By John Gruber
Mux — Video for developers
Linked List: September 27, 2008
Saturday, 27 September 2008
- App Store Reviews Now Require Download or Purchase ★
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Matt Gemmell:
Just a small positive note amongst the gloom of NDAs, app rejections and approval delays: Apple have today changed how the customer reviews system works for App Store applications: you now must have downloaded or purchased the app before you’re allowed to post a review on it.
This is a big deal, a huge improvement, because the reviews for most not-free apps in the store are riddled with useless, inane, zero-star reviews complaining about the price of the app from idiots who haven’t actually used the software.
- Windows Mobile 7 Delayed ★
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Matt Marshall:
Microsoft is delaying the update to its mobile operating system, called Windows Mobile 7, with the new phones carrying the operating system now increasingly unlikely to hit the market before 2010, according to sources.
It’s one thing when major new releases of desktop Windows run late — that doesn’t hurt Microsoft much, because, as a monopolist, their primary competition for Windows Vista is Windows XP. But they’re embarrassing themselves in the very competitive handheld market. Microsoft appears to be dysfunctional.
- Mini-Microsoft: ‘Compensatory Arrangements of Certain (Microsoft) Officers’ ★
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Mini-Microsoft on the company’s new executive compensation plan:
Microsoft is dying from the inside, and the folks sucking it dry have zero motivation to change things. It’s working out pretty damn well for them.
- Google Comes Out Against California’s Proposition 8 ★
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Proposition 8 is a ballot initiative in California, which would change the state’s constitution to “eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry in California”. Google has taken an official corporate stance. Sergey Brin:
While we respect the strongly-held beliefs that people have on both sides of this argument, we see this fundamentally as an issue of equality. We hope that California voters will vote no on Proposition 8 — we should not eliminate anyone’s fundamental rights, whatever their sexuality, to marry the person they love.
Good for Google. I hope they put some money behind it too; anti-gay bigots are putting a ton of money into a campaign to pass this initiative.
- Paul Newman Dies at Age 83 ★
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One of the greats. The definition of cool. And his Newman’s Own brand, in addition to making delicious cookies, has raised more than $200 million for charity.