[MyAppleMenu] Aug 29, 2012

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**** Speeding Up Your iOS Workflow ****
<http://ympnow.com/2012/08/28/speeding-your-ios-workflow/>
YMP Now



**** Judge Koh Sets Dec. 6 Hearing On Apple’s Request To Ban Several Samsung Phones ****
<http://allthingsd.com/20120828/judge-koh-sets-dec-6-hearing-on-apples-request-to-ban-several-samsung-phones/>
Ina Fried, All Things D



**** Apple Store May Be Shifting From Customer Experience To Profit Machine ****
<http://arstechnica.com/staff/2012/08/op-ed-apple-store-may-be-shifting-from-customer-experience-to-profit-machine/>
Chris Foresman, Ars Technica


> Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs let his design team come up with great ideas, while Cook's job was to make them profitable by focusing relentlessly on the bottom line. Cook seems to be taking the same approach to retail, with a focus on "revenue and profits, not customers."



**** New Perk Gives Apple Employees 50GB Of iCloud Storage ****
<http://www.macrumors.com/2012/08/28/new-perk-gives-apple-employees-50gb-of-icloud-storage/>
Jordan Golson, MacRumors



**** Apple Releases iTunes Festival App For Apple TV ****
<http://www.macgasm.net/2012/08/28/apple-releases-itunes-festival-app-for-apple-tv/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+macgasm%2Fmain+%28Macgasm%29>
Kaylie Moise, Macgasm


> Apple has released an update for the Apple TV that brings the iTunes Festival directly to your main screen.

> Similar to the Hulu Plus app that was released earlier this month, the iTunes Festival app just appears on the home screen of your Apple TV.



**** How To Be A Genius: This Is Apple’s Secret Employee Training Manual ****
<http://gizmodo.com/5938323/how-to-be-a-genius-this-is-apples-secret-employee-training-manual>
Sam Biddle, Gizmodo


> The manual could easily serve as the Humanity 101 textbook for a robot university, but at Apple, it's an exhaustive manual to understanding customers and making them happy. Sales, it turns out, take a backseat to good vibes—almost the entire volume is dedicated to empathizing, consoling, cheering up, and correcting various Genius Bar confrontations. The assumption, it'd seem, is that a happy customer is a customer who will buy things.



**** Java 1.7 Zero-day Exploit Unlikely To Impact Most Mac Users ****
<http://www.tuaw.com/2012/08/28/java-1-7-zero-day-exploit-unlikely-to-impact-most-mac-users/>
Michael Rose, TUAW


> If you did install the Oracle build and you're concerned about the new exploit, you can disable the Java plugin in each of your browsers individually, or uninstall the beta build entirely.






The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** Half Of All Mobile Phones Will Be Smartphones By 2013, Two Years Earlier Than Forecast ****
<http://allthingsd.com/20120828/half-of-all-mobile-phones-will-be-smartphones-by-2013-two-years-earlier-than-forecast/>
Ina Fried, All Things D






MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** What Do Swedes Think Of The Swedish Chef? ****
<http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/08/swedish_chef_what_do_swedes_think_of_him_they_think_he_sounds_norwegian_.html>
Jeremy Stahl, Slate


> They think he sounds Norwegian. Also, they’d like you to stop asking.






SingaporeSurf
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**** 朱文晖：新加坡已超越香港 ****
<http://news.ifeng.com/opinion/phjd/sh/detail_2012_08/29/17178132_2.shtml>
凤凰卫视


> 但我觉得比较蹊跷的就是，我接触很多年轻的新加坡人，因为见了大约差不多10个，大部分人又不喜欢人民行动党，觉得他们管得太多，管的太久，觉得他们脱离了市民的需求，但是你从新加坡，我听他整个几个部长和李显龙的讲话，我觉得他们对市民的把握比香港的公务员或者我们决策的这些局长们，对经济的把握，对市民的把握，需求的把握要了解的多，因为他毕竟还是有个选举，选举就是必须有自己的选民，天天要接触选民，但我们现在没有这样一种机制，让基层的声音更多反映到决策提议当中去，比如（00：21：24）让官员们去落区，去听听基层的声音，现在搞来搞去，也是变一个形式，现在也搞不下去了，全是抗议的，大喇叭天天在喊，包括我们现在看到，就是现在立法会的选举，我想也是闹的成份多，真正有建设性，怎么样香港更好的发展，这个成份少，所以从这个意义上讲，我是比较担心，就是未来一段时间香港到底应该怎么办，当然我也更关心跟好奇一个事情，假设哪天李显龙被选下去了，跟香港被选下去了，新加坡会怎么样，他的经济奇迹是不是就结束了，这是我比较关心的一个事情，但是我想这个是东亚地区民主所必须经历的代价。



**** Firefly Expansion Hamstrung By Singapore Bottleneck ****
<http://ttgasia.com/article.php?article_id=4297>
TTG Asia


> Firefly CEO, Ignatius Ong, said: “Changi is highly congested, especially in the morning. We are constantly in talks with Changi Airport Group to negotiate for more slots, but for the time being, as far as we know, none are available.”



**** Singapore Sees A Return Of Foreign Buyers ****
<http://www.property-report.com/singapore-sees-a-return-of-foreign-buyers-24470>
Matthew Booth, Property Report



**** Why Income Inequality Is Worse In Singapore Than In US ****
<http://sbr.com.sg/economy/news/why-income-inequality-worse-in-singapore-in-us>
Singapore Business Review


> “According to Boston Consulting Group, Singapore has the highest proportion of households (15½ percent in 2010) with US$1 million or more in liquid assets. On the other hand, incomes of the lowest decile of households stagnated during the previous decade. As a result, the Gini coefficient rose rapidly in the early part of the 2000s,” it said.

> “While it has moderated recently and is somewhat lower once net government benefits and employers’ CPF contributions are included, it remains among the highest in Asia. Singapore’s high degree of openness to trade and labor flows in the context of skill-biased technological change may have contributed to rising income inequality through a skill premium."



**** Thomson Line To Open From 2019 With 22 Stations ****
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1222777/1/.html>
Hetty Musfirah/Dylan Loh, Channel NewsAsia


> Singapore's sixth rail network -- the Thomson Line (TSL) -- will open from 2019, instead of the indicative timeline of 2018 announced in the Land Transport Master Plan.

> Minister for transport Lui Tuck Yew, who gave an update on the Thomson Line on Wednesday, said the change in timeline is to accommodate some adjustments made to the original plan.



**** Singapore To Have New Chief Justice From 6 Nov ****
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1222795/1/.html>
S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia



**** On Being Too Ignorant ****
<http://milomel.blogspot.sg/2012/08/on-being-too-ignorant.html>
Melissa Low, Daily Dose Of Brutal Truths


> What the world needs is more people who can have a laugh and rant over cocktails about the sorry state of affairs we’re in, then wake up the next day and think about how they can change things.



**** Raising Future Tax Revenue From Personal Income Tax Not GST ****
<http://refocusing.blogspot.sg/2012/08/raising-future-tax-revenue-from.html>
Reflections On Change


> The practice of competitively lowering personal income tax rates should stop.

> And when the time comes to raise tax revenues, personal income tax rates should be raised first.

> The top income earners are under-taxed.



**** Xenophobia: Singapore Trying To Stay Extraordinary ****
<http://blogging4myself.blogspot.sg/2012/08/xenophobia-singapore-trying-to-stay.html>
Blogging For Myself



**** Lee’s Economic Goals Need Adults, Not Your Babies! ****
<http://www.tremeritus.com/2012/08/29/lee’s-economic-goals-need-adults-not-your-babies/>
Celia Lim, TR Emeritus


> There is only one way to support Lee and his party’s economic visions and goals : a huge and increasing population base in Singapore. Your wives and daughters are not going to produce six or eight babies – even if this could be of any immediate help to the government!



**** Let's Not Be Preoccupied With Seeing A Govt Report ****
<http://www.singapolitics.sg/views/lets-not-be-preoccupied-seeing-govt-report>
Ong Ye Kung, Straits Times


> Going back to my earlier analogy, will the dinner conversations simply revert to what they were before the speech? Or will the conversations be reshaped and take on a new focus?



**** The Paradox Of Patriotism In Singapore ****
<http://www.singapolitics.sg/views/paradox-patriotism-singapore>
Jack Sim, Straits Times


> Our leadership needs to have to courage to embrace its people with a strong full body hug of sincere love.



**** This Is Why Carrefour Could Be Dairy Farm's New Cash Cow ****
<http://sbr.com.sg/food-beverage/news/why-carrefour-could-be-dairy-farms-new-cash-cow>
Singapore Business Review



**** Why Is Singapore Pulling Out Of Venice Biennale? ****
<http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=451256484919384>
Janice Koh, Facebook


> This decision on the part of NAC not only demonstrates the huge and sudden swing in government’s cultural policy towards pushing community arts for the masses, it clearly shows the lack of a consistent and robust long-term strategy to develop Singapore artists and the Singapore arts scene in a holistic manner.



**** Cultural Differences – Does It Come Down To Your Haircut? ****
<http://www.aussiepete.com/2012/08/cultural-differences-does-it-come-down.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AussiePete+%28Aussie+Pete%29>
AussiePete


> Anyway – I found it interesting – what is considered taboo in one country, is considered completely normal in another. Even for something as simple as a haircut.



**** Singletons Also Have Rights ****
<http://singaporedesk.blogspot.sg/2012/08/singletons-also-have-rights.html>
Singapore Notes


> The country is already divided over xenophobia and racial issues, do we need another fissure by discriminating against the singletons? Lest we forget, they do pay taxes, and the males have completed their national service obligations.



**** Cheers To PM Lee And Khaw Boon Wan – For Now ****
<http://andrewlohhp.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/cheers-to-pm-lee-and-khaw-boon-wan-for-now/>
Andrew Loh


> All in all, I am looking forward to the details of the changes and I hope there won’t be too many rules or conditions in letting singles have a home.

> I mean, we are no less Singaporean, you know? And our life choices sometimes is not within our own control, and we should not be penalised for this. An inclusive society must necessarily include those who are, for various reasons, not married. Yes, we know it is a big thing now with the Government – to get everyone of marrying age to tie the knot and pop a few young ones. It is not that simple – and some of us have chosen not to marry at all.

> So, have a heart.



**** Am I Endangering Someone's Job If I Clear My Trays? ****
<http://www.todayonline.com/Voices/EDC120829-0000047/Am-I-endangering-someones-job-if-I-clear-my-trays?>
Abhijeet Harolikar, Today


> I clear my trays at fast food restaurants and food courts, but I have wondered if I am endangering someone's employment this way.



**** We Are Not Averse To Change, Says Acting Minister ****
<http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC120829-0000062/We-are-not-averse-to-change,-says-Acting-Minister>
Neo Chai Chin, Today


> "Are we averse to changing? I would say that my own sense and in my own conversations, no," said Mr Tan to the audience of about 100 students and alumni. Where tweaks are needed, they will be made, he said, citing the levelling up of standards at the pre-school level, for example.

Notice that the report stated "tweaks". Fine-tuning, that is.


**** Renewing Perspectives On The MDP ****
<http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/08/renewing-perspectives-on-the-mdp/>
Howard Lee, The Online Citizen







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