Harvard Business Review has named Steve Jobs the “Best-Performing CEO in the World.” This is behind that pay wall, according to AppleInsider:
“The #1 CEO on the list, Steve Jobs, delivered a whopping 3,188% industry-adjusted return (34% compounded annually) after he rejoined Apple as CEO in 1997, when the company was in dire shape,” the report said. “From that time until the end of September 2009, Apple’s market value increased by $150 billion.”
iPhone developer Phil Dhingra bought a Droid, and initially liked it. A lot.
A month later, he’s written a follow-up piece titled “After the Honeymoon,” outlining 20 things he dislikes about the device.
I love stuff like this — showing how people feel about their gadgets after the OMG IT IS SO DAMN SHINY AND NEW phase wears off.
Sweet Moses, I’ve been waiting for this:
Kick it old school with games for the original Nintendo Entertainment System. Nescaline allows you to play a wide range of NES games on your iPhone and includes five public domain games developed as freeware. You may also use the download feature to add games to your library from any URL. Nescaline is not crippled; it will play a large number of games, both homebrew and commercial; it is up to the user to determine whether they have appropriate licensing to download and play any licensed titles.
Updates the graphics firmware on ATI Radeon HD 4670 and 4850 graphics cards to address issues that may cause image corruption or display flickering.
The iMac Graphics Firmware Update will update the graphics firmware on your iMac.
Now they just need to get the glass-breaking-in-shipping issue resolved.
Yes, we know it now costs $5, but looking at the numbers, it appears that users of devices with iPhone OS on them aren’t willing to pay for it. iPhone users, who have always been able to upgrade to OS 3.0 for free, use the more recent versions 94.4% of the time. iPod Touch users, who are required to pay between $5 and $10 depending on timing, only use 3.x 55.24% of the time.
John Welch on Adobe Reader and Apple’s Preview:
I don’t think that Adobe understands that there is a market for a lightweight application that does a minimum beyond viewing, and does so with a clean UI.
It’s not like all Preview does is let you view. You can do annotations, notes, add links, simple shapes, bookmarks, etc. You can combine PDFs or add pages from another file, (something you can’t do in Adobe Reader) delete pages, (can’t in Reader), etc. You can even add files in other formats that Preview supports, such as PNG, JPEG, etc., again, something Reader doesn’t support. (At least not in a generic not-tied-to-an-Adobe-server-farm configuration. You know. The way normal people would use it.)
I’m going to say no on this one.
Unfortunately, the AP left some of the stylebook out of this mobile edition: some entries are less complete than those found in the paper version, and at least one refers to the stylebook’s Briefing on Media Law, which is not included here. Some entries with tables or graphics didn’t translate well, and URLs are not hyperlinked.
It’s not a full replacement for the printed version, but for quick things, I find myself opening it before I hunt down my Stylebook.
According to Apple, fixes include:
• Allows the Mail service to recover from an interruption in Directory Services
• Reduces Mail service memory usage
Now, if they’d just add push mail to the iPhone.
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 now the joke has taken on a life of its own.
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A few thousand people are not going to make a dent in a wireless network. If you participate, you’ll most likely be wasting your time.
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 at the current top tier of Android devices. The Motorola Droid runs Android 2.0. The HTC MyTouch 3G and G1 on T-Mobile run Android 1.6. The HTC Hero, a newer phone than the MyTouch and the G1, is still stuck on 1.5, along with the even newer Motorola Cliq, which shares one parent—Motorola—with the 2.0-loaded Droid. Why is this something to worry about? Remember Google Maps Navigation, the free turn-by-turn app for Android? It only works on Android 2.0 and 1.6. An app written by Google doesn’t even work on every new Google phone. Imagine how things are with third party apps. (Spoiler: it’s a shitshow.)