What follows is a first-look at the just-announced multitasking features in the next iPhone OS. It is solely my opinion . As I predicted in my previous post on the iPad & iPhone and multitasking , Apple is adding multitasking-like support to iPhone OS 4 . And as I wildly speculated , that support is…

There are a lot of posts right now about Flash and iPhone. It is pretty heated, a lot of people have very real amounts of time and money tied up in this. I am an iPhone developer, so I am not going to reveal anything covered under NDA, but the text of the relevant license changes has been widely…

The short version:Who, in his right mind, expects Steve Jobs to let Adobe (and other) cross-platform application development tools control his (I mean the iPhone OS) future? Cross-platform tools dangle the old “write once, run everywhere” promise. But, by being cross-platform, they don’t use, they…

Designing for iPad: Reality Check Essay 12 April 2010 Over the last two months we have been working on several iPad projects: two news applications, a social network, and a word processor. We worked on iPad projects without ever having touched an iPad. One client asked us to “start working on that…

Thanks to my funny , literary pal, Jason B. Jones , today, I'm visiting lovely, warm Connecticut to do some talks and whatnot at CCSU. I mention it because I'd started typing this little post mid-way through the long eastbound flight that delivered me here from three fun (but very long) days doing a…

2,000,000 Strong Over the week covering this past Christmas Day a piece of software I had contributed to was downloaded two million times. I’ve been writing Pop Software for my entire professional career. I may be the first to coin the term Pop Software but it’s with the presumption that we all know…

After giving it some thought I have completely moved to Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/RobertScoble I am putting TONS of great content into there. If you aren’t on Facebook, I’m also on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/scobleizer or on Google+ at https://www.google.com/+Scobleizer Someday I…