Video of Todays Apple Event

post from Daring Fireball on 02 March 2011 08:03:23 PM. © Daring Fireball

Jobs seemed happy, no?

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iPad 2

post from Daring Fireball on 02 March 2011 06:05:26 PM. © Daring Fireball

If you do nothing else, watch the video for the Smart Cover. Seriously, it’s amazing.

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The Xoom Is a Clear Winner

post from Daring Fireball on 02 March 2011 06:05:26 PM. © Daring Fireball

Charlie Sheen, writing for Computerworld:

As I explained in a previous blog, Eight reasons the MotorolaXoom beats the iPad, the Xoom is far superior to the originaliPad. And now that the iPad 2 has been announced, it’s clear thatthe Xoom is superior to the new iPad, for almost all of the samereasons.

Update: My bad. That was written by Preston Gralla.

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To the Victor Goes the Pricing Power

post from Daring Fireball on 02 March 2011 06:05:26 PM. © Daring Fireball

Terrific piece by Joshua Benton at The Nieman Journalism Lab, responding to my “Dirty Percent” piece yesterday. I had forgotten that Amazon does subscriptions for the Kindle:

The Kindle does actually offer subscriptions, both to newspapersand blogs, like Daring Fireball itself. (Given where DFranks in the Kindle Store, he probably has about 5-8 people paying$1.99 a month to read the site on their Kindles. We have 16!That?s likely to be the only traffic-related number where weedge Gruber.)
I don?t think any publisher would consider Amazon?s Kindlesubscription model an improvement over Apple?s, though, for ahost of reasons — not least that it?s Amazon who controlspricing, not the publisher, not to mention Amazon takes an evensteeper cut than Apple does.

So why aren’t those who are criticizing Apple for taking a 30 percent cut of subscription revenue criticizing Amazon? My theory: everyone understands, intuitively, that the Kindle is a closed proprietary platform; but many people view iOS (incorrectly) as a platform like the Mac or Windows, where third parties are free to do what they want.

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The Battle for Second Place

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John Paczkowski:

Isn?t this ironic. Hewlett-Packard and Research in Motion, twocompanies that haven?t officially launched their first tabletsyet, talking smack to one another the day before Apple debutsits second.

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-original-than-your-ipad-challenger/

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Charlie Sheen Quotes as New Yorker Cartoons

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“I’m tired of pretending I’m not a total bitching rock star from Mars.”

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Malware on Android Market

post from Daring Fireball on 02 March 2011 05:04:02 PM. © Daring Fireball

Aaron Gingrich, for Android Police:

Openness — the very characteristic of Android that makes us loveit — is a double-edged sword. Redditor lompolo has stumbled upona perfect example of that fact; he?s noticed that a publisherhas taken “? 21 popular free apps from the market, injected rootexploits into them and republished.” The really scary part?“50k-200k downloads combined in 4 days.”

Uh-oh:

There?s another APK hidden inside the code, and it steals nearlyeverything it can: product ID, model, partner (provider?),language, country, and userID. But that?s all child?s play;the true pièce de résistance is that it has the ability todownload more code. In other words, there?s no way to know whatthe app does after it?s installed, and the possibilities arenearly endless.

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http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/03/01/the-mother-of-all-android-malware-has-arr
ived-stolen-apps-released-to-the-market-that-root-your-phone-steal-your-data-and-open-backdoor/

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Mac 911: Search for files by name

Mac 911: Search for files by name The Finder's Search windows default to searching by content rather than file name. A few hints for searching by name.

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