Kevin Nguyen gets at why I don’t have any interest in the most touted features of Writer Pro and Hemingway.

Two new apps conflate the act of writing prose and writing code.

I know my writing is often a mess, but these features don’t make your writing better so much as they make it conform.

The New York Times:

Dennis Woodside, the chief executive of Motorola, owned by Google, is leaving to join Dropbox, which competes with Google in cloud storage.

The Valley, including Apple, seems to believe that Woodside is the bee’s knees. I’m not sure what kind of feather in your cap it is to have negotiated the $12.5 billion Motorola deal for Google and then have run it at continued losses for almost two years before it was sold for $2.9 billion. I’m sure I’m missing some magic, though.

Mary Jo Foley:

Microsoft is going to allow OEMs to continue to build and sell new PCs with Windows 7 Professional preinstalled beyond October 2014, the original date that would have been the cutoff under the company’s normal sales lifecycle.

They’re going to try to force Windows 8 down consumer’s throats but enterprise customers won’t have it until they get it looking just like Windows 7 again. A lot of potholes on that road to the future of computing.

I only used Editorially once, when writing the two Twitter client reviews I did for The Sweet Setup, but it was a nice user experience and seemed to work really well. It’s a shame it didn’t make it.

The Economic Times of India:

Apple has broken with tradition and revived the production of iPhone 4 just for India, Indonesia and Brazil, said three senior executives with direct knowledge of the company’s plan.

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This is the first time that Apple has resumed the production of a discontinued phone.

Small problem with this: Apple already sells the iPhone 4 in China and Brazil. So, it may start selling it again in India, too, but it will not be “reviving production” as it’s already still in production.

“Direct knowledge” ain’t what it used to be.

CNet’s Lance Whitney on a “report” from JP Morgan’s Mark Moskowitz:

“While not a new idea, our global tech research team believes Apple could be on the cusp of introducing a new category with iAnywhere, a converged MacOS-iOS operating system that allows an iPhone or iPad to dock into a specially configured display to run as a computer,” Moskowitz said. “In our view, this category would be a leapfrog event, potentially jumpstarting iPhone and iPad growth as well as peripherals and cloud-based software and services sales.”

Yes, if there’s anything we’ve learned from the past two years it’s that Apple desperately needs to chase the Surface.

The 6th episode of Turning This Cars Around looks at the joys of traveling with kids. Oh, so many joys.

The Verge’s Tom Warren:

Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell The Verge that the company is seriously considering allowing Android apps to run on both Windows and Windows Phone.

This is a terrible idea. If your platform is so destitute that you need to run non-native apps to prop it up, just fork Android and get it over with.

Ben Thompson says Microsoft should pick services, fork Android and dump hardware.

To say this strategy would be a stark departure from Microsoft’s current course is, obviously, an understatement.

I just don’t see them ditching Windows Phone now that it’s having such great success… in Spain.

There really has been a great deal of effort put into this idea that “Windows Phone is on the rise and the iPhone is falling!” by Microsoft surrogates. I doubt they’d do it, but it would be funny to see the rug pulled out from under that.

I don’t pretend to know what the right thing for Microsoft to do is. There is a “clarity of purpose” appeal to Thompson’s pitch, but then it puts them exclusively on a direct path to confrontation with Google. Not that that’s not what’s happening anyway and Office and their strength in the enterprise might give them a good footing in that battle.