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The iPad 2 might still be awesome

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Marco wrote a good piece speculating on the internals of the rumored iPad Mini (or Nano or Junior or whatever). What caught my attention, thou, was this:

iPad2,4 is the 32nm die-shrunk update that quietly replaced the 16 GB Wi-Fi iPad 2 when the iPad 3 was released, yielding better battery life and lower cost, and probably partly responsible for the iPad 2’s price drop to $399.1

So actually the current ”iPad 2” has a better battery life then the ”iPad 2” that was sold before ”The New iPad” (aka iPad 3) was released? I might have to revise my advice to people interested in buying an iPad; maybe the iPad 3 is not always the way to go.

  1. Predicting the “iPad Mini” internals – Marco.org ↩
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@jonas_tunander och @erikbrattlof visar hur man festar, 2012-style.

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@jonas_tunander och @erikbrattlof visar hur man festar, 2012-style.
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. @methetiger på #grannygoesstreet

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. @methetiger på #grannygoesstreet
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Trädet verkar ha ruttnat och rasar av allt regn. Nu är verkligen hösten här.

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Trädet verkar ha ruttnat och rasar av allt regn. Nu är verkligen hösten här.
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Is Twitter insane?

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One of the many parts of the Twitter Api 1.1 thats been quite ambiguous is the part about quoting tweets:

We will require all applications that display Tweets to adhere to [the display requirements]. Among them: linking @usernames to the appropriate Twitter profile, displaying appropriate Tweet actions (e.g. Retweet, reply and favorite) and scaling display of Tweets appropriately based on the device.1

It is not one hundred percent clear what an application means in this case. Marco Arment took a pessimistic approach:

I’m pretty sure this means that I can’t just display a tweet as a link and blockquote when I want to quote it here.2

When I first read that I shook my head in disbelief. ”They can’t possibly be that creepy and control-freaky, can they?” According to Jeremy Keith, turns out they can:

Just to double-check, I asked one of my (many) friends who work at Twitter. “These display requirements …they don’t apply to me quoting a tweet on my blog, right?”

The answer I got surprised me. Apparently the display guidel… requirements do apply to me. If I want to quote a tweet on my website, I’m supposed to use the embed code to make sure that people can favourite/retweet/follow, etc.3

Now, read that quoted part again and think about what it really means. Whatever you write on Twitter, they claim ownership of. Not only that, but they actually go so far as to suddenly dictate how you are allowed to quote the things written on their service. That completely violates years and years of writing tradition and, probably, a whole bunch of laws regarding fair use etc.

I’m not sure what Twitter is trying to pull here, but apparently they have gone completely insane. I hope every blogger in the world violates this. As long as you’re not an app developer, Twitters only response can be to take actual legal actions against it and I can’t possibly see how they could win such a case.

(What about newspapers? At least in Sweden newspapers sometimes quote famous peoples tweets in there printed edition. How the hell should they comply with this?)

  1. Changes coming in Version 1.1 of the Twitter API | Twitter Developers ↩
  2. Interpreting some of Twitter’s API changes – Marco.org ↩
  3. Adactio: Journal—Tweetpolice ↩
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What Killed the Linux Desktop – Miguel de Icaza

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Many hackers moved to OSX. It was a good looking Unix, with working audio, PDF viewers, working video drivers, codecs for watching movies and at the end of the day, a very pleasant system to use. Many exchanged absolute configurability of their system for a stable system.1

I hesitate to call myself a hacker, but this paragraph pretty much sums it up for me as well.

In my pre-Mac life I had a computer with a Windows (mostly XP) partition for my audio work and a Linux partition for my development work. Nowadays the needs of both jobs happily coexist under the roof of OS X. I can run stable no fuzz audio recording and sequencing programs side by side with a Unix terminal.2

  1. What Killed the Linux Desktop – Miguel de Icaza ↩
  2. Yes, off-cource you can do development and audio work on Windows as well. I just love the fact that all the Unix tools that I love to use is available next to my audio tools. ↩
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Hösten är här. Blandade känslor. Sorgligt och vackert.

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Hösten är här. Blandade känslor. Sorgligt och vackert.
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Marco Arment comments on Twitters blocking of Tumblr

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So when Twitter says something like “[developers] will need to work with us” to “identify areas of value” when they get big enough for Twitter to notice, I don’t have high hopes for what “working with us” might actually entail.

This is how Twitter treats its “partners”.1

  1. Twitter cuts off “find friends” access to Tumblr, too – Marco.org ↩
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Klicka på bilderna för att se dom i större format och läsa bildtexterna.

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Klicka på bilderna för att se dom i större format och läsa bildtexterna.

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