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Linked List: October 23, 2008

Thursday, 23 October 2008

Listen to The Fonz 

Ron Howard reprises his roles as Opie and Richie Cunningham, alongside Andy Griffith and Henry Winkler as The Fonz.

Biggest Flop of the Century 

Self-proclaimed “marketing expert” Laura Ries in June 2007:

The hype and intense media, consumer and Wall Street excitement comes from the impression that the iPhone will become another iPod (it even has a similar name.) And that Jobs will do in phones (a market 4 times the size of music players) what he did in music. In other words, he came, he saw, he conquered.

Nothing could be further from the truth. If the iPod is the biggest success of the 21st century then iPhone is likely to be the biggest flop of the 21st century.

Someday I will tire of linking to these things. That day is not today.

AnandTech on Mac OS X vs. Windows and Battery Life 

Anand Lal Shimpi is surprised that Mac OS X has far superior power management than Windows Vista:

All I can do for now is report the numbers as is. An unexpected benefit of OS X appears to be better battery life.

I don’t think this is unexpected at all.

Neil Gaiman Buys a G1 

Well, he tries to.

Brief Interview With Yours Truly on the iPhone Big Picture 

Dig that cool portrait they made to accompany it.

Nice profile of Jerry Dior, designer of the excellent logo for Major League Baseball.

Pixar University 

Here’s a 2003 San Francisco Chronicle profile of “Pixar University” — perhaps the model for Apple University.