Mark Pilgrim is just great:

There are not hordes of fed-up consumers rejecting Apple’s vision of cryptographic lock-in. There are not mass graves where people ceremoniously dump their crippled, non-general-purpose computing devices. Outside of Planet Debian and my own personal echo chamber, nobody gives a shit about Freedom 0.
You knew this, of course, but I just wanted to let you know that I knew, too.

Just to ensure nobody accuses me of being an Apple fanboy: Apple is just as “evil” as Microsoft, or Google, or any other large corporation. For me personally, it’s just that it isn’t evil enough yet to outweigh the advantages.

Of course I got an iPhone pretty much immediately after it was released in Germany — and the quick review is: I love it.

There are lots of silly and annoying things: no cut&paste, no iChat (only a text message app that looks like it), no way to use the iPhone to get my laptop online, no way to sync without a cable (despite having Bluetooth), no way to search emails or contacts, no GPS, no way to use SMTP over SSL without an official certificate, no way to store passwords (including those for T-Mobile’s hotspots, which is just ridiculous) …

All of this doesn’t change my opinion for a second: I’ve owned, among others, pretty much every Nokia Communicator, an MDA and various other gadgets — this is by far the best UI, the first time I have really usable email, brilliant no-hassle headset integration, perfect synchronization (at least with a Mac), in summary: without a doubt the best smartphone in existence. If you have any chance, go get one.

John Siracusa has written the mother of all Leopard reviews.

Apparently, “it costs between $1200 and $1500 to 24kt gold plate a MacBook Pro”. What’s not to like? ;-)

So, I got myself one of these nice little Apple devices … only to find out that my primary reason for buying it, being able to synchronize with multiple Macs in my house, is not supported. There’s absolutely zero logical reasons for this, the only explanation is that someone at Apple must have felt that customers would miss something if a device does not piss them off due to some DRM-related restriction.

Unbelievable (emphasis mine):

Apple has succeeded in committing European mobile phone operators that want exclusively to sell its new iPhone to share parts of their revenues with the technology group.

The contract, which was signed by three European mobile operators in recent days, requires that the operators hand over to Apple 10 per cent of the revenues made from calls and data transfers by customers over iPhones. The contract was signed by T-Mobile of Germany, Orange of France and O2 in the UK.

Tim Burks, author of RubyObjC:

Nu […] is the name I chose for a project that relates a different C to a different lambda. Nu is a new programming language that binds the expressive power of Lisp to the pervasiveness and machine-level efficiency of C by building on the power and flexibility of Objective-C.

No samples and no download yet, unfortunately, but apparently coming within the next few days.

Watch this video about using the iPhone keyboard … if all other features are as neat, and everything works as advertised, I have zero doubts this is going to be a huge hit.

This thing is going to sell like crazy.

John Gruber has an excellent list of resources on the topic.