Alastair Otter

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The parallel world of Apple: Where open is not always open

Just about everything Apple does suggests the company lives in a parallel universe. It’s only in this imaginary world, where normal standards don’t apply, that someone like Steve Jobs could get away with accusing Adobe of not being “open” enough. In a public letter yesterday, explaining the main reasons for Apple excluding Adobe’s Flash from [...]

Would you like an apostrophe with that, ma’am?

Welcome to the brave new world of online media. A world where anyone with an Internet connection can be a journalist and bloggers are the new media rock stars. A world where readers can immediately deliver their own opinions, and usually do. It’s also a world where basic grammar skills are apparently no longer needed. [...]