Everything you need to know about the settlement.

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It makes sense for Samsung — the money is in the mobile markets and with the exception of the Mac Pro, nobody has really innovated in the desktop space in a long time.

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Apple owns the future of mobile devices, not because it has erected a near monopoly market position protected by major barriers to entry like IBM in 1970s or Microsoft’s DOS and Windows in the 80s and 90s or Google’s search and Adobe’s Flash in the 2000s; Apple sells its products within a very diverse and openly competitive market and maintains minority unit market share in smartphones.

It just happens that Apple is making the vast majority of all the profits in mobile hardware, software, media and services. And the mobile segment happens to have much brighter prospects than the rest of the consumer technology market, particularly WinTel PCs.

Very well thought out and lengthy article from Daniel Eran Dilger.

“Yeah I’m here for Microsoft,” said Elizabeth Goodrich, before coming clean. “No I’m here for Weezer, I’m a huge fan.

“But I’ll look around – who knows?”

Because that’s exactly how you want your customers to react.

This is a smart article from Austin Sweeney. Where this whole thing is going, and when, is up in the air, but there is no doubt that Apple stumbled into a great gaming device with the iPod touch. The big question for me is will it be easier for the console makers to convince the public they have an entertainment device or for Apple to convince the gamers they have a gaming device? The next couple of years are going to be very interesting.

Here’s a good summary.

Whether you liked the tone or not, there were some great players and engineers experimenting in the 1980s that came up with some great tricks.

Eric E. Anderson:

Dumping a bunch of stuff into a sidebar doesn’t make you a blogger. Nor does it make your website more useful.

Anderson brings up some good points. I’ve tried to keep the information in the sidebar on The Loop very minimal, but there’s still more than what I’d like. This is the next project I’ll be tackling with The Loop’s design.

A lot of people are probably going through this same type of thinking. Of course, there are others that will just grab the Mac Pro as soon as it’s released.

The more the merrier.

I have been very impressed with the last few releases of Pro Tools and been using it almost exclusively for recording and audio editing. Pro Tools 11 carries on with some great new features.

I know this may sound silly, but one of my favorite new features is Offline Bounce. In previous versions of Pro Tools, bouncing a track would require the entire track to play in real-time. Offline Bounce outputs the track many times faster than real-time, saving time for the whole project.

It’s hard to say that bouncing is the biggest feature. Pro Tools 11 is also 64-bit and comes with an all new audio engine.

There’s a lot to like about Pro Tools 11. I’ll have a review after I get a copy.

Gizmodo:

it’s hard to imagine that iconic landmarks like the Golden Gate Bridge or the Empire State Building ever didn’t exist. In the same way we take these buildings and bridges for granted, we also rarely consider what cities were like before—or during—their construction.

These kinds of photos always fascinate me.

The Committee intends for future stock awards to Apple executives officers to be performance-based and Cook will lead by example. However, though normal performance-based compensation normally has both an upside and downside, at his request, Cook’s award will solely have a downside component.

That is a leader.

Holy shit this looks good. The movie will be in theaters on August 16, 2013.

Basically there is no fragmentation.

Good list from Dave Mark. So I guess you know one article that will be in the next issue of The Loop Magazine.

It’s funny to watch a Google employee try to tear Gruber down, especially when he totally misses the points Gruber was making.

This is just disturbing. He better hope he never comes around my daughter.

Clearly they did.

This utility has been around as long as I have.

We have some great articles in The Loop Magazine Issue 4, including a story from Greg Howard about some time he spent on the road with Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes.

Brad McCarty talks about our unending thirst for technology; Steven Aquino looks at Accessibility and how it affects him; Dermot Daly on his first computer; Joe Rossignol talks about how sci-fi thoughts of how the world would work have become reality; and David Caolo talks about his first band and doing things for the love of it.

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Wired:

Look, the Internet is made of fast. You go fast or you die. But lost in the Clouds of bullshit and hype there’s this true thing: The internet is a technology that can connect us instantaneously to all sorts of information. That instant access lets us learn and connect and transact in entirely new ways.This is the story of how how a tiny team took 90 days to pull off the impossible.

It will be interesting to see if Digg can pull it off.

The maker of the popular Firefox browser is moving ahead with plans to block the most common forms of Internet tracking, allowing hundreds of millions of users to eventually limit who watches their movements across the Web, company officials said Wednesday.

Firefox’s developers made the decision despite intense resistance from advertising groups, which have argued that tracking is essential to delivering well-targeted, lucrative ads that pay for many popular Internet services.

It should be the user’s decision. If they don’t mind, fine.

The Loop Magazine has been updated fixing a few items for users. Among the biggest changes is a fix for some international users that saw the app crash on launch; Issues and cover art will now download in the back; accessibility features have updated; and a number of performance improvements were made.

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Nobody touches my man roses.