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post from Daring Fireball on 19 April 2011 10:04:29 PM. © Daring Fireball

Now is the first time in a few months that there are near-term openings on the DF sponsorship schedule, including this coming week and all of May. If you have a product or service that you?d like to promote to Daring Fireball’s audience of smart, good-looking readers, please do get in touch.

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Why Werent Samsung and Apple Able to Settle

post from Daring Fireball on 19 April 2011 06:04:11 PM. © Daring Fireball

Jack Wellborn:

Given everything above, why weren?t the two companies able tocome to an agreement? I have three possible answers:
Apple demanded too many design concessions.
Samsung sees the ability to model it?s own products afterApple?s as strategic enough to fight for.
Ego.
Any combination of the three are plausible, but number two is themost compelling in my opinion.

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Samsungs 2006 Phones

post from Daring Fireball on 19 April 2011 06:04:11 PM. © Daring Fireball

And then here’s what they announced in February 2007, one month after the iPhone. (Via.)

I don’t think there’s any serious argument that Samsung has not ripped off the iPhone’s aesthetic — to a far greater extent than Android handset makers as a whole. The question is whether they’ve broken the law in doing so.

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PhotoBrain

post from Find Mac Stuff on 19 April 2011 05:26:02 PM. © Find Mac Stuff

? FIND AND REMOVE DUPLICATE ON YOUR MAC ? From now on, copies and duplicate of your photos is no[...]

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Never Say Never Again

post from Daring Fireball on 19 April 2011 05:04:56 PM. © Daring Fireball

Regarding the aforelinked piece on refined sugar as a toxic substance, and it inspiring me to severely reduce the sugar in my diet, I’m reminded of this delightful scene from 1983’s Never Say Never Again:

M: Too many free radicals. That’s your problem.
James Bond: “Free radicals,” sir?
M: Yes. They’re toxins that destroy the body and the brain, caused by eating too much red meat and white bread and too many dry martinis!
James Bond: Then I shall cut out the white bread, sir.

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Is Sugar Toxic

post from Daring Fireball on 19 April 2011 05:04:56 PM. © Daring Fireball

Gary Taubes examines the mounting evidence that refined sugar is killing us:

If it?s sugar that causes insulin resistance, they say, then theconclusion is hard to avoid that sugar causes cancer — somecancers, at least — radical as this may seem and despite the factthat this suggestion has rarely if ever been voiced beforepublicly. For just this reason, neither of these men will eatsugar or high-fructose corn syrup, if they can avoid it.
?I have eliminated refined sugar from my diet and eat as littleas I possibly can,? Thompson told me, ?because I believeultimately it?s something I can do to decrease my risk ofcancer.? Cantley put it this way: ?Sugar scares me.?

It’s not often that a magazine article inspires me to change my life. This is one.

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Nilay Patel on Apples Lawsuit Against Samsung

post from Daring Fireball on 19 April 2011 04:04:58 PM. © Daring Fireball

Nilay Patel:

Taken as a group, it feels like a remarkably solid case ?Samsung can?t just up and countersue Apple with its own patentsand hope to walk away with a handshake and a cross-license becauseof the various trademark, trade dress, and design patent claims.How the company decides to deal with those issues remains to beseen; there?s no question in my mind that Samsung designedTouchWiz to look and feel as much like iOS as possible, and thenmarketed it as such. (More than one of my friends has come backfrom a Verizon store with a Fascinate having been told that it?s?basically the same as an iPhone.?)

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Review of Apples Unit Numbers Released in Legal
Filing Prior to Earnings

post from Daring Fireball on 19 April 2011 03:04:47 PM. © Daring Fireball

Speaking of how many iPod Touches and iPads have been sold, Horace Dediu has some interesting numbers drawn from Apple’s complaint against Samsung.

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NetNewsNostalgia

Justin Williams looks back at NetNewsWire through the years. It’s rather remarkable how much has changed.

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ComScore Discovers That Apple Sells iOS Devices
Other Than the iPhone

Aatekah Mir, reporting for the WSJ Digits blog:

Google Inc.?s Android might be the most popular smartphoneplatform, but if you add other mobile devices like tablets to themix, Apple Inc.?s iOS beats Android in the U.S. by a wide margin— 59% to be exact. […]
The research found that Apple?s iOS platform — on iPhones,iPads and iPod Touches — reached 37.9 million people, whileAndroid reached 23.8 million, on phones and tablets.
?The finding is incredible because it shows that Android beingthe most popular smartphone is not the whole story,? said MarkDonovan, the senior vice president of mobile at comScore.

No, it is not “incredible”. It is completely obvious to anyone who actually looks at how many iPod Touches and iPads people have bought. Smartphone market share is not platform market share.

This is interesting, though:

Among iPad owners, 27.3% also have iPhones, while 17.5% haveBlackBerry devices and 14.2% have Android phones. (The rest useother operating systems or have flip phones rather thansmartphones.)

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