By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: January 17, 2007
Wednesday, 17 January 2007
- Michael Tsai on the Non-Free AirPort Upgrade for 802.11n ★
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Gus Mueller and another commenter hint that Adobe has run into this problem as well.
- Apple Reports Record First Quarter Profit ★
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$1 billion in profits for the first quarter of 2007, up from $565 million a year ago.
“This one was for the record books,” Apple’s chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer said in an interview.
Apple shipped 1.6 million Macs and more than 21 million iPods during the quarter, representing a growth of 28 percent and 50 percent respectively from the year-ago holiday season.
Those are both incredible numbers. 21 million iPods is bit less than my prediction of 24 million, but way up from last year’s 14 million and also ahead of all the analysts’s expectations. And it used to be that 1 million Macs made for for a good quarter.
- Microsoft Windows 386 Promotional Video ★
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Starts out like an embarrassingly corny promotional video from the ’80s. And then you get to the 7-minute mark.
- Wi-Fi Networking News: ‘Steve Jobs Says Apple Will, In Fact, Charge $5 for 802.11n Updater’ ★
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Glenn Fleishman, reporting on an email Steve Jobs sent to someone inquiring about the rumored $5 charge to enable 802.11n Wi-Fi on capable Macs sold prior to Apple’s recent AirPort updates:
Jobs replied, simply, “It’s the law,” which would confirm that the Sarbanes-Oxley requirement that seemed bizarre to me is, in fact, correct. In several reports, the law is cited as requiring different accounting for earnings on products that are shipped and later provide new functionality that wasn’t initially advertised.
Back when the 5.5G iPod were announced in September, there was a bit of speculation about why certain of the new features, like searching, weren’t made available via a firmware update for owners of original 5G iPods. A couple of friends at Apple told me their best guess was that it was for compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley.
- Tog: The iPhone User Experience: A First Look ★
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Tog:
The origins of these bits and pieces, however, is not what’s important about the iPhone. What’s important is that, for the first time, so many great ideas and processes have been assembled in one device, iterated until they squeak, and made accessible to normal human beings. That’s the genius of Steve Jobs; that’s the genius of Apple.
- Symantec: Malware for the Apple iPhone? ★
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Eric Chien on the Symantec Security Response Weblog:
The lack of the ability to install just any software will greatly mitigate the risk of malicious code on Apple iPhones. Can malicious software exist? Will malicious software exist? Probably, but the amount of malicious software will definitely not be on the scale as it is today with Windows and likely not reach the levels of current malware for current mobile devices.
Why compare to Windows? Why not compare to the amount of malicious software plaguing Mac OS X? Start with the current level of malware on Mac OS X and then remove the ability for users to add third-party apps that haven’t been vetted by Apple.
- YayHooray and ‘Helvetica’ Join The Deck ★
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Swell additions to The Deck ad network. YayHooray is the community site from the Threadless crew. And seriously, a documentary about the Helvetica typeface? You know you want to see it. If you’re a type nerd, the film’s weblog is not to be missed, either.
- Ze Frank Going to Hollywood ★
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Nice profile in The New York Observer. (Via Kottke.)
- BurnAgain DVD 1.0 ★
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New (and renamed) version of BurnAgain, Thomas Bauer’s $24.50 multi-session CDR, CDRW, and DVD+RW burning tool:
If you burn items twice, BurnAgain will automatically compare them to the versions already burned and only new or changed files will be added, overwriting the previous versions if required.
Cool features, sure — but still no smoking special effects.
- Tangerine 1.1 ★
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Update to Potion Factory’s $25 “magical” playlist generator for iTunes; new features include presets based on criteria rules for easier control over the resulting playlists.