I recommend before installing Lion that even if you’re using Time Machine you also create a working clone of your Mac. This is because while you can restore data from Time Machine, it’s faster and simpler to do so from a clone.
Amen, brother.
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The iPad and Magazines
This is a great piece by Shawn Blanc. Instapaper it now.
Thurrott Accuses NYT of Being Anti-Microsoft, Pro-Apple
I’ve subscribed to The New York Times for over a decade now and … I just give up. This paper is so pro-Apple and so anti-Microsoft that it’s hard to excuse anymore. It’s blatant, it’s constant, and it’s too much.
When my kids ask me what “the pot calling the kettle black” means, I’m going to send them to this post.
The Rise and Fall of the Independent Developer
From our experience, it’s entirely possible that all the revenue for a product can be eaten up by legal fees. After years of pouring your heart and soul into that product, it’s devastating. It makes you question why the hell you’re in the business: when you can’t pay salaries from product sales, there’s no point in building it in the first place.
So, just as in the days of magnetic media, the independent developer now finds him or herself at a point where it is again becoming very expensive to distribute their products to a mass market. This time the retail channel itself is very cheap, but the ancillary costs, both financially and emotionally, are very high.
Rolling Shutter and Guitar Strings
This video is cool, but how it works might be just as cool.
New Hardware and OS X Lion
I laid down the law about product release rumors over on Macgasm.
Mac Community Crushed By Lion’s Non-Release, Cries out for Mercy
With the entire Internet thinking that OS X Lion would be out today, July 14, a lack of such a release has left many Macintosh users, fans and journalists1 lost without hope.
I’ve spoken to several people in the Mac community today, and the story repeats itself all over the place.2
It is unbelievable this day in age a company like Apple could be so cavalier with a release date of such a major product, leaving customers across the world high and dry, making many think the company shouldn’t be trusted anymore, with things like this. Is anyone at Apple care about the Mac anymore? I thought waiting for Textmate 2 was hard, I’m done.
Apple Insider Theorizes on iPad 3 Based on Photos of an Internal Cable
Paul Thurrott Reviews OS X Lion
I can see no reason why anyone with a Snow Leopard-based Mac wouldn’t upgrade to Lion. This upgrade features a ton of new features and is priced to sell. It’s a no brainer.
For Microsoft and, to a lesser degree, Windows users, Lion represents Apple throwing down the gauntlet. The company already dominates the mobile space with its iPhones, iPods, and iPads, and by taking the best and most appropriate ideas from iOS and applying them to the Mac, the company is announcing its intention to continue this success in Microsoft’s core market of PCs.
Apple Launches App Store Volume Purchase Program for Business Clients
It looks like a pretty good program, but there are still no such options for Mac App Store customers.
Inside RIM
The three-year roadmap for RIM products focused on refining the technology in phones had already been released, rather than looking at where to add major new component or trying to identify or even shape future trends. “One of the main reasons RIM missed the mark with the browser was because they were always proud of how little data usage a user would use,” a former executive said. “There was no three-year plan at RIM.” RIM would be proud of the fact that someone would only use 1MB of data in a month in 2005, and as a result, there wasn’t ever any extensive R&D done within the browser space. Over time, that misstep affected BlackBerry tremendously as competing devices began to deliver desktop-like Web experiences.
The More Things Change...
Dave Feldman, unveiling the TechCrunch redesign:
TechCrunch is bold. It’s raw. It’s fast-paced. With 50 articles crossing the home page daily we couldn’t simply redesign the reader-facing site; we had to think about the CMS too. We wanted to support you, the readers, because you read every article we post. We wanted to give you better context across posts and topics, new ways to slice and dice content so you can dig into what interests you. We get a huge amount of RSS traffic and wanted to keep providing a full experience to those readers too.