By John Gruber
Mux — Video for developers
Linked List: September 22, 2008
Monday, 22 September 2008
- Wil Shipley on the App Store: ‘Let the Market Decide’ ★
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Wil Shipley has a very good proposal for how Apple should be handling the App Store:
The App Store needs to think of itself as two different parts - it already implements these parts, but the people who run the store need to understand that these two parts are fundamentally separate. […]
Everyone can get into the warehouse. Only the select few can get into the storefront.
- Lights Off ★
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Craig Hockenberry took the source code to Lights Off — a simple, fun iPhone game from Lucas Newman and Adam Betts written against the jailbreak APIs a year ago — got it working under the official iPhone APIs, and has released it as open source.
- ‘All of a Sudden’ ★
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Senator Bernie Sanders:
For years now, they’ve told us that we can’t afford — that the government providing healthcare to all people is just unimaginable; it can’t be done. We don’t have the money to rebuild our infrastructure. We don’t have the money to wipe out poverty. We can’t do it. But all of a sudden, yeah, we do have $700 billion for a bailout of Wall Street.
In just one week.
- Badass Pony ★
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Armin Vit on Ford’s subtle but very effective redesign of the Mustang badge.
- Deliberation ★
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Newt Gingrich, on the Bush administration’s “hurry up and immediately approve a $700 billion bailout” push, and the Democratic congress’s apparent willingness to go along with it:
Congress was designed by the Founding Fathers to move slowly, precisely to avoid the sudden panic of a one-week solution that becomes a 20-year mess.
And so we’ve now reached the point where I’m in full agreement with Newt Gingrich on the most pressing political debate of the day.
- ‘Nuh-Uh, My Mom Thinks I’m Cool’ ★
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Kottke:
That’s the problem with Microsoft’s ads. They’re still #1 and the bigger company, but by referencing Apple’s successful ad campaign, they’re acting like Apple is #1.
- We Are All PCs ★
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Amelie Gillette on Microsoft’s new “I’m a PC” ads:
Also, it would have been simpler for Deepak Chopra to just say, “I’m a PC, and I will gradually wear down your patience with verbal slingshot after verbal slingshot filled with bullshit.”
Update, December 2016: The commercial in question can be seen here.
- What Advertising Can’t Fix ★
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Seth Godin on Microsoft’s Apple envy:
Microsoft may very well not be broken. The world needs reliable bureaucracies that mollify the needs of corporations and individuals in the center of the market. But if it is broken, advertising isn’t going to fix it.
Microsoft’s cultural problem is that they seem utterly dissatisfied with the perception that they are a company that makes boatloads of money selling (a) boring but profitable business software and (b) the lowest common denominator PC operating system, even though that’s exactly what they do.
- A Nation Turns Its Lonely Eyes to You ★
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Last night the Yankees beat the Orioles 7-3, in the final baseball game ever played in the most celebrated sporting venue in the world, Yankee Stadium.
- Nikon’s New AF-S Nikkor 50mm ƒ/1.4G Lens ★
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If you own a Nikon SLR, you should buy this lens.