A few hours ago, my network at home went down so I found a use for that personal hotspot feature sooner than I’d imagined (I got the beta of the iOS release as a developer). It’s… fast. I’m actually not noticing a difference in the speed web pages are loading. And me and my wife are both using my iPhone 4 to surf.

The battery is plummeting though but I’m in the house after all. Just need to plug it in, but was interested in seeing just how much pressure this’d put on the little thing.

Still, way cool.

This is an unexpected turn of events. Apple with its “closed” approach versus Adobe with ITS “closed” approach leading to more openness. Two wrongs do not make one right, you say, and I point at this wonderful, glorious exception of where just precisely that is happening. The very nature of “closed” means you can shut out whoever you want however you want, and Adobe in all of its proprietary glory shuts pretty much everyone except Windows users out (yea, Flash runs horrible on the Mac apparently, it’s a resource hog, and crashes constantly).

And Apple shuts Adobe out. Do you hear my giggles as I wheeze for breath?

It reminds me of MSIE back in the day. It was THE browser. The alternative was Netscape Navigator and it was a disastrous piece of crap where Internet Explorer was a shiny piece of solid gold. So developers ignored everything else. Even when Firefox came around, they continued doing so, at least the short bus folks did. Fuck web standards. Then suddenly, their “dis sait rekirs intrnet exprdorerlolstfu” sites were hurting, badly.

But it took a long while. Banks in Sweden required Internet Explorer up until a mere few years ago. My mother’s stock market site (uh yeah, my mom’s dealing in stock, but that’s another story) even to this day requires Internet Explorer.

Now we have Flash, and we see people doing the same mistake all over again. Especially with the web as it is today, with video content and all that, it’s no wonder people are going for Flash, because Flash is pretty much the only alternative. Well, sort of, anyway. Ah-yep-. If you clicked the link you probably noticed that it said “HTML5″ and if that didn’t mean much to you, let me rephrase:

No Flash.

Actually, I can rephrase that even nicer:

No Proprietary One-Company-To-Rule-Them-All Plugins Required.

Did I mention that HTML5 video is supported by the iPhone?

As a developer, this is the part where you go look at the figures for exactly how many people own an iPhone. And the part where you take a stand on whether the iPad will sell to millions or if it’ll flop over and keel. This is the part where you get the numbers fed to you: 42.5 million.

Forty two point five million iPhones as of Q1 2010. And your cute, bunny-hopping Flash-site? It’s a fucking piece of Lego right now, for those 42.5 million users when they browse on their phone.

So um, what new revolutionary stuff has Microsoft been doing recently? Is it just me, or have they been awfully quiet, lately?

And I bought an iPhone. For anyone who speaks Japanese (or for that matter, Chinese or any other language which requires more than the average a-z), I can inform you that which I had wished somebody out there had informed me in a straightforward manner when I started digging into this over a year ago.

Yes, you can use Japanese and Swedish (or whatever combination) on the iPhone simultaneously. I can get my åäö’s which my Japanese cell couldn’t spit out for the life of it (me), and I can get 日本語 to slither out of it as well. You can send SMS’es within Sweden in Japanese, and in general, you can use them as you would in Japan, except that they also properly support Swedish.

In case you are confuzzled about how to do this, the Swedish (with presumed English translation in parentheses) menu alternatives for getting Japanese enabled is as follows:

Inställningar (Settings) > Allmänt (General) > Internationellt (International) > Tangentbord (Keyboard) > Japanska (Japanese) > QWERTY or Kana (whichever you prefer).

Just now, I went and created a Battle.Net account and started adding all my games to it. You can add any Blizz game you’ve bought simply by inputing the CD key for the game in question into a text box and the correct game will pop up and be permanently added to your BNet account. Not only, but you can now “download client” directly from the BNet site… so as in my case, I *wouldn’t* have had to bring my CD keys in a secure encrypted file, and I *wouldn’t* have had to illegally download the game from some torrent site, because all I’d need is already there, on my BNet account. Awesome move by Blizz there.

I also added my WoW accounts (note the pluralis — though in honesty, neither one of them is currently activated), which felt awesomely nice, because it is incredibly confusing to have two separate accounts for the same game. Now I just use my BNet creds to login to whichever it is I’m playing. Presuming I actually start playing again, some day.

Yup. A T.V.

Indeed, a TV. I’m still sort of shocked about it. Now I can watch all those insane shows in peace and quiet. Yatta!