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Linked List: September 8, 2005

Thursday, 8 September 2005

Welch on iPod Developers 

John C. Welch:

But every one trying to crack the iPod’s dominance is missing a really important point: Third Party Hardware Developers. The iPod has scads of hardware developers cranking out toys at a furious pace, the other guys have none. The reason for it is pretty obvious if you think about it. Developing for the iPod is dead simple compared to the other folks.

Apple Job Opening for Sr. Web Developer 

Apple listing at Monster.com:

Have you become one with CSS? Does your typical website critique include View Source?

If you are an expert at developing high performance, standards-compliant interactive web pages using XHTML/CSS/JavaScript and have experience working with large-scale content management or e-commerce systems, we want to talk to you!

Michael Tsai’s iTunes 5 Round-Up 

Lots of good links, and a good take from Tsai himself.

He’s pretty much spot-on:

  1. Stripes are passé.

  2. Margins are bad.

  3. Brushed metal is yesterday’s news.

  4. The unified title-and-toolbar look is the new platinum.

  5. The two-tone glass thing is big. Big, I tell you. Big.

Hard-Coded 100-Song Limit on the Rokr 

Even if your 100 songs don’t use up the entire 512 MB of memory, you can’t add more songs. Whose idea was this?

Google Hires Vint Cerf 

The Washington Post reports:

Google Inc. has hired Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf to float more ideas and develop new products, adding another weapon to the online search engine leader’s rapidly growing arsenal of intellect.

See also: Cerf’s own announcement at Google Blog.

Mossberg Loves the Nano 

Walter S. Mossberg:

This latest iPod was publicly revealed yesterday at a razzle-dazzle marketing event orchestrated by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. But I have been testing a Nano for the past few days, and I am smitten. It’s not only beautiful and incredibly thin, but I found it exceeds Apple’s performance claims.

In fact, the nano has the best combination of beauty and functionality of any music player I’ve tested — including the iconic original white iPod. And it sounds great. I plan to buy one for myself this weekend, when it is due to reach stores in the U.S., Europe and Asia.