My thanks to RadarScope for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. RadarScope is a terrific premium weather radar display system for Mac and iOS — think of it as a prosumer-level weather app...
Matt Buchanan on David Pogue’s review of the Samsung Galaxy Player 4.2: Pogue, ostensibly to please a vocal, angry contingency of fanboys, bends over backwards so hard to say nice things about ...
Good piece by Wolf Rentzsch, evaluating both the pros and cons of buying Mac apps from the App Store versus direct from developers. He makes a strong case that the new sandboxing rules that went into...
This week’s episode of The Talk Show, America’s most-starred podcast (because one star is still a star), with special guest star John Moltz, the acclaimed author of A Very Nice Web Site. ...
David Smith: I certainly hope iAd stays around. After a very bumpy start it has stabilized into a very solid platform that serves its intended goal of providing a native mechanism for making money in...
Alexis Madrigal: So a typical company in manufacturing might do 8 inventory turns. Samsung does 17. Dell, which practically invented hardcore electronics supply chain management, does 36. Apple is do...
Five days ahead of WWDC. ★
Sid Stamm and Alex Fowler, writing for the Mozilla Privacy Blog: Firefox defaults to state 3: we don’t know what the user wants, so we’re not sending any signals to servers. This causes the presence ...
Ryan Singel, reporting for Wired Threat Level: Consider this scenario: If indeed the net’s major advertisers obeyed Do Not Track and IE 10 keeps the default, more than a quarter of the net’s users wo...
George W. Bush’s official portrait was released yesterday. ★
Shaila Dewan, reporting for the NYT: The United States economy gained a net 69,000 jobs in May, the Labor Department said Friday, a dismal showing that reflected mounting evidence of a global slowdow...
Siri APIs, system-wide Facebook integration, inter-application communication — all good guesses from Matthew Panzarino. At least some of these guesses have to be right, no? ★
Shocking. ★
Epic 8,000-plus-word piece on Windows 8 by Michael Mace. At this length it’s more like a short book than a long article, but it’s packed with thoughtful criticism and praise. I’ve s...
Speaking of Jobs’s appearances at All Things D: It’s the first D Conference since Steve Jobs died last October. That’s huge. After all, the D conference was the only non-Apple event where the l...
David Goldman, reporting for CNN Money: Cricket customers will have to pay nearly full price for the device, shelling out $500 for the 16 gigabyte iPhone 4S or $400 for the two-year-old iPhone 4. Tha...
Micah Lee and Peter Eckersley, writing for the EFF: Apple’s recent products, especially their mobile iOS devices, are like beautiful crystal prisons, with a wide range of restrictions imposed b...
Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher: So, as a memorial to a great man and in the spirit of sharing a priceless piece of history, we are making all six of these appearances available on iTunes for free, in...
I like the way Alex Micek is thinking here. ★
Still small potatoes for Apple overall, but they seem determined. ★
“We’re going to double down on secrecy on products.” —Tim Cook, yesterday at the D10 conference I’ve long compared Apple punditry to Cold War-era Kremlinology — to predi...
Smart analysis by Dan Frommer. ★
New in version 1.3: support for reminders. One year later, Fantastical is still my primary Mac calendaring app. ★
Oliver Reichenstein, on those insipid per-post social media buttons: The previous wave of buttons for Delicious and Digg and Co. vanished, Facebook and Twitter and G+ might vanish or they might survi...
Live coverage from The Verge and MacRumors, too. Best line from Cook: “We’re going to double down on secrecy on products.” ★
I still think the same thing about Chrome OS as I did a year ago: “Chrome feels so much more Google-y than Android. Chrome feels like Google’s natural platform — all web, only the web. An...
Jean-Louis Gassée analyzes the stock prices of Apple and Amazon (and Facebook): Why do they think Apple has so much less room to grow than Amazon? First, a big difference: Apple’s founder is no longe...
A few administrative points regarding the new The Talk Show (a.k.a. The Talk Show 3): You should follow The Talk Show on Twitter. A new network means a new RSS feed URL. If you were subscribed to the...
Hugo Miller reports for Bloomberg that RIM faces another huge writedown for unsold inventory: The value of RIM’s in-house supplies grew 18 percent last quarter alone, a faster rate than at any other ...
Clever and insidious. ★
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