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Linked List: November 4, 2008

Tuesday, 4 November 2008

A Proclamation ★: That’s it for today. See you in Chicago.
Matt Gemmell on the UI Design of His iPhone App ‘Favorites’ ★: Sweating the details.
Tony Fadell, Senior VP of iPod Division, Leaving Apple ★: To be replaced by Mark Papermaster, from IBM.
Apple Confirms No New Products for Rest of 2008 ★: Every year there’s some stupid rumor that Apple is going to release new products late in the year, well into the holiday season, despite the fact that it would make no strategic sense to do so. And every year it doesn’t happen. Good for Apple to just state the obvious.
FBR Chip Analyst Craig Berger’s Questionable Track Record With Apple ★: Andy Zaky:

One thing that this article should clearly demonstrate is that Craig Berger’s rantings on production rates have an almost zero correlation when it comes to actual sales.
Why You Will Not See Opera on Your iPhone ★: Saul Hansell goes back to Opera CEO Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner to get the full story on Opera Mini and the iPhone:

So I went back to Mr. von Tetzchner for more details. He said that the development of the iPhone browser was more an “internal project” of some engineers than a product that management was committed to introducing. Indeed, development was halted after the company looked at the details of the license agreement in Apple’s software development kit and realized that it would not be permitted.

“We stopped the work because of the prohibitive license,” Mr. von Tetzchner wrote in an e-mail.