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iPhone Now as Fragmented as Android
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| At Transpond, when we were building apps on
| the iPhone and Android platforms last year,
| all of our engineers were enamored with the
| iPhone and annoyed with the pesky Android
| devices.
|
| The iPhone environment was remarkably
| consistent. There was a single 480Ã320 screen
| resolution and API consistency across iPhone,
| iPhone 3G, and iPhone 3GS. Even though the
| original iPhone doesnât have GPS, it provided
| an approximation based on cell towers, and our
| customers like CBS and NBC are more interested
| in syndicating video and engaging users, so we
| did not need the 3D graphics of the newer
| generation iPhones. All in all, the iPhone
| platform presented a clean, wonderful
| experience for our engineers where they could
| write one piece of code and it would run
| beautifully on all of the iPhone and iPod
| Touch devices.
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http://peteryared.blogspot.com/2010/06/iphone-now-as-fragmented-as-android.html
With Safari 5, Apple plugs four dozen holes
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| Safari 5 for Windows and Mac debuted on
| Monday. The impact on security issues is
| detailed in this advisory, which applies to
| Safari 5.0 and Safari 4.1.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20007126-245.html
Apple Continues Its Exclusive Ways (NASDAQ: GOOG, AAPL)
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| To summarize, developers can only use iAd to
| collect information from iPhone and iPad users
| and may only use this gathered information
| with companies that are too small to compete
| with Apple, thus rendering all of the big
| players attempting to gain market share in the
| space inoperable.
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http://www.worldmarketmedia.com/779/section.aspx/1785/post/apple-continues-its-exclusive-ways-nasdaq-goog-aapl
Do the feds have a case against Apple?
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| The Financial Times on Thursday said that two
| sources close to the situation have "taken an
| interest" in Apple's actions on Monday. Which
| agency would be charged with looking into it,
| isn't yet clear: either the Federal Trade
| Commission or the Department of Justice. But
| the FTC just spent months looking at the
| mobile-ad market from all angles for the
| recently closed Google/AdMob acquisition case,
| so the FTC would make sense.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20007368-260.html
Recent:
In FOSS Does "F" Have To Stand For Fabulous To Make Apple The Next Sun
Microsystems? It's All About The User Experience
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| I do agree with Zemlin that "F" in FOSS has to stand
| for Free and Fabulous to really beat Apple. But the
| fabulous is not about shared development, it is all
| about as Zemlin said, customer experience. The mobile
| platform is not going to be dominated by Geeks who
| work at command lines juiced up on pizza and high
| caffeine cola. It is about the interface and user
| experience.
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/foss-does-f-have-stand-fabulous-make-apple-ne
Some Liars Are More Skillful Than Others
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| Maybe the problem is not Apple and M$ so much as the
| leadership not respecting the public enough to tell
| the truth. They are just ordinary businesses pushing
| product. They are not magical and do not defy the laws
| of Nature. They are not singular sources of creativity
| on the planet. They do not have all the answers and,
| in particular, do not always know and tell the truth.
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http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/06/09/some-liars-are-more-skillful-than-others/
Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal
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| I feel for Google â Steve Jobs threatened
| to sue me, too.
|
| In 2003, after I unveiled a prototype Linux
| desktop called Project Looking Glass*,
| Steve called my office to let me know the
| graphical effects were âstepping all over
| Appleâs IP.â (IP = Intellectual Property =
| patents, trademarks and copyrights.) If we
| moved forward to commercialize it, âIâll
| just sue you.â
|
| [...]
|
| As in life, bluster and threat are
| commonplace in business â especially the
| technology business. So that interaction
| was good preparation for a later meeting
| with Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. Theyâd
| flown in over a weekend to meet with Scott
| McNealy, Sunâs then CEO â who asked me and
| Greg Papadopoulos (Sunâs CTO) to accompany
| him. As we sat down in our Menlo Park
| conference room, Bill skipped the small
| talk, and went straight to the point,
| âMicrosoft owns the office productivity
| market, and our patents read all over
| OpenOffice.â OpenOffice is a free office
| productivity suite found on tens of
| millions of desktops worldwide. Itâs a
| tremendous brand ambassador for its owner â
| it also limits the appeal of Microsoft
| Office to businesses and those forced to
| pirate it. Bill was delivering a slightly
| more sophisticated variant of the threat
| Steve had made, but he had a different
| solution in mind. âWeâre happy to get you
| under license.â That was code for âWeâll go
| away if you pay us a royalty for every
| downloadâ â the digital version of a
| protection racket.
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http://jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/good-artists-copy-great-artists-steal/
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