Linked List: September 13, 2011

Tuesday, 13 September 2011

There Are Always Problems 

Mark Bernstein on the “Lion is too buggy” meme:

I blame a corrupt trade press. The way you get attention and make money — not much money — in this game is to start flame wars, and so “Apple ships lousy operating system! Scroll bars backwards! Apple doomed!” gets links and traffic and sells ads for off-brand iPad cases. And of course some of the financial press try to launch memes to manipulate stock prices — either because they play the market or simply to show what big lever-pullers they are.

One word: Antennagate.

Phone Story — Anti-iPhone Game Banned From App Store 

Given that one of the levels involves catching suicide-jumping Foxconn factory workers, it’s more surprising that the game got into the App Store in the first place than that it was removed.

I much prefer Hipmunk overall, but there’s much to like about Google Flights. For one thing, Google lists flights from Southwest. They don’t have prices, but I’ve never seen a third-party flight search tool that even lists flights from Southwest.

Jeff Williams, Apple’s Senior VP of Operations 

Brief profile by JP Mangalindan at Fortune of Jeff Williams, Apple’s top operations executive under Tim Cook.

Vladimir Putin, Action Man 

“Look it says right here on the box: you can go swimming, you can go horseback riding…”

ifttt — If This Then That 

New(-ish) automation service, acts like glue between a wide variety of online services. Think: Automator for the web. Ambitious and clever, and they take a novel approach to making the interface obvious and easy. Check out the list of most-popular recipes to get an idea of the things you can do with it.

Future Android Versions to Be Optimized for Intel as Well as ARM 

So maybe Windows 8 won’t be the only OS running tablets that need fans.

This Commercial Reminds Me of the Upcoming Intel-Based Windows 8 Tablets 

If you’re going to put a fan in your tablet, why not go the extra step? (Via Frederik Danvig.)

Update: Via numerous DF readers, here’s an even better spot by Renault’s corporate sibling Nissan with the same concept.

‘However, Fan Noise Is Very Noticeable, as Is the Heat Coming Out of the Top Vent’ 

Hands-on report with a prototype iPad 3, or a Windows 8 Samsung tablet — you make the call.