Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: the Ars Technica review

Via ArsTechnica

"The user-visible changes in Lion are legion. You'll be hard-pressed to find any part of the user interface that remains completely unchanged from Snow Leopard, from the look and feel all the way down to basic behaviors like application and document management. In Lion, Apple has taken a hard look at the assumptions underlying the last ten years of Mac OS X's development—and has decided that a lot of them need to change. "

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With iOS 5, Apple shows that it isn’t afraid of better web apps

via The Next Web

"Traditionally people have viewed Apple as hostile to any apps outside of the native App Store market. This has been proven wrong time and again, but the perception seems to persist. The open-source Webkit framework that Apple provides web developers has been significantly improved since Apple first started using it for Safari and now, with iOS 5, Apple is introducing changes that make it better than ever. Isn’t it finally time to acknowledge that Apple isn’t afraid of web apps?"

Apple To Publish Guidelines For App Approval

by The Associated Press

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September 9, 2010

Apple Inc. said Thursday that it will publish the guidelines it uses to determine which programs can be sold in its App Store.

The move follows more than two years of complaints from software developers about the company's secret and seemingly capricious rules, which block some programs from the store.

Developers have had little guidance from Apple, meaning they often had to complete their programs only to find them blocked by the company. The company has been known to block applications because of sexual content, because they contain political satire, and because they just don't do much.

All the same, Apple's store has been a runaway success since its launch in 2008, and now has more than 250,000 applications for iPhones, iPads and iPod touches.

Apple also said it will lift restrictions imposed earlier this year on using third-party development tools that "translate" code written for another platform. That means developers who work in Adobe Systems Inc.'s Flash or Oracle Corp.'s Java language can convert their programs into iPhone apps without rewriting them.

The App Store's chief competitor, Google Inc.'s Android Marketplace, has few restrictions for developers.

Adobe shares jumped on the news, rising $2.29, or nearly 8 percent, to $31.60 in morning trading. Apple shares rose $2.87, or 1.1 percent, to $265.79. Google shares gained $8.68, or 1.8 percent, to $479.26. Oracle shares rose 23 cents to $24.37.

How The iPad is Changing Art and Music

http://scobleizer.com/2010/05/22/how-the-ipad-is-changing-art-and-music/

Here's Lang Lang playing 'Flight of the Bumblebee' on the iPad:

Monster Maker featured in the new iPhone Ad

AdMob: Android passes iPhone in U.S. traffic

http://androidandme.com/2010/04/news/admob-android-passes-iphone-in-u-s-traffic/

"In AdMob’s latest March report, Android has surpassed the iPhone and accounts for a greater share of smartphone requests in the United States. AdMob does not represent the traditional view of market share (based on the number of handsets sold), but their reports still provide some insightful data."