Links for Wednesday April 13th, 2011
Valve details PS3 Steam, and why Sony has best Portal 2 release: Ben Kuchera on the effects of the Valve/Sony tie-up:
"Getting what amounts to two copies of the game for the price of one is a neat bonus, and I know more than one gamer who is planning on getting the PS3 version instead of the PC version. Heck, he considers it getting the console version for free." This is exactly what I'm doing. I pre-ordered Portal 2 for PS3, but I plan to play on my Mac.
The Sound of 1,700 Jaws Dropping: Some first impressions of this summer's Final Cut Pro X.
Why Apple investors shouldn't sweat Android: Great stuff from Andy Zaky:
"Google will probably report about $6.5 billion in total revenue when it releases its first quarter results later this week. Apple's iPhone alone will very likely eclipse $11 billion for the March quarter. For 2011, Google is expected to report about $27 billion on the top line compared to the iPhone's expected $48.2 billion in revenue. The iPhone as a business is nearly twice the size of Google's entire operation."
The size of Apple's iPhone business is truly staggering.
Mobile device OS upgrades: How hard can it be?: Astute analysis (as always) from Horace Dediu:
"The problem of upgrade failure is a symptom of a deeper dysfunction inherent in immature modular business architectures. It’s not just that the brightest at Microsoft or Nokia or Google can’t make an upgrade stick. It’s that the upgrade is not universally beneficial to the value chain."
Of the many things that I love about my iPhone, frequent software upgrades is up there near the top.