R.I.P. Dennis Ritchie

post from Daring Fireball on 12 October 2011 11:05:12 PM. © Daring Fireball

Creator of the C programming language, co-creator of Unix. A true titan of computer science.

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The Last Time I Saw Steve Jobs

post from Daring Fireball on 12 October 2011 10:03:58 PM. © Daring Fireball

One of my favorite stories heard this week. So great.

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iTunes Movie Trailers App

post from Daring Fireball on 12 October 2011 07:03:30 PM. © Daring Fireball

File under “the shift from websites to apps”. (Via MacStories.)

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AirPort Utility for iPhone and iPad

post from Daring Fireball on 12 October 2011 07:03:30 PM. © Daring Fireball

In the future, you don’t need a Mac or Windows PC, and the future is getting near.

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Windows Phone, One Year In

post from Daring Fireball on 12 October 2011 06:03:46 PM. © Daring Fireball

Horace Dediu:

During the last quarter for which we have data (ending June) Ihave an estimate that Windows Phone sold only 1.4 million units(Gartner?s sell-through analysis suggests 1.7 million). Thatgives Microsoft a 1.3% share of units sold (Gartner 1.6%), anew low.

In other words, for that entire quarter, they sold about as many total Windows Phones in that quarter as Apple sold iPhone 4S preorders last weekend. This must be frustrating for Microsoft — Windows Phone 7 is better than Android from what I’ve seen. And even if you disagree with that assessment, I don’t see how anyone could say its quality and appeal are proportionate to its sales figures. Getting traction in the market is hard.

(Anyone at Microsoft: I’d welcome a Mango phone to review. Get in touch if you can make that happen.)

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One Downside of iCloud Replacing MobileMe:
Third-Party Mac App Uncertainty

post from Daring Fireball on 12 October 2011 06:03:46 PM. © Daring Fireball

Bare Bones Software’s Yojimbo FAQ:

Q: Can I use Yojimbo with iCloud?
A: All existing versions of Yojimbo require MobileMe to perform Mac-to-Mac syncing; they will not work with iCloud.
Thus, if you wish to continue syncing Yojimbo, you should notconvert your account to use iCloud at this time. (Apple willcontinue to offer MobileMe service through June 30, 2012.)
We do intend to support iCloud in a future version of Yojimbo(well before the MobileMe sunset date). However, since we arestill investigating related technical issues, we don?t yet havea concrete answer; as soon as we do, we?ll post info on ourwebsite.

The loss of MobileMe syncing in Yojimbo is the only sore spot I’ve run into after switching my MobileMe account to iCloud. MobileMe syncing in Yojimbo worked great, now, because I’ve moved to iCloud, it’s gone.

Now, long-term, this might prove to be a boon for Mac developers like Bare Bones, because iCloud is free, and MobileMe is not, so, eventually, when Yojimbo supports iCloud for syncing, far more users should be willing and able to take advantage of that. But iCloud storage for Mac developers, though promising, is still a bag of question marks.

Here’s a big one: will iCloud storage for Mac apps be restricted to App Store apps? That’s been a question since WWDC in June and Apple has yet to answer it. My gut feeling/semi-informed hunch is that yes, it will be restricted to App Store apps, so that Apple can approve all iCloud storage use cases in advance, and easily pull the plug on any app that proves to be abusive in the wild. Put another way, my bet is that if your app isn’t signed by Apple, it won’t be able to write to an iCloud container. But no one outside Apple knows yet.

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Drama on the Sprint International Unlocking Front

post from Daring Fireball on 12 October 2011 06:03:46 PM. © Daring Fireball

Some confusion here. First Sprint tells Engadget:

Our SIM does not come out of the device - I believe the same istrue of Verizon’s iPhone but you would need to confirm that withthem. Customers can sign up for one of our international rateplans and use this phone all over the world.

But then, in an update, Sprint changes its tune, saying “the SIM is removable and is not affixed to the device”.

I can confirm that the SIM card pops out of the Sprint iPhone 4S, but I don’t know what the deal is with international roaming and prepaid SIMs. I’ll have the phone with me in Montreal this weekend, so I should be able to find out then.

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Apple Releases Find My Friends

Sporting soft Corinthian leather upholstery.

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How Gizmodo Escaped Indictment in Last Years
iPhone Prototype Theft

Greg Sandoval and Declan McCullagh, reporting for CNet:

“What we were looking at was possession of stolen property andwhether the evidence supported extortion,” Wagstaffe said. “Youcan say we were looking at whether their actions supported thatthey participated in the theft of the phone. We didn’t think itsupported either.”
Wagstaffe said, however, that his office’s review of the computersseized from Chen’s home showed the correspondence between Gizmodoeditors was “juvenile.”
“It was obvious that they were angry with the company about notbeing invited to some press conference or some big Apple event. Weexpected to see a certain amount of professionalism — this islike 15-year-old children talking,” Wagstaffe said. “There was somuch animosity, and they were very critical of Apple. They talkedabout having Apple right where they wanted them and they werereally going to show them.”

Shocking.

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