Linked List: June 12, 2007

Tuesday, 12 June 2007

Michael Tsai on the WWDC 2007 Keynote ★

Interesting commentary and a great list of links to other analysis.

InformationWeek: Apple Says No ZFS in Leopard ★

InformationWeek:

An Apple official on Monday said Sun Microsystems’ open-source file system would not be in the next version of the Mac operating system, contradicting statements made last week by Sun’s chief executive.

There’s more to it than that, however.

WWDC 2007 Flickr Photoset ★

I’ll be adding pictures to this group throughout the week. First batch includes a few from Moscone and Buzz Andersen’s shindig last night.

New York Times Story on iPhone Commercials ★

Andrew Adam Newman, in The New York Times:

Pacific Catch, a restaurant in San Francisco whose phone number appeared momentarily in one of the iPhone ads, averaged 100 extra calls a day the next week, the general manager, Rob Schechtman, said. Apple’s ad agency got the restaurant’s permission beforehand.

Calls came from as far away as Africa and included a collect call from a county jail; the restaurant did not accept the charges.

MacBreak Weekly WWDC Analysis ★

Includes a quick segment with yours truly, calling in live from WWDC yesterday. (I show up around the 1:04 mark.)

Apple Removes Fast Switching From Leopard Boot Camp Page ★

Hmm. Yesterday I linked to Apple’s web page for Boot Camp on Leopard, which contained a paragraph describing a new “fast switching” feature. That paragraph is no longer on the web page.