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Brutal:

Apple, now the big player, has to take the hits that big players get:

Microsoft's biggest weakness is that they still don't realize how much they suck.

“When they replaced sharing with +1 on Google Reader, it was clear that this day was going to come,” he said.

Not so open after all.

I'm not entirely sure what to make of this, but Rubin's replacement Sundar Pichai has proven himself with the Chrome browser and it will be interesting to see how his approach wil differ from Rubin's.

Graham Hill describes what happened after he sold his first start-up in the 90s:

Whether the WSJ has an agenda or not, they're certainly producing more link bait about Apple than any other company.

Daniel Eran Dilger rips into a Bloomberg "news" article seemingly based on a Samsung press release about how well they'll survive after their biggest component buyer leaves them.

The revised Apple TV isn't using the quad-GPU A5X chip that was speculated in January.

We launched the WebM Project in May 2010 with the goal of providing the web with a high-quality, open, royalty-free video codec that anyone can use, and that can inspire future innovators.

I wonder if he'll continue this as a long winded three parter.

Psst Americans, leave your litigious culture in the US.

The reliable Rene Ritchie from iMore has a source which claims that Apple has considered launching the next generation of iPads in April, and the iPhone 5S in August.

Apple has a lower P/E ratio than Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and now Dell, to name a few.

The simple but powerful message is this: ‘Enjoy The Journey’.

Today I released my new iPhone app, Hackers, which I've been working on for the past few months.

Fantastic news, payment processor Strip finally comes to the UK.

John Gruber's detailed and well sourced article about how great products thrive and bad products don't, and being open or closed has little to do with anything.

This has to be his biggest controversy to date.

FOSS Patents does some sleuthing and discoveres the judge that ordered Apple to publish an apology to Samsung, and then rewrite that apology, is being paid by Samsung as a patent consultant:

The UK High Court has ordered UK ISPs to block more torrent sites at the whim of the BPI, a private company representing the interests of music labels, despite data showing that blocking these sites have little effect on copyright infringement.

Doug Kass, where have I heard that name before?

Why are people still surprised when Twitter kills your app?

Who would've bet that Google would be the first company to release a competitor to Apple's MacBook Pro with Retina display?

Matt Drance on Sony's strange Playstation 4 announcement:

HP is selling key parts of it's webOS product to LG, although interestingly HP are keeping the backend services such as cloud sync and the app store.

Could this be the catalyst App.net needs for a resurgance?

Jacob Goldstein's on Marco Arment's magazine, The Magazine:

A highly impressive notebook from Google, I love the industrial design and of course the 2560x1700 resolution display.

I have seen the Android brand disappear over time.

'iHKDesign' responds to an idiotic article on CNN claiming that Samsung is 'out innovating Apple':

Tim Cook refers to integration and a great team as unique Apple advantages (but also note the references to magic and belief.)

The problem with Microsoft's online service offerings isn't that their TV campaigns are lame.

In a world where companies communicate with corporate PR speak, I applaud Elon Musk's tone in his response to John Broder's review of the Tesla Model S.

Roh, who was a lawmaker for the opposition Progressive Justice Party, has been a vocal critic of Samsung, South Korea's most powerful conglomerate, which dominates the country's economy.

Some great ideas, like the rubbish bag packaged inside a rubbish bag.

The biggest mistake Microsoft could make is back down from the progress they're making with Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.

It was like this for Mac users until around 2008.

Nick Quaranto at 37 Signals describes writing the Basecamp app with RubyMotion so he could avoid using Xcode and learning Objective-C.

People complain about iTunes and Calendar apps, but the App Store app is by far the worst app Apple makes.

Without asking permission, Google sends developers the personal details of everyone who buys their app from Google Play.

Nutrition is probably one of the least well understood sciences, this piece looks at the biggest misconceptions we're told by governments, doctors, and food companies.

Jim Dalrymple cuts out the bullshit PR.

My local (Northern Virginia) Microsoft store sold out in 15 minutes, which means there wasn’t much to sell.

Design is now so ingrained with taste that it's quite hard to form partisan arguments, but Rian van der Merwe manages it:

In an interview this week, Mr Heins hailed the success of his company’s new phones, saying that sales in the UK were “beyond expectations”.

In late October, researchers at North Carolina State University alerted Google to a security flaw that could let scam artists send phony text messages to Android phones — a practice called “smishing” that can ensnare consumers in fraud.