63: Talking to the Bear

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk more about paid upgrades in the Mac App Store, how Apple is reshaping the software market (intentionally or otherwise), Readability's role as a middleman as compared to another prominent middleman, the App Store, and finally, the Flashback malware scourge and what it says about Apple's preparedness.

Links for this episode:

• Performance Driving School - Overview - BMW North America
  
• Strategy Letter V - Joel on Software
  
• Java for OS X Lion 2012-003 - Apple
  
• Apple updates Java for a third time, this time with Flashback malware removal - Ars Technica
  
• The Mac App Store Needs Paid Upgrades - Wil Shipley
  
• Readability
  
• German automotive manufacturing plants - Google Maps
  
• Analyst Expects iPhone 5 to Launch at WWDC 2012 in June - Mac Rumors
  
• Moscone Center Events
  
• WWDC-less WWDC - Rentzsch
  
• Welcome to the Home Page of TALKING-BEAR!
  
• Adobe Photoshop - Wikipedia
  
• QuickPick Pulled From App Store - Rentzsch
  
• Flashback Is Not a Trojan Horse; What Is It? - The Mac Security Blog
  

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