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The Great Smartphone War: Apple vs. Samsung | Vanity Fair

One day in March 2011, cars carrying investigators from Korea’s anti-trust regulator pulled up outside a Samsung facility in Suwon, about 25 miles south of Seoul. They were there ready to raid the building, looking for evidence of possible collusion between the company and wireless operators to fix the prices of mobile phones.

Before the investigators could get inside, security guards approached and refused to let them through the door. A standoff ensued, and the investigators called the police, who finally got them inside after a 30-minute delay. Curious about what had been happening in the plant as they cooled their heels outside, the officials seized video from internal security cameras. What they saw was almost beyond belief.

Upon getting word that investigators were outside, employees at the plant began destroying documents and switching computers, replacing the ones that were being used — and might have damaging material on them — with others.

A year later, Korean newspapers reported that the government had fined Samsung for obstructing the investigation at the facility. At the time, a legal team representing Apple was in Seoul to take depositions in the Samsung case, and they read about the standoff. From what they heard, one of the Samsung employees there had even swallowed documents before the investigators were allowed in. That certainly didn’t bode well for Apple’s case; how, the Apple lawyers said half-jokingly among themselves, could they possibly compete in a legal forum with employees who were so loyal to the company that they were willing to eat incriminating evidence?

I've often wondered how and when we're going to have home security systems that are a bit more complex than a metal key ((Then again, it's a testament to the general "goodness" of people that we really only protect ourselves and our "stuff" with simple metal keys.)). After all, they're not exactly difficult to defeat - they can be picked, keys can be lost or easily stolen and copied, etc.

But what's the alternative? How about… this: Kwikset Kevo Single Cylinder Satin Nickel Bluetooth Enabled Deadbolt for iPhone 4S, 5, 5C, 5S and Included FOB-925 KEVO DB 15 at The Home Depot?

So… rather than using a metal key (which comes with the system), you need to have a big key fob or your charged phone in the vicinity. And hope that the batteries haven't died in either. And hope that nobody has Bluejacked you. And that you can pair your phone, and remember to do so when you get a new phone.

Something tells me most people will just… continue to use the metal key.

Wirecutter recommends the G1W Dashcam. Do you have a Dash Cam? How long until cars are coming with them as standard features?

Physicists Detect Gravity Waves, Lifting the Veil on the Beginning of the Universe.

I could have sworn I posted about this before. I guess perhaps not? Fascinating stuff.

A few days ago, Dave and I each leased a 2014 Smart Car Electric Drive from Smart Center Buffalo (the Mercedes-Benz dealership).

We're going to "wrap" the car in advertising, and drive it around whenever we can. It's surprisingly roomy. A golf bag even fits in the back (you have to take the clubs with headcovers off and angle them, but all the irons fit!). The front seating feels quite spacious fore and aft (the car is only 5'1" wide so there's not a lot of room between the seats). The car goes about 70 miles on a charge (which costs about $1.25) and goes 75+ MPH. I've driven it on I-90 back from Buffalo, NY, and it performed admirably.

It's quite fun to drive, too, and inexpensive. Even with conservative numbers and just factoring in gas savings and not depreciation, I will only be spending about $40/month to advertise with this thing… and it should be effective advertising, as everyone looks at the car when we're driving it somewhere.

P.S. Advertising for Golf Evolution.

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99.9% sure that article is a complete farce, though.

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Apple - Press Info - Apple Leadership - Angela Ahrendts. She can't do worse than the last guy…

Also, this is cool: Parallax Scrolling.

Wow. That's about $30k/year if you work full-time.

• Introducing Pop, the animation engine behind Paper (Facebook)
• BASIC turns 50 (50!)
• The Origin of Smalltalk’s Select, Reject, and Inject
• The absurdity of LinkedIn
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Funny:

Booing practice: Robinson Cano stuns Yankees fans who heckle on 'Tonight Show'

PulpFiction was great. Cyndicate was even better.

But now neither are really no more, and it's only a matter of time before Cyndicate stops working.

That will be a sad day for at least two or three people. Namely myself, Brad, and one other person I know who loves Cyndicate.

I love how feeds are sorted by their content, not the blog from which they came. I could probably manage a similar thing in other blog readers if I use smart folders or something, but that seems like a bit of a weird approach and that the individual blog feeds are always being thrust in your face as "how you're supposed to use this app."

I've heard good things about ReadKit. And of course NetNewsWire is still out there.

NetNewsWire (I just tried a recent one) still screws this up. It sorts feeds into folders, but doesn't show you the contents of the folders when you select them. Seriously… So does ReadKit work this way? Because this way sucks, TBH. Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't seem to be…

This is a particularly bad example: Car UI.

It's not news that Apple's CarPlay is re-igniting the discussion about just how bad the UX is in most modern vehicles.

A friend of mine works on the UX for Tesla, though, and if I had to choose a car with the best UX, it may be one of those bad boys.

Apple and Nike are gearing up for a big announcement this fall? I dunno. Tempted to say "I'll pass."