There has been a massive uproar regarding John Lilly’s post about Apple’s dubious update/install process of Safari (follow up regarding competition). I don’t think it needs to be discussed, but John Gruber (Apple fanboy extraodinaire) has a great post regarding exactly why it is wrong. The hoo-haa has largely been largely focused on the idea […]
Since Daring Fireball has opened it’s closed feed up to allcomers it has turned from, good well written articles that I really enjoyed reading, to my Google Reader folder of stuff I really want to read every morning. I don’t have an Apple, can’t use an Apple and probably never will, and maybe that’s why […]
Yesterday in Wired, an article talked about the two Apple’s new contract, which allows Apple Inc (nee Computers) to start selling ipods with music preloaded. Today, Steve Jobs writes an open letter to the record labels telling them to remove DRM because it doesn’t work anyway, (commentary is everywhere) while it may seem like […]
Apparently, floppy drives are dead. While most people have known this for quite a while Dave has discovered that they are a lot harder to find then you would think. We think the fact that Apple is putting magnets everywhere is also a good indicator that those disks aren’t going to be making a comeback […]
Google has announced that they are using Intel’s new viiv technology with their Video offering. The blogs are abuzz with Engadget, Gizmodo and Ars Technica featuring news of it and speculating that they are taking on Apple. I can’t help but think that Apple has been in on it, or doesn’t have a problem with […]
Dave Winer has bought an Apple so he can work on the OPML editor for it. He’s complaining about how much he hates using Safari. I’m not sure whether or not it’s because he hates Apple or because of the actual software. That’s his perogative. There are 2 extremely good options other than IE or […]
Dave Winer has been talking about the lock-in Apple seems to be performing with it’s new Podcasting support. One of the things he mentioned was no links in the descriptions of the Podcasts. Obviously this is a problem and really needs to be solved so that BigCo’s aren’t shitting on the little guys.
I think one […]