> During a [media event in San Francisco today](http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/04/iveblog-mobile-pink-event.ars), Microsoft revealed the spiritual successor to the Danger Sidekick messaging phone. Called “[KIN](http://kin.com/),” the new platform is designed with a heavy focus on social networking and is targeted mainly towards younger users that Microsoft has dubbed the “social generation.” via [arstechnica.com](http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/04/microsoft-unveils-sidekicks-next-of-kin.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss)So yet another platform from Microsoft. For those keeping score,…

> **Steve Jobs has seen enough in his 34 years in the computer business** to know, deeply, that he doesn’t want to be at the mercy of cross-platform tools that could erase Apple’s competitive advantage. He doesn’t want to wait and beg and bitch and moan until Adobe supports the registers on Apple’s player organ. (Diplomatically or not, [Jobs recently called Adobe “lazy”](http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/01/googles-dont-be-evil-mantra-is-bullshit-adobe-is-lazy-apples-steve-jobs/)… But that was *intra muros*, in an internal all-hands company meeting.) > Does anyone mind that Jobs…

> Slepak told Jobs he believed the reaction to the change across the entire internet was negative, including from *Daring Fireball’s* John Gruber, who Slepak called Jobs’ “biggest fan.” Jobs reportedly responded by sending a link to Gruber’s commentary on why Apple changed [section 3.1.1](http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/why_apple_changed_section_331) of its developer agreement. “We think John Gruber’s post is very insightful and not negative,” the Apple CEO allegedly said. via [appleinsider.com](http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/04/11/…

> If Android was making significant gains against Apple, and all of its best apps > were Flash based, then Adobe could offer Apple access to all of Android’s best > apps, which would give them a lot of power. The fact is that there have yet to > be any widely deployed Android phones that support Flash. That’s right, Adobe > has been making the case for Flash on iPhone for 3 years, but still hasn’t > deployed a non-lite version of Flash on any phones, even when Apple is not > obstructing…

> Apple’s current—and in our opinion, objectionable—position is now close to the complete opposite of its initial stance. From promoting openness and standards, the company is now pushing for an ever more locked-down and restricted platform. It’s bad for competition, it’s bad for developers, and it’s bad for consumers. I hope that there will be enough of a backlash that the company is forced to reconsider, but with the draw of all those millions of iPhone (and now, iPad) customers, I fear that Apple’s…