» Useless survey of the day
96 people in the U.S. said they would buy an amorphous watch that connects to their iPhone. Gene Munster extrapolates with jelly on top.
This would better have been titled “Piper Jaffray finds another way to get its name in the news.”
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» ‘Q&A: The Women Who Write Dinosaur Erotica’
New York Magazine interviews the authors of dinosaur erotica:
We don’t want to get into actual numbers, but let’s put it this way: Combined, Christie and I make more money than our friend who has been working as an engineer at Boeing for a few years and Christie’s friend who is a five-year accountant in Dallas, Texas.
Coming Monday on this site: Bob Mansfield erotica.
Are Alara Branwen and Christie Sims your real names?
No, those are just our pen names. Do you honestly think we would publish the crazy stuff we write under our own names?
Uh, I mean, coming somewhere completely unrelated to this site on Monday.
Dammit. I always get that part wrong.
» Conventional wisdom
John Gruber on the false notion that Apple’s share price used to soar after product announcements:
You can actually check these things.
Why would someone check something they know to be true?
Cause and reverse effect
The San Jose Mercury News says prepaid smartphone plans are becoming increasingly popular in the U.S. and are going to destroy Apple.
ComScore says Apple continues to increase its market share in the U.S.
I’m not the brightest bulb in the drawer, but if a trend that’s currently in effect is supposed to be really bad for Apple, shouldn’t it, you know, be being really bad for Apple?
Podcasting fever
Podcasting. Have you heard of it? It’s all the rage right now. If you’re podcast-curious, here are some podcast-related links about podcasting, podcast technology, podcasters and the men and women who love them. Who also have their own podcasts. (Podcasting is a little incestuous right now.)
In a guest post on 512 Pixels, Myke Hurley gives some advice to aspiring podcasters.
Personally, I expect to be making enough money within the next year to be able to do this full time and leave my job.
That’s pretty cool.
Meanwhile, Harry Marks opines on the state of podcasting as a podcast listener.
There are some fantastic indie podcasts and podcast networks out there right now bogged down by, among other things, a lack of understanding what makes terrestrial talk radio so listenable.
One of those is editing. And, to round out this collection of links, Watts Martin points out Hindenberg, a $95 Mac application for editing podcasts that Andrea Seabrook uses on her podcast, DecodeDC. You spend $100 bucks on your mic, you shouldn’t balk at $95 for your editing software. Are you in podcasting to win podcasting or not?
» Samsung facing sanctions for disclosure of confidential information
Florian Meuller:
Licensing executives from Samsung and Nokia held a meeting on June 4, 2013 to discuss a patent license deal between these parties. In that meeting, a Samsung exec, Dr. Seungho Ahn, “informed Nokia that the terms of the Apple-Nokia license were known to him” and according to a declaration from Nokia’s Chief Intellectual Property Officer, Paul Melin, “stated that Apple had produced the Apple-Nokia license in its litigation with Samsung, and that Samsung’s outside counsel had provided his team with the terms of the Apple-Nokia license”. The Melin declaration furthermore says that “to prove to Nokia that he knew the confidential terms of the Apple-Nokia license, Dr. Ahn recited the terms of the license, and even went so far as to tell Nokia that ‘all information leaks.'”
Frequent reminder: Samsung may make some nice products, but they are not an admirable organization. No, Apple is not perfect, but Samsung’s history of serious corruption is pretty well documented. Still, Dan Lyons would like everyone to stop being so mean to them.
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» ‘Making Up Apple News’
Myke Hurley was kind enough to have me on CMD+Space this week, where we chat about my days making up Apple rumors.
» Dinosaur erotica
And here I am writing about technology like a sucker.