by now if you follow the World of Macintosh, John Gruber has the best coverage of the Apple-Intel stories/rumours. I like his final analysis: “Heres my bet: Intel is going to produce PowerPC chips for Apple. But Im only betting one dollar.” Sounds about right to me.
From Daring Fireball:
Mac OS X 10.4 seems imminent. You can now pre-order Tiger From Amazon. In the US at least.
Supporting Daring Fireball
by John Gruber might have led to the quickest ROI that I have ever had from giving money to an online publication. Obviously I’m not calculating ROI, but in terms of the “give money, get more good things to read soon” equation, he’s doing a fantastic job (and I have a great tee to boot). The article prompting this outburst is today’s piece on the iPod: Why 2004 Won’t Be Like 1984.
A quick pointer
to an article that has been making the rounds in a big way in the last ten days or so: How Microsoft Lost the API War by Joel Spolsky. There have been many reaction pieces, but this piece on Daring Fireball by John Gruber adds the most interesting perspective. “…whatfs ironic is that [Microsoft is] losing this war despite the fact that they won the browser war.”
From Daring Fireball:
Ronco Spray-On Usability. Daring Fireball by John Gruber is an exceptionally well-written weblog on a variety of interesting subjects. In this case he takes a look at recent complaints about CUPS by the noted Linux evangelist Eric S Raymond.
I don’t know the first thing about Unix programming vs Mac or Windows programming, but the point Gruber makes – that you can’t just approach UI as a nice-to-have afterthought – applies equally well to web development. On the web, form doesn’t follow function. Rather, form and function (at least at a high level) are intertwined to the extent that they are indistinguishable. They are the same job.
