Samsung Galaxy Tablet EU Ban Overturned

post from Daring Fireball on 16 August 2011 11:03:46 PM. © Daring Fireball

Kenny Hemphill, MacUser UK:

A court in Düsseldorf has lifted the injunction it granted Apple last week, which prevented Samsung from selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 in all European Union countries except the Netherlands.

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Ballmer Was Right About Android

post from Daring Fireball on 16 August 2011 10:03:31 PM. © Daring Fireball

Writing at Slate, Farhad Manjoo argues that despite their current protestations that acquiring Motorola isn’t going to change their approach to the Android platform as a whole, the math compells Google to try to be more like Apple:

Now Google has to find a way to recoup at least $12.5 billion from Android (on top of whatever else it was investing to build the OS). That looks very difficult. Earlier this year, Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray, estimated that Google makes just $6 in ad revenue per Android user per year. By 2012, that number could be $10 per Android user per year. Across all users, that would mean about $1 billion in annual revenue. Even if that figure grows over time, it will take a long time for Google to make back the money it spent on Motorola, let alone to turn a profit.

As Steve Ballmer said last year, Android isn’t free.

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Apple Releases OS X 10.7.1 via Software Update

post from Daring Fireball on 16 August 2011 08:04:19 PM. © Daring Fireball

Finally.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4764

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Cupertino Releases Plans and Renderings of New
Apple Campus

post from Daring Fireball on 16 August 2011 07:03:20 PM. © Daring Fireball

So very Apple-y.

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http://www.cupertino.org/index.aspx?page=1107

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Kagi Sparks Controversy With $5 VisualHub Lion
Update

post from Daring Fireball on 16 August 2011 06:03:25 PM. © Daring Fireball

Strange story, and I think a very poor decision by Kagi.

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http://www.macworld.com/article/161777/2011/08/kagi_sparks_controversy_with_5_vis
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50 for 50

post from Daring Fireball on 16 August 2011 06:03:25 PM. © Daring Fireball

Colleen Wainwright:

For my 50th birthday, what I want is to raise $50,000 for myfavorite nonprofit, WriteGirl.

Great idea for a really great cause. To promote the effort, Colleen is doing a series of interviews about writing, including this one with my wife.

I would love to see a nice spike in her fundraising graph from DF readers.

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http://50for50.us/

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Jackass of the Week: Adrian Shaughnessy

post from Daring Fireball on 16 August 2011 03:03:41 PM. © Daring Fireball

Adrian Shaughnessy, writing on the London riots:

One group has so far escaped blame: designers. […]
But for the past three or four decades the major role of graphicdesign has been to create the branding and collateral of desire.For those who can afford entry into this world ? no harm isdone. For those who can resist the blandishments of this world ?no harm is done. But for those who have neither the education noremotional maturity to deal with this, immense harm is done.

Poor people are too stupid to deal with well-designed stuff. OK.

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http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/the-politics-of-desire-and-looting/
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Create websites for your games for an affordable
price

Kamran Sarkar, a freelance designer from London is offering web designing service for an affordable price. Create websites to drive traffic and let the mass know about your iPhone apps and iPad applications. With the right SEO tool, and exposure on the internet, your website would act as a brand representative and advertiser for your applications. All the services comes with the industry standard CSS / XHTML layout and practices the compliancy of W3C standard.

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