From the monthly archives:

February 2011

Touchpad scrolling is broken in Lion

February 26, 2011

As Cult of Mac notes, the default behaviour for touchpad scrolling in OS X Lion is reversed. In previous versions of OS X, you move your fingers down on the trackpad to scroll down. In Lion, you move your fingers up. The reason for this is probably to match the behaviour of iOS, where you “push” [...]

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Apple 2011 = Microsoft ’97

February 18, 2011

Brilliant comment from “Chucky” on a post from from Michael Tsai: Microsoft in 1997 had a very specific corporate strategy. They had a temporary situation of great market leverage. And rather than concentrating on making better products for their users, they began to concentrate on two objectives: 1 Using their leverage to avoid the rise [...]

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This is why Apple’s subscription system fails for consumers

February 17, 2011

From Apple Subs: Publishers Seek Clarity, FT Concerned, Some Sign Up | paidContent: “We have a fair and open approach for customers whereby we offer digital access to FT journalism for one price and enable access across multiple platforms for no additional fee. It is necessary to have a direct relationship with the customer to [...]

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Apple’s subscription system: A mess

February 17, 2011

From ‘Apple Just Fd Over Online Music Subs’ | paidContent: “Music and video services do not have a 30 percent margin to give away to Apple NSDQ: AAPL. It means you’ll see them exit the market on iOS devices, paving the way for Apple’s own iTunes streaming.” Does the subscription system include music content? No [...]

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The Nokia/Microsoft Elephant Tango

February 11, 2011

Alan Patrick ponders if Nokia and Microsoft ever be Mobile?: “The reason the JV is happening is that the assets being brought to the table are not so much incredible but non-credible. The two companies have completeley dropped the ball in mobile over the last 5 years, from positions of strength, due to a combination of [...]

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Why free software will remain a niche, in a nutshell

February 7, 2011

Steven J Vaughan-Nichols on The new Debian Linux: Irrelevant? | ZDNet: “For example, the default Debian distributions won’t include any proprietary firmware binary files… If, as is likely if you’re using a laptop or a PC with high-end graphics and you find you’re running into hardware problems, the Debian installation program should alert you the problem. That’s [...]

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Bing: Why Google’s Wrong In Its Accusations

February 5, 2011

Danny Sullivan on Bing: Why Google’s Wrong In Its Accusations: “Meanwhile, I’m on my third day of waiting to hear back from Google about just what exactly it does with its own toolbar. Now that the company has fired off accusations against Bing about data collection, Google loses the right to stay as tight-lipped as it [...]

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I couldn’t have put it better myself

February 2, 2011

Mathew Ingram, writing for GigaOm: “Call it a deal with the devil or whatever you want, but Apple is the one that came up with devices that are so appealing, and a content-distribution model that is so effective, that it has sold 10 billion apps in less than three years, and created a whole generation [...]

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Apple denies content purchasing change, confirms content purchasing change

February 1, 2011

Apple’s Trudy Muller, talking to John Paczkowski: “We have not changed our developer terms or guidelines,” But wait… “We are now requiring that if an app offers customers the ability to purchase books outside of the app, that the same option is also available to customers from within the app with in-app purchase.” (my emphasis) [...]

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