By John Gruber
Mux — Video for developers
Linked List: October 28, 2008
Tuesday, 28 October 2008
- Glenn Fleishman Reviews Google’s Android G1 Phone ★
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I’ve had a slew of G1 reviews sitting around in browser tabs for a week. Fleishman seems to nail the consensus:
The G1 would come off much better if it wasn’t competing with the 3G iPhone and iPhone OS 2.1.
- The Unfinished Swan ★
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One of the most beautiful game trailers I’ve ever seen. (Via Kottke.)
- Zune Hits the Mainstream ★
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As the butt of jokes.
- Cruz 0.1 ★
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New WebKit-based browser by Todd Ditchendorf, the creator of Fluid. Includes an open plugin architecture for extending the app, and Greasemonkey-style user scripting. Ambitious and interesting. Be sure to check out the demo videos.
- Cursebird ★
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Real-time feed of people swearing on Twitter.
- Reconstructing Apple’s 2008 Earnings to Reflect iPhone Sales ★
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Andy Zaky on Apple’s share price, and how most mainstream financial analysts don’t seem to grasp the implications of Apple’s use of subscription-based accounting for the iPhone:
Right away, one ought to notice the staggering growth rate in both revenue and earnings that Apple displayed in 2008. Apple’s real revenue grew 54.5% from $24.637 billion in FYE 2007 to $38.041 billion in FYE 2008 — a full $13.4 billion growth in revenues. Even more impressive is Apple’s 81.2% growth rate in adjusted net income. For a company that is trading at 12 times 2008 earnings, it doesn’t take a genius to conclude that Apple is severely undervalued. Especially since Apple currently trades at about 3.37 times its cash position — which is objectively and significantly lower than every other large cap tech company.
GOOG trades at 7.18 times its cash position, RIMM at 15.51 times cash, AMZN at 9.15 times cash, MSFT at 9.13 times cash, CSCO at 3.62 times cash, IBM at 10.96 times cash, INTC at 6.54 times cash, and HPQ at 5.15 times cash. What is more, only GOOG, AAPL and MSFT have no debt of the companies mentioned above. Apple has the largest net cash position than any of those companies and Apple has more net cash than RIMM, GOOG, AMZN and IBM combined.
- Adventures in Cocotron ★
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Glen and Ken Aspeslagh on how they wrote the Windows version of the FileMagnet Uploader:
The promise of Cocotron is a big one. Wrote a Cocoa app? Just add a new Xcode target, hit compile and out shoots a Windows version. Your mountains of Objective-C code now cross compiles and is no longer stranded on the Mac. You put your feet up, having just shipped a Windows app without ever touching a PC. Your cat brings you a freshly brewed cup of coffee. Read on for our journey from app to exe.
- MTV Music ★
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Remember when MTV played music videos? They’re back. Includes the ability to search by director, so you can check out, say, Spike Jonze’s oeuvre.
- Rainer Brockerhoff on the New MacBooks ★
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Sounds about right to me:
Now, of course, there’s a sizable contingent of users who want Pro features at consumer prices, and want Apple’s designers to produce such a miracle every time. These “prosumers” are also prone to think that the “real” Macs are the high-end ones, but that Apple then maliciously cuts features from them to produce the low-end machines; call it the conspiracy theory of hardware design.
While I can’t say with certainty that this never happened in the past (remember the Performa days?), it’s very unlikely in this specific case; the MacBook is not a crippled MacBook Pro. Indeed, indications are that, surprise, the MacBook Pro is really an expanded MacBook.