There is now `[UIDevice identifierForVendor]`.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/uikit/...

This is one thing I like about Safari. When you open a new tab it won't start playing the video until you select it.

Makes me wonder if Microsoft would ever consider releasing IE for Mac OS X again. That would seem to be a good way to make sure Mac Developers target IE...

That's good in theory, but in practice it would likely be another browser/platform to test and debug.

AFAIK the last version was based on Tasman not Trident.

I'm a little jealous of the CSS Color Plugin. Wish TextMate had something like that.

I'm somewhat glad I never had to use cassette tapes for storage.

Why? They only look slow and difficult looking backwards.

If you'd lived through the use of them you'd know that it was incredibly cool to be able to save multiple programs on a small, portable medium and just find the program you are looking for by fast forwarding to the right position on the tape based on the counter.

Also, tape was incredibly easy to get because it was the same stuff you used to record music. It was not hard to obtain; any music shop or even stationer had it.

And it turns out it was very robust: http://blog.jgc.org/2009/08/in-which-i-switch-on-30-year-old...

Yep; tape was the cheapest, easiest thing there was. You didn't have to buy any extra stuff. Like sd cards are now for music/pics/vids/computers. It was slow but I had fun.

Waiting for things also makes it more special/valuable; instant gratification is definitely not what it's cracked up to be in most cases; buying games is definitely one of those things. When I buy some instant games for my Android devices is one of them; they appear instantly, you try them and discard mostly. When you have to wait 15 min and have a good chance your computer will crash during the ordeal so you'll have to wait another 15 min you'll feel it has more value for your money for some reason. You would play games which suck for weeks/months because they take effort to load and get going. Not sure if that's different now with Linux; when you cannot get something going because you have to build it and ./configure; make; make install has errors; if, after a week of messing around, you get it going, you'll bloody play/use it, no matter what it turns out to be.

Well SD cards these days are kind of a replacement for cassettes. Cameras use them, camcorders use them, phones use them, computers use them, tablets use them, some cards can use them. An SD card isn't limited to one device, similar to how a cassette found its home in the recording studio, the car, the home, and the computer.

Yep, that was my point :)

Ah, I guess I misunderstood. Apologies.

Also, you can broadcast programs over normal FM radio and have people record it on their cassette players.

"stationer" - place to buy office supplies before Staples/OfficeMax/OfficeDepot.

And who would every think back then that one day you would able to buy supplies for computers in the same place you had prescriptions filled?

I remember very distinctly how cool it was to work on a CRT at the computer center (they had ditched the teletypes a few years before). You could sit there for hours on end and still have a good time with a green cursor on a VT100 with no windowing. And in the next room was the mainframes which you could see from practically any seat (Wharton Computer Center, Vance Hall)

On the old teletypes if you made a recording of the modem chatter and played it back into the modem coupler (300 baud) it printing out the entire conversation. (I did this.)

Interesting that the tablet on the lower left is an iPad.

Uh, no it isn't. I guess you buy into the belief that Apple has trademarked the black square with a screen tablet.

Actually, it's not just any tablet.. It's actually an iPad with safari browser open. Look at the image without the overlay (http://www.themobileplaybook.com/assets/images/cover_tablet....)

Better safe than sorry? I agree with you, but maybe Transamerica Corporation's legal department would think it's too close to their ads and such (huge stretch though).

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." -Henry Ford

And, showing that the more things change, the more they stay the same, half a century later:

"It’s not the consumers’ job to figure out what they want." Steve Jobs

"Windows Everywhere" is a bad strategy for Microsoft. I still don't think Windows Phone 7 was a good name. Why didn't they just go with Microsoft Phone or something?

I believe that kind of misperception happens when you ask your employees the important questions rather than asking your competition's customers.

I have to disagree. You think Apple polled Windows Mobile users what to call the iPhone?

No, but Apple has Steve Jobs. Microsoft has Ballmer.

There is a difference. ;-)

But the name of the iPod originally came from a freelance marketing guy, not Jobs himself. After the success of the iPod, the iPhone name was pretty easy. With that said they could have called it the Apple Phone and probably not lost a sale.

"Good artists copy, great artists steal."

-Picasso

Jobs is an artist. Ballmer isn't.

Since the iMac is a Mac, the iPod is not a pod, it seems the name "iPhone" shares more with the iMac than the iPod.

Microsoft's product problems are not that related to naming.

xPhone would have been nice, reminding people that they also created something as cutting edge as XBox which gave Sony and Nintendo a serious run for their money.

That would just remind people of the iPhone every time they mention an xPhone.

Which reminds me, Apple doesn't sell an iBox.

Zune Phone would have been better than that horrible WP7 name.

CE=Communicate Everywhere, was not a good name either

5by5's shows: The Talk Show, Hypocritical, Build and Analyze.

http://5by5.tv/

Back to Work (http://5by5.tv/b2w) is one of my favorites too. It's not tech-centric, but offers some fantastic insight into life outside of the text editor. And if you're lucky, Merlin might do a Dr. Phil impression.

I think it's actually hypercritical, but I like your name better :)

For the OP (and HN readers in general), I recommend Founders Talk - http://5by5.tv/founderstalk. But make sure to check the list of all the shows - http://5by5.tv/broadcasts - lots of good ones.

5by5's shows are great live as well. They keep a backchannel open on IRC at #5by5 that has a fairly regular crew. Dan's an excellent host in that he's adept at skimming the backchannel for direction and relevant items.

I realise that Gruber gets a load of bashing on HN of late. But I love The Talk Show. It hits just the right not of apple, tech, film and schoolboy sniggering.

I especially like the schoolboy sniggering.

I like his site, but he has a lethargic demeanour on podcasts.

The Pipeline is another good 5by5.tv show. It's just interviews made by Dan Benjamin, different people each episode, but it's usually great!

Looks like they have a bunch of great shows I look forward to exploring.