After everyone lit their hair on fire this morning, it seems that the Starck story isn’t a big deal.
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RNC Picks Google as Social Media Platform
On Bad Advice
What Apple risks here is its reputation as a hot company that can do no wrong. If it’s smart it will call the iPhone a “reference design” and pass it to some suckers to build with someone else’s marketing budget. Then it can wash its hands of any marketplace failures.
It should do that immediately before it’s too late. Samsung Electronics Ltd. (US:SSNGY) might be a candidate. Otherwise I’d advise you to cover your eyes. You’re not going to like what you’ll see.
‘North Korea Still Sucks at Launching Rockets’
Why is iCloud Free?
With the recent purchase of Instagram by Facebook, there has been a lot of chatter online about free services.
It all boils down to something pretty simple. If you don’t pay for a service, you will either:
- See ads
- Be sad when the service is bought or folds
The reality is that free services can’t run forever without one of those two things happening. In the case of Instagram, the service was bought by a company that offers a free-to-users-but-with-ads service. (It just so happens the service is disliked by many nerds, hence the outcry online.)
Instagram Gains 10 Million Users in 10 Days
Is Social Media Making Us Lonely?
Stephen Marche at The Atlantic:
Social media—from Facebook to Twitter—have made us more densely networked than ever. Yet for all this connectivity, new research suggests that we have never been lonelier (or more narcissistic)—and that this loneliness is making us mentally and physically ill. A report on what the epidemic of loneliness is doing to our souls and our society.
Apple Releases Flashback Removal Tool
This Java security update removes the most common variants of the Flashback malware.
This update also configures the Java web plug-in to disable the automatic execution of Java applets. Users may re-enable automatic execution of Java applets using the Java Preferences application. If the Java web plug-in detects that no applets have been run for an extended period of time it will again disable Java applets.
Good on Apple for handling this so quickly.
Field Notes: The National Crop Edition
I always have a Field Notes brand notebook in my pocket, and I’m psyched about the Spring 2012 edition. As a subscriber, I’ll get them in the mail automatically, but I ordered the box set anyways.
Oh, and if you have any of the Raven ones, feel free to mail me one or seven.
More on Irn-Bru
On this week’s episode of Ungeniused, I drink an Irn-Bru for the first time.
Marketplace Airs Video From Foxconn
Marketplace Shanghai Bureau Chief Rob Schmitz is only the second reporter ever to gain access to visit the factory floor at Apple’s Chinese producer Foxconn. In this exclusive video, see highlights from his tour of the assembly line and the Foxconn campus and facilities to see what living and working conditions are like for the hundreds of thousands of workers there.
It’s amazing to me how much of this is done by hand.