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John Gruber's Questions on Google Dropping H.264 from Chrome -
This.
I’m sure I wouldn’t be the first one to notice, but note how Google calls Chrome OS devices Google Chrome notebooks and never refers to them as netbooks, despite the fact that they’re probably the first literal netbooks.
Weep; and when the world weeps with you, laugh, and you’ll be the only one laughing.
Killer HTML5 teaser site for an upcoming iPhone app.Amazing creativity. (via Daring Fireball)
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It’s not that they made the Nano worse
Considering that the new Nano isn’t at all cheaper, they did. I agree that the new iPod lineup is a strategy to coerce people into buying an iPod touch, but the strategy includes “making iPod nano unpalatable by removing features without lowering the price.”
(Source: marco)
Apple Revises App Store Guidelines -
In particular, we are relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps, as long as the resulting apps do not download any code. This should give developers the flexibility they want, while preserving the security we need.
Someone speculated it’s because Apple’s queasy about the imminent release of Windows Phone 7. Here’s a question though: What are the chances of Adobe releasing an update for Flash to add back the iOS development features?
Edit: Someone else said to remember FTC’s probe into Apple. That could well have been a factor.