Linked List: June 20, 2007

Wednesday, 20 June 2007

Pre-Order Mac OS X Leopard at Amazon (and Help Support DF) ★

Seems a bit early for something that isn’t slated to ship until October, but Amazon is already taking pre-orders for Leopard. The current price is $129, but they have a price guarantee: pre-order now, and you pay the lowest price it’s available for before it ships. Place your order using this link and a portion of the proceeds gets kicked back to me.

John Nack: ‘Safari Brings Color-Managed Browsing to Windows’ ★

This is a big deal for online photography. More info from Rob Galbraith.

Mark Alldritt on WWDC 2007 ★

Good summary and good advice, echoing much of what I heard from other developers. E.g. that the labs were much more useful than the sessions (because most of the sessions were rehashes of information from WWDC 2006).

And he’s right about planning to eat out for lunch.

GracefulFlavor: ‘The iPhone Must Integrate With Exchange to Make a Real Run at Corporate Users’ ★

Jeff Ventura’s thoughtful contrary analysis to my take yesterday.

But the title alone shows where he’s wrong: Apple doesn’t need to take a run at “corporate users”. They’re taking a run at just plain people, some of whom, during weekday daylight hours, work in corporate environments. If their beloved iPhones don’t integrate with their office servers, they’re not going to blame Apple, they’re going to blame their IT departments.

Question for anti-iPhone IT managers like those quoted in the Wall Street Journal story yesterday: Do you see your role as serving the employees of your company, or ruling over them?

Apple Announces YouTube App for iPhone ★

No Flash means no YouTube, right? Wrong. iPhone gets YouTube the same way Apple TV does — not encoded as crummy Flash video, but as much higher quality H.264.

I love that the example is a skateboarding dog.