Linked List: September 30, 2007

Sunday, 30 September 2007

The Talk Show, Episode 11 

Regarding movie trailers and the iPhone 1.1.1 update. I sleep better now that we have such a good-looking web site for the show.

Apple’s Insomnia Film Festival 

Student filmmaking contest from Apple: You get 24 hours to make a three-minute film.

Richard Sprague, iPhone Doubter 

Richard Sprague, back in January:

So please mark this post and come back in two years to see the results of my prediction:  I predict they will not sell anywhere near the 10M Jobs predicts for 2008.

Consider it marked. As of earlier this month, Sprague still thinks his prediction is looking good. Perhaps Sprague would like to make it an actual wager.

Okay, it’s possible there are enough Apple religious people to buy a lot of them at first, but even the most diehard Mac fans who buy one of these will secretly carry two phones. One to prove how loyal and “cool” they are, and the other to actually make and receive calls.

Looks like Apple made a smart move shipping this guy from their marketing department to Microsoft’s.

Technical Stupidity 

The Times of London claims the price of the iPhone in the U.K. as £899 — £269 for the phone, and the rest from the minimum monthly contract with O2. Do they compute the price for other phones this way? (Let me guess: No.)

Phillies Win First NL East Title Since 1993 

I love the Phillies and hate the Mets, so this is pretty sweet. The Mets had a 7.5-game division lead just a few weeks ago. Hard to believe, really, given just how bad the Phillies have been since ’93.

iPhone Human Interface Guidelines 

Note the note:

Note: Currently, developers create web applications for iPhone, not native applications. Therefore, this document focuses solely on the presentation of web applications and other web content on iPhone.

Interesting word, “currently”.