> In order to gift an app, just click the triangle next to any app’s price and choose Gift This App (naturally, you can’t gift free apps). That’ll get you a form you can fill out with your name and e-mail, the recipient’s name and e-mail, and, if you’d like, a personal message. Heck, if you want, you can gift the same app to multiple people by entering several e-mail addresses; you’ll be billed the purchase cost of the app per address. You can either…

Hence the patent suit against HTC. That’s all about Google — about creating a situation where Android is no longer a free operating system for handset makers in the U.S., because the cost of using it is an expensive legal defense against Apple. via daringfireball.net Wow. That quote from Gruber makes so much sense. That’s why you sue HTC, not Google. Google might give away its operating system for free, but if it ends up costing millions in legal fees, maybe Microsoft’s licensing is a better…

> If we could have launched at Verizon prior to the Droid, I think we would have gotten the attention the Droid got. And since I believe we have a better product, I think we could have even done better,” said Jon Rubinstein, Palm’s CEO. via [macworld.com](http://www.macworld.com/article/147227/2010/03/palm.html?lsrc=rss_main)I agree with half of this statement. Palm definitely has the better product. But I don’t think an earlier release would have given Palm the “success” the Droid…

Windows then, Android now. That the latter is open source may be technically interesting but strategically insignificant. (via counternotions.com) Anti-Google sentiment may finally start picking up steam in the main stream tech press, if many of the stories I’ve been seeing about the Nexus One flop are any indication. It’s about time. Counternotions, of course, has never drunk the Kool Aid on Google. This article is a great read, and sums up my feelings on Tim Bray’s quotes from earlier this week perfectly. The whole thing…

> This week Peter Kafka with *MediaMemo* revealed that both NPR and the *Journal* will convert at least [some portions](http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20100315/for-npr-the-ipad-means-a-new-app-and-a-new-web-site/) of their Web site to load properly on the iPad. The custom-built sites will feature the same content and run concurrently with the traditional and iPhone/mobile-friendly versions of each Web site. > > “Visitors to the newspaper’s front page will see an iPad-specific, Flash-free page,” Kafka said of the *Journal’s* iPad Web site. “But those who click deeper into the site will eventually find…