At Macworld, when I asked Mr. Jobs about the idea of an iPod Touch in a larger “Safari Pad” format, he snapped at me, “I can’t talk about unannounced products.”

[From Reading Steve Jobs - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog]

Oh please. Please. Take my money.

“The 20th century was about sorting out supply,” Potter says. “The 21st is going to be about sorting out demand.”

[From This Psychologist Might Outsmart the Math Brains Competing for the Netflix Prize]

I find this brilliant. Most of the tools we learn at the MBA come from the supply side: Quality in Production, Supply Chain Management, and even Marketing Research is done consumer facing attitude. Makes sense to me that it’s time to turn the tables.

By using a blog format I force myself extract more out of the news item or website I’m pointing at.

Now we know there are no secret features. And now we know that OS X is as mature an OS as is Windows and, in the end, there’s really just not much you can do beyond the evolutionary stuff. (via:tuaw.com)

the first thing Leopard’s new desktop made you think about was this: How do I get rid of that ridiculous semi-transparent look of the menu bar?

Look no further (manytricks.com/via:tuaw.com)

Still need to do something about that Dock though.

Not much is known, but from a post on their blog I think it’s likely that the big feature is going to be Flash support. Which I agree it’s huge. Think youtube, games, and even apps, right on your phone.

Update: Ars reports that Opera is working on a Flash “replacement” for their mobile browser, but:

Opera has not commented on whether or not the new native playback ability for Opera Mobile will be able to play existing Flash content.

It should at least provide limited compatibility. If not, it won’t be able to survive.

So let’s recap the keynote for the main 5 audiences:

• Consumers Like You and Me: Nice to see the Greatest Hits again, but give me something new and shiny!
• Wall Street: Nothing new to sell. Down 3 1/2%!
• Media: “Apple Brings Safari to Windows!” (So easily distracted)
• Mac OS developers in the Room: No iPhone for us, but at least we don’t have to redo our work for some super secret feature set.
• Web Application Developers: Whoo-hoo. It’s our world now, baby!

• Apple generally believes that the goal of the algorithm should be to preserve the design of the typeface as much as possible, even at the cost of a little bit of blurriness.
• Microsoft generally believes that the shape of each letter should be hammered into pixel boundaries to prevent blur and improve readability, even at the cost of not being true to the typeface. (joelonsoftware.com)

I prefer how fonts look on Windows. Please don’t tell anybody.

Overall, it’s hard to find a compelling reason to like or to dislike the beta version of Safari 3. And without a compelling reason to switch, most Firefox and IE users won’t. (wired.com)

    Also, they are willingly joining the security chaos big-leagues.

Within hours of Apple’s public release of the beta for Safari 3.0 for Windows, three security researchers independently found holes within the new browser.(news.com/via:daringfireball.net)

    But this has little to do with the desktop. It has more to do with website compatibility with the iPhone.