Michael Grothaus at TUAW:
When it first went on sale shipping times for all but the first-day buyers were quoted as seven to 10 days. Shipping times remained at seven to 10 days through the busy holiday season as well. Today, shipping times for the new 21.5-inch iMac have increased to between two and three weeks.
Well, this is exciting, or super, super disappointing.
Editor’s Note: This appeared in the Read and Trust newsletter exactly one year ago today.
By the time you’re reading this essay, it’s been re-written twice.
Most of the time, I don’t re-write pieces. I edit and re-arrange them often, but rarely do I open a new text document and just start over.
Needless to say, it was discouraging. The handful of people who read the earlier versions of this all said the same thing:
President Obama:
That is our generation’s task — to make these words, these rights, these values — of Life, and Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness — real for every American. Being true to our founding documents does not require us to agree on every contour of life; it does not mean we all define liberty in exactly the same way, or follow the same precise path to happiness. Progress does not compel us to settle centuries—long debates about the role of government for all time — but it does require us to act in our time.
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The BBC:
Security researchers say they have discovered a huge botnet running on the smartphones of more than a million unsuspecting mobile users in China.
The devices had been infected by a Trojan-based attack first discovered in 2011, news agency Xinhua reported.
The botnet can allow the smartphones to be hijacked remotely and potentially used for fraudulent purposes.
Guess what mobile OS it runs on.
I made it two months and one day without an iPhone.
For those keeping score, that’s ten months shy of my original goal.
In that original post, I wrote:
I — like most people I observe in waiting rooms and in line at Starbucks — kill little bits of time with my head down, the glow of my smartphone lighting up my face. Twitter, App.net, Google Reader, Instagram, Email, iMessage, Tumblr and more wedge their way in to my life in little two-minute increments throughout the day.
Yes, you read that headline correctly. This might be the coolest Hackintosh ever.
Dean Starkman:
So, all in all, it’s more than instructive to check in on longform newspaper writing, and the start of a new year isn’t a bad time to do it.
And it’s pretty to shocking to see what’s become of the time-honored form since the newspaper industry’s great unraveling started a decade ago.
Want to go paperless in 2013? Check out my guide over on Tools & Toys to get the ball rolling.
Eric Mack:
Just to be clear on what I’m saying, my best educated guesses are that we will see a new iPhone this summer, and it will be an iPhone 5S with mostly iterative updates, a choice of colors, and perhaps the lower-cost model of the latest rumors. But the real question is: then what?
My gut tells me the iPhone as we know it will be done at that point. I have a hunch there will never be an iPhone 6, because Apple will be forced to move into a significantly different form factor to keep people interested and compete with the movement toward bigger phablet-like thingies and emerging wearable electronics (lots of us have fat thumbs, after all). Or, there will be an iPhone 6 and it will disappoint.
The Daily Show’s John Oliver discovers that pretend news is the media world’s sole remaining home for intrepid investigative journalists.
In other news, I’m weeping under my desk, clutching my diploma.
via @danfrakes