Pretty bad. In fact, if you’re thinking video, utterly unusable... Ignoring the broader reasons for Apple wanting to keep Flash off its platform, it’s clear that Flash is simply too processor-intensive to work properly on mobile-class processors as currently specified.

Great video demonstration of Flash on Android.

So far, some three million physicians have downloaded the $0.99 iStethoscope to be able to monitor the heart rates of patients on the go.

It’s an impressive number but there’s no mention on how many of the iStethoscope apps are in actual use.

80 percent of doctors say they expect to be using a smart phone by 2012, this inexpensive app definitely quickens the pace of many. Although the heart-monitor app is undoubtedly handy, it does sound slightly awkward to use without a bit of practice.

How long before our doctor’s appointments are face-to-face via FaceTime?

While Hulu did a fine job technically getting the service up and running, it just wasn’t worth the $10 per month I was paying.

Why?

Mostly because I never used it.

Why not?

Again, my personal preference plays into this a lot, so I’m not saying that Hulu Plus won’t be better for some/most people.

Sigh.

1. The Puck Mouse
2. The G4 Cube
3. iPod HiFi
4. FireWire
5. Pippin
6. Steve Jobs Challenge

#6 is stupid. #1, #2, #3 and #5 are spot on. FireWire has a successful niche and prospers, but it’s not ubiquitous (USB).

This is an endorsement from our side that design and engineering customers are taking the Macintosh seriously again.

Indeed.

My iPad hasn’t replaced my Tablet PC. And it hasn’t replaced my company issued notebook computer, my personal photo and music editing machine or any of the other computers in my apartment. It’s just made them more secondary.

Confirmed. And…

The iPad is transformational because it just simply works. It comes on in a couple of seconds. Reboots? You’re kidding, right? I am sure I will want to or have to reboot my iPad someday. That day hasn’t come yet.

Confirmed. And…

The iPad is a mortal threat to most user PCs in existence today. I’m sure Microsoft and Google can come up with their own iPad equivalents. And I hope they’re more competitive than Zune.

What’s a Zune?

The format war over online video standards is over. You may not have realized there was a war at all, but this is a big deal. This is not a cease-fire, but a peace treaty with every relevant John Hancock firmly aboard.

Why? How? It’s still a mess despite the shouts of victory.

Now the MPEG LA technology licensing body has announced that the H.264 standard will join WebM on the royalty-free side of the fence until the end of time or until the standard becomes obsolete, whichever comes first.

Outside of Adobe’s Flash player, the de facto video standard, there are two main camps lining up. H.264, supported by Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Opera, but not Mozilla’s Firefox. Google’s WebM video format is supported by Google, Opera, and Mozilla.

How about if we declare victory when a single standard video format is officially supported on all major browsers?

Nearly five months after the iPad’s launch, Apple has finally matched supply with demand. Apple’s online store now shows iPad orders will be shipped within 24 hours , the first time the tablet has been available for next-day shipping since its early April debut.

Is that meeting iPad demand or diminishing iPad demand? Apple’s iPhone ship date remains three weeks in the Apple Store.

• Total Active Apps (currently available for download): 253,694
• Total Inactive Apps (no longer available for download): 50,285
• Total Apps Seen in US App Store: 303,979
• Number of Active Publishers in the US App Store: 50,585
• This Month (Games): 2,580 ( 83 / day )
• This Month (Non-Games): 16,897 ( 545 / day )
• This Month (Total): 19,477 ( 628 / day )
• Current Average App Price: $2.88
• Current Average Game Price: $1.24
• Current Average Overall Price: $2.64

When does many become too much?

We have to go where the audience is. If people are hitting the iPad like crazy, or the iPhone or other mobile devices, we’ve got to be there with the content they want, when they want it.

It’s atoms vs. bits.

• “The race hasn’t started yet.”
• “Our tablet will be better than the iPad.”
• “It’s going to be surprisingly productive.”
• “We think it’s reasonable for us to provide this to people who hesitate to buy or don’t have enough experience with smartphones. This is a clear answer to them.”

Clear?

Clearly vaporware.

I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb. It’s destroyed the music business. It’s going to destroy the movie business.

And yet people continue to record music and buy music, make movies and watch movies.

Adobe needs to have a better answer to whether or not Flash is still relevant in a world where other technologies have rapidly started displacing it.  Based on my early experience with Flash Player 10.1 for mobile, it could soon join the floppy drive in the tech graveyard, something else Steve Jobs helped kill.

Missing Flash on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch? Nope.

[more] than 8,000 Americans who listen to National Public Radio on their iPhones (rather than, say, their car radios) between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. on a typical weekday morning—one of the more surprising results of an hour-by-hour study of listener habits released by NPR Wednesday.

Guilty. Instead of radio I stream all kinds of shows on my iPhone while riding the subway into Manhattan.

When you get it your hands, it feels very usable and likeable. But, the Dell Streak is much more like a smartphone than a tablet and when you compare it to the other top-of-the-line smartphones, it becomes much less attractive. If you really want an Android device with a big screen that feels like a small tablet, I’d recommend the 4.3-inch HTC EVO 4G over the Dell Streak.

The unasked and unanswered question? Is it an iPad killer? Or, what is it? A smart phone or a tablet?

Eric Schmidt suggested that young people should be entitled to change their identity to escape their misspent youth, which is now recorded in excruciating detail on social networking sites such as Facebook.

What else does Schmidt say?

I actually think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.

This guy is creepy.

1. Toyota
2. Google
3. Johnson &Johnson
4. Nokia
5. Research in Motion
6. Goldman Sachs
7. Sony
8. Adobe
9. Dell
10. BP

The year isn’t over yet.

1. You can’t get a Mac that ships with a Blu-ray player, TV tuner, Memory Stick reader, or built-in 3G wireless. You can with PCs running Windows 7.
2. Most of the world’s most popular computer games aren’t available for Macs. And Macs can’t connect to an Xbox 360. PCs are ready to play.
3. Most Macs can’t hook up to your TV unless you buy a converter dongle. Many PCs running Windows 7 are designed to connect directly to TVs, so you can watch movies and see photos on the big screen.

Sigh. They make it so easy.

#1 - Most PCs don’t ship with those features, either, but all can be added to a Mac. #2 - Macs run Windows so whatever runs on Windows runs on a Mac, including Xbox 360. #3 - PCs still require a converter or cable to hook to a TV; just like a Mac.

Apple in particular is capturing about half of the available profits with three percent of the units. It dwarfs all the other vendors, more than double the nearest (Nokia). All that in three years and with the added burdens of only three models, a recession and limited distribution.

Android is aligned with the losers. Will Android help them to profitability?

The price of the Research In Motion BlackBerry Torch has been cut in half - to $99.99 - on Amazon.com and some other sites, less than a week after the new phone went on sale at $199.99. Early reports from the Street suggest sales of the new phone have been tepid at best. The $99.99 price is with a two-year contract with AT&T.

To be fair to my schadenfreude nature, Apple also cut the price of the original iPhone to spur demand, but not half price and not a week after launch.