Linked List: February 24, 2010

Wednesday, 24 February 2010

Apple May Be Adding ‘Explicit’ Section to App Store ★

It’s not in the store yet, but there’s a new “Explicit” category in the form developers use when submitting apps.

Update: Oops, maybe not. Gizmodo is reporting that the “Explicit” category has been removed.

Flash Player 10.1 Battery Performance on the Android Nexus One ★

The guys who made the video demonstration of the Flash Player 10.1 beta argue that battery performance isn’t a problem:

Our own tests show that video can be played for well over 3 hours over Wi-Fi from YouTube in H.264 (Baseline 1.2).

If you think that sounds good, note that the Nexus One is rated for 7 hours of video playback time.

HP’s Failure in Mobile Phones ★

Ashlee Vance, reporting for the NYT on HP’s failure in the mobile market:

Sales of HP’s hand-held products, including its iPaq smartphone, dropped to $25 million in the quarter, down from $57 million in the same period last year. Apple, by contrast, had sales of $5.6 billion for iPhones and related products during its most recent quarter.

HP’s anemic performance in the smartphone market has left analysts perplexed.

There’s nothing perplexing about it. HP doesn’t have their own mobile OS. Instead they banked on Windows Mobile, and Windows Mobile stinks.

YouTube Version of Your Humble Narrator’s Macworld Feature Presentation ★

Now that the whole thing has been posted to YouTube, you can watch from Flash-less devices such as your iPhone or Apple TV, or even sans Flash on your Mac if you’ve signed up for YouTube’s HTML5 beta.

SSDs and the MacBook Pro ★

Check out the side-by-side comparison late in the video of the time it takes to launch 10 apps simultaneously from an SSD versus a traditional hard disk.