AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

Seeking Alpha
Another quarter and another hope that Adobe’s Flash will someday make an appearance on Apple’s iPhone.
On Adobe’s second quarter conference call, CEO Shantanu Narayen was asked about the 3G iPhone and whether Flash will be on the device. Here’s what Narayen had to say following Adobe’s earnings report:
With respect to the iPhone, we are [...]

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NY Times - John Markoff
At the outset of his presentation at the opening session of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Steve Jobs showed a slide of a stool with three legs to describe the company’s businesses: Macintosh, music and the iPhone.
The company is making another bet on parallelism, and the implications may be more [...]

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The Los Angeles Times
Apple closed two gaps today with its announcement about downloadable movies for sale through the iTunes Store. The one it emphasized was the agreement by six major studios to pony up their films the day they were available on DVD. This was a no-brainer for Hollywood. In fact, according to a publicist [...]

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I, Cringely
There was a game we used to play in the office, years ago, casting a movie of our own lives. What well-known actor or actress would play you? Who would play your friends? The game eventually faded, as games always do, but at the time it was great fun. So let’s try it again: [...]

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Variety
Majors offer digital downloads of DVD releases
Pricing concessions paved the way for Apple’s sweeping movie sell-through deals with the majors.
Pacts were actually brokered several months ago, shortly after all six majors agreed to rent their movies through the iTunes Store, but not formally unveiled until Thursday. Apple, studio execs say, needed time to “ingest” an [...]

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The Hollywood Reporter
Apple expected to announce deal with major studios
Apple is expected to announce Thursday that it has struck a deal with a wide array of major and mini studios to offer many new releases for purchase at its iTunes Store.
The move would allow a broad slate of top-shelf films to be offered day-and-date with [...]

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I, Cringely
Apple this week bought a fabless chip company called PA Semiconductor and pundits far and wide are trying to explain the deal with broadly varying ideas, some of which are close but none seem to really understand what the deal is about. In the short term this acquisition means precisely nothing to Apple users. [...]

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Forbes
Late Tuesday, in response to questions from Forbes.com, an Apple spokesman said Apple has agreed to buy a boutique microprocessor design company called PA Semi. The company, which is known for its design of sophisticated, low-power chips, could spell a new future for Apple’s flagship iPhone, and possibly iPod products as well.
The 150-person chip [...]

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BusinessWeek
A recent upgrade to the Mac operating system moves Apple closer to challenging Microsoft for overall computing dominance, even in the corporate market
The 20-year death grip that Microsoft has held on the core of computing is finally weakening—pried loose with just two fingers. With one finger you press “Control” and with the other you press [...]

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Apple Working On A “Radical New Business Model”: Flat-Rate iTunes: Report - paidContent.org
This sounds similar to what Nokia, Omnifone and some others are working on in Europe: giving away music for free to users, and the handset/service providers pay the premium, only in Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) case the premium would be passed onto consumers. In [...]

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