David Emery OnlineCrossOver Chromium
CrossOver Chromium is a Mac and Linux port of the open source Chromium web browser. CrossOver Chromium is available for download from CodeWeavers, free of charge.
Seems to work surprisingly well – good enough at least to do a double check that everything that works ok in Safari works in Chrome.
Visit ➔Best Buy eyes Apple, Microsoft with Napster purchase
Today, electronics retailer Best Buy announced that it would buy Napster for a total of $121 million, a significant premium over the company’s value based on either stock price or assets.
“Hi there! We’re Best Buy.
We know nothing about digital music.
No, seriously – absolutely nothing. Not a clue.”
It’s almost like they’re trying to prove how stupid they are – Napster is a company loosing customers hand-over-fist as its main subscription business has unsurprisingly turned out to be a failure. The brand only has recognition from its illustrious illegal past and subsequent appalling advertising.
I don’t get it.
Visit ➔App Store: I’m out.
I will never write another iPhone application for the App Store as currently constituted.
Writing software is a serious investment of time and energy. It also carries the opportunity cost of the other things you could have built. We live in a capitalist economy. Under capitalism, profit is the reward for economic risk. Without a reasonable expectation of profit, the sensible business-person will not invest. Without investment and risk-taking, there is no innovation.
Apple’s current practice of rejecting certain applications at the final hurdle – submission to the App Store – is disastrous for investor confidence. Developers are investing time and resources in the App Store marketplace and, if developers aren’t confident, they won’t invest in it. If developers – and serious developers at that – don’t invest, what’s the point?
I’m very concerned with the policy Apple is adopting with the approval process on the App Store – sure, the ‘I Am Rich’ fiasco made sense (it surely was causing problems with some users accidently buying it) but arbitrarily banning apps destroys developer confidence.
On the plus side, the backlash has been so widespread that I can’t help but think they’ll change their policies – they pretty much have to at this point.
Visit ➔The labels that turned the tables
Once upon a time, the major labels were king. They swept up sales in their velvety cloaks, showered money from the heavens, and defined the way you and I bought music. Now they’re shedding staff, dropping bands and losing their star names. Now the drivers of the record industry are small, maverick labels that define trends and launch careers. Some of them even sell records by the lorryload. And this autumn sees a spate of anniversaries in which these powerhouses of British music are celebrating their achievements.
Nice article on our little corner of the industry…
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