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Steve Jobs publishes some ‘thoughts on Flash’… many, many thoughts on Flash

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Steve Jobs just posted an open letter of sorts explaining Apple’s position on Flash, going back to his company’s long history with Adobe and expounding upon six main points of why he thinks Flash is wrong for mobile devices. HTML5 naturally comes up, along with a few reasons you might not expect. He concludes in saying that “Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice.” Basically, it’s for the olds.

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Steve Jobs publishes some ‘thoughts on Flash’… many, many thoughts on Flash

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AT&T’s micro SIM card is the matryoshka doll of micro SIM cards

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Alright, well played, AT&T: you’ve sort of managed to undo Apple’s unfortunate move of eschewing nearly two decades’ worth of deeply-entrenched SIM card standards in favor of a new one that literally nobody in the consumer cellphone world is using — and for that, we thank you. We’re being told that these new SIMs are now being sold in AT&T stores for $15 and will work both with the iPad 3G and..

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iPhone tethering on AT&T still waiting on better network performance

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AT&T’s own Ralph de la Vega mentioned as early as November of 2008 that you’d be able to tether your iPhone to your computer and use it as a modem “soon,” but here we are some ten months after the initial announcement of official tethering support in the platform and there’s no sign of it. Considering that many iPhone carriers around the world deployed it as soon as Apple had it ready — and many more came online over the months to follow — it seems that AT&T’s silence on the issue has spoken volumes. We reached out to the company today to get a statement on the feature’s status, and here’s what we got back (text bolded by us, not AT&T): “We understand that there is great interest in tethering but cannot provide any details at this time.

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