Links for Monday July 30^th, 2012

• Seven Days With a Nexus 7: Interesting perspective of Google's new Nexus 7, from Stephen O'Grady.

• Review: The iPhone on Straight Talk: I am mighty tempted by some of these new pre-paid iPhone carriers, but I was totally ignorant of Wal-Mart's "Straight Talk" service, which apparently just re-sells AT&T. While I'm not a huge fan of the level of service that AT&T provides in San Francisco, being able to dramatically lower my bill might at least take some of the sting out of having my iPhone on their service...

• OS X Mountain Lion Downloaded 3 Million Times in Four Days: That sounds pretty good to me. So far, some install woes on one Mac aside, I'm really enjoying Mountain Lion.

• Apple design chief: 'Our goal isn't to make money': A nice, short interview with Jonathan Ive. Includes gems like this:

  "His [Steve Jobs] observation was that the products weren’t good enough and his resolve was we need to make better products. That stood in stark contrast to the previous attempts to turn the company around.”

  Good advice for Marissa Mayer, no?

• Twitter's Opulent New Offices: Exclusive Micro-Tour and Photos: A short little article about the new Twitter office in San Francisco.

• New purported next-generation iPhone parts photos show fully assembled device: While I don't have any insider knowledge, these photos appear to be both non-photoshopped and plausible. But my guess is that we'll know more in October.