Agreed. Copyrighted content delivered solely via HTML5 has a long way to go. Proprietary runtimes controlled by large companies with DRM technology are currently the safest method (for copyright holders) to deliver that content to a paying audience.

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First Nokia, Now RIM: The Mighty Are Falling 15 years ago

In tech, there is no such thing as 'too big to fail'

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RIM to cut 2,000 jobs 15 years ago

With the technical talent at RIM, each cut job is a potential start-up competitor.

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Adobe Shuts Down Its App Stores 15 years ago

Hm, I was never aware Adobe even had a app store.

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Mac OS X Lion: How Apple’s Turning Your Mac into an iPad 15 years ago

Even with Launchpad, I still find myself defaulting to Spotlight to find/execute my apps.

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Short array syntax finally in PHP 5.4 15 years ago

I for one would love to see these replaced or complemented by a more OO syntax like:

[1,2,3]->push(..) [3,5,6,]->pop(..) [7,8,9]->map(..)

etc..

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Anonymous gets banned from Google+, creates his own social network 15 years ago

Nice try NSA..

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Get-shit-done - Easy way to stop distractions 15 years ago

leechblock has helped my compulsive reddit habit :/

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