Fake Steve, on Operation Chokehold: This was meant as a joke. My blog mixes fiction and non-fiction, and the item on Monday was fiction. So were all the items yesterday about Obama calling me, and Sarkozy being mad about me sleeping with his wife. Right? All made up. But some people took it seriously and [...]
Gizmodo’s John Herrman: Android’s most serious problem right now is fragmentation: with each new phone, it seems, comes a different version of the OS. In theory, these differences are superficial, and come down to handset manufacturers’ and carriers’ custom interfaces, which sit atop a mostly unchanged Android core. In practice, it’s much worse. Just look [...]
Oh man.
Gruber: When your defense of your Mac UI design is that Adobe and/or Firefox do it in their Mac apps too, you’ve got a problem.
Topher Kessler: Since May of this year, VLC has been desperately looking for Mac developers to help out on the project, but it appears none have stepped up to lend a hand. As of this month there are basically no Mac developers working on VLC, and as a result the project is nearing the end [...]
Engadget: The US District Court for the Northern District of California has just permanently forbidden wannbe Mac cloner Psystar from selling modified versions of OS X, providing any tools that enable users to bypass the OS X kernel encryption, and / or intentionally aiding anyone else from infringing Apple’s OS X copyrights in any way. [...]
Lots of fixes, though: • Auto-complete email addresses when choosing recipients for a shared file • File sharing emails are automatically saved to your Mail account’s Sent folder • When viewing an image, tap and hold to save it to your photo roll or copy it to another app • Maximum setting for cache size is now 500MB [...]
Ars Techinca’s Chris Anderson on the disconnect between Snow Leopard Server and the iPhone: Apple needs to clarify exactly which features work and do not work on an iPhone regarding Mac OS X Server. It needs to get its act together and offer, at the very least, the same push functionality for e-mail, contacts, address [...]
Engadget: Young American woman travels over to Jerusalem to meet some friends, see the sights, live the life. Overzealous border security officers ask her a bunch of questions, take issue with her answers, and a few well-placed bullets later she is allowed entry into the country with a somewhat altered MacBook in tow. So what [...]
Noreen O’Leary: In terms of politics and world events, this has been a wild decade, but on the marketing front, one thing has remained constant: Apple’s emotional connection to consumers, who reward it with an almost cult-like loyalty. Though the brand almost petered out in the ’90s, last year consumers told Interbrand that Apple was [...]
