Mac and web curmudgeonry/nerdery. By John Gruber.
Is it a challenge to the major record labels? An answer to the increasingly hostile European governments (Norway, France, Germany) that are pressuring Apple to “open up” the iTunes Store? A message to the press to clarify Apple’s stance on DRM? A big fuck-you to Microsoft?
It is all of these things.
Rob Enderle continues to recommend that IT departments begin banning the iPhone now.
Bill Gates to Newsweek: “Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally.”
Oh, really?
It’s not every day that one of the most popular indie Mac apps in history changes hands, but that’s what happened today, when Matthew Drayton and his new company, Nolobe, acquired the rights to Interarchy from Peter N Lewis’s Stairways Software.
Rob Enderle racks up another Jackass of the Week award.
How to create a simple Word Count system-wide service using AppleScript and ThisService.
In a Macworld Expo keynote address full of surprises, one of the biggest was the news that “iPhone runs OS X”. But what that means, precisely, is not yet entirely clear, and speculation has already led to a few common misconceptions.
Macworld has posted the recording from the live show I did with Cabel Sasser at the Macworld booth at the Expo last week.
Apple has not announced what type of CPU is used in the iPhone, but my sources indicate it’s from ARM.
Remember, no wagering.