Linked List: June 22, 2010

Tuesday, 22 June 2010

Engadget’s iPhone 4 Review 

Detailed, insightful review by Joshua Topolsky. (Nice touch: the video clips are published using HTML5 when you read the article from an iOS device.)

Larva Labs Estimates Android Market Payouts Total Only 2 Percent of App Store’s $1B 

John Watkinson from Larva Labs:

Overall we estimate that $6,000,000 has been paid out to developers for games, and $15,000,000 has been paid out on apps. That is a total of $21,000,000, almost 50× lower than the amount paid out to devs on iPhone.

(Larva Labs is one of the few Android developers I’ve seen that’s doing iPhone-caliber work on Android.)

HTML5Rocks 

HTML5 developer site from Google. The Playground is particularly cool.

Zachery Bir’s Non-Busy iPhone Wallpapers 

Zachery Bir:

I pretty quickly tired of the bright, busy background images for the wallpaper, and so created a few in Acorn.

See also: Jim Ray’s very dark gray one, Marco Arment’s black leather texture one, and Jason Kottke’s very quiet one.

Video Comparison of iOS 4 Performance on iPhone 3G 

It’s a win across the board performance-wise on the 3GS, but a mixed bag on the older 3G.

Gourmet Live 

Video preview of the new Gourmet.

David Gewirtz Asks: ‘How Many American Jobs Will Steve Jobs Destroy?’ 

Hopefully one more.

Gourmet Magazine Revived for the iPad 

Jenna Wortham for the NYT:

But simply repackaging decades of classic content might not be enough to resonate with millions of avid home cooks who are now used to interacting with others by sharing and commenting on recipes online.

To remedy that, Conde Nast partnered with Activate, a New York-based consulting firm helmed by the media and technology veterans Anil Dash and Michael Wolf, to develop Gourmet Live.