Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo:

We’ve got a number of queries recently about whether we’re still on Google Currents or Flipboard of other similar services. The answer is no.

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On the subject of these other services, I know this disrupts some readers reading habits. So we don’t do this lightly. But these companies are basically scams against the publishers…

That’s a pretty strong word, but it does seem like any intermediary that disassociates your content from you is counter-productive. TPM has summarized RSS feeds with full articles for free on the site with ads with full feeds for their premium subscribers.

Rene Ritchie on Eric Schmidt’s claim that Android is ‘more secure than the iPhone’:

Schmidt’s schtick is to say outrageous stuff and get attention just like I’m giving him now. He says stuff he knows that you know that he knows isn’t true, but in a way that makes you think he actually believes it.

I had’t actually considered that Schmidt was engaging in PT Barnum-ism with his wacky statements to date (I thought he was just crazy), but given this piece in Quartz quoting Google’s head of Android security giving the same “Android’s more secure than iOS” line, I wonder if this whole thing isn’t an orchestrated effort on Google’s part to influence perceptions. You know, since they apparently can’t influence reality.

I really don’t say this lightly but can you imagine if an Apple device got reviews like this? They would literally be talking about it non-stop on CNBC.

There is this conventional wisdom that says Samsung is the new king of innovation. But that is a different kind of innovation than the kind of innovation people mean when talking about Apple. When talking about companies that are not fruit-themed, failures like this are simply how the sausage is made. Apple, on the other hand, is held to an entirely different standard.

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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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.

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?

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. 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?

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.