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Nilay Patel in breaking down the important Mac App Store rules for non-developers has this little quip:

Seriously, we can’t wait to see what happens when Adobe and Microsoft submit their application suites to this store.

He can’t wait because both app suites have notoriously buggy programs in them (Word, Photoshop). It certainly will be interesting if Microsoft and Adobe even bother submitting. Though I can’t see how Microsoft would be OK with Apple’s Pages being in the store and not Word. Likewise for Photoshop and Pixelmator.

Should be interesting to see how Apple deals with upgrades in the Mac app store. The demos/trials part though is less interesting as I would assume it will work just like the iOS App Store where people will have ‘lite’ versions of the app that is free if they really want to get a demo software in there.

I guess Apple decided to help everyone out and not make then have to install Click2Flash – instead they just ship the new MacBook Airs without Flash. I bet Adobe is pissed. I wonder if this is the direction Apple will take moving forward with 10.7 Lion?

Go download your beta for the Mac now.

[Updated: 10/20/10 at 1:33 PM] It will also ring your Mac even when the program is closed – most excellent.

I watched the last iOS event with Apple’s live streaming and it is quite impressive.

MG Siegler on Microsoft’s statement that perhaps the iPhone 4 is Apple’s Windows Vista moment:

Total sales for Windows Phone 7 last quarter? Approximately 14.1 million less than the iPhone, Apple’s “Vista”.

Frasier Speirs:

In class, we are seeing greater collaboration and sharing with iPad. The design of iPad directly lends itself to working together and collaborating – even without specific software support for networked collaboration. The iPad can be handed over to another pupil, turned around to show results and quickly connected to a classroom projector to share work with the entire class.

It sounds like this iPad deployment is a huge success, it will be interesting to see if this takes off at all with other schools (I am thinking mainly U.S. public school systems). Google would be smart to start running trials with Android here in the U.S., hell it would be smart for HP and Apple to do it as well.

Rhett Allain on whether the Blue Angry Bird is more powerful if you expand it to the three little birds:

Therefore, you will have more of an effect if you expand the blue bird before it hits something. There is unlikely to be a situation where you would be better off not expanding them.

In all honesty this is a question that I had been wondering about.

Now with a 100% more iPad support. Free upgrade for Yojimbo 2 users and $20 upgrade for older users. iPad support is read only for now (hoping for more later) and the app costs $9.99 for the iPad. Very nice.

Jobs was very frisky on the call, luckily Macworld did something about Macs and transcribed the call. Good job Macworld. It is well worth the read.

Steve Jobs according to Mac Rumors:

There are clear limits to how close elements can be on the screen before users can’t touch accurately. We believe 10-inch screen is minimum necessary.

I called that.

I could not agree more, Sam Grobart received an email with a 15 line email signature. Not only have I received similar but think about all those you get with image attachments for company logos and huge legal disclaimers at the bottom. Annoying to say the least.

If you get an email from me there are two options:

1. -Ben
2. -Ben
   https://brooksreview.net

I know I shouldn’t include the URL but I do that occasionally for people that I think may not know about the site so that they can see who I am with one click.

Who needs 15 lines?

I have never understood why Apple didn’t license the Magsafe technology from day one. Think about how awesome the Magsafe system is and how much potential revenue they could make by licensing it to companies like Sony/Dell/HP. I always thought that HyperMac may get into trouble over what they were doing – but it really is a shame Apple needs to license this technology (patent really).