“Apple Now Lets You Preview iPhone Apps In Your Browser”

To see this for yourself, open any direct link to an iPhone app in your favorite Web browser. You’ll notice that instead of only throwing up a dialog box prompting you to confirm that you wish to launch iTunes on your desktop, you’ll see a nice page with the app logo, price, description, screenshots, rating, reviews and more in a new window or tab.

That would be important news if the page didn’t still launch iTunes without asking if it isn’t running. Fix this.

“Rumor: Apple Has Another Tablet In The Works. More Like A Mac Than An iPhone.”

I guess I’m impressed that it took all of four days for the wishful thinking to come back full-speed. To be clear: there’s absolutely no doubt that multitouch Macs are in the future (and in Apple’s labs), because everything is going to get multitouch soon enough. But Steve is way too proud of his iPad to let another tablet blur the message gospel anytime soon.

The earliest time a multitouch Mac could be announced is next year’s WWDC.

“All The Many Ways Amazon So Very Failed the Weekend”

I honestly can’t figure out how any of this happened. Also interesting, I read yesterday that Amazon’s new offer to publishers, their incentive for lowering the prices on the Kindle, involved the book publishers not just distributing their e-books through the store, but sub-licensing the publishing itself to Amazon, so that the original publisher all but disappeared from the equation, not even controlling the prices at all anymore. (There’s a difference between agreeing, by contract, that the Kindle version of a book will never be more expensive than other versions, and letting Amazon set the day-to-day price.)

I can understand why that would be tempting for Amazon, but in both of those instances they’re very clearly falling into abuse of dominant position, and not the morally defensible kind (if there’s ever been such a thing).

“iPad frame leak shows webcam-sized gap”

It seems unlikely that Apple will add a new feature to the first-gen iPad before it has even launched, at least not when it comes to hardware, leaving the possibility that they plan a second-generation version using the same frame assembly. Of course, we’ll have to wait for the inevitable teardown post-release to know what’s inside for sure.

It’s absurd to think that Apple, with their state-of-the-art aluminum-milling factories they’re so proud of, would need or want or have any reason whatsoever to plan ahead some space for the iPad 2’s webcam components.

There’s still a minuscule chance that the video-conferencing reveal would be “one more thing” on the March keynote, but it’s more likely that removing the iSight (from all models, even the wifi ones, so that the more expensive model doesn’t looked gimped) was AT&T’s condition for that advantageous contract-free data plan.