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Apple's iTV: Apps Are the New Channels
Why not something like Newsstand for TV network apps?
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Daring Fireball: iPhone 4 Impressions and Observations
Notes from today’s WWDC keynote.
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Daring Fireball: Cookies and Privacy
What I detect in Google’s behavior (and John Battelle’s more-or-less defense of it) is a sense of entitlement. That because in the past ad networks could track almost all users via cookies, they are entitled to continue tracking almost all users across the web via cookies, even when a large (and growing) number of…
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John Gruber: The iPad
Notes and observations, five days in.
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Fun With Numbers
Tablet market share numbers sure do look different when you don’t count any of the tablets that people are actually buying.
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Dirty Percent
If it works, Apple’s 30-percent take of in-app subscriptions will prove as objectionable in the long run as the App Store itself: not very.
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Amazon shuts down Lendle
Link to: https://twitter.com/lendleapp/status/49919939456409601
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Herd Mentality
It’s not just that Apple *is* different among computer makers. It’s that Apple is the only one that even *can* be different, because it’s the only one that has its own OS.
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IPhone 4
A review of the iPhone 4.
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Apple's Texas-Sized Problem
Link to: https://popular.info/p/apples-texas-problem
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Apple Silicon is an inconvenient truth
Link to: https://wormsandviruses.com/2022/07/a-burger-without-heinz/
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Apple’s New ‘Child Safety’ Initiatives, and the Slippery Slope
The stakes are incredibly high, and Apple knows it. Whatever you think of Apple’s decision to implement these features, they’re not doing so lightly.
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Apple Is No Longer Bundling Flash Player With Mac OS X
Starting with this week’s new MacBook Air models, Flash Player is no longer bundled with Mac OS X.
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Daring Fireball: The Daily Wait
Waiting is death, so unless they fix their app, The Daily is dead.
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Uniformity vs. Individuality in Mac UI Design
The conservatives see non-standard custom UI elements as wrong. Liberals see an app built using nothing other than standard system UI elements as boring, old-fashioned, stodgy.
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Why Apple Changed Section 3.3.1
I’m not arguing that it benefits anyone other than Apple itself. I’m just arguing that it makes sense from Apple’s perspective — and it was Apple’s decision to make.
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Emotional Rescue
To discount the emotional appeal of Apple’s products is to ignore the entire point of Apple’s products.
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A Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs
A regex pattern for finding URLs in an arbitrary string of text.
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Daring Fireball: GIF, H.264, and Patents
I bring this up not to say browsers should not support Ogg Theora — I’m just saying Ogg is a lot closer to being in GIF’s boat than H.264 is.
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Hope You Enjoy the Smell of Napalm in the Morning (Apple vs. Google)
On the growing sense that Apple is gearing up for war against Google.
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Untitled Document Syndrome
People have a natural tendency to skip the *have to do* stuff to get right to the *want to do* stuff if they can get away with it.
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Google’s ‘Meaning of Open’
Link to: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/meaning-of-open.html
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Then Welcome To Android
Openness, choice, innovation.
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PDF exploit in iOS 4
Link to: http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/08/01/jailbreakme-returns-offers-jailbreak-for-iphone-4-and-ipad/
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Not My Gorilla
Link to: http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano/msg/f5213577eaeadc47?pli=1
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How I Got the Google Voice/App Store Story Wrong
Over the weekend I’ve exchanged a few emails with my source, so that I can explain what happened.
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Why 960 x 640
The goal isn’t merely to exceed the resolution of competing devices. The goal is to rival the optical quality of print.
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Daring Fireball: Complex
Gall’s Law and the iPhone.
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Mobile Multitasking
In the traditional model, the primary priority is keeping everything open. In this new model, the primary priority is that the system must always be responsive to the user.
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IPhone Web Apps as an Alternative to the App Store
I think it would be good for everyone — Apple, developers, and iPhone users — if unrestricted web apps became a serious alternative to the restricted App Store. But it isn’t credible to argue that they already are.