Stewart Butterfields Resignation Letter to Yahoo

post from Daring Fireball on 18 June 2008 01:41:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

I love it.

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In Ten Years Time, Will Apple Be the New
Microsoft an Abusive Monopoly

post from Daring Fireball on 18 June 2008 01:26:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Ian Betteridge raises a good point regarding Apple’s absolute control over what will be distributed through the iPhone App Store:

While Apple has a relatively low market share and there’s plenty of choice of platform, the control that Apple has over the third party application market really doesn’t matter. If a really cool application appears that Apple refuses to sanction, its developers can just up-sticks and move to S60, or Java, or (if they’re nuts) Windows Mobile and reach an equally large audience.

But what happens if Apple’s market share grows to the point where it has a monopoly — 70-, 80- or even 90% market share? That might take ten years, but it’s certainly not beyond the realms of possibility, and it’s certainly something that Apple would like to have.

I agree that the current App Store model simply wouldn’t scale — at least legally — to that sort of market share. But I think (a) it’s the sort of problem that’s good to have; and (b) I question whether the handheld market will ever settle around one monopoly software platform the way desktop PCs did.

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Exhibia 1.2 video server

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 18 June 2008 01:10:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Plyxim has upated its QuickTime-based scheduling software for closed-circuit broadcasting systems. E...

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Japan iPhone 3G Study

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 18 June 2008 12:20:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Despite the relative success of the iPod in Japan, the iPhone 3G isn't likely to get an immediate fo...

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Apple engineer salaries

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 18 June 2008 12:00:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

The salaries of Apple engineers are comparatively restrained next to those for other Silicon Valley ...

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Universal Type Server now shipping

post from Manage This on 18 June 2008 11:53:00 AM. © Manage This

I’m proud to announce that Universal Type Server is now shipping. Everything is live and ready for you to download it and take it for a test drive. Set up your own type server, add some clients, and see how managing your font library with Universal[...]

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Toshiba's new projectors

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 18 June 2008 11:30:00 AM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Toshiba today unveiled two new mobile DLP projectors, made up of the TDP-XP1U and TDP-XP2U. Both spo...

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ViewSonic PJ1173

Contributing its own share to a slew of announcements from the InfoComm show, ViewSonic today added ...

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Cocktail 4.1.2 (Leopard Edition) has been
released

Maintain is proud to announce the release of Cocktail 4.1.2 (Leopard Edition). Cocktail 4.1.2 (Leopard Edition) is the latest maintenance update for Cocktail (Leopard Edition). It adds possibility to disable dictionary and calculator results in Spotlight, improves performance of Pilot scheduler and fixes other bugs discovered in the previous release.

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Needham on iPhone halo

Apple will be dependent on a halo effect for increasing profit through the iPhone 3G, says the Needh...

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