Jean-Louis Gassée on Apples New Subscription
Rules

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Jean-Louis Gassée tweets:

Apple’s new rules rile. But not me: I’m the paying customer and Iresent the old model. The new rules are customer-centric.

Like, for example, with data sharing. Apple won’t share your personal information to publishers without your permission. Publishers want unfettered access to that information because they want to sell it, because that’s what they’ve been doing with subscriber information for decades.

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Irina Wernings Back to the Future Project

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Irina Werning:

I love old photos. I admit being a nosey photographer. As soon asI step into someone else?s house, I start sniffing for them.Most of us are fascinated by their retro look but to me, it?simagining how people would feel and look like if they were toreenact them today… A few months ago, I decided to actually dothis. So, with my camera, I started inviting people to go back totheir future.

Amazing. (Via ISO50.)

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Lendle Kindle Book-Sharing Service

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Lendle is a new service that lets you share books with other Kindle users:

If a fellow Lendler requests a book you own, you?ll get anotification asking if you want to lend it. When you lend a book,the borrower will have it for 14 days, and then it will beautomatically returned to your Kindle.

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Hands-On Report on MeeGo Netbooks and Tablets

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Sascha Segan:

The worst product I’ve seen so far at Mobile World Congress isIntel’s MeeGo OS running on a netbook. What’s even worse thantrying it is knowing that it’s going on sale in the US.

I think you can make the case that this Windows Phone deal — though a bad deal for Nokia overall — was still the best choice they could make at this point. That’s how bad a position they’re in.

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Brilliant, Brazen, or Batshit Crazy

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MG Siegler on Apple’s new subscription rules:

He might as well be saying: ?Everyone take a deep breath ?here?s why this makes sense.? And there?s no question thatit does make sense — for Apple. But a lot of third-partydevelopers both large and small are going to be very, very pissedoff by this move. Why? Because it totally changes the game.Companies with subscription elements of their content hadbeen accustomed to leveraging Apple?s platform for free. Nowthere will be a fee. And it will be a significant fee.

You’ll seldom go wrong betting on Apple doing something that’s good for Apple and good for its users — no matter what the ramifications for everyone else.

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Nokia Plan B: An Open Letter to Nokia
Shareholders and Institutional Investors

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The assumption underlying this vigorous dissent is that MeeGo is on track to be a viable competitor — soon. I think that’s a bad assumption. That said, these guys are right about how this deal reduces Nokia to an OEM with no control over their primary software platform. Nokia’s between a rock and a hard place.

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Apple Launches Subscriptions on the App Store

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Apple:

?Our philosophy is simple ? when Apple brings a new subscriber to the app, Apple earns a 30 percent share; when the publisher brings an existing or new subscriber to the app, the publisher keeps 100 percent and Apple earns nothing,? said Steve Jobs, Apple?s CEO. ?All we require is that, if a publisher is making a subscription offer outside of the app, the same (or better) offer be made inside the app, so that customers can easily subscribe with one-click right in the app.”

iPhone app iFreeje - speak freely

iFreeje is a new iPhone application that allows to place low-cost global calls to any phone in the world (landline or mobile) and skype. Due to callback technology call is rated as an income one for both participants of the conversation. Thus you can get cheapness and high quality of the connection. It works in any country where GSM connection is supported. Also mobile phone Internet connection (3G, GPRS, EDGE, Wi-Fi) is requied to send a short callback request.

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FX Photo Studio HD 3.0 for iPad - Adds 53 New
Photo Processing Effects

MacPhun LLC today announces FX Photo Studio HD 3.0, an update to their popular dynamic photo processing app for iPad. FX Photo Studio HD features high quality photo effects and filters. Users can easily apply these effect on images, adjust and mix them, as well as combine multiple effects together and save sequences into presets for future use. Along with a myriad of new effects, the update adds a completely customizable interface and much more.

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Infinight - A thrilling light-based adventure
game releases on the iOS

LambdaMu Games, creators of Shady Puzzles and 4Towers, launches their latest game - Infinight - a suspense driven top-down adventure game that uses light (and the lack thereof) as an innovative mechanic in its 50 level campaign. The game also supports a gripping multiplayer mode, using game centre to connect players and track their scores as they chase each other in the dark.

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