Linked List: June 10, 2009

Wednesday, 10 June 2009

Fast Food Apple Pies and Why Netbooks Suck ★

Joey deVilla makes the case for smartphones as the future of mobile computing.

Jon Rubinstein Appointed CEO of Palm ★

We won’t have Ed Colligan to kick around anymore. But, once more, for old time’s sake, let us recall Colligan’s remarks in November 2006 regarding Apple’s prospects in the phone industry:

“We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone. PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.”

The 3GS’s Actual FCC ID Matches the One on Those Matte-Finish Rumor Photos ★

Interesting find by Cabel Sasser: Remember the photos from the last few months purporting to show a new iPhone with a rubbery matte finish? The actual 3GS doesn’t look like that, but, the FCC device number visible on those photos is in fact the FCC device number of the 3GS.

So were they an abandoned design? Or a trap planted to identify leakers?

iPhone 3GS Features 7.2 Mbps, AT&T’s Network Doesn’t ★

The hits just keep on coming.

T-Mobile Posts iPhone 3GS Tech Specs ★

As expected, a 600 MHz CPU and 256 MB RAM.

Oliver’s Simple Fluid Dynamics Simulator ★

Fluid dynamics simulator written in JavaScript. Great demo of the new JavaScript engine in Safari 4.0 — runs about 20 times faster than it did in Safari 3.0. (Via Neven Mrgan.)

Apple Design Awards 2009 ★

This year’s winners include Billings, Things, and Tweetie.