Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch on Open Access to Content and Applications: A Translation.

Some have been surprised at the lack of inclusion of Flash Player on a recent magical device.

Apple is out to screw us. Surprised?

Flash has been incredibly successful in its adoption, with over 85% of the top web sites containing Flash content and Flash running on over 98% of computers on the Web.

Don’t tell anyone that Flash usage is dropping all over the place.

We are now on the verge of delivering Flash Player 10.1 for smartphones with all but one of the top manufacturers.

If everyone follows Apple’s lead, we’re screwed.

This includes Google’s Android, RIM’s Blackberry, Nokia, Palm Pre and many others across form factors… Flash in the browser provides a competitive advantage to these devices because it will enable their customers to browse the whole Web.

Of course, most mobile device users browse the web using an iPhone and Safari, but still…

Some point to HTML as eventually supplanting the need for Flash, particularly with the more recent developments coming in HTML with version 5.

Gawd I hope not. Can’t we all just get along?

So, what about Flash running on Apple devices?... We are ready to enable Flash in the browser on these devices if and when Apple chooses to allow that for its users, but to date we have not had the required cooperation from Apple to make this happen.

Why won’t Steve return my calls? I leave a message every day. Are we sure that’s the right phone number? Hello?

Our mission at Adobe is to revolutionize how people engage with ideas and information, and we focus daily on how to best empower designers and developers to express themselves most fully and creatively. To have the greatest creative control combined with the most productive tools and broadest ability to deploy their content and applications.

Blah, blah, blah, blah (are they buying this yet?)... Blah, blah, blah, blah, (are they still paying attention?)... Blah, blah, blah…

We strongly believe the Web should remain an open environment with consistent access to content and applications regardless of your viewing device.

By open environment, we mean use Flash instead of anything else.

It’s not even on sale yet, but the iPad has become everything to everybody. To the geeks the iPad is a big yawn. To the fan boys the iPad is better than antibiotics. To the medical profession the iPad may prove to be a double barreled savior. Doctors can use the iPad in their practice, and the iPad may promote bad posture, leading to poor health, leading to more visits to the doctor.

Dr. David Rempel in TechNewsDaily. The iPad…

...creates a wonderful opportunity in terms of mobility and ease of interaction… [it] poses a similar type of musculoskeletal problems as the laptop. Working on a laptop for long periods of time puts a heavy load on a user’s neck and upper back, causing fatigue and pain. Large U.S.-based companies that shifted their workforce away from desktops to laptops to increase productivity found their workers suffered from more neck and back problems.

In other words, the iPad is bad for your posture.

Remember Axiotron? They build and sell a modification to the MacBook which makes it a tablet. Axiotron filed for a trademark for the term TabletMac. From MacRumors:

Sometime in the past year, however, the trademark was transferred from Axiotron to Apple, and Apple is now listed as the owner of the trademark.

That merely adds speculative fuel to the flame (carried by all of us who believe Apple will market a tablet, slate, pad computer).

Most of the Apple-related noise the past two weeks has been about the iPhone 3GS and Steve Jobs’ liver transplant. What about the next great thing? Mac360‘s Bambi Brannan:

It may not be called a Mac, but the next MacBook, the digital device destined to sit between iPhone/iPod and Mac notebooks, will be a true handheld Mac. Think 10 inches of screen with a rim, thin, wireless, on screen keyboard, and here it comes—this new MacBook will run Mac OS X and iPhone OS X, so it can run Mac apps and utilities and iPhone/iPod touch apps, utilities, games.

Why not? I’d pay $799 for one.

Another new feature in Windows Vista. The downgrade to Windows XP. Microsoft gets to count XP sales as Vista sales. PC World’s Ephraim Schwartz:

Dell will preinstall XP Professional as a “downgrade” on a variety of desktop PCs and laptops… saving users the hassle of doing it themselves.

It’s funny how there’s no clamor among Mac users to downgrade OS X Leopard to Jaguar.