pooter.net/blog http://pooter.net/blog mostly harmless. Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:42:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 A Conspiracy of Hogs: The McRib as Arbitrage | The Awl http://pooter.net/blog/2011/11/11/a-conspiracy-of-hogs-the-mcrib-as-arbitrage-the-awl/ http://pooter.net/blog/2011/11/11/a-conspiracy-of-hogs-the-mcrib-as-arbitrage-the-awl/#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:42:53 +0000 http://pooter.net/blog/?p=472 A Conspiracy of Hogs: The McRib as Arbitrage | The Awl.

 

Great analysis.

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one problem not mentioned: drinking through thermal mugs removes the smell factor, making your high-quality coffee into something much less.

 

Review: Coffee Joulies – Marco.org.

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Jobs: Hi, Jeff, you’re stealing our intellectual property. It needs to stop.

Bezos: What?

Jobs: You know. Your fucking “app store!”

Bezos: But we call it an “Appstore.” Yours is called “the App Store.” Obviously very different.

Jobs: If you were in an elevator I would so fire you right now.

 

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I draw three conclusions:

  1. Apps overtaking digital music is a watershed event. Apps are a new medium: they will impact all other media.
  2. As the number of apps attached to any single device continues to increase, apps create increasingly higher switching costs for users.
  3. Apps consumption is increasing at a rate to overtake the PC software market.

This is just incredible. The result of point number one will be mind-boggling for culture as a whole.

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Enderlee  is now officially insane:

Apple’s Jobs: Rock star of Corporate America – MarketWatch.

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All these things show that it really is coming down to just Apple and IBM. If, for some reason, we make some giant mistakes and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter sort of a computer Dark Ages for about 20 years. Once IBM gains control of a market sector, they almost always stop innovation. They prevent innovation from happening.

via Playboy Interview – Steven Jobs.

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The wrong assumption behind this headline is that Microsoft ever had mojo in the first place.

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Scrivener is freaking fantastic – a great way to organize some complicated writing. I highly recommend it.

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