Fraser Speirs of Connected Flow (author of FlickrExport and Changes) on the reaction to the iPad Future shock:
I'm often saddened by the infantilising effect of high technology on adults. From being in control of their world, they're thrust back to a childish, mediaeval world in which gremlins appear to torment them and disappear at will and against which magic, spells, and the local witch doctor are their only refuges.
Paul Graham (Wikipedia article) on Apple's Mistake, with a great comparison: What would happen if every update to Mac OS X had to go through an opaque, fickle intermediary?
Manton Reece, developer of Clipstart and Wii Transfer for the Mac, writing on the only two acceptable fixes for the iPhone App Store, boils down the iPhone problems to a single sentence:
I want my software to fail because it sucks, or is buggy, or doesn't have the right features, not because Apple can shut me down over a minor difference of opinion.
Joe Hewitt, creator of the iPhone Facebook application and Three20 framework, has moved back to web development. A blog post explains, placing on Apple's App Store process without using so many words. But he makes an observation on how little it means on his way out.
Rogue Amoeba no longer has any plans for additional iPhone applications, following an egregious Apple rejection.
Joshua Kaufman interviews Loren Brichter on Tweetie's reload gesture. A good, non-technical read on finding the right way to present a feature, adding a custom gesture, and providing feedback.
Cocoa With Love (Matt Gallagher): Memory and thread-safe custom property methods
John Siracusa: Ars Technica review of Snow Leopard. Includes a discussion of some of the file system's new tricks and QuickTime X's secrets, which you'll probably never need to know. But don't you want to know?
Wil Shipley (Delicious Monster): Snow Leopard is built for the future. A short overview of what Snow Leopard's new technologies mean from an application developer's perspective.
Matt Gallagher (Cocoa with Love): Adding shadow effects to UITableView using CAGradientLayer. Non-obvious and useful.