CCTV paid Chinese celebrities to post anti-Apple messages to Weibo to promote their "820 Party" TV programme. But one of the celebrities posted the message with instructions still attached, including the phrase "post around 8:20".

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Last night, Apple approved the latest Hackers update. While the version number may have just increased by a paltry 0.0.1, you'll find lots of new stuff:

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Brutal:

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Apple, now the big player, has to take the hits that big players get:

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Microsoft's biggest weakness is that they still don't realize how much they suck. They still think they can write software in house. Maybe they can, by the standards of the desktop world. But that world ended a few years ago.

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“When they replaced sharing with +1 on Google Reader, it was clear that this day was going to come,” he said. Wetherell, 43, is amazed that Reader has lasted this long. Even before the project saw the light of the day, Google executives were unsure about the service and it was through sheer perseverance that it squeaked out into the market. At one point, the management team threatened to cancel the project even before it saw the light of the day, if there was a delay.

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Not so open after all.

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I'm not entirely sure what to make of this, but Rubin's replacement Sundar Pichai has proven himself with the Chrome browser and it will be interesting to see how his approach wil differ from Rubin's.

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Graham Hill describes what happened after he sold his first start-up in the 90s:

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Whether the WSJ has an agenda or not, they're certainly producing more link bait about Apple than any other company.

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Daniel Eran Dilger rips into a Bloomberg "news" article seemingly based on a Samsung press release about how well they'll survive after their biggest component buyer leaves them.

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The revised Apple TV isn't using the quad-GPU A5X chip that was speculated in January. However the new revised A5 is smaller than the old chip, which means Apple is again using the A5 as the testbed for a new process.

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