The Zunpocalypse Has Arrived! - A.k.a. all 30GB Microsoft Zune music players died last night around midnight Pacific time. And no, it's not a joke. A friend who bought a Zune super cheap on Woot emailed me this morning telling me of his Zune's demise.
Bold moves from the Python team: Py3K - Not only is 3.0 incompatible with prior versions, but performance from the changes is also marginally slower in this initial release. Now's the time to attempt a shift, though, particularly with "competing" languages stagnating.
David Pogue’s Readers Respond to his NYT Review of the Blackberry Storm - I nearly shot coffee out my nose at this one: "The bottom line: BlackBerry has created the Zune of touchscreen phones."
Finally Paid by the iTMS
Though my 99¢ iPhone app continues to be downloaded dozens of times per week, they are spread out through so many different locales that I did not hit the minimum dollar amount to get paid until this month, in the U.S. market. I’m owed at least double this amount, if the other locales were consolidated. I can understand the accounting reasons for Apple working like this, but it sure does feel like a shady way for them to make money, and interest on said money, on earnings that rightfully belong to third party developers.
