Jerry Brito

Folks keep linking to this post on Brian X. Chen’s personal blog, about how Wired tracked down the iPhone seller, with the implication that Wired was somehow super sleuthy. But this article tells us nothing about how they found him. Here is how they picked up the trail according to Chen:

It all started with a Facebook comment. The day Gizmodo published its 4G iPhone bombshell, our former intern Rose Roark saw a suspicious-looking note posted by Hogan on someone’s Facebook wall. She pointed it out to me, and I agreed it was telling.

As a developer, it’s a little frustrating that we now have to find a new icon, resubmit the app, and likely wait another couple weeks for such a small thing. As an iPhone user, though, I’m glad Apple is manning the quality control station.

Lots of talk today about the Kindle iPhone app Amazon released today. One thing I haven’t seen addressed is the apparent lack of support for magazines and newspapers. I own a Kindle and downloaded the iPhone app. It synced in all the books I had purchased, but not the magazine and newspaper subscriptions. Other folks seeing this? If this is the way it is, that’s a shame because short articles (rather than books) are what I would read on the iPhone.