Good News, Bad News

 Good News:

MLB At Bat app for iPhone

  Now that Olympic Curling has come and gone, the Lakers have things well in hand, and there are 32 days until the Major League Baseball season opener, it's time to get this fantastic app for your iPhone or iPod Touch.  Yes, it's more expensive this year, $15, but it was a steal last year at $10.  For $15 you get every regular season game (geographical blackouts excepted) live with streaming video, audio, stats, news, and push notifications.  It is without a doubt the best example of an excellent iPhone OS app I could think of.  

Bad News:

Apple sues HTC over everything

  Apple is suing HTC, a leading smartphone manufacturer, for 20 patent infringements.  This is the idiotic result of a terribly broken patent system and Apple not having the class and dignity to let their competitors compete.  

Good News:

 Virgin America moves to HTML5

   This is excellent news because it shows that you can move to an open standards based platform and still compete.  It's also good news because it means I'm still right to think that Adobe Flash is the bane of the internet.   

Bad News:

We're Doomed

"I studied journalism, my college degree there in communications. And now I am back there wanting to build some trust back in our media. I think the mainstream media is quite broken and I think there needs to be the fairness, the balance in there — that’s why I joined Fox. Fair and balanced, yes. You know because, Jay, those years a go that I studied journalism it was all about the who, what, when, where, and why, it was not so much the opinion interjected in hard news stories," - FNC pundit Sarah Palin.

Hat Tip to Andrew Sullivan for catching this one.

Good News:

Valve cleverly announces Steam for Mac...maybe more?

The one downside to using OS X is that many quality game manufacturers have long refused to build their games to run on both Windows and OS X.  The reasons for this are many and they mostly have to do with Windows having the marketshare that it does.  However, as Apple's marketshare continues to rise, these game developers are throwing away larger and larger pieces of potential profit by ignoring OS X.  Well, it looks like Valve, perhaps the second greatest game developer of all time, will be making an announcement soon regarding their future on the OS X platform.  Call me giddy.  

Good News/Bad News:

USPS to end Saturday delivery

Hard to quantify this as anything other than something they should have done nearly a decade ago.  In fact, as soon as we all decided that this internet thing was here to stay, they should have dramatically overhauled their services.  So much correspondence, and more importantly, advertising spam, has been replaced by e-mails that it's not at all surprising this institution is losing money.  The bad part is, it's hard to see how any of the jobs that will inevitably be lost are going to be easily replaced.