Pro Cycling Minnesota
Monday, May 5th, 2008Here is a blog you should read all the time.
Lot’s of cool info and articles during the build up to the Nature Valley Grand Prix in June.
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On the side of a Waste Management bin
Monday, May 5th, 2008
Punky Crisps? Those sound pretty good!
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Douche Phone killing the internet
Monday, May 5th, 2008Jonathon Zittrain, cofounder of Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society:
It’s amazing to me how much the progress of Apple has tracked the trajectory that I’m concerned about. It was Steve Jobs who brought us the first PC in ‘77–totally reprogrammable, totally generative. It was Steve Jobs who then came out with the Mac that made it so much easier to use while retaining the generative quality and allowing everyone to write code for it. Now Steve Jobs is bringing us the iPhone, which in version one is completely locked down. And then in the most recent announcement Steve Jobs says, “OK, we’re going to allow third-party apps, but you can’t just hand an app to someone, you have to put it through the iPhone store, and we reserve the right to take a cut for every app. And if we don’t like the app, we can kill it.”
I’m not too stoked about the idea of being forced to buy updates and software from the same store where I bought the device in the first place. I’m not too stoked about the manufacturer of a device making the decisions on my behalf regarding what kind of software and features I want on the device.
I have played around with the iPhone. It’s got some real innovative features. But you can’t tweak it and that means that the iPhone can not be your device. The iPhone is the device that Steve Jobs thinks you should have.
Less than 10% of Windows Mobile users are using the same OS with the same modifications and the same software that I am using. It’s my device.
