Sep 19
Daring Fireball: How Should Mac Apps Be Distributed?
How Should Mac Apps Be Distributed?
Thursday, 17 September 2009
Alexander Limi has a thoughtful piece regarding the problems Mozilla has identified with the current installation process for Firefox on the Mac. As it stands, they’re following the common pattern of delivering the Firefox app on a disk image, which, when mounted, uses a background image and alias to the /Applications/ folder to encourage users to copy the app from the mounted image to their startup drive. Limi writes:
I've always found the Mac's application install process to be stupid. It's very simple if you know what you're doing — certainly a step up from those painful multi-step Windows installers — but given that most people have no idea what a Disk image even is it's far more complicated than it needs to be.
Sep 17
I don't understand what Google is thinking with this. They just (finally) gave the mobile version of the Market an upgrade, but the website is still just awful. No search. Not even a complete listing of the apps that are available.
Android Market's Official Site Is Pitiful
Sep 17
Twitter's Popularity: Users Love Stupid Content — By Dan Lyons at Newsweek
The comedian Dane Cook apparently believes he is building his brand by pumping out a steady stream of comments on Twitter, the microblogging site that lets you broadcast 140-character messages to anyone who chooses to become your "follower." Cook's followers receive a regular series of bons mots: "Just got my hair cut. When finished she asked me, 'Do u want any product in your hair?' I said sure—how about dairy?" Or this: "The future is wide open. What a slut." Not laughing yet? How about: "I hollowed out the pages of a bible today & hid a smaller bible inside."
Cook's comments are so lame and unfunny that what he's actually doing is revealing, multiple times a day, how little talent he has. It's morbidly fascinating, kind of like the forbidden thrill you get watching Maury Povich's show or professional wrestling. You know it's awful. You know you shouldn't enjoy it, yet you can't look away. That, I'm afraid to say, is why I've come to believe that, of all the hellish things that have been spawned in the fever swamp that is the Internet, Twitter may turn out to be the most successful of them all—not in spite of its stupidity, but because of it.
via newsweek.com
I know Twitter has its uses, but looking at the Top Trends these days (which are often just celebrity names or stupid shit) I can't help but agree with Lyons on many of these points.
Sep 17
"Thirst Quencher"
Who would have thought? Can't wait until they put a nice big label that says, "You will die if you don't drink enough."
