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Linked List: January 17, 2008
Thursday, 17 January 2008
- A Keynote View From the Cheap Seats ★
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John Moltz on the keynote experience:
Some people with general admission passes lined up the night before to ensure their chances of glimpsing some shiny new Apple products, others got up at the crack of dawn. And when you’re out partying past dawn, that tends to present a bit of a logistical problem. Fortunately, there’s a Starbucks right next to the Moscone West. Unfortunately, the line to get into that is actually longer than the line to get into the Keynote.
- Sun Buys MySQL ★
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Is this brilliant or stupid? I’m leaning toward stupid.
- The Windows ClearType Fonts Come With Mac Office 2008 ★
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They’re great screen fonts. I especially like Consolas, Microsoft’s new monospaced coding font.
- Gizmodo Interview: Sony’s Thoughts on the MacBook Air ★
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Gizmodo’s Brian Lam talks to Sony Vaio product marketing executive Mike Abary about the MacBook Air:
I asked Mike who they thought the computer was for. “Beats me” was the initial reply, but came up with an answer: The extremely design conscious. I asked what feature he’d bring back to the Air, and without hesitating, he thought it should have 3G [networking].
Totally agree re: ubiquitous wireless networking, but so far, judging from email from DF readers who’ve pre-ordered Airs, it all boils down to weight.
- Jobs Chides BusinessWeek Reporter for Wrong Story ★
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Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek:
My posterior had hardly hit the couch for my post-keynote interview with Steve Jobs when he ribbed me: “Well, I guess your story looks pretty dumb.” He was talking about a story Ron Grover and I did earlier this month that suggested Apple would probably not be able to get Universal and Sony to support Apple’s new movie rental service.
I still stand behind that story. As I told Jobs, we had multiple reliable sources. But Jobs insists there was far less drama involved than we, and some other pubs, suggested.
- Markoff and Pogue Interview With Steve Jobs ★
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Steve Jobs on the Kindle:
“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore. Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.”
So, either (a) Jobs think the Kindle is a bad concept; or (b) Apple is working on a portable e-book reader.