Linked List: January 5, 2012

Thursday, 5 January 2012

Panos Mourdoukoutas, writing for Forbes:

Siri is all hype. Just like every child gets excited over a new toy and soon forgets about it, Siri will soon be forgotten.

Siri, add this to my Claim Chowder file.

(Via Lee Hopkins.)

‘Inspired’ by Apple ★

New site by Patrick Mason. He’s never going to run out of material.

Sprint Throttles Top One Percent of Data Users ★

Yet another case where “unlimited” is limited.

Update: According to Greg Kumparak at AOL/TechCrunch, Sprint is only throttling users who are roaming off-network. That’s a big difference.

Android Developers Blog: Holo Everywhere ★

Adam Powell, Android framework engineer at Google:

In Android 4.0, Holo is different. We’ve made the inclusion of the unmodified Holo theme family a compatibility requirement for devices running Android 4.0 and forward. If the device has Android Market it will have the Holo themes as they were originally designed.

Less “open” for handset makers and carriers, but better for developers and users. This should be a significant improvement for the platform in a year or two, when most Android phones in use are running 4.0 or later.

Yahoo Names PayPal Head Scott Thompson as New CEO ★

Let’s hope he can make Yahoo as fun and beloved as PayPal is. Right?

Joseph Mathewson Reviews the Nokia Lumia 800 ★

Interesting review from the perspective of a guy upgrading from a Nokia E72.

‘A Donkey’s Got Nothing to Lose’ ★

This week’s episode of America’s favorite electrical engineering podcast:

This week, John Gruber and Dan Benjamin discuss the TSA, Siracusa’s and The New York Times’ possessives, financial transaction processors, Apple Geniuses killing flies with flamethrowers, an Apple announcement in New York, coin-op arcade games, and bring the episode to a shocking conclusion.

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