Linked List: September 25, 2011

Sunday, 25 September 2011

Featuring Yours Truly Taking Off His Pants ★

Yuvi Zalkow’s “video tribute” to Merlin Mann’s and my joint presentation at SXSW 2009, “Obsession Times Voice”. This made my day.

‘I Tip Profusely’ ★

This week’s The Talk Show:

The Netflix split, Apple’s upcoming iPhone 5 announcement, Tim Cook, Microsoft’s 30% take, HP’s webOS layoffs, Steven Spielberg’s regrets, the magic of Amazon Prime, and Casino Royale.

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‘Buy Your Own Device’ Policies Growing in Corporate IT ★

Verne G. Kopytoff, reporting for the NYT:

A similar B.Y.O.D. program at Citrix Systems, a software maker that also helps its clients implement such programs, saves the company about 20 percent on each laptop over three years. Of the 1,000 or so employees in Citrix’s program, 46 percent have bought Mac computers, according to Paul Martine, Citrix’s chief information officer. “That was a little bit of a surprise.”

When people choose what they get to use, Apple gains. This trend should worry Microsoft.