Linked List: October 9, 2009

Friday, 9 October 2009

Adobe’s Photoshop.com iPhone App 

Way more interesting and Adobe-like than the lame expense-approval app that appeared the other day.

Building a World That “Gives Life to the Promise of Our Founding Documents” 

To any American who isn’t happy about our president having won the Nobel Peace Prize: There is something wrong with you.

Tweetie 2 for iPhone (iTunes Link) 

Trust me, the bar has been raised.

Rumors: Microsoft Pink Project Even More Fucked Up Than Expected 

Well, not more fucked up than I expected.

Motorola Drops LiMo for Android  

LiMo = “Linux Mobile” = something no one wants.

Smartphone Market Share Numbers  

Apple is growing astonishingly fast. RIM is huge in the U.S. Nokia is huge in Europe. Microsoft is embarrassing itself.

President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize 

A great day for the United States.

Walt Mossberg Reviews Windows 7 

He likes it:

After using pre-release versions of Windows 7 for nine months, and intensively testing the final version for the past month on many different machines, I believe it is the best version of Windows Microsoft has produced.

But, as Philip Elmer-DeWitt observes, Mossberg liked Vista too, when it debuted, including calling it “the best version of Windows Microsoft has produced.”

There’s no question 7 is better than Vista. The question is whether 7 is going to get the majority that’s still on XP to upgrade. My guess is that it will, but I wouldn’t bet too much on it.