys­tems plans to release a hosted ver­sion of its pop­u­lar Pho­to­shop image-​editing appli­ca­tion within six months, the company’s chief exec­u­tive (Bruce Chizen) said. Adobe laid the foun­da­tion for a hosted Pho­to­shop prod­uct with Adobe Remix, a Web-​based video-​editing tool it offers through the Pho­to­Bucket media-​sharing site.
Like Adobe Remix, the hosted Pho­to­shop ser­vice is set to be free and mar­keted as an entry-​level ver­sion of Adobe’s more sophis­ti­cated image-​editing tools, includ­ing Pho­to­shop and Pho­to­shop Ele­ments. Chizen envi­sions rev­enue from the Pho­to­shop ser­vice coming from online adver­tis­ing.
That is new ter­ri­tory for Adobe. Because folks like Google do it in dif­fer­ent cat­e­gories, and Adobe wants to make sure that they are there before com­peti­tors start oper­at­ing in areas of their franchises.