Links for Tuesday March 2^nd, 2010

• Apple sues HTC for infringing 20 iPhone patents: This is just a scummy move by Apple.

• Why DRM Doesn’t Work: It's funny because it's true. (via Daring Fireball)

• Scrollback - Instapaper Blog: Instapaper is just so good, and Marco sweating details like this is why.

• iPad Applications: Y-Combinator on iPad applications:

  "Programmers may never want a computer they don't control, but ordinary people just want something cheap that works. And that's how the iPad will seem to them. Many will never make a conscious decision to switch. They'll get an iPad as well, then find they use their Windows machine less and less. When it dies they won't replace it."

  Interesting, and food for thought. (via Daring Fireball)

• NVIDIA's Optimus transforms into smaller ION 2: The best explanation I've seen as to how ION 2 actually works. It seems great to me, and I'd love to see this in something like the HP mini 210.

• iTunes Prize Winner to Steve Jobs: “Yeah Right, Who Is This Really?”: What a great story.