Linked List: March 7, 2013

Thursday, 7 March 2013

Gogo:

Apple devices are still reigning above the clouds, following the tablet trend with the iPad being the device of choice. Among all mobile devices being used to connect through Gogo, 84 percent carry Apple’s iOS operating system while 16 percent carry the Android operating system. If you look only at the smartphones our customers are using, the iPhone makes up 73 percent and all Android devices make up 26 percent, with Blackberry and Windows based devices each making up less than 1 percent of devices being used in air.

iPhone and Android users are not the same.

How Disney Bought Lucasfilm ★

Funny tidbit from Devin Leonard’s story in Businessweek on Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm:

Jobs also became a Disney board member and its largest shareholder. Periodically he would call Iger to say, “Hey, Bob, I saw the movie you just released last night, and it sucked,” Iger recalls.

Regarding casting:

Asked whether members of the original Star Wars cast will appear in Episode VII and if he called them before the deal closed to keep them informed, Lucas says, “We had already signed Mark and Carrie and Harrison — or we were pretty much in final stages of negotiation. So I called them to say, ‘Look, this is what’s going on.’ ” He pauses. “Maybe I’m not supposed to say that. I think they want to announce that with some big whoop-de-do, but we were negotiating with them.” Then he adds: “I won’t say whether the negotiations were successful or not.”

Better not forget Billy Dee.

Anatomy of a Final Image: ’2001: A Space Odyssey’ ★

Great post at The Final Image. (Thanks to Satish Viswanath.)

Peter Bright: ‘Windows RT Is a Lemon’ ★

I don’t quite agree with Peter Bright’s suggestions for how to fix it (macros?), but I think he’s right that it’s not taking off.

The FBI Is Spying on Google Users ★

Kudos to Google for pushing to reveal as much about these investigations as it can.