Comments on: ‘Adobe blurs the line between PC and the Web’: The e-book angle and more http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/02/25/adobe-blurs-the-line-between-pc-and-the-web-the-e-book-angle-and-more/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:14:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Bill Janssen http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/02/25/adobe-blurs-the-line-between-pc-and-the-web-the-e-book-angle-and-more/#comment-723486 Bill Janssen Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:17:41 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/02/25/adobe-blurs-the-line-between-pc-and-the-web-the-e-book-angle-and-more/#comment-723486 AIR is Adobe's version of Microsoft's .NET or Sun's Java. It's a platform they hope will be everywhere, and that will be idiosyncratic enough to make applications written for it difficult to run anywhere else. We'll see how they do with it -- one point in AIR's favor is that it bundles Flash, which, thanks to YouTube, is very widespread. AIR is Adobe’s version of Microsoft’s .NET or Sun’s Java. It’s a platform they hope will be everywhere, and that will be idiosyncratic enough to make applications written for it difficult to run anywhere else. We’ll see how they do with it — one point in AIR’s favor is that it bundles Flash, which, thanks to YouTube, is very widespread.

]]> By: Tamas Simon http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/02/25/adobe-blurs-the-line-between-pc-and-the-web-the-e-book-angle-and-more/#comment-722864 Tamas Simon Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:56:29 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/02/25/adobe-blurs-the-line-between-pc-and-the-web-the-e-book-angle-and-more/#comment-722864 It also "blurs" the difference among platforms - meaning operating systems. Something that the vendors of those OSs won't endorse. Will we see a (hostile? or "friendly"?) takeover of Adobe in 2008? It also “blurs” the difference among platforms - meaning operating systems.
Something that the vendors of those OSs won’t endorse.
Will we see a (hostile? or “friendly”?) takeover of Adobe in 2008?

]]> By: Nate the great http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/02/25/adobe-blurs-the-line-between-pc-and-the-web-the-e-book-angle-and-more/#comment-722733 Nate the great Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:28:06 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/02/25/adobe-blurs-the-line-between-pc-and-the-web-the-e-book-angle-and-more/#comment-722733 My PC is what I have with me after I turn off my internet connection. The line between Web and PC is quite unblurred. Anyone who says otherwise is either lying or delusional. The PR flack at Adobe who wrote that tripe is possibly both. P.S. The only way that "the line between Web and PC" could be blurred is if near universal web access could be guaranteed. My PC is what I have with me after I turn off my internet connection. The line between Web and PC is quite unblurred. Anyone who says otherwise is either lying or delusional. The PR flack at Adobe who wrote that tripe is possibly both.

P.S. The only way that “the line between Web and PC” could be blurred is if near universal web access could be guaranteed.

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