- Big news in the mobile software world this week: Adobe has announced that it is ending development of Flash for mobile devices like Android (though engineers at Research in Motion, the makers of the Blackberry, are continuing to support it. Um, guys? If the people who invented the thing can't make it work on mobile, what makes you think you can?). Is this an admission that Steve Jobs was right about the negative aspects of trying to run Flash on mobile? I'd say it is.
- Despite people managing to get Siri running on the iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS, Apple says will be remaining iPhone 4S-only for the foreseeable future.
- A couple of cool, hidden features of iOS 5 turned up this week: panoramic photos and new autocorrect options. Enabling them requires some additional software and a bit of tech savvy, but it doesn't seem too difficult.
- In iPhone security news, a somewhat serious security flaw in the iOS has popped up and Apple's head of security has resigned in the wake of the lost iPhone 4S prototype imbroglio.
- New research has it that while 38% of iPhone users are now running iOS 5, only 12% of iPod touch users are doing the same. Why the lag, guys?
iPod Minis: The End of Flash, Siri on Other iPhones
By Sam Costello, About.com GuideNovember 10, 2011
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