> Adobe says that the main goal with Wallaby is to produce output that has the best combination of performance and quality on iOS. This objective betrays Wallaby’s immediate purpose: allowing advertisers to create rich ads that display correctly on the iPhone and iPad. The lack of Flash on iOS impacts both banner advertising on the Web, and ads embedded into applications using Apple’s HTML5-powered iAd. Wallaby allows designers to migrate their designs and hence reduce the costs of supporting these non-Flash platforms. via [arstechnica.com](http://arstechnica.com/…

> More than 50 applications containing malware have been discovered in Google’s application market for its Android mobile OS, a sign that hackers are hard at work trying to compromise mobile devices. via [macworld.com](http://www.macworld.com/article/158304/2011/03/android_malware.html#lsrc.rss_main)I hate to say it, but this is the tip of the iceberg. And while I continue to believe that malware is possible on any platform, even Apple’s very tightly controlled iOS, the fact of the matter is that Google…

> The Xoom tablet is trim, light, and very pretty > … but when you place it next to the iPad 2, it looks as though it > was designed and built by angry Soviet prison labor instead of by > Motorola. via [instapaper.com](http://www.instapaper.com/go/135636816/text)From Andy Ihnatko, of course.…

I’m surprised at the lack of speculation about the scheduled Apple event tomorrow. Sure, the rumor mill is going on full steam as always, but everyone is assuming tomorrow’s event is all about the iPad 2. It certainly will be partly about that. But I think there’s more to this than most people think. What has most people thinking “iPad only” is the invitation Apple sent out to the press, which shows a calendar date of March 2 peeled back to reveal an iPad underneath. Fair enough.…

> right now it’s a small island in a sea of phone titles — and the majority of those titles do not look right on a 10.1-inch screen at this resolution. via [engadget.com](http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/23/motorola-xoom-review/)Funny, I don’t remember anyone saying this last year when the iPad was released. Oh yeah, that’s because there were thousands of titles available at launch that were native. Because Apple released the SDK to developers long enough before the iPad shipped. Honeycomb is just getting…