Mac App Store: What Do Developers Think?: First feedback that I've seen from Mac developers on Apple's new Mac App Store. It seems like the summary is "cautious optimism".

The new MacBook Air: I'm with Marco — the new MacBook Air appears to fix many of the annoyances from the 1st gen design. The headphone jack and dual USB ports, in particular, look to be much better. It remains to be seen how they perform in real life, however.

Android and Open Source: More from Joe Hewitt on the term "open". I'm not so sure that 100% of the blame for Android's peculiar take on open can be laid at the feet of the carriers. Google has been withholding the Market and Gmail apps in too many situations recently for that to be the case.

Apple Offers a Glimpse of Mac OS X Lion: TidBITS has a good rundown of what Apple showed today about the next version of Mac OS X. But the conclusion seems particularily astute:

"Instead, Apple is aiming these changes in Lion at a special sort of switcher—the iOS user who isn't currently connecting her device to a Mac. Such a person has Windows, but probably doesn't know much about it, and is buying a Mac because she prefers iOS. Given how many millions of iOS devices Apple has sold to date, that has to be a sizable market, and they're already predisposed to like Apple."

Using iOS as the gateway drug to Mac OS X is a pretty interesting idea.

Explained: why a CDMA iPhone needs a SIM slot: Makes sense to me.