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Macworld’s Live Coverage of Tim Cook at Some Conference
Live coverage from The Verge and MacRumors, too. ★
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David Pierce Reviews Samsung’s New Chrome OS Devices for The Verge
I still think the same thing about Chrome OS as I did a year ago: “Chrome feels so much more Google-y than Android. Chrome feels like Google’s natural platform — all web, only the web. Android feels like an independent Google...
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Decoding Share Prices: Amazon, Apple, and Facebook
Jean-Louis Gassée analyzes the stock prices of Apple and Amazon (and Facebook): Why do they think Apple has so much less room to grow than Amazon? First, a big difference: Apple’s founder is no longer with us while Bezos is very muc...
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‘Clearly This Stuff Isn’t Selling’
Hugo Miller reports for Bloomberg that RIM faces another huge writedown for unsold inventory: The value of RIM’s in-house supplies grew 18 percent last quarter alone, a faster rate than at any other company in the industry, according...
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★ A Few Words About The Talk Show
A few administrative points regarding the new The Talk Show (a.k.a. The Talk Show 3): You should follow The Talk Show on Twitter. A new network means a new RSS feed URL. If you were subscribed to the old 5by5 feed, you’ll need to...
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Latest Identity Theft Scam: Fake Tax Returns
Clever and insidious. ★
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DF T-Shirts, Order While They’re Hot
I’m still taking orders for this round of DF T-shirts through the end of the weekend, including the popular new “black helmet” model: They won’t be available again until the end of the year. Thanks to everyone...
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Tim Cook Gives Up $75 Million in Dividend Income
Poornima Gupta, reporting for Reuters: Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook will not be earning dividend income on the more than 1 million shares to which he is entitled, which will cost him about $75 million. Apple said in a filing w...
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Fortune’s Schlocky Tim Cook Cover
Speaking of the Tim Cook story by Adam Lashinsky — Fortune’s cover “photo” is just embarrassingly bad. I put “photo” in quotes because it’s so Photoshopped it’s more illustration than photo...
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Adam Lashinsky: ‘How Tim Cook Is Changing Apple’
Cover story for the new issue of Fortune magazine. Good piece in many ways, backed by what was obviously a lot of reporting on Lashinsky’s part. But he’s straining to emphasize differences that just aren’t there. The mo...
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Apple’s Legal Response to DOJ E-Book Case (PDF)
Apple: The Government sides with monopoly, rather than competition, in bringing this case. The Government starts from the false premise that an eBooks “market” was characterized by “robust price competition” prior to Apple’s entry. T...
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Computers as Trucks
John Lilly: I picked up a phrase some time ago that I think applies: “The next big thing is always beneath contempt.” Implication being that it is, of course, until it isn’t. Until it’s too big to ignore. This has happened over and o...
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Facebook Camera vs. Instagram
What I think happened: It was clear soon after Instagram launched that it was a hit, and Facebook was savvy enough to realize that an integral part of Instagram’s appeal was that it came in the form of a well-designed, well-enginee...
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‘Dare I Say, Kubrick?’
This week’s episode of the new The Talk Show (a.k.a. The Talk Show 3): Special guest Adam Lisagor joins John Gruber to discuss the whole thing with the show leaving 5by5, spitball ideas Apple might add to iOS 6 and iCloud, and ...
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Jim Dalrymple on the 7-Inch iPad
Jim Dalrymple: Analysts and media types insist that Apple needs to bring a smaller tablet to market to ward off the threat from Amazon. There are a couple of things to consider with this argument. First, people that use that as the ...
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Three Things That Should Trouble Apple
Guy English: I believe that many Apple observers have been too invested in picking off the low hanging fruit of obviously out-of-touch commentators, columnists, and analysts. Apple is winning. It’s fun to pick on the idiots, and we d...
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I Can’t Believe I’m Putting the Word ‘Phablet’ on DF, Even if Only in a Blockquote
ABI Research: > More than 208 million phablets, a hybrid device that is larger than a smartphone but smaller than a tablet, like the Samsung Galaxy Note, will be shipped globally in 2015. Noted for future claim chowder. ★...
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AirFloat
Another iOS app that acted as an AirPlay receiver, and, like Airfoil Speakers Touch, it was removed from the App Store recently. ★
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‘Inexpensive’
Al Jigong Billings, regarding my short piece earlier on Woz’s 1977 description of the Apple II: I think @gruber misunderstands “inexpensive” since MacBooks cost double [those of its] competition. Let’s put a...
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The Verge: HP’s WebOS Enyo Team Is Going to Google
Nice scoop by Chris Ziegler at The Verge: The HP team responsible for Enyo — webOS’s HTML5-based application framework that debuted on the TouchPad — will be leaving the company and starting at Google shortly, The V...
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★ More on Apple’s Removal of Airfoil Speakers Touch From the App Store
After some interesting back-and-forth with a few informed sources, I think Apple’s removal of Airfoil Speakers Touch from the iOS App Store is not as mysterious or capricious as I first thought. The key is to focus on what’s ...
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Woz’s 1977 Description of the Apple II for Byte Magazine
Woz: To me, a personal computer should be small, reliable, convenient to use and inexpensive. Talk about a company that has stayed true to its roots. ★
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‘Life’
Speaking of those celebrities-using-Siri ads, Apple just posted two new ones, both starring John Malkovich. (Via TUAW.) ★
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‘Put Tickets Botulinum’
Speaking of Paul Kafasis, he decided to try to duplicate Sam Jackson’s “remind me to put the gazpacho on ice in an hour” Siri directive: If you’ve used Siri yourself, however, you know the disclaimer of “Sequences s...
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App Store Removal of the Week
Rogue Amoeba’s Paul Kafasis: Last month, we introduced Airfoil Speakers Touch 3, which added the ability to receive audio directly from other iOS devices, as well as iTunes. Users and reviewers alike have loved Airfoil Speakers...
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Microsoft to Bake Flash Player Into IE 10?
Windows 8 Secrets: Two years ago, Microsoft declared that the future of video on the web would be powered by HTML 5. Today, however, a lot of web video content is still delivered via Adobe Flash technology. So, in a somewhat surprisi...
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★ How Apple Could Play the Bigger-Display iPhone Thing at WWDC, Which I Swear, I’m Still Not Convinced Is for Real But We’re Getting to the Point Where There’s an Awful Lot of Smoke for There Not to Be a Fire So Let’s Run With It
For the sake of argument let’s take it as a given that the next iPhone will sport an 1136 × 640 display, with the same 326 pixels-per-inch resolution as the iPhone 4 and 4S, the same width, but an extra 176 pixels...
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Seagate to Buy LaCie
Seems like a good pairing — I’ve purchased an awful lot of LaCie enclosures with Seagate hard drives over the years. But it occurs to me that I don’t think or worry about storage devices anywhere near as much as I used ...
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Ford Gets Its Logo Out of Hock
Speaking of logos: In 2006, Ford pledged its famous logo, along with virtually all of its U.S. assets, as collateral to secure a $23.5 billion loan to restructure its ailing business. At the time, Ford was criticized for betting the ...
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The Upside Down Apple Logo
Former Apple employee Joe Moreno, on the switched orientation of the Apple logo on Mac laptops a dozen years ago: Opening a laptop from the wrong end is a self-correcting problem that only lasts for a few seconds. However, viewing th...
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This Week, in Ketchup-Bottle Technology News
Austin Carr, writing for Fast Company: The result? LiquiGlide, a “super slippery” coating made up of nontoxic materials that can be applied to all sorts of food packaging — though ketchup and mayonnaise bottles migh...
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Jury Flummoxed Over Google-Oracle Patent Fight
Caleb Garling, reporting for Wired: Basically, the ’104 patent covers a way of improving the software compilation — the process of translating programming code into an executable application. The method described uses “symbolic...
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‘Alternative Mobile Computing Devices’
Dell CFO Brian Gladden, after the company reported another disappointing quarter: Our notebook business contracted 10% as we saw a more aggressive competitive environment particularly in the entry level and emerging markets. We belie...
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New Google Doodle Uses Web Audio API
Sans Flash. ★
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Andy Baio’s XOXO Festival
Looks like a great event. I’m fascinated to see how Kickstarter does for pre-selling conference tickets. In my mind, Kickstarter feels ideally suited for this — but Kickstarter often surprises me. ★
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Why Dan Ackerman Thinks a Retina Display on a MacBook Could Be a Bad Idea
Speaking of Apple and retina displays, Dan Ackerman: For example, today I could easily tell someone shopping for a laptop that a good sweet spot to look for in a premium 13-inch laptop is a screen resolution of 1600 ×̴...
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THX1136
Big scoop by 9to5 Mac: Both of these phones sport a new, larger display that is 3.95 inches diagonally. Apple will not just increase the size of the display and leave the current resolution, but will actually be adding pixels to the ...
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‘Pete Rose: Here Now’
Heartbreaking 8-minute short film on Pete Rose’s day to day life, selling autographs and baseball memorabilia. Directed by Eric Drath and produced by ESPN Films. ★
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Oh Yeah, Coda 2 Is Shipping Later This Week, Too
Really curious how these new visual, resizable, scrollable tabs play out. I would love to see how they worked in Safari, for one thing. My money says Panic just redefined the de facto standard UI for tabbed documents on the Mac. (But ma...
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Diet Coda
Blockbuster new iPad app from Panic: Diet Coda takes everything we’ve ever learned about world-class web code editing, and wraps it up to-go. It’s packed with features, bathed in fun, ready to work. I’ve been beta...
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Creating the Windows 8 User Experience
At over 11,000 words, it’s more like a small book than an article, but there’s fascinating insight into Microsoft’s design thinking in this piece by Jensen Harris, their lead UI designer. Their top two design goals are...
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Sturm und Drang
Germans have the best words. ★
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iPhone Charger Teardown
Ken Shirriff: Disassembling Apple’s diminutive inch-cube iPhone charger reveals a technologically advanced flyback switching power supply that goes beyond the typical charger. It simply takes AC input (anything between 100 and ...
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‘Skyfall’ Teaser
“Some men are coming to kill us. I’m going to kill them first.” ★
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‘Why Wasn’t I Consulted?’
Paul Ford: A surprising portion of the writing about the web is actually about WWIC, about the question of who controls what territory. Here are a few random examples of how this plays out, from my WWIC folder: Michael Arrington̵...
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Behind a Press Release
I’ve never seen Community, but I really enjoyed this refreshingly honest entry by Dan Harmon on his getting fired from the show. ★
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Daring Fireball T-Shirts
Available now, through the end of next week: DF t-shirts. Order while they’re hot. ★
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The Mule Radio iPhone App
Speaking of Mule Radio Syndicate and The Talk Show, our mutual friends at Black Pixel have just launched the brand-new Mule Radio iPhone app. The interface is simple and beautiful. Free download on the App Store. ★
