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Children Trafficked at Super Bowl
Day One
Josh Wisenbake on AFP548 takes a look at the state of the world without the Xserve in it.
Ten Years
Steve Hayden, who worked on Apple’s “1984” ad:
I continued working on Apple until 1994, when it became clear that there wasn’t a single person left at the company who understood or appreciated the Apple brand. IBM was more interested in being Apple than Apple was, and I found a better audience in Armonk than I did in Cupertino.
What an incredibly dark 10 years for Apple — from the Macintosh launch to the Michael Spindler years. Spindler. Don’t remember him?
Notational Velocity, Dropbox and PlainText
I’ve been doing this for months, and haven’t missed Simplenote as the middleman.
On Reading Later
This morning, Readability announced a new service that lets users’ fees go to the content-providers they like.
Marco’s excellent Instapaper service will support Readability, allowing users Instapaper’d items to count as Readability items. This will let content providers see traffic and income, regardless of which service their readers use.
I — like almost every web writer I know — have setup my site to work with Readability’s new feature, hopefully creating a little income. I have “Send to Instapaper” links ready to go, but I am not going to implement them on ForkBombr quite yet. I think that the reader should decide what service — if any — they want to use.
Apple Rejects Sony Reader App
The company has told some applications developers, including Sony, that they can no longer sell content, like e-books, within their apps, or let customers have access to purchases they have made outside the App Store.
Apple rejected Sony’s iPhone application, which would have let people buy and read e-books bought from the Sony Reader Store.
Apple told Sony that from now on, all in-app purchases would have to go through Apple, said Steve Haber, president of Sony’s digital reading division.
Moron of the Week #2: Judge Roger Vinson
What’s that sound? Its just me smashing my head into my desk. Over and over.
‘One Mac mini’
Chris Foresman at Ars, discussing Omni Group’s free OTA sync service:
The cloud syncing service is built to work with any WebDAV server, so users can use iDisk, their own server, or use Omni Group’s free hosted service.
“We actually host over 10,000 users on one Mac mini,” [Omni Group CEO Ken] Case said, explaining that as long as the service can scale on such modest hardware, Omni will continue to offer free syncing. However, some corporate customers would likely prefer to host their own data for security purposes, and WebDAV gives them an easy way to do that with minimal effort.
Moron of the Week: Netgear CEO Patrick Lo
Once Steve Jobs goes away, which is probably not far away, then Apple will have to make a strategic decision on whether to open up the platform. Ultimately a closed system just can’t go that far … If they continue to close it and let Android continue to creep up then it’s pretty difficult as I see it. Right now the closed platform has been successful for Apple because they’ve been so far ahead as thought leaders because of Steve Jobs.
ActiveSAN
While it looks like killer hardware, this thing doesn’t run OS X Server. So calling it an “Xserve replacement” is something I really can’t bring myself to do.
The Next MacBook Pro
Marco weighs in on the future of Apple’s portable lineup:
I’m predicting the next 15” to be, effectively, the halfway point between the current one and what you’d expect a 15” Air to be.
I have little doubt that this is the future of the 15”, but I do think it’s risky to predict it now. Apple always kills off old technology and moves forward a little too soon for some people’s comfort (which usually works out very well), but this is a major change, and it might be too much at once.