Linked List: March 9, 2012

Friday, 9 March 2012

My thanks to MacLegion for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote their spring 2012 bundle. It’s a great deal: Billings Pro, Kinemac, MoneyWell, Hydra Pro, Circus Ponies NoteBook, GarageSale, Home Inventory, My Living Desktop, App Tamer, and WhatSize all for only $49.99. That’s $800 worth of apps.

No gimmicks, no tricks, and each app is the latest version and includes full upgrade privileges for future updates.

ZDNet: ‘Android Tablet Surge Will Be Led by Google-Motorola, HP, Dell in 2012’ ★

Paula Rooney, writing for ZDNet:

Apple and Microsoft are getting all the ink in the tablet wars these days but no doubt Android tablets will be matching if not outselling iPads within a year or so.

Or so.

Netflix Everywhere ★

Good piece by Christina Warren at Mashable on the implications of Netflix’s “just use your iTunes account to subscribe” setup on the new Apple TV.

iTunes 1080p Video Looks Better, Saves Space Using Better H.264 Compression ★

Nice explanation by Iljitsch van Beijnum at Ars, on how iTunes 1080p content can look better without doubling the download size from 720p.

Mika Mobile’s Future With Android ★

Mika Mobile:

From a purely economic perspective, I can no longer legitimize spending time on Android apps, and the new features of the market do nothing to change this.

Something’s Unraveling, Alright ★

So great.

Google Leans on Developers to Use Payment Service ★

Alistair Barr, reporting for Reuters:

Google Inc has been pressuring applications and mobile game developers to use its costlier in-house payment service, Google Wallet, as the Internet search giant tries to emulate the financial success of Apple Inc’s iOS platform.

Google warned several developers in recent months that if they continued to use other payment methods — such as PayPal, Zong and Boku — their apps would be removed from Android Market, now known as Google Play, according to developers, executives and investors in mobile gaming and payment sectors.

Open beats closed, every time.