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.

As I men­tioned in an ear­lier post, I would be offer­ing a mobile ver­sion of this weblog. It’s been run­ning in beta form for a while now and I think it’s ready to be unleashed into dig­i­tal cyber­space. You can approach this opti­mized ver­sion with you iPod Touch or iPhone by enter­ing this URL in your browser: http://​mobile.​dig​i​tal​ren​dezvous.net and if you have the latest firmware 1.1.3 (4A93) and the Jan­u­ary upgrade for the iPod Touch, you’ll see the magic of Web Clip. So dig­i­tal­ren­dezvous | mobile is ready-​to-​go.

I am cur­rently inves­ti­gat­ing mobile offer­ings of my weblog. So mobile.​dig​i​tal​ren​dezvous.net is on its way. This will enable me to post from any loca­tion and let users post com­ments from any loca­tion. Moblog­ging is in its infancy phase, but I think the mobile device as we know it will change dra­mat­i­cally, offer­ing users far more flex­i­bil­ity and usabil­ity in the future.

Mobile devices are get­ting more and more pow­er­ful by the year. In this demo NVidia shows off their vision on next-​generation mobile phones (at 3GSM). The power behind these graph­i­cal capa­bil­i­ties is their new Mobile GoForce line-​up. Engad­get has a nice arti­cle on the sub­ject. Khronos OpenKODE is used for accel­er­at­ing these vector 2D and 3D graph­ics. I wouldn’t be sur­prised if they would become the de facto stan­dard on a lot of mobile devices.