Linked List: November 13, 2010

Saturday, 13 November 2010

Apple TV Ranked No. 12 on Amazon’s Best-Selling Gadget List ★

Curiously, as Dan Frommer reported the other day, it wasn’t on the list at all earlier in the week. Not bad, not bad. The whole list is interesting — e.g., their best-selling camera is a relatively expensive one: the $367 Canon PowerShot S95.

Android Fragmentation, Exhibit 47 ★

Greg Peters from Netflix, on why Netflix already supports Windows Phone 7, but still doesn’t support Android:

Although we don’t have a common platform security mechanism and DRM, we are able to work with individual handset manufacturers to add content protection to their devices. Unfortunately, this is a much slower approach and leads to a fragmented experience on Android, in which some handsets will have access to Netflix and others won’t. This clearly is not the preferred solution, and we regret the confusion it might create for consumers. However, we believe that providing the service for some Android device owners is better than denying it to everyone.

More and more, I’m convinced that Android isn’t a single platform. It’s a meta-platform upon which handset makers build their own platforms.

Apparently He Didn’t Get the Memo About iPads Being Only… Ah, Forget It ★

NME News:

Damon Albarn has told NME that he has been recording a new Gorillaz album on his iPad. […]

“I’ve made it on an iPad – I hope I’ll be making the first record on an iPad,” he said. “I fell in love with my iPad as soon as I got it, so I’ve made a completely different kind of record.”