Don’t be (more) evil

There hasn’t been a tech post in a while. Granted, this only marginally qualifies…

Watching last week’s roller coaster response to Apple’s iAuthor app, and this week’s gaining response to Google’s account-information merge with no opt-out, I’m again thinking about needs vs. wants, standards, and the greater good.

I have no answers. I can’t tell you how devious the intent was when Apple shifted iAuthor’s product from epub standards and towards an iPad-only model. I can’t tell you why Google want...