From Mike:

…it is clear that we did not do a good job of communicating why we are are making this shift in strategy. I know how frustrating this has been for the Flash community, and for that I want to apologize. Our goal was to be very clear about WHAT we were doing, but in doing so, we didn’t pay enough attention to explaining WHY we were doing it.

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This begs the question: Why aren’t people like Mike at the boardroom table and helping to communicate to the public?
I vote for Mike Chambers as CEO of Adobe.

From Electronista:

The iPhone 4S sold out in Hong Kong even faster than previously thought, a memo from Ticonderoga Securities’ Brian White indicates. The analyst claims that both the city’s Apple Store and all authorized resellers sold out within a space of three hours; Apple’s local online store states that there is “no supply” of the phone left. Earlier accounts had just the Apple Store selling out by lunchtime.

China isn’t just going to be a huge market for Apple, but for every big company.
People who have been saying the mobile battle between Android and iOS is going to be like desktop battle between the Mac and Windows — and that Apple is going to lose again — have it all wrong.
So many variables have changed since then, it’s a completely different game.

Today on this 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of the 11th year, we pause to remember the fallen.
May they rest in peace.

via The Next Web

In 1968 Alan Kay concepted the Dynabook, a device we would today consider a laptop/tablet computer.

I think it’s one of the goals we have in our work—to create something that is memorable—to create a moment that you might remember.

Still one of my all-time favourites.

via the D8 Conference (around the 44 minute mark)

Ingredients
• 8 slices of ciabatta bread
• 1 clove of garlic
• extra virgin olive oil
• 2 balls of buffalo mozzarella
• sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 1 red chilli, deseeded and finely sliced
• a small handful of fresh basil leaves
• zest of 1 lemon
With everyone building apps these days, I thought I might share this tasty recipe for all to enjoy and build.

Bret Victor, former human-interface inventor at Apple, intelligently rants about the future of interaction design. Inspired, in part, by Microsoft’s wonderfully banal concept video that’s been making the the rounds on the web this past few months:

As it happens, designing Future Interfaces For The Future used to be my line of work. I had the opportunity to design with real working prototypes, not green screens and After Effects, so there certainly are some interactions in the video which I’m a little skeptical of, given that I’ve actually tried them and the animators presumably haven’t. But that’s not my problem with the video.

My problem is the opposite, really — this vision, from an interaction perspective, is not visionary. It’s a timid increment from the status quo, and the status quo, from an interaction perspective, is actually rather terrible.

via @stevenbjohnson

If you have a skill that allows you to make things, I think it’s really important to not let those muscles atrophy.

—Khoi Vinh

Khoi Vinh – on the grid from The Color Machine on Vimeo.