Linked List: February 17, 2010

Wednesday, 17 February 2010

Microsoft Renames Windows Mobile 6.5 ‘Windows Phone Classic’ ★: They’re no longer in denial.
Roger Ebert: The Essential Man ★: Excellent profile in Esquire by Chris Jones.
Dan Frakes on Whether Apple Will Approve Opera Mini for iPhone ★: Judging from the description, it doesn’t sound like it violates any of the rules, so I think it’ll be accepted.
Matt Gemmell on How to Compete With iPad ★: Matt Gemmell:

It’s difficult to get our heads around the fact that these non-technologically-savvy users can suddenly constitute a core market for a device, yet that’s the case here. Nintendo saw it, and Apple sees it too. It’s an uncomfortable realisation since these people are so unfamiliar to people like you, as hardware manufacturers, and me as a software engineer. This discomfort leads to a kind of understandable blindness, and more importantly can make us leave money on the table. The relative sales and demand figures for Wii vs PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 over the last several Christmases are indicative of that.
Tim Bray on the Style of the HTML5 Spec ★: Delightfully wonkish.
Earth: 6.8 Billion People, 5 Billion Cell Phone Subscriptions ★: And just under 1 billion with Internet access on their phones.