EFF Gets Privacy Answers From Amazon Regarding
Silk

post from Daring Fireball on 18 October 2011 11:03:42 PM. © Daring Fireball

EFF:

We are generally satisfied with the privacy design of Silk, andhappy that the end user has control over whether to use cloudacceleration.

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https://www.eff.org/2011/october/amazon-fire?s-new-browser-puts-spotlight-privacy
-trade-offs

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Playboys Correspondence With Hunter S. Thompson

post from Daring Fireball on 18 October 2011 10:04:29 PM. © Daring Fireball

Date unknown:

P.S. — Inre: Qui’s request for “my hangover cure” — it’s 12 Amyl Nitrites (one box), in conjunction with as many beers as necessary.

(Via Metafilter.)

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https://www.playboy.com/magazine/correspondence-with-hunter-s-thompson

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Apples Quarter in Charts

post from Daring Fireball on 18 October 2011 09:03:49 PM. © Daring Fireball

Nice overview from Dan Frommer.

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http://www.splatf.com/2011/10/apple-4q11-charts/

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Physics Puzzle Smash Hit Troll Blaster for iOS
Getting Great Reviews

post from prMac on 18 October 2011 08:47:00 PM. © prMac

Montreal based software firm eMobiSoft launched their physics strategy / puzzle game Troll Blaster 1.0.1, for iOS. The game enters the popular projectile destruction genre of gameplay in which the player fires a strategically selected weapon onto a structure containing evil trolls. In Troll Blaster, each level presents a new challenge for the player. The trolls are in structures to the right of the screen that are build of wood, stone, glass and metal.

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http://prmac.com/release-id-32430.htm

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Apple Predicts Record iPhone, iPad Sales and
Hints at a $40 Billion Quarter

post from Daring Fireball on 18 October 2011 08:03:43 PM. © Daring Fireball

MG Siegler:

Apple is so confident that next quarter is going to be a blow-outquarter that twice on their earnings call today, Apple CEO TimCook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer went out of their way to predictthat Apple would see record iPhone and iPad sales next quarter.That?s something Apple never does. Their guidance is always verygeneral (and again, low) and they stick to talking about things ata high level. Not today. This is two Apple executives going out ona limb to predict records for their two key products next quarter.

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http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/18/apples-insanely-great-q1-2012/

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This Remarkably Sucky, Shoddy, Sloppy, Slapped
Together Disaster of a Phone

post from Daring Fireball on 18 October 2011 07:03:57 PM. © Daring Fireball

That’s Louis Bedigian, writing for Forbes, describing the iPhone 4S.

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/benzingainsights/2011/10/04/apple-unveils-the-iphone-
4s-aka-the-iphone-rehash-edition/

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Instapaper 4.0

post from Daring Fireball on 18 October 2011 07:03:57 PM. © Daring Fireball

Great update to a great app and service.

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http://www.marco.org/2011/10/17/instapaper-4-released

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Dan Lyons Interviews Woz

Woz:

So we made Breakout and it was a half-man-year job but we did itin four days and nights. It was a very clever design.

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http://realdanlyons.com/blog/2011/10/11/a-conversation-with-woz/

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Bigger Than the PC Market

From The Verge’s liveblog coverage of Apple’s quarterly analyst call:

Q: How big do you think the tablet market could be?
A: (Tim Cook) We thought from the beginning that it would be a huge market, and it’s even bigger than we thought. We think it’ll be even bigger than the PC market — that’s just what I think it can be. It’s a huge opportunity for Apple across time.

Think about that.

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http://live.thisismynext.com/Event/Apple_Q4_2011_earnings_call_live_blog

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