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on Apple’s recent rejection of Sony reader app
Of course, TechCrunch is hot on the heels of the people who are against what Apple has done in rejecting Sony’s eBook reader app. Â I thought I was a bit of an Apple apologist, but these guys really take the cake. It is certainly the case that the policy is consistent with what it was…
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Is Apple starting to get a little abusive with App Store policies?
TechCrunch has reported that Apple has rejected an app for reading Sony’s eBooks because the app isn’t using Apple’s own in-app purchasing system to sell users the books. Previously, Apple’s stance has been that you can’t implement in-app purchases yourself in your own apps because that would be circumventing Apple’s entitlement to a 30% cut,…
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Blast from the past: my pro-Mac flamebait
This old gem is from back in the days when I was passionate enough about stuff to care enough to write blog posts explaining why OS X is the best OS. I’ve grown up a bit and am now lazy enough that if someone truly believes that their non-OS X operating system is better, then…
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Blast from the past: My iPad review from last April
I’m periodically filling my blog up with old posts from the days when I was doing Facebook notes. Since the iPad was introduced a year ago this week, I thought I’d take a stroll back to the nostalgic time when I reviewed my iPad. iPad: the new face of computing April 6, 2010 at 9:35…
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Verizon iPhone data – yay!
When Verizon announced the Verizon iPhone, they said that data plan pricing would be announced at a later time. Â When that was said, I was expecting the worst, figuring that they were going to put the axe on unlimited 3G data plans and didn’t want to leave a bad taste in would-be customers’ mouths on…
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Is Apple trying to screw us?
I have traditionally held a relatively high level of respect for iFixit, a web site dedicated to the repair of your iProducts, providing parts and manuals for just about every Apple product made this side of the year 2000. Â I gained even more respect for them about a month ago, when they announced their quest…
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Things I love (and hate) about @Evernote
I’ve known about Evernote since its early days, and after seeing it evolve quite a bit, I started using it myself back in 09. Â In the almost two years I’ve been using it, I’d like to pay tribute to how it’s changed how I collect information and reflect a bit on the things it could…
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TechCrunch writers suck at Verizon predictions
Just got done reading Jason Biggs’s Verizon iPhone related predictions (this is assuming that there even is a Verizon iPhone; I’m not totally convinced it’ll happen before 2012), and he’s predicting a very AT&T-sympathetic picture of what it will be like when Verizon gets the iPhone. Â I really disagree: First, expect iPhone sales to surpass…
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The freetards won yesterday (and why I’m forking VLC for iOS)
Edit: I regret my choice of words in this post (and in the title in particular); I wasn’t writing with my own voice; I was using the style of another popular blogger who was active around this time (not saying that I was writing this as a satire or parody; I literally was just that…
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On banning military funeral protests
I have to say that I feel like the gay rights movement has come a long ways when the so-called “most hated family in America” is the Phelps clan of Topeka, Kansas. Â For those unfamiliar, they’re these guys: What’s remarkable about this family is that they take gay hating so far, that nobody will even…