By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: April 14, 2006
Friday, 14 April 2006
- Jackass of the Week: USA Today Columnist Andrew Kantor ★
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Andrew Kantor writes in USA Today that Boot Camp will start an “exodus to Windows” of Mac users:
But the notion put forward by some Mac folks — that Boot Camp will improve the Mac’s position in the business and gaming marketplace — is backward. Instead, it’s more likely to convince Mac users to switch to Windows once they’ve used it long enough to be deprogrammed.
Readers keep sending me links to ill-considered punditry such as this, and I love it, because in every case, the stuff I’ve already written about Boot Camp refutes every point they try to make. In a nut, though, the two most important points about Boot Camp are these:
You now get to choose between a computer that can only run Windows or a computer that can run both Windows and Mac OS X. And only Apple sells the latter.
Apple isn’t trying to get all PC users/owners to buy Macs. They’re just trying to get high-end users who are already tempted by the Mac to switch.
- NFox’s Karl Kraft on the Apple/O’Grady Subpoena ★
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Well this is interesting. NFox’s Karl Kraft posted a comment on Slashdot regarding the subpoena he was served regarding Jason O’Grady’s email that was subpoenaed by Apple:
I’m the ISP / person who was subpoenaed. I have no problem telling a company the size of Apple to pound sand, I’ve done it twice before and been successful. When I received the initial request I refused it because it wasn’t a subpoena signed by a judge.
I don’t feel threatened at all by Apple. At no point has Apple or their lawyers ever “intimated” me. On the other hand the EFF has attempted to coerce and intimidate me in this matter. Their legal filings imply that my conversations in response to the subpoena from Apple were violations of federal law. The EFF cherry picks what parts of the case they want to display on their web page. Meanwhile I have a foot tall stack of filings from the case.
Jason has left out that the reason that I got into the loop at all is because he used my phone and address instead of his for his domain registration. He has since changed it to a PO Box.
- Firefox 1.5.0.2 ★
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Now a universal binary — strikingly fast according to everyone I know who’s tried it on Intel-based Mac hardware.
- Forrester Research: Apple Could Double Market Share on Microsoft Defections ★
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Forrester Research says the customers most unhappy with Microsoft look like typical Apple customers, including the fact that they have higher incomes and spend more online.