Affront Archive

  • A Calm, Reasonable Argument Supporting Apple’s Anti-Flash SDK Language

    A Calm, Reasonable Argument Supporting Apple’s Anti-Flash SDK Language

    Posted on April 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Gruuuuubeeer! Why do you force us to listen to your reasoned, intelligent arguments explaining the odd language in the new iPhone SDK guidelines outlawing outside iPhone compiling methods, including .NET and Adobe’s own Flash-to-iPhone tools? If we follow Godwin’s law to its obvious conclusion, we can only say that you are a collaborator with enemy [...]

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  • RIM CEO pulls an AT&T: “We need to conserve bandwidth”

    RIM CEO pulls an AT&T: “We need to conserve bandwidth”

    Posted on February 16, 2010 | No Comments
    RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis started blabbering on in an interview about network applications for the Blackberry platform. Was he thankful that developers were creating rich applications for his phones? Was he excited for the future? No. He started horking about “conserving bandwidth,” just like AT&T’s CEO: “Manufacturers had better start building more efficient applications and more [...]

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  • Green Max 4.8 GMAX robot toy: Toilets in disguise

    Green Max 4.8 GMAX robot toy: Toilets in disguise

    Posted on February 16, 2010 | No Comments
    Did you know that TOTO makes GreenMax 4.8 liter toilets? And did you that in Japan these toilets are revered as deities? What you’re seeing here is a TOTO action figure called GMAX whose catchphrase, “Protect the Earth, GMAX! Ready – Switch, on!” is now part of the Japanese National Anthem. It’s true! Actually all [...]

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  • CEA boots small vendors out of Las Vegas hotels

    CEA boots small vendors out of Las Vegas hotels

    Posted on January 11, 2010 | No Comments
    In the dog eat dog world of the CE business, margins are low and money - especially in this economy - is tight. That's why a number of smaller vendors, including some we talked to in Vegas, took rooms in local hotels or ran "peripheral" events in other venues. The Daily Tech reports that some of those vendors have been ousted by the hotels themselves after the CEA, the organization that runs CES, convinced management to force them out.

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  • Notebook Practically Begs You to Throw Pages Away

    Notebook Practically Begs You to Throw Pages Away

    Posted on July 8, 2009 | No Comments
    You’re all familiar with the little basketball hoops that hook onto waste-paper baskets, right? Good. Because we have just discovered the perfect companion for this executive toy. The Play More Notebook features normal lined paper (for people who have trouble writing in a straight line) on the front, but turn it around and you’ll see [...]

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