Not since Modern Family caused a stir in 2010 with Phil Dunphy obsessing about a new iPad, has Apple so dominated a major “Primetime” series episode.

And it’s a pretty cool idea.

Not only can we count on the folks at Modern having their insightful wit reading middle america’s pulse — but also we can rely on them to inject the sitcom formula with innovation.

If you are into BTS – try the links below — there are details about how Steve Levitan was inspired by his own family’s use of tech — and how the show spend a great deal of time mocking up the various Apple tech environments to make the show as realistic as possible.

There are questions about commercialization, features FaceTime doesn’t really have — yada yada. The point is it looks to be a really fun episode.

Here’s an idea: let’s  try something crazy — for this first all computer screen episode — let’s commit to watching it old school – “live” on the nearest television set.  For that one half-hour — let’s reverse the trend. I image that’s exactly the sort of event Phil would orchestrate in the Dunphy home.

Read it 1st hand:  AP Television writer, Lynn Elber, was one of the first to break the details of the special episode.

Read it 1st hand:  Bryan Bishop at the Verge offers up more technical insights

Read it 1st hand:  As fans of re/code — we can’t forget Dawn Chmielewski

Read it 1st hand:  Want to relive the debate about the iPad episode in 2010? All I can say was that I loved the episode (but I also stood in line for an iPad that week)  LA Times    AdAge

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Adobe’s Flash player has had more than its fair share of problems. Among them, performance issues for OSX users, endless security vulnerabilities requiring a multitude of patches, Apple refusing to implement Flash on the iPhone, and Google ceasing its support for Flash on Android. In short, the curtain has been slowly closing on the much maligned Flash in recent years. It looks like the coffin just received its final nail. The Guardian has the skinny.

by Alex Hern, The Guardian:

Flash is dead, long live Fl– actually, no, scratch that, Flash really is dead and it deserved to die. Flash is terrible.

The killer blows to Adobe’s multimedia browser plugin were delivered this week in a one-two punch. Firstly, users of Flash were left open to not one but two “zero-day” vulnerabilities in the same week, affecting users of Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox. Almost immediately, hackers were able to abuse these flaws to dump malware on Windows PCs, which led Mozilla to disable the plugin entirely until users had updated to a secure version.

Then on Tuesday, YouTube – the biggest provider of Flash video ever – announced that it would stop serving its videos using the plugin for anyone visiting the site in a modern browser.

Read More @ The Guardian.com

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