By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: March 11, 2008
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
- Filing Bugs Against iPhone SDK Restrictions ★
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Rogue Amoeba’s list of bugs they’ve filed with Apple against the iPhone SDK serves as a concise layman’s overview of the restrictions and limitations. The Rogue Amoeba guys are pretty much taking the hard line stance that iPhone development should be as open as Mac development. I don’t agree with that, but it’s useful to have a list like this.
- Quote, Unquote ★
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Nice essay on quotation marks from The Ministry of Type.
- Apple Poaches Samsung Mobile Executive ★
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Everyone seems focused on Apple’s 2008 goal to sell 10 million iPhones, but I wonder how many they’re hoping to sell in, say, 2009. I’m guessing it’s a lot more than 10 million.
- Donkey Kong and Me ★
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Great old-school Atari programming story. (Via Erik Barzeski.)
- Dave Girard’s Aperture 2.0 Review ★
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In his typical in-depth style.
- Hello App Store ★
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Craig Hockenberry:
But thinking through the situation a bit more, I realized that those things pale in comparison to the value of being associated with the Apple brand. Having their explicit stamp of approval and being included in the App Store will make any product more appealing to a customer.
The other big thing about this is that users — especially typical users — will feel confident about the fact that whatever they install won’t screw up their phones.