May 2010 Archives

There is a saying that imitation is the highest form of flattery. The simple fact that someone has taken the time to copy your work is at least some indication that what you've done is exemplary, worthy of being copied. But I'm sure the originator of that saying wouldn't be smiling if I claimed the credit for creating it, and so such pithy clich�s do little to soothe the damage done to the victim of a crime like plagiarism.

As with many companies that offer the same informative and opinionated blogs as we do here at Digitcom, I subscribe to a service called Copyscape, a simple yet useful tool that scans the Internet looking for possible plagiarism of any of Digitcom or TheTelecomblog.com's web sites.

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I have no doubt that much like me you were questioning Steve Jobs' recent open letter to the public over the failings of Adobe's Flash software. Not that his claims weren't true, for it truly does seem that Flash will meets its end at the hands of HTML5, but that they really served no purpose except to anger and annoy. It is with this in mind that we hear that Apple is now developing its own platform, Gianduia, "a client-side, standards based framework for Rich Internet Apps, to create production quality online apps for its retail users."

While it comes as little surprise to see Apple produce a platform of its own meant to rival, if not kill, Adobe's Flash, the move seems strange in light of Jobs' comments regarding the antiquated and outdated nature of Flash, comments that could also be made in reference to Gianduia.

So with Apple committing itself to backing the development and implementation of the cutting edge HTML5, a web upgrade that will most likely kill the need for Flash, seeing Apple create its own Flash alternative Gianduia, which will undoubtedly succumb to the power of HTML5 as well, seems particularly strange, which naturally begs the question, why develop Gianduia in the first place?

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