I have recently started a blog dedicated to Gurra Arcade so most of the blogs about the game and engine development will now take place there. In this blog I will now continue talking about social medias and things I pick up that may be relevant.
I am going to start a little series of posts that show the different sides of the Digital Cold War that is raging right now. At present there seems to be a lull in hostilities but that may just be the calm before the storm. During the spring and summer of this year you had to be hard pressed not to notice it. I am ofcourse talking about The Google/Adobe/Microsoft/Apple/Nokia/Sonyericsson antagonisms which I have dubbed The Digital Cold War. It all started back in April when Steve Jobs in an open letter explained why iPhone and subsequently the iPad would not support flash. Maybe it wasn´t so much the technical aspects that were addressed in the letter as much as its tone. There are merits to Mr Jobs viewpoint but it rubbed alot of people the wrong way and sparked an argument that seems to have been brewing just beneath surface.
Because this was deemed an attack on Adobe by Apple the allegiances of both companies came to light and showed other underlying tensions. Some tensions were not as expected as others. In this series I will try to be as impartial as I can and when I can´t I will be as obvious as possible. In my upcoming posts I will be introducing the main players in this drama, one at a time, and we will start with Google.
