Today my iPod Touch became frozen with a white blank screen. It was unresponsive to buttons and all other inputs and not recognized by iTunes. The reset procedure indicated by Apple to push the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time, for at least ten seconds, didn’t help.
After waiting until the iPod ran out of battery completely and recharging, the iPod Touch recovered and is now fully operational again.
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Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs : go to HTML5
Recently, Steve Jobs published his thoughts on Flash on the Apple website.
Steve Jobs explains why Apple does not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads.
- open standards : Adobe’s Flash products are 100% proprietary
- full web : most videos are available in a modern format, H.264, and viewable on iPhones, iPods and iPads
- reliability, security and performance
- battery life
- touch : Flash was created for PCs and mice, not for mobile devices with touch interface
- Apple wants to provide the most advanced and innovative platform to the developers
Steve Jobs recommends to use the open standards HTML5, CSS and JavaScript for mobile devices.
One on the first to follow this idea is the developer of the JW video player, Jeroen Wijering. Even if he thinks that there is still a lot of work to be done before HTML5 reaches the maturity level that Flash has for delivering video content to the users, he released the beta version of the HTML5 JW player two weeks ago.