Linked List: January 20, 2009

Tuesday, 20 January 2009

Andy M. Zaky on Apple and Subscription-Based Accounting ★

Zaky argues that Apple’s use of subscription-based accounting for iPhone revenue has significantly hurt its share price — casual investors who are only looking at Apple’s GAAP results don’t realize how much revenue they’ve deferred.

Edge Online Interview With Greg Joswiak ★

Regarding the iPhone and iPod Touch as a gaming platform:

How do you update a cartridge? You can’t. But you can update the games here via the App Store and that’s an automatic process. Not to mention not having to carry around a bucketful of cartridges. You can store as many games as you have space for. Everything about the iPhone suggests where the future’s headed, and I think a lot of the other guys are trying to scramble for what they do in response.

‘A Return to These Truths’ ★

President Barack Obama’s inaugural address:

Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends — hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism — these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths.

The New Gothams ★

H&FJ expands the Gotham family of typefaces:

But designing a typeface is an arduous process requiring serious commitment, and we realized early on that if we weren’t careful, there could suddenly be an endless number of very specialized Gothams. The prospect of a “Gotham for embroidery” collection and a “Gotham for box scores” was daunting, and ran counter to one of H&FJ’s core philosophies: that type families should be as small as possible, but as large as necessary.

Welcome to the White House ★

Whitehouse.gov is updated. There is a weblog.

Update: For the web nerds out there, the new web site passes the W3C HTML validator.

A Simple Act of Faith ★

“Invest in and for the future. Right now.”