Linked List: March 16, 2009

Monday, 16 March 2009

Boxee iPhone Remote App 

Clever design, and I’m glad Apple approved it.

AT&T Adding Capacity at SXSW to Deal With iPhone Crush 

Dan Frommer:

AT&T tells us it’s adding wireless capacity in downtown Austin to deal with “unprecedented” demand (that’s resulted in service that’s flaky at best). This, of course, was a result of thousands (tens of thousands?) of South by Southwest attendees bringing 3G iPhones into this part of Austin for the first time.

Indeed, last night was the first time all weekend my iPhone could get a reasonable network connection.

One Inch Holes 

Michael Gartenberg on the role of operating systems:

The head of Black and Decker once said, folks don’t buy our products because they want one inch drills, they buy our stuff because they want one inch holes.

iPhone OS 3.0 Copy and Paste 

I have no idea whether this description of how it’s going to work is accurate, but from what I’m hearing Copy-and-Paste is a big part of tomorrow’s announcement.