links for 2008-10-24

yup, we'll have a lot more on this. you heard it here last!

that is sort of incredible

Blizzard's review of the G1

"Developers will get 70% of the revenue from each purchase; the remaining amount goes to carriers and billing settlement fees — Google does not take a percentage. We believe this revenue model creates a fair and positive experience for users, developers, and carriers," notes Eric Chu." – good

"Although applications are one of the most exciting things about Android-powered mobile phones, Google didn't manage to provide an auto-update mechanism for applications and you can only install applications on the phone's internal memory." – bad. no auto-update? really?

"This may well be true, but it could prove a bit of a set-back (if short-term) to MySQL, or rather to Sun, and arguably makes the company's job harder to monetize MySQL" – i disagree. in spite of their shared heritage, Drizzle and MySQL are fundamentally different projects. aside from the fact that Drizzle is not now and won't be for some time production ready, they are aimed at very different markets and opportunities.