To avoid publicity and possible rival bids, Apple in some cases has offered a target only a three-hour period in which to accept the terms of a sale, according to one executive with knowledge of the situation.
Once bitten, twice shy.
Also telling:
Counting long-term investments that the company can "liquidate in a day," Apple had $41.7 billion in cash at the end of the last quarter, Broadpoint’s Marshall said. In comparison, Google had about $26.5 billion, he said.
I doubt Apple will be letting Google walk away with one of their acquisition targets so easily in the future.
via Bloomberg.
I just said to Tracy "I'm going to read my book" and picked up my Kindle.
I don't think I'd ever say that about an iPad – even if the reading experience was superior – because an iPad will always be a computer first; everything else is secondary. The Kindle was designed to replace books, not let you read books, watch movies, listen to music, browse the web and play games.
If you're building a single-purpose device there shouldn't be any compromises with the design, and the overall experience while using it for its sole task should always be more enjoyable than with a multipurpose competitor.
I don't want my Kindle to do more, I just want it to be better at what it already does.
A couple weeks ago I announced my intent to codename all my future projects after Steven Seagal movies.
My first Seagal-themed project is off to a roaring start, and I built a custom DMG packaging script purely so I could force the beta testers to look at Seagal's (self described?) "striking and somewhat boyishly handsome" mug while they rush to install the latest build of my project.
Beta testers, this is what you have to look forward to for the next release!
Since OS X 10.5 a command called PlistBuddy has been available.
It's useful for things like extracting the version number out of your Info.plist during a Run Script Build Phase.
PlistBuddy wasn't in my existing path, I found it at /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy
Example Usage
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print :CFBundleVersion" Info.plist
Outputs: 0.14, or whatever the value of the CFBundleVersion key in Info.plist is.
