Linked List: April 17, 2011

Sunday, 17 April 2011

Apple and the TV Industry ★: Chris Dixon:

The mistake analysts made about the iPhone was to assume the current industry structure would be sustained after Apple’s entry. I’d be wary of making the same assumption about the TV industry.
Killer Feature ★: Mike Isaac reviews the PlayBook for Wired:

RIM says it took over two years of working with Adobe to bring Flash to its tablet. Two years may not have been enough. During a round of Plants vs. Zombies, gameplay bogged down whenever the animation got intense. Every time I tried to access a Flash game on Facebook, the browser crashed. Yes, every single time.
Translation From MS-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Dean Hachamovitch’s ‘Native HTML5’ Announcement ★: Some weird stuff, even by Microsoft’s standards.