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They’re using unique tamper-resistant screw heads to make it harder for users to make their own repairs and modifications.

‘Google gives away Gmail, Maps, Docs, navigation, translation, et cetera, so no one can compete in those areas—to make free the norm for these services.’

The future of Java after Apple’s decision to stop doing their own port. In summary, it’s desktop Java that’s the problem.

Developing mobile sites for the iPhone is like developing for IE6 back in its heyday—except that the iPhone has nothing like the market share that IE6 had.

‘But as Apple gets more power, a funny thing is happening on the farm. Innovation and expression on Apple’s iPhone platform are beginning to suffer, even as Apple insists that its restrictions are for our own good. And as we gaze out at the titans of the tech landscape, it’s getting difficult to tell which are the humans and which are the pigs.’

Apple.com only serves video if the user agent identifies itself as Quicktime. Pretty evil in my opinion.

How Apple’s ‘ridiculously slow and convoluted’ process for approving updates to applications in its walled garden App Store is affecting developers.

‘I hope that this article might serve as a counter-point to the articles that seem to go around the web about devs making hundreds of thousands of dollars off an iPhone app.’ Needs to be said.

The latest arbitrariness from the iPhone App Store: you can make a program whose sole function is to display wobbling breasts, but you can't describe it.

‘Look at the way Apple has deployed DRM – not for piracy reasons but for pure anti-competition reasons.’

Primer on reverse-engineering a file format.

The missing part of my MacBook Linux setup.

‘Apple, a company that is generally considered far from “sinister” or “evil”, on the other hand, is trying their best to alienate developers.’

‘It now appears that Apple does not intend to lift the NDA any time soon. Regrettably, this means we are pulling our iPhone book out of production.’

‘Apple wasn't worried about customer confusion, Apple was worried about getting some competition.’

‘[T]he last thing you want to do when people take issue with your lack of transparency is to institute more opacity.’

Cupertino’s capriciousness captured.

Embarrassed by coverage of your arbitrariness in rejecting applications? Silence your critics!

Heh. I told you so.

That’s why I’m not buying one.

Example code is useful.

Might be handy for helping to figure out the encryption.

Windows is for poor people?

A decent round-up of recent developments, with some interesting facts thrown in.

I'm not the only person who is wary of closed devices like the iPhone.

The Rogue Amoeba developers aren't too happy about the iPhone SDK restrictions. In response, they are filing bugs.

Run OS X on your Linux Mac.

Might be useful for distributing applications.

Article based on Reevoo research.

OS X automation without the godawful syntax.

Good explanation of how default gamma affects colour representation on Mac and Windows.

Steve Jobs, boss of the biggest online music distributor, says that DRM doesn’t work.

You can’t buy Japanese music online if you don’t live in Japan. Lucky we have BitTorrent!

The classic ‘flying toasters’ Mac screensaver rebuilt.

Sony plagiarises the MacBook.

Long-time Microsoft developer and evangelist explains why he has left the Microsoft world.

They are.

A multiple-button mouse from Apple? Surely this portends the coming of the End Times.

Oh no, here come the proles. The tasteless rabble. The masses who see nothing past the price tag...

Low-end Pizza-box Macs to come?