Linked List: September 21, 2012

Friday, 21 September 2012

Avocado 

My thanks to Avocado for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. Avocado is a new way to stay connected to the most important person in your life — husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend. Avocado gives you a private social network just for the two of you. You can chat, share lists (groceries, ideas, anything), build a library of personal expressions to re-send easily, and more. Everything is saved, which lets you build a shared archive of your relationship. And, the iPhone app looks great and gives you a really nice UI for everything.

Avocado is free for a week. Now’s the time to try it.

David Pogue and Yours Truly on Charlie Rose 

Online version of our segment from last night’s show.

Apple Maps: The Counternotions FAQ 

Kontra:

Yes, Apple’s evil. When Apple barred Flash from iOS, Flash was the best and only way to play .swf files. Apple’s video alternative, H.264, wasn’t nearly as widely used. Thus Apple’s solution was “inferior” and appeared to be against its own users’ interests. Sheer corporate greed! Trillion words have been written about just how misguided Apple was in denying its users the glory of Flash on iOS. Well, Flash is now dead on mobile. And yet the Earth’s obliquity of the ecliptic is still about 23.4°. We seemed to have survived that one.

The Economics of Stolen Bicycles 

Rohan Dhar, Priceonomics:

Ultimately, that’s the point everyone seems to agree on — bike thieves are assholes.

Swiss Federal Railways Says Apple Copied Its Iconic Railway Clock 

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Apple needs to cough up a licensing fee here.