So with this whole thing where Apple has removed and banned like 5,000 “sexy apps” from the App Store, I think I’ve figured out the reason why, including why they’re granting exceptions to established names like Sports Illustrated, Playboy, and Victoria’s Secret. It’s about branding. Let me just state right here up front that I [...]
Archive > February 2010
Dan Frakes on Apple’s Shareholders Meeting
Dan Frakes:
As usual, there were also a number of off-beat comments and
questions, ranging from suggestions that Apple invest in Tesla
Motors (Jobs: “We were thinking of a toga party, actually”) […]
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Inside Apple’s Shareholders Meeting
Philip Elmer-DeWitt, relaying information from unnamed attendees at today’s Apple shareholders meeting:
Another shareholder then asked a longwinded Q about what
Apple/Jobs fears. “What keeps you awake at night?” … Jobs
deadpans: “Shareholders meetings.” Audience erupts in laughter.
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Tim Berners-Lee Rejects Adobe’s HTML5 Procedural Arguments
Tim Berners-Lee:
I agree with the WG chairs that these items — data and canvas —
are reasonable areas of work for the group. It is appropriate for
the group to publish documents in this area.
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FontShop Now Licensing Web Fonts
Including great families like DIN and Meta. Even better, they work with Typekit for cross-browser compatibility and ease-of-use.
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Sirius Posts Profit, Sees Big Subscriber Growth
Reuters:
Sirius XM Radio Inc. posted its first quarterly profit since its
merger and said it expected to add 500,000 new subscribers in
2010 as the recovery in the car market boosts demand for
satellite radio.
Looks like they’re going to make it.
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Dan Frommer Says Palm’s Decline ‘Shows That Apple Is Screwed Without Steve Jobs’
Obviously, this is the pessimistic take on the “What happens to Apple post-Jobs?” question:
Palm is basically Apple, Jr. And if a bunch of Apple geniuses
can’t kick butt on their own at Palm, how are they going to kick
butt without Steve at Apple?
He has a point, insofar as that Palm is staffed [...]
About PeepCode’s Blog
Pushing the limits of per-post art (and code) direction. Geoffrey Grosenbach explains in detail how it works.
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YouTube Version of Your Humble Narrator’s Macworld Feature Presentation
Now that the whole thing has been posted to YouTube, you can watch from Flash-less devices such as your iPhone or Apple TV, or even sans Flash on your Mac if you’ve signed up for YouTube’s HTML5 beta.
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