Paul Thurrotts Curiously Shifting Thoughts on
Copy-and-Paste

post from Daring Fireball on 18 March 2010 09:19:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Delightful catch by Chris Grande. Here’s Paul Thurrott in July 2007, regarding the iPhone:

And what?s up with the lack of cut/copy and paste? This is a basic OS feature that Apple included in the first Mac OS almost 25 years ago. It?s inexplicably missing from the iPhone, unavailable in any application or the wider system itself. Unreal.

And here’s Paul Thurrott two days ago, in a post titled “I Love Windows Phone”:

The multitasking is limited. Users will only be able to get apps from the Marketplace, and not from third parties. Gasp! Is it true that there’s no copy and paste?

No matter. Windows Phone combines those very few things that were right about Windows Mobile — primarily some business functionality — with a much wider set of new functionality that is exciting in both scope and possibility.

Unreal, indeed.

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Amazon Playing Hardball With Book Publishers Over
Kindle Pricing

post from Daring Fireball on 18 March 2010 08:51:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Quoting a report in the subscriber-only Publishers Marketplace:

At least one independent publisher of scale was told categorically by Amazon in a recent phone call initiated by the etailer that Amazon would not negotiate agency selling terms with any other publishers outside of the five initial Apple partners. This publisher was told that if they switched to an agency model for ebooks, Amazon would stop selling their entire list, in print and digital form. In conversation, Amazon is said to have reiterated that as matter of policy they are declining to negotiate an agency model with any publisher outside of the five who have already announced agreements with Apple?s iBookstore.

“Agency model” is apparently industry jargon for publishers setting their own prices per title, rather than accepting a flat selling price set by Amazon.

I’ll echo Paul Constant’s question in response to this tactic:

So my question is this: How long is Amazon going to dick around publishers before customers start to think of their inventory as unreliable?

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Web Sites That Demand Money for iPhone App
Reviews

post from Daring Fireball on 18 March 2010 08:23:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Brian X. Chen:

The two sites that were most frequently mentioned by programmers who contacted Wired.com were TheiPhoneAppReview.com and AppCraver.com. Both sites appear in the top four Google search results for the search term ?iPhone app review.?

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http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/03/app-store-payola/

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Logic Express, Pro updates add more 64-bit
support

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 18 March 2010 08:00:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Apple on Thursday night released version 9.1.1 updates for Logic Express (138.8MB) and Logic Pro (19...

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BenQ intros three green, 1080p 24-inch monitors

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 18 March 2010 07:50:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

BenQ has introduced three new LED-backlit LCD monitors this week, including the widescreen V2410T an...

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Marvell's $99 Moby tablet to play 1080p for
students

post from MacNN | The Macintosh News Network on 18 March 2010 07:30:00 PM. © MacNN | The Macintosh News Network

Marvell on Thursday promised one of the most aggressive plans for a tablet so far. As part of a new...

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Wikipedia Uses Ogg

post from Daring Fireball on 18 March 2010 07:03:00 PM. © Daring Fireball

Wikipedia’s media format policy:

The preferred formats are JPEG for photographic images, SVG for drawings and line-art illustration, PNG for non-vector graphic iconic images, Ogg Vorbis for sound and Ogg Theora for video.

So, there’s one major site that uses Ogg. But, I can’t say I recall ever watching video from Wikipedia, so while they’re clearly a major web site, I’m not sure it’s fair to call them a major video publisher.

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BlackBerry touch slider due next month as iPhone
rival

RIM's next touchscreen BlackBerry, the Talladega slider, could be revealed as soon as April, based o...

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Canon notes audio problems with new 5D Mk II
firmware

Canon has cautioned on its website that the 2.0.3 firmware update for the EOS 5D Mark II DSLR has au...

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iFunia Releases Video Converter for Mac Version
2.4

iFunia ha released a iFunia Video Converter for Mac 2.4, a new version of its most popuar products.[...]

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