Are iPhone app devs getting a raw deal? - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW):
We mentioned yesterday a rumor that Apple won’t cut a check for iPhone application developers until the dev’s share of the sales tops $250. [...]
From the (indie) developer’s perspective, this stinks. They’ve already paid at least $99 just to participate, and now [...]
So here we are with a new iPhone killer… wait, the killer is late, its target is already dead! Samsung’s Instinct was supposed to go snipe the iPhone, but Apple already sent it to rest, and now iPhone 2 is coming…
Walt Mossberg on Samsung’s Instinct:
Also, the timing of the Instinct is unfortunate. It was designed [...]
VistaPerfection 2.0:
So, like, urgh, they even have the boot screen with ugly progress bar and all.
Hmm, maybe if they have been really good, they have managed to reproduce the slowness, the bugs and even the annoying UAC behavior (maybe the iPhone will ask you for your PIN code every time you want to make a [...]
And so I continue my venture in the shadowy depth of Mac Office 2008, wondering whether I shall finally stay with the 2004 edition… not that it was great (it wasn’t, on an Intel machine), but the 2008 edition fixed almost no bugs from the 2004 version, and added a whole lot of new bugs.So [...]
Well, what can I say? Here’s what the Bill said:
We’re hard at work, I would say, on the next version, which we call Windows 7. I’m very excited about the work being done there. The ability to be lower power, take less memory, be more efficient
Ars technica: Gates: Windows 7 will “take less memory, be [...]
DRM sucks redux: Microsoft to nuke MSN Music DRM keys:
Customers who have purchased music from Microsoft’s now-defunct MSN Music store are now facing a decision they never anticipated making: commit to which computers (and OS) they want to authorize forever, or give up access to the music they paid for. Why? Because Microsoft has decided [...]
I don’t know what to say, really…
Actually, after watching the whole thing, I think it is PRETTY CLEVER. Not like in “artsy-clever”, no, but like in “how can we get our thousands-strong salesforce to remember what they have to sell Vista on?”. See? So yes the video is tacky, ugly, ridiculous, cheesy and so on, [...]
Apple’s Icarus Effect:
But now Apple is becoming a victim of its own success, and the irony is just too great to miss. Anyone with a mild sense of history is keeping track. The main reason Apple had been left alone by hackers was not by virtue of any superior security technology, the company’s protestations to [...]