Long on Apple
Chris Umiastowski in Apple investors: How to stay sane by staying long via iMore: Realize that you will never have an information advantage over the pros. Most information is geared to short term results anyway. Just don’t pay attention to short term news and rumours when it comes to investing. It won’t help you. Buy a stock for your own reasons and sell when those reasons are no longer true. This will stop you from making emotional decisions and trading on rumours.
I'm doing it wrong: Dropbox buys Mailbox
On my tweet stream today: @jnack Makes me wonder why I’ve been wasting years developing a sustainable product through many mature versions. — Marco Arment (@marcoarment) March 18, 2013 Anyone got ideas for a revenue-free product I can make and sell for 100mm? Follow the author as @hiltmon on Twitter and @hiltmon on App.Net. Mute #xpost on one.
Windows Phone 8 support will expire before your phone contract does
In a seriously bone-headed move, Microsoft has quietly announced that their mobile Operating Systems will only be supported and updated for 18 months: Microsoft will make updates available for the Operating System on your phone, including security updates, for a period of 18 months after the lifecycle start date. Distribution of the updates may be controlled by the mobile operator or the phone manufacturer from which you purchased your phone. Update availability will also vary by country, region, and hardware capabilities.
Cutting down on Web Tracking
You may not know it, but lots of web sites use a variety of tricks to track you across the Internet, not just on the site you are currently browsing. These all depend on your browser talking to the tracker’s server without your knowledge or consent. These trackers use huge numbers of servers with different names and IP addresses to make it more difficult to stop them. If you use a single browser all the time, plugins like Ghostery work very well.
Premature BlackBerry Sales Analysis by Forbes
I’m writing this for a friend who tweeted this article to me. Feel free to listen in. Mate, this in an intervention, don’t believe what you read in Forbes. Please. Lets take yesterday’s post Nearly Half Of BlackBerry Z10 Buyers Switching From iPhone And Android by Agustino Fontevecchia. BlackBerry’s new smartphone is stealing iPhone and Android users, according to a recent note by RBC Capital markets, which shows 45% of those buying Z10s converted from the two leading operating systems.
Also Destroyed the Ecosystem
Aldo Cortesi in Google, destroyer of ecosystems writes: The truth is this: Google destroyed the RSS feed reader ecosystem with a subsidized product, stifling its competitors and killing innovation. Erhem, see also: Amazon → book stores Amazon → music stores Amazon → video stores Starbucks → coffee shops Best Buy → Appliance stores Home Depot → Hardware stores Luxottica → Eyewear LVMH → Luxury goods Follow the author as @hiltmon on Twitter and @hiltmon on App.
Backup Your Online Life
The big tech news today is that Google is shutting down its Reader RSS Sync service, and my Twitter and App.Net feeds are full of people upset about it. I’m not because I planned for it. Free web service shutdowns have happened before and free web service shutdowns will happen again (with apologies to Pythia). So I regularly backup my online life. (Links to do so are below.) By now, we’ve all been on the Internet long enough to know that everything changes, frequently.
Guessing the Wall Street Journal Agenda for Apple
I’m not a subscriber to the Wall Street Journal, but I have noted the past few months that the WSJ seems to issue regular negative news, no, opinions, no, rumors, no, rubbish on Apple. So I ran a test, I Googled wsj apple. Here are the headlines that came up. I only read the blurb because the content is behind a paywall, and so include my guess as to what I expect would be in the article (and know wasn’t):
Sharing Bash Profiles across Computers
If you use more than one computer, keeping your dotfiles in sync is difficult. You either need to run a sync program like ChronoSync or set up your own rsync scripts. And then remember to run them. I’m lazy, I just want it to work. So here is a lightweight way to share your key dotfiles across computers using Dropbox. Create a folder in Dropbox called Scripts and save your dotfiles there:
Better Bash Shell Expansion
I’ve been doing a lot of work on TextMate 2 plugins recently and the way shell expansion works in the terminal has been annoying me. Here are some tips to speed up access to the Application Support folder, create case insensitive tab completions, reduce typing to cd to common folders and to reuse the TAB key for additional completions. Getting to Application Support The TextMate bundles I am working on are hidden in the Library → Application Support Folder.