Check out the side-by-side comparison late in the video of the time it takes to launch 10 apps simultaneously from an SSD versus a traditional hard disk.
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Archive > February 2010
Mimeo and the Kleptopus King
Shaun Inman’s upcoming iPhone platform game. You collect power-ups not to upgrade your character but to upgrade the world. Looks glorious.
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Merlin Mann Interviews Clipstart Developer Manton Reece at Macworld
Nice interview, and if you haven’t checked out Clipstart, you should. (Click the “Download MOV file” link to get a nice big H.264 version right in Safari.)
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Tim Cook Q&A Session at Goldman Sachs Conference
Paraphrased transcript from Dan Frommer:
We are the most focused company that I know of or have read of or
have any knowledge of. We say no to good ideas every day. We say
no to great ideas in order to keep the amount of things we focus
on very small in number [...]
‘Daisy Mae’ Game Pulled From the App Store; a Few Days Later, It’s Back In
From the department of tags I never expected to create for DF posts: “Sexy Apps”.
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Your Humble Narrator’s Presentation From Macworld 2010
My list of the top ten issues facing Apple, presented at Macworld Expo earlier this month. Thanks to everyone who was there — it was a great audience.
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NYT: ‘Apple Purges Blue Apps From Online Store’
Phil Schiller comments to The New York Times’s Jenna Wortham regarding Apple’s recent decision to remove sexually titillating apps from the App Store. I like how The Times uses the adjective “blue”. (I also love how The New York Times has published an article mentioning an app named “Dirty Fingers”.) I used “porno” the other [...]
