> Like thousands of other developers, Joe Rheaume was excited to get his software – an educational game – onto Apple’s iPhone. > > He originally created the game using Flash, a popular multimedia technology from Adobe Systems. But Apple prohibits Flash on the iPhone, so Rheaume was set to use a new conversion tool from Adobe that would make his game compatible with the smart phone. > > Then about a week ago, Apple changed the rules: No conversion tools. Developers must use Apple’s tools. > > “It just feels insulting,” said Rheaume, a programmer from…

> The “section 3.3.1” issue is just another in a long line of events that have the same basic shape: actions taken by Apple in what it believes to be the best interest of its platform (and, by extension, itself) that run afoul of the interests and opinions of developers. Any Apple follower can surely list others: the [lack of Flash](http://daringfireball.net/2010/01/apple_adobe_flash) on the iPhone, the App Store as the [sole gateway](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydia_(application)) for iPhone applications,…

> The browser, media player, photo gallery, and e-mail client on the WebStation are all from “Cupcake” (Android 1.5), and work just about the same. However, every single site the browser pulls up is first rejected as an untrusted source (even Google and Gmail!). So you have to click through and accept every one. For Web services that are usually Android apps like Twitter and Facebook, this quickly becomes tiresome. via [betanews.com](http://www.betanews.com/article/Handson-with-the-WebStation-Android-Tablet/1271281002)I’m sure companies will come up with better “iPad…

> The iPad’s Web share grew steadily from April 3 until the weekend following the launch, April 10 and 11. At that time, the number peaked at 0.04 percent both days before settling back down as users went back to work. Comparatively, NetApplications recorded an average of 0.04 percent for BlackBerry devices over the [month of March](http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8), while all versions of Android together came in at 0.07 percent, as did Windows Mobile. via [arstechnica.com](http://arstechnica.com/apple/…

> The newspaper [reported](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/technology/12slate.html?pagewanted=1) Sunday that Google has been “exploring the idea of building its own slate, an e-reader that would function like a computer.” via [appleinsider.com](http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/04/12/google_to_pit_android_based_tablet_against_apples_ipad.html)So we have Android phones, Chrome OS netbooks, Chrome OS tablets, and now this Android e-reader that also “functions like a computer”, whatever that means. If you were a consumer (and I’m…