[MyAppleMenu] Apr 11, 2010

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**** I’m Abandoning iPhone Development. Mobile Orchard To Stop Publication. <http://www.mobileorchard.com/goodbye/>
Dan Grigsby, Mobile Orchard

Ask permission environments crush creativity and innovation. In healthy environments, when would-be innovators/creators identify opportunities the only thing that stands between the idea and its realization is work. In the iPhone OS environment when you see an opportunity, you put in work first, ask Apple’s permission and then, only after gaining their approval, your idea can be realized.

**** Infighting Does Not Win Elections <http://callantham.org/blog/2010/4/10/infighting-does-not-win-elections.html>
Callan Tham, Trapper's Swamp

Don't play the game if you don't understand how to win it, or if you're not there to win it. And washing dirty linen, or attacking fellow opposition politicians in public, might win you some applause but it will not win you elections. And to that end, politicians like Ng and Chee ought to do us all a favour and fade into the sunset. And bring their baggage with them.

**** Apple iPad Design More Vulnerable To Accidents, Falls <http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Apple-iPad-Design-More-Vulnerable-to-Accidents-Falls-626113/>
Nicholas Kolakowski, eWeek

Apple's iPad weight, size and usage mode places it at risk for a higher rate of accidents, according to Rapid Repair, which publishes an online teardown of the electronic devices it repairs. While the iPad's larger screen presents a bigger target for accidental collisions, and generates more force in falls, Apple's engineers have likely used data from the iPod Touch and iPhone development to improve the iPad's design choices.

**** Apple Goes Where The Portals Failed: It’s The Hardware, Stupid <http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/04/apple-goes-where-the-portals-failed-its-the-hardware-stupid/>
Fred Vogelstein, Wired News

Six months ago an Apple analyst told me he thought the company’s long-term goal was to become the internet’s cable TV company. I didn’t get it then. I really get it now.

**** Probe Of Apple-Google Hiring Collusion Gains Steam <http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-probe-of-apple-google-hiring-collusion-gains-steam-2010-4?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Falleyinsider%2Fsilicon_alley_insider+%28Silicon+Alley+Insider%29>
Henry Blodget, Business Insider

Remember that investigation into whether Apple, Google, Intel, IBM, and other big tech companies had a secret agreement not to poach each other's employees? Well, government investigators have found enough to be concerned about that they're stepping up the probe.

**** Steve Jobs Weighs In On Adobe Flash Furor -- Tells You To Read John Gruber's Post About It <http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-steve-jobs-weighs-in-on-adobe-flash-furor-and-tells-you-to-read-john-grubers-post-about-it-2010-4>
Henry Blodget, Business Insider

"We’ve been there before, and intermediate layers between the platform and the developer ultimately produces sub-standard apps and hinders the progress of the platform."

**** Tweetie Developer: Tweetie For Mac Is Alive And Well <http://www.beatweek.com/news/4025-developer-tweetie-for-mac-alive-and-well/>
Beatweek

**** Rethinking A Gospel Of The Web <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/technology/internet/11every.html>
Steven Johnson, New York Times

Whatever Apple chooses to do with its platform in the coming years, it has made one thing clear: sometimes, if you get the conditions right, a walled garden can turn into a rain forest.



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**** Burn, Baby, Burn <http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/johnson_04_10.html>
Paul Johnson, Literary Review

John Casey, a Cambridge English don with a Catholic upbringing followed by many years of doubts, has written an excellent book about what may follow death. Beginning with the ancient Egyptians, the first people to believe in an afterlife, he surveys over 3,000 years of ideas about futurity, concentrating particularly on hell and heaven but, quite rightly, finding a key place for purgatory too.



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**** Busted <http://singaporelifetimes.blogspot.com/2010/04/busted.html>
Singapore Life and Times

Although it goes against the government's oft-stated position that business should be left to make their own commercial decisions, this is potentially a hot political potatoe to leave alone in the simmering charcoal.

One potential problem for the government: If I remember correctly, NTUC FairPrice was given the go ahead to convert some wet markets into supermarkets some years back. (This was the basis for Fairprice's Pasar concept.) Sheng Siong can cry foul on unfair treatment - especially since FairPrice is government-linked.)

**** Reform Party Chief Slammed <http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_513229.html>
Zakir Hussain, Straits Times

Former Reform Party (RP) chairman Ng Teck Siong has lambasted the party's current chief, Mr Kenneth Jeyaretnam, for remarks that the RP was in a bad state a year ago just before he took over. Mr Ng, 69, also questioned the sincerity of Mr Jeyaretnam, 51, in taking over the mantle of his father, the late Mr J.B. Jeyaretnam.

**** Ng: Sentosa Casino Has Not Affected Us <http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/4/11/nation/6034912&sec=nation>
The Star

The new Sentosa casino in Singapore has not affected tourist arrivals in Malaysia, said Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen. She said both Malaysia and Singapore had their attractions and it would be unfair to compare one with the other.

**** 吴资政：应探讨不让绿色保护主义抬头 <http://www.zaobao.com/sp/sp100411_001.shtml>
杨永欣, 联合早报

绿色保护主义是令人担忧的未来趋势，今后如何妥善应对它需要全方位的讨论。我国国务资政吴作栋昨天在博鳌亚洲论坛的“贸易保护主义：全球经济脆弱复苏的现实威胁”主题午餐会上，针对近期开始受到关注的绿色保护主义提出了以上观点。

**** Singapore Is Role Model For Sri Lanka To Fight Bribery And Corruption <http://www.sundaytimes.lk/100411/Plus/plus_03.html>
W. Jayamaha, Sri Lanka Sunday Times

Having anti-corruption laws and regulations in the statute book alone serves little purpose, unless these laws are implemented without fear or favour — and with ruthless efficiency and indomitable political will, something we have not seen so far under successive governments.

**** 'Suicidal' Singapore <http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/fmt-english/opinion/comment/4443-suicidal-singapore>
Maxwell Coopers, Free Malaysia Today

**** It Is Healthy That There's Political Contest In S'pore: Ng Eng Hen <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1049394/1/.html>
Lynda Hong, Channel NewsAsia

Elaborating on his point that political contest is healthy, Dr Ng said he would encourage would-be candidates and opposition parties to meet residents so that residents could ask them questions about what they stood for.




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