Linked List: August 31, 2008

Sunday, 31 August 2008

Ideas That Will Never Die ★: It doesn’t matter how well Apple is doing, how remarkably profitable the Mac has become, how remarkably fast Mac sales are growing — the idea that Apple “must” or “should” license Mac OS X to other computer makers will never die.
‘Lucky Star’ ★: Adam Lisagor on Lucky Star, a cool-as-shit fake trailer Michael Mann shot as a promotion for Mercedes-Benz in 2002.
Eric Wijngaard, Winner of Android Developer Challenge, in His Own Words ★: Eric Wijngaard, objecting to the English translation of his remarks to a Dutch newspaper I ran Friday:

Then a follow-up question about what’s next and if there will be an iPhone version. This was my reply:

“Right now, I am focusing on Android and I want to make sure that PicSay will run on the actual Android-based phone when it is launched. It is possible to create an iPhone version of PicSay, and I would like to do that some day, but there is no time for that now.”

Even more miraculous the above ended up as:

“I guess I could invest it in my software company, but first I want to port PicSay to the iPhone.”