Linked List: July 6, 2011

Wednesday, 6 July 2011

Matt Neuburg’s ‘Programming iOS 4’ ★

Hot off the O’Reilly presses: Matt Neuburg’s 834-page iOS programming tome. Neuburg is my favorite programming book writer, period.

(Buy it from this link to Amazon and I’ll get the kickback dough; I’d have linked with Neuburg’s Amazon Associates code, but he lives in California so that won’t work anymore.)

The Grand Rapids Lip Dub ★

Roger Ebert calls it “the greatest music video ever made” (and there’s a damn handsome man about 24-seconds in).

The Post-PC Era Will Be a Multi-Platform Era ★

Horace Dediu:

But we’re not in the PC era any more. That era had very high software development costs. It had very difficult software distribution channels (retail box sales typically) and very few categories of software with high price points. It was also dominated by institutional buyers which did not give quarter to small vendors. It was also a time when there were orders of magnitude fewer users and even fewer buyers.

Google’s Product ★

Mike Elgan, back in February 2009:

Google makes billions of dollars in revenue each fiscal quarter. That money comes about by the same process that all companies use: They sell a product to their customers. Their customers pay money for that product.

Who’s Google’s customer? You? Really? When’s the last time you paid Google for anything?

Advertisers are Google’s customer. What do they sell to advertisers? They sell you. Or, at least, they rent you out, or provide access to you.

He wrote this in the context of the then-new Google Latitude. It seems more apt than ever today.