Chuck Freedman
I am very excited to finally be an Android user. This is my first non-Windows Mobile phone since 2005. That’s right, between the Samsung i730, MotoQ and Samsung Omnia, I’ve been relying on Windows as my mobile OS for 6 years. The lack of available apps has left me frustrated and the performance, touch and [...]
Archive | April, 2010
Hosting this week’s Boston Flash Platform User Group at litl
If you are in the Boston area this Wednesday, April 28, and are part of or interested in the Flash scene, please join us at litl’s HQ right in Boston’s Back Bay. We’re ordering some amazing food, so plan to have dinner at the meetup. We’ll cover topics related to the new litl Flash SDK [...]
Is it Apple or game developers that deserve the credit?
A lot of numbers, reports and success stories have been coming out about Apple’s growth and recent dominance in the mobile game space. They’ve been stealing some serious market share from mobile game powerhouses Nintendo and Sony. Since Apple owns the products and processes for playing and distributing the games, I understand why the big [...]
FITC Toronto 2010 Scouting Report
This year I am unfortunately missing my first FITC in 3 years. This a great conference and for the 1000+ that are going, and the few that remain on the fence, I offer this scouting report. If I were going, here are the sessions (based solely on topic & description) I’d be most interested to [...]
Apple’s 3.3.1 burns at Flash point
My real thoughts on the 3.3.1 clause of the iPhone Developer Program agreement, now confirmed by Steve Jobs of Apple as a clear attempt to block “intermediate layers between the platform”: I’m not even close to siding with Apple. I’m the furthest from being an Apple fanboy from almost anyone I know. I wonder, from [...]
Speaking of 3.3.1…
Now that Apple has made section 3.3.1 infamous, with a controversial change to their iPhone Developer Program agreement, I wanted to see what other sections of the same indexing are notable throughout history: 3.3.1 Buffon’s Needle Experiment A famous “needle-throwing” experiment first proposed by Buffon in 1777 provides a good example of probabilistic modeling from [...]
Why FlashCommunityCares.com?
UPDATE: Visit FlashCommunityCares.com right now to bid on tickets to FITC Toronto, FlashBelt and FlashAndTheCity! There is no doubt in my mind that the Flash Community is the most creative, energetic and vocal designer & developer community out there. The combination of talent, across many skills of designing and coding, along with its longevity and [...]
