And in my mind, the decision to put physical volume buttons on the iPhone and not on the iPod touch is emblematic of the cheapskate attitude marring the device. Apple could throw in all non-phone, non-Bluetooth, non-camera, non-microphone features into the iPod touch and iPhone would still sell like hotcakes—and in fact the iPod touch would sell quite a bit better, too. You know why? The iPhone has a phone. That’s the only differentiator there needs to be.

I just got an email from Uli Kusterer asking me to expand on my comments the other day that Ben Collins-Sussman doesn’t “get” distributed version control…I’ll answer this with specific reference to Git seeing that’s the distributed version control system with which I have the most experience. Although I could rave on about how Git is the best thing since sliced bread for so many reasons, I’ll try to limit myself specifically to its distributed nature.