By Ben Homer, April 8th, 2009
After MLBAM CEO Bob Bowman’s gushing review of Flash to CNET earlier this week, the Silverlight team fired back.
Arguing that the penetration argument (Flash is installed on 99% of internet connected computers versus Silverlight’s 50%) most use when citing the advantages of Flash over Silverlight is BS, Microsoft’s Steve Sklepowich pointed to the adoption [...]
By Ben Homer, April 7th, 2009
One has to imagine that Microsoft, MLB Advanced Media’s former streaming partner since day 1 of MLB.TV has to be pretty pissed to watch Adobe steal their thunder and take over their largest client from Silverlight. Flash is clearly winning the battle with Silverlight. MLBAM CEO Bob Bowman’s take on why Flash won out for [...]
By Ben Homer, October 13th, 2008
Microsoft announced today that the final release of Silverlight 2 will be made available Tuesday Oct 14. The company gloats about 25% penetration, but take a look at Microsoft’s promoted partners and try to find one that Microsoft didn’t pay to try it out. It’s worth asking the question – is this too little too [...]
By Ben Homer, October 1st, 2008
News that Adobe is close to completing development on a Flash App for the iPhone has generated plenty of discussion, but there seems to be a growing consensus that there isn’t sufficient incentive for Apple to publish it.
The iPhone’s closed platform gives Apple tremendous power which would only be weakened by offering developers another [...]