May Link-o-rama

[Bob Frank]

Wil Shipley on paid upgrades
http://blog.wilshipley.com/2012/03/mac-app-store-needs-paid-upgrades.html

Mark Dalrymple has started blogging at Big Nerd Ranch, you should read his posts:
http://weblog.bignerdranch.com/334-isequal-vs-isequaltostring/
http://weblog.bignerdranch.com/439-checking-assumptions-measuring-isequaltostring-performance/
http://weblog.bignerdranch.com/467-protocols-part-1-why/
http://weblog.bignerdranch.com/469-protocols-part-2-delegation/
http://weblog.bignerdranch.com/465-protocols-part-3-adopting-protocols-in-class-extensions-bork/
http://weblog.bignerdranch.com/463-a-motivation-for-ivar-decorations/
http://weblog.bignerdranch.com/516-table-scanning/
http://weblog.bignerdranch.com/530-both-kinds-of-cocoa/
http://weblog.bignerdranch.com/564-bools-sharp-corners/

Things randomly learned from the Google Oracle trial:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/25/2974939/android-in-early-2007-looked-very-different-than-it-does-today
http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/25/2974676/this-was-the-original-google-phone-presented-in-2006
http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/7/3004697/oracle-google-trial-deadlocked-jury-partial-verdict
http://blog.steventroughtonsmith.com/2012/05/2007s-pre-m3-version-of-android-google.html

Charlie Stross on the DOJ’s e-book price-fixing lawsuit
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/04/understanding-amazons-strategy.html
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/04/the-justice-department-just-made-jeff-bezos-dictator-for-life/255811/

Keyboard reviews:
http://carpeaqua.com/2012/04/15/a-review-of-the-das-keyboard-for-mac/

Craig on CoreData w/o Fetch Requests
http://furbo.org/2012/04/05/core-data-without-fetch-requests/

ARC & copy
http://furbo.org/2012/05/04/arc-and-copy/

Think like (a) Git
http://think-like-a-git.net/

Password Hashing
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/04/speed-hashing.html

iOS text editor roundup
http://brettterpstra.com/ios-text-editors/

icloud vs. the web
http://www.manton.org/2012/04/icloud_vs_the_web.html

Android is in Strategic and Tactical Trouble
http://www.businessinsider.com/android-is-suddenly-in-a-lot-of-trouble-2012-4

Cool video mock up of iPad editing idea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGQTaHGQ04Q

Some new iPad2's have smaller CPU's
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5789/the-ipad-24-review-32nm-a5-tested

Once again Apple made a ton of money
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/04/24Apple-Reports-Second-Quarter-Results.html

How's HTC doing?
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/smartphone-maker-htc-posts-70-093149285.html

3 fantastic Asymco pieces:
http://www.asymco.com/2012/04/24/unforgiven-the-consequences-of-profit-failure-in-mobile-phones/
http://www.asymco.com/2012/04/26/why-was-wall-street-surprised-by-apples-performance/
http://www.asymco.com/2012/05/03/the-phone-market-in-2012-a-tale-of-two-disruptions/

How is MS Windows Phone doing?
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microsofts_mobile_comeback_is_looking_terrible.php

Want to go to WWDC, oops sold out in 112 minutes, at least the videos will be up shortly after.
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/

Want to buy a Kindle Fire at Target? oops
http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/2/2993608/target-amazon-kindle

Have Kindle sales plunged?
http://seekingalpha.com/article/557151-kindle-sales-plunge-made-amazon-com-s-gross-margin-look-better?source=yahoo

Wake up flash mob, embarrassing (RIMM not Samsung)
http://www.cultofmac.com/163326/samsung-douches-up-australian-apple-store-with-paid-galaxy-flashmob/
see: http://wakeupbebold.com/ (yea, that'll help)

http://mattgemmell.com/2012/04/13/augmented-paper/

Jean-Louis Gassée on Apple's results
http://www.mondaynote.com/2012/05/06/apple-q2-thoughts/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+monday-note+%28Monday+Note%29

Valve Employee Handbook
http://newcdn.flamehaus.com/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf

Every jump of the General Lee
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/08/every-jump-of-the-general-lee-seasons-1-6/

Text Instagram
https://twitter.com/#!/textinstagram


PS: The Avengers, if you see it, stay all the way through the end of the credits for a 2nd bonus clip