Linked List: September 13, 2012

Thursday, 13 September 2012

The Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network Charity Walk 

Amy Gruber:

As many of you know, my son, Jonas, has an anaphylactic dairy allergy. We have been dealing with Jonas’s allergy since he was about 11 months old. I’ve got it down to a science. Remember how your grandfather would pull a quarter out from behind your ear? I could do that right now with an EpiPen. I’m the David Copperfield of epinephrine. And benadryl? It’s in every cabinet. I never leave the house without it. I’m confident in my anaphylactic shock-preventing capabilities. Do you know that restaurants brush butter on practically everything you order? I do, because I’m a dairy ninja.

My wife is raising money for a charity that means a lot to our family. DF readers have been wonderfully generous the last two years with this, and it would mean a lot to me if you were again. Thanks.

(And a special bonus offer. As a reward for being the top fundraiser last year, FAAN gave us four one-day passes to Walt Disney World in Orlando. We don’t want to take anything from this, so we’re going to give those passes to a randomly-selected person who donates to Amy’s walk this year. Any dollar amount.)

‘Big in Indonesia’ 

Special guest Om Malik joins me on this week’s episode of The Talk Show, recorded yesterday afternoon from the cozy Mule Radio studio in San Francisco. You know what we talked about.

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The Turn, Not the Prestige 

MG Siegler:

That’s the thing — when people say they’re disappointed about the new iPhone, what they’re really saying is that they’re disappointed it doesn’t look that much different from previous version(s). But again, not only is that true, Apple went out of their way to make sure that was the case.

Great piece.

This Is (Still) How Apple Rolls 

This piece I wrote for Macworld two years ago comes to mind when I read things like this and this. Wrote I:

The iPhone is following the same pattern. In 2007 it debuted with no third-party apps, no 3G networking, and a maximum storage capacity of 8GB. One year later, Apple had doubled storage, added 3G and GPS, and opened the App Store. The year after that, Apple swapped in a faster processor, added a compass and an improved camera, and doubled storage again. The pattern repeats. We may never see an iPhone that utterly blows away the prior year’s, but we’ll soon have one that utterly blows away the original iPhone.

Watch Yesterday’s Apple Event 

They do know how to put on a show.

Apple Officially Killing Ping Social Network on September 30 

Know when to fold ’em.

Why Does Apple Announce iPhone Pricing and Availability but Other Phone Makers Don’t? 

Dan Frommer:

It just makes sense to announce pricing and ship dates as soon as they’re known. So why don’t all companies do this?

I did some research, and here’s what I came up with.

iPhone 5 Tech Specs vs. the Competition 

Apple doesn’t really play the tech spec comparison matrix game, but even so, the iPhone 5 stacks up well.