By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: January 20, 2006
Friday, 20 January 2006
- That Postal Service-Apple/Intel Ad ‘Rip-Off’? Never Mind ★
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Last week Leander Kahney tried to cast Apple’s new Intel ad as a rip-off of a somewhat similar video from The Postal Service; ends up the commercial was directed by the same team that directed the video. Ha.
Even if the same directing team hadn’t been involved in Apple’s ad, it clearly isn’t a rip-off. Are there similar shots? Yes, definitely. But the tones are completely different. The video is good; the commercial is great.
- Steven Levy Interview With Steve Jobs ★
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I missed this interview in Newsweek last week. Jobs, on why there weren’t any iPod-killers unveiled at the CES show the week prior:
The problem is, the PC model doesn’t work in the consumer electronics industry, where you’ve got all these companies and some does one thing and another does another thing. It just doesn’t work. What’s going to happen is that Microsoft is going to have to get into the hardware business of making MP3 players. This year. X-player, or whatever.
- Sandvox Auto-Installs Input Manager Hack ★
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I’m glad I haven’t bothered trying Sandvox yet. Bill Bumgarner reports:
I was debugging a random crasher problem today and noticed that something called Smart Crash Reports appeared in the inventory of my Cocoa app’s list of frameworks and bundles.
As it turns out, Sandvox silently installs Smart Crash Report in
~/Library/Input Managers/when it is launched. As an input manager, SCR is thusly loaded into every Cocoa app launched and subsequently uses various non-supported mechanisms to modify the behavior of said application.Completely unacceptable. Sandvox is now gone from my system and will not return until this feature is “opt in” only.
This is the exact same thing I complained about regarding Path Finder 4.0 earlier this week.
- Apple’s Social Software Group Is Hiring ★
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Jens Alfke says his team at Apple is looking to hire an engineer.
- New York Times Report on Disney-Pixar Merger ★
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Report by Laura M. Holson and John Markoff says the Disney-Pixar deal is likely to be approved by Disney’s board, and would make Steve Jobs the single largest Disney shareholder. (Because Jobs owns 50.6 percent of Pixar, it’s apparently pretty much up to him whether Pixar accepts.)