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From where, The Pirate Bay? The download link for free developer accounts (I have one) just links you to http://developer.apple.com/xcode/ - which prompts you to either get it off the App Store (which explicitly states "Requires Lion") or pay for a developer program membership. Logging into my paid developer account removes the prompt to pay but still just links to the app store. Unless you downloaded Xcode 3, which is a free download...

So, um, yeah. Stop lying.

The GP wasn't clear that Apple was *perceived* to be going out of business, not that they actually had to close their doors anytime soon.

GP was also wrong about the $4B. They had $1.2B as of September 1997. Adjusted for inflation, that's more than what RIM currently has ($1.4B)

It's a free, legal trailer.

A good GUI is easy to find.

Totally.

Slightly more helpfully, this is one of the biggest reasons why Linux on the desktop won't succeed in 2012. Or 2013 (Mayan predictions notwithstanding). Ordinary users don't want to have to research a hundred different distributions and struggle to understand why, after finally settling on one, they then need to research which UI to use. And then find out that Excel doesn't run on it.

Helpful if they have a friendly understanding geek to explain all these things. Not so much if they don't. And completely insane if they have more than one, because those two will vehemently disagree on everything, get into a protracted propellor-head conversation, and just annoy/confuse the poor member-of-the-public.

Which part of it is not true?

Here are the old cables, selling for THIRTY SIX CENTS

http://www.amazon.com/Audio-Video-Cable-Apple-Watching/dp/B0006N5I5I

Note how the page says "Does Not Support New Ipod Classic, Ipod Nano 3G And Ipod Itouch"

Here are Apple's cables:

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC748ZM/A?fnode=MTY1NDA0OQ

They now cost $40 instead of $50.

So, again, which part was not true? I previously gave a 1:50 ratio for the prices, and here I have shown a 1:111 ratio.

None of the articles cited state the profit margin on the hardware, which I suspect is quite low. The profit is all in the app store and iTunes store...

Maybe if you read Apple's press release where they also release the summarized data. Then apply some logic.

Company posted record quarterly revenue of $46.33 billion and record quarterly net profit of $13.06 billion . . . Gross margin was 44.7 percent compared to 38.5 percent in the year-ago quarter.

The iTunes store (and iPod accessories) made $2.0B in revenue (not profit) while Apple made $13B in profit for the entire company. There's no way Apple makes most of it's money in their online stores. Also remember that number is revenue before Apple has to give their 70% cut. So in reality, Apple only took in at most $600M in revenue before they factor in their costs.

None of the articles cited state the profit margin on the hardware, which I suspect is quite low. The profit is all in the app store and iTunes store...

Maybe if you read Apple's press release where they also release the summarized data. Then apply some logic.

Company posted record quarterly revenue of $46.33 billion and record quarterly net profit of $13.06 billion . . . Gross margin was 44.7 percent compared to 38.5 percent in the year-ago quarter.

The iTunes store (and iPod accessories) made $2.0B in revenue (not profit) while Apple made $13B in profit for the entire company. There's no way Apple makes most of it's money in their online stores. Also remember that number is revenue before Apple has to give their 70% cut. So in reality, Apple only took in at most $600M in revenue before they factor in their costs.

Don't forget that Apple got their OS for free too (most of it, anyhow).. since its primarily based on BSD, which they use and then of course contribute little back to the open source community, unlike Google who makes significant contributions to many open source projects

Oh really?

It looks like Apple contributes quite a few open source projects.

Don't forget that Apple got their OS for free too (most of it, anyhow).. since its primarily based on BSD, which they use and then of course contribute little back to the open source community, unlike Google who makes significant contributions to many open source projects

Oh really?

It looks like Apple contributes quite a few open source projects.

So how come it says free on the web page?

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id448457090?mt=12

You're still wrong though. Downloading from http://developer.apple.com/ requires a program membership (Mac or iOS), and downloading from the App Store checks your OS version and only gives it to you free if you're on Lion.

Those are costs for distributing your app on the App Store not the price of Xcode. From here with such links as:

Download Xcode 4 for Free

Membership is mandatory to download the "free" Xcode 4. You will find this when you follow the link you provided.

If you paid money for Xcode, you're an idiot.

Xcode 3.2 was free of cost to download. Xcode 4 is not.

Xcode is a free download, period. You don't have to be a member of anything. See http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id448457090?mt=12#

Have you tried iforgot.apple.com?

First hit on Google from iPad "locked for security reasons"...

I don't know what your definition of "free" is...

free
Adjective: Not under the control or in the power of another; able to act or be done as one wishes.
Adverb: Without cost or payment: "ladies were admitted free".
Verb: Make free, in particular.
Synonyms:
adjective. loose - open - gratuitous - vacant - independent
adverb. gratis - freely - for nothing - loosely - free of charge
verb. release - liberate - deliver - set free - rid - disengage

Those are costs for distributing your app on the App Store not the price of Xcode. From here with such links as:

Download Xcode 4 for Free

and

Download Xcode 4.2.1 for Lion
from the Mac App Store for Free

If you paid money for Xcode, you're an idiot.

The tools might be free of charge, and you might be writing a free of charge application, but getting the result delivered to the walled garden (or even within your own company) is not free: Choosing an iOS Developer Program

I don't really deal with these issues myself, as I am currently self-employed, but you might be a little out of touch with what Apple offers for businesses these days. Motorola offers similar enterprise integration and security functions for some of its Android models (and maybe other vendors do, too; like I said, I'm not up on everything).

By no means are Apple and the Android phone makers saying, "BlackBerry thinks business is all important but we don't care about that." On the other hand, RIM seems to make two kinds of BlackBerrys these days: The kind that students take to college so they can take photos and share them with their friends; and the kind that's sort of like the company car, where everybody gets a Buick Park Avenue because Buick bid the lowest on a car that has the perfect size glove box, the right number of cupholders, and a brand of tires that don't wear out too fast.

Not everything is about beauty

I don't care a whit about beauty. What I care about is USABILITY. That app (like so many other enterprise apps have worked with) was built by a bunch of people who didn't have to use the damn thing day to day. I didn't say anything about the widgets or color or anything. I just said it was not a very usable application and that could be improved.

I, like so many other enterprise developers, had to work with what people were trying to design but also listen to the complaints of the people on the front line really using the software. It's amazing how little THOSE two groups end up really talking, even when in theory there is someone in part of the development process representing their interests... but it's almost always a manager who again doesn't REALLY know where problems are or what would make things better.

You make me remember a Mac supremacist and how I embarrased him when he bragged about his new macbook G4 back then

You remind me of every wanker I ever worked with who didn't care about people who used the software we wrote. God I detested those people. Utter wastes of a chair.

BTW, If you brag about so heavily about your work

It's not bragging asshole. It's telling you what real life experience I have had with the issues at hand. I am passionate about this because in any context (mobile or not) the software industry COULD be doing a way better job designing software built to meet users needs but instead all to often is merely the bitch of business groups who have total say over how something comes out, and your video frankly brought out PTSD style flashbacks of some of the horrors that came out of that process.

You can defend it all you like but every single person on earth who has developed software for the enterprise more than a year knows I am correct.

You may have the last reply; I see no need to someone hell bent on pushing people into using unusable software even when better could be had.

As for examples that prove my case, simply look at any large data visualization or data entry app like Salesforce Viewer on the iPad... SInce all of my work is pretty much client work (I am an iOS consultant) I cannot point to it directly, either because it's not public or it's not polite to build and tell.

Blah blah blah, when youre so arrogant, you must have VERIFIABLE EVIDENCE to backup your arrogance, you failed to provide any.

Again, do you know SAP? Did you check its UI? Do yuo know what SAP is?

And then, you claim that such apps are not usable, despite million of people using them (Windows apps have A LOT MORE of marketshare than fancy Mac apps), theres not rocket science using them, unless people is too dumb (perhaps your case, that why the arroganse without backup?) to understand what 'Insert, Update, Delete' buttons are, or that clicking on an icon will do this thing indicated in the popup help when you place over the control you want.

And hey, scientific R&D work in any subject is the most important thing, there are UI specialists that can be hired in any project, but most of the value of an app, comes from innovative approach to solving a problem, not from how more usable is an UI. From a basic level of usability, the rest is fine, but not critical.

Not everything is about beauty

I don't care a whit about beauty. What I care about is USABILITY. That app (like so many other enterprise apps have worked with) was built by a bunch of people who didn't have to use the damn thing day to day. I didn't say anything about the widgets or color or anything. I just said it was not a very usable application and that could be improved.

I, like so many other enterprise developers, had to work with what people were trying to design but also listen to the complaints of the people on the front line really using the software. It's amazing how little THOSE two groups end up really talking, even when in theory there is someone in part of the development process representing their interests... but it's almost always a manager who again doesn't REALLY know where problems are or what would make things better.

You make me remember a Mac supremacist and how I embarrased him when he bragged about his new macbook G4 back then

You remind me of every wanker I ever worked with who didn't care about people who used the software we wrote. God I detested those people. Utter wastes of a chair.

BTW, If you brag about so heavily about your work

It's not bragging asshole. It's telling you what real life experience I have had with the issues at hand. I am passionate about this because in any context (mobile or not) the software industry COULD be doing a way better job designing software built to meet users needs but instead all to often is merely the bitch of business groups who have total say over how something comes out, and your video frankly brought out PTSD style flashbacks of some of the horrors that came out of that process.

You can defend it all you like but every single person on earth who has developed software for the enterprise more than a year knows I am correct.

You may have the last reply; I see no need to someone hell bent on pushing people into using unusable software even when better could be had.

As for examples that prove my case, simply look at any large data visualization or data entry app like Salesforce Viewer on the iPad... SInce all of my work is pretty much client work (I am an iOS consultant) I cannot point to it directly, either because it's not public or it's not polite to build and tell.

HTML is a markup language, not the web. The HTML widgets are supposed to be self contained interactive bits. I doubt they CAN access the Internet because that would be a) a security risk and b) ugly if your website was down, and Apple doesn't like ugly.

Apple's site specifically states:

HTML Modules
Apple’s widget creation tool, Dashcode, is built into iBooks Author. So it’s easy to create HTML widgets that appear as objects alongside the text. Web-based, dynamically updated data keeps examples current.

The whole point is that your content is always up-to-date if you use this feature because iBooks will pull the information from the Web.

I've been looking for a good way to create ePub files for my iPad for some time now. I use a number of different reference materials I've created for myself and others in environments where you're simply not going to have Internet access, and the iPad has been an ideal tool for this. The iBooks Author app is free, looks well-polished (like Pages and Keynote) and seems interesting with its promises of easily-implemented interactivity. I'm a little concerned about how the HTML widgets will be used... the idea of having content in a book that's always up to date is intriguing... but if you are somewhere you don't have Internet access will it display the last version seen or a 404 Not Found error message?

The app is available now on the Mac App Store, but it's worth noting that it's only available for the Mac and only runs on OS X Lion.

What OS does Apple sell?

Apple Store

What computer models does Microsoft sell?

MS store

See the difference?

Maybe.

I do like this part from the Apple store.

To upgrade your Mac to OS X Lion, you must be running OS X Snow Leopard. If you have OS X v10.5 Leopard, purchase OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard now and install it on your Mac. Then buy OS X Lion as a digital download from the Mac App Store

Emphasis mine.

One of Nassim N. Talib's aphorisms :

Three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

Add iCrack as the fourth most harmful addiction.

Yours In Minsk,
K. Trout, C.I.O.

Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store

"To download previously purchased apps, books, music or TV Shows to your computer

Open iTunes 10.4 or later on your computer. (You can download the latest version of iTunes here.)
If you're not already signed in, click Sign In and enter your Apple ID and password.
After you've signed in, click Purchased on the right side in the iTunes Store under the QUICK LINKS the section.
From your Purchased page, click the tab for the content type you're looking for (Music, TV Shows, Apps, or Books).
Click Songs or Albums to change the page view and All or "Not in My Library" to view your purchased content that currently is not downloaded on your computer.
Click the download icon to the right of each item to download that item."

People talk a lot of smack about Apple too. Often based on poor information.

I'm aware of their use of Foxconn from past articles, but how come I don't see Foxconn on the list linked in this article?
http://images.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/pdf/Apple_Supplier_List_2011.pdf

...which will have to report favorable findings if it wishes to operate in that country.

And you are an idiot. Read this here: http://www.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/ Trying to influence the findings in any audit is a sure way for a company to lose their business with Apple.

LMGTFY: darwin kernel compile

From now on, It'll also be your fault for not having backups:

Windows 7
Windows Vista
Windows XP
OS X (leopard, snow leopard, Lion*)
Linux
Linux
Linux...

(some of the linux methods will also work on OS X and Windows....)

*Lion doesn't even require a separate partition or disk. Of course, it will not protect you against disk failure in that case.

http://www.apple.com/opensource/

Here's the source code to all the open source software in MacOSX, along with any patches they did to the source.

http://opensource.apple.com/release/mac-os-x-107/

Here the sources for a bunch of the core system components, including the kernel.

Where's the source code for the Windows 7 kernel again?

http://www.apple.com/opensource/

Here's the source code to all the open source software in MacOSX, along with any patches they did to the source.

http://opensource.apple.com/release/mac-os-x-107/

Here the sources for a bunch of the core system components, including the kernel.

Where's the source code for the Windows 7 kernel again?

Which stops being funny when you discover that Apple used GCC for their compiler (they've since replaced it with closed proprietary shit), and never bothered to contribute their version of Objective-C back.

Which of course isn't true. The full source of GCC, including Obj-C, as used by Apple, and the full source of LLVM (the replacement), along with all the other open source stuff Apple do is here:
http://opensource.apple.com/source/gcc_42/gcc_42-5531/

You think LLVM is proprietary and shit? You haven't the first clue about what you're talking about. It's open source, and it smokes GCC.

(This is why my filter is usually turned up above the AC level.)

Both:
http://www.opensource.apple.com/release/mac-os-x-1072/
and
http://www.opensource.apple.com/release/developer-tools-42/
seem to point out your feeble wankery.

Both:
http://www.opensource.apple.com/release/mac-os-x-1072/
and
http://www.opensource.apple.com/release/developer-tools-42/
seem to point out your feeble wankery.

Which means that Apple's version will never see the light of day.

clang.llvm.org

Clang was an internal apple project, open sourced by them here's the email in which Chris Lattener (an apple employee) open sourced the code that he had written on apple's time. The code has continued to be released by apple under the BSD license.

For reference, here's Apple's Objective-C runtime too.

Considering that the BSD network stack is pretty much THE reference, whatever you code has to stay compatible with it.

"Compatible" at the API level or "compatible" at the network level? ("Compatible" at the API level is irrelevant, as it's not going to happen; PE is not a.out or ELF.)

So you're going to need to copy ALL the BSD constants,

No, you're not. Nobody's going to give a damn about AF_DATAKIT/PF_DATAKIT, for example. You're only going to have to copy the names of the ones that matter, namely AF_INET and AF_INET6.

and ALL the BSD typedefs,

Again, you'll only have to copy the ones used in socket calls.

So, tell us, how are you going to write something that complies with the standard without those constants, typedefs, and api? Magic? Time machine? Million Monkeys?

So, tell us, how are you going to write something that complies with various UN*X standards without using the code of an existing implementation?

As indicated, you don't have to copy the exact definitions of the constants; even the existing *BSDs don't all have the same numerical value for AF_INET6 (28 in FreeBSD and DragonFly BSD and 24 in NetBSD and OpenBSD; it's 30 in Mac OS X and presumably iOS).

In any case, even if they copied and pasted some typedef calls, that, in and of itself, doesn't mean that it's derived from the BSD code in any interesting way.

As for the "api", an API isn't code, it's documentation. There are a number of cases where multiple implementations of an API exist without sharing code. (You may have heard of some software called "the Linux kernel" and "the GNU C library" - and those APIs include more than the socket calls, so arguing that the Linux networking code may have been in part based on the BSD socket code is insufficient to dismiss those examples.)

Huh, read the docs: http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/ iTMS stuff is free...

I have read the docs, maybe you should read my post, i said videos and photos, not iTMS videos and photos, and of course there's no match service for videos so any non-iTunes videos or anything you've captured on the iphones HD video camera is going to eat up that 5GB real fast. And photos in photostream expire after 30 days so that's no good for photo storage.

Nope... The operating system in OS X is XNU. Darwin is just XNU + compilation settings and tools. XNU is Server-Client architecture operating system, instead Monolithic like Linux is.

Any system program, library, application program etc, does not work without operating system. Not even your development programs, text editors or others work without operating system.

You can download XNU operating system from Apple Open Source site. You can study code and even FSF has accepted Apple license what is used as Free Software license (still incompatible with GPL). From here http://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-1699.24.8/ you can download whole source code for XNU operating system. You get Mach microkernel, I/O Kit, FreeBSD parts of network protocols, filesystems and so on. The microkernel in XNU operating system is 3.0 by version.

Android is just one distribution for Linux operating system. But unlike XNU, Linux is monolithic operating system. And Open Handset Alliance (what develops Android) is currently bringing Linux back to mainline. The Linux what is used in Android has been hosted as well on Linux GIT but it has just been own branch, now it is going to be joined back.

One reason why Android has been so successful, is that people don't know that they are using Linux operating system. Same thing is with Ubuntu, where people has false believes that they use "Ubuntu operating system" while they really use Linux Operating System and distribution called "Ubuntu". If they would know the truth, they would cry and have sleepiness nights wondering what they are going to do because "Linux" is so 'difficult to use'.

It is just sad that most people are victims of marketing propaganda and they don't have a clue what technology is being used and how it works.

Huh, read the docs: http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/ iTMS stuff is free...

Apple did study Linux operating system and even made own branch with it, called MkLinux what is still available. Apple's idea was to make Linux a Server-Client architecture operating system instead a Monolithic and get Linux to Macintosh. In MkLinux project they sliced Linux functions to servers and used Mach microkernel with them and so on they got MkLinux. http://www.mklinux.org/

MkLinux were Apple's first Open Source project. Today Apple has dozens of Open Source projects http://opensource.apple.com/release/mac-os-x-1072/

Then Apple went, toke a Mach microkernel, Network protocols, Filesystems and few other OS functions from (monolithic) FreeBSD Operating System to as servers and made nice package with I/O Kit and got a XNU operating system what is a Server-Client operating system by architecture instead Monolithic like the Linux is.

It seems it has nothing to do with the license, as XNU operating system is 100% Open Source and Free Software as OSI and FSF have both accepted the license what Apple used to license that XNU operating system http://www.opensource.apple.com/license/apsl/ http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses Apple just wanted to get Server-Client architecture for their operating system instead monolithic.
Everyone knows the famous debate between Linus and Andrew about how Monolithic architecture is obsolete for operating systems and Server-Client architecture is the future.

Linux is great proof how monolithic architecture for operating system can be very powerful and flexible, when just watching list where Linux really is... Super computers, embedded systems (DVD players, DVB-boxes, Digital TV's), Desktop computers, Laptops, Workstations, Rendering farms, Home/Corporation servers and not to forget... Linux is most used operating system on smartphones... As Apple chose to use Linux as operating system in Android. There are other Linux distributions like Tizen, Harmattan, Bada (using RTOS operating system as well) and many others. Even Nokia bought few weeks ago a Norwegian software company "Smarterphones" what developed Linux distribution "Smarterphones" and Nokia might be planning to replace NOS (Nokia Operating System) and S40 (software platform + GUI) with it and that would mean Linux gets even more support.

In other hands.... while XNU can probably be second popular Open Source and Free Software operating system on markets... GNU projects own HURD operating system what is as well following a Server-Client architecture like XNU, Minix, NT... Has not get stable or ready at all.
FreeBSD is as well monolithic operating system and so is OpenBSD and NetBSD (according wikipedia).

GPL license is great for the community (read it like every human and every country and every government and every corporation) but it is not great for those who are greed, biased and very short sighted people who wants to slave others under their control and control when and what innovation is released and control that with patents and hiding knowledge what other humans has helped them to gain.

Apple did study Linux operating system and even made own branch with it, called MkLinux what is still available. Apple's idea was to make Linux a Server-Client architecture operating system instead a Monolithic and get Linux to Macintosh. In MkLinux project they sliced Linux functions to servers and used Mach microkernel with them and so on they got MkLinux. http://www.mklinux.org/

MkLinux were Apple's first Open Source project. Today Apple has dozens of Open Source projects http://opensource.apple.com/release/mac-os-x-1072/

Then Apple went, toke a Mach microkernel, Network protocols, Filesystems and few other OS functions from (monolithic) FreeBSD Operating System to as servers and made nice package with I/O Kit and got a XNU operating system what is a Server-Client operating system by architecture instead Monolithic like the Linux is.

It seems it has nothing to do with the license, as XNU operating system is 100% Open Source and Free Software as OSI and FSF have both accepted the license what Apple used to license that XNU operating system http://www.opensource.apple.com/license/apsl/ http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses Apple just wanted to get Server-Client architecture for their operating system instead monolithic.
Everyone knows the famous debate between Linus and Andrew about how Monolithic architecture is obsolete for operating systems and Server-Client architecture is the future.

Linux is great proof how monolithic architecture for operating system can be very powerful and flexible, when just watching list where Linux really is... Super computers, embedded systems (DVD players, DVB-boxes, Digital TV's), Desktop computers, Laptops, Workstations, Rendering farms, Home/Corporation servers and not to forget... Linux is most used operating system on smartphones... As Apple chose to use Linux as operating system in Android. There are other Linux distributions like Tizen, Harmattan, Bada (using RTOS operating system as well) and many others. Even Nokia bought few weeks ago a Norwegian software company "Smarterphones" what developed Linux distribution "Smarterphones" and Nokia might be planning to replace NOS (Nokia Operating System) and S40 (software platform + GUI) with it and that would mean Linux gets even more support.

In other hands.... while XNU can probably be second popular Open Source and Free Software operating system on markets... GNU projects own HURD operating system what is as well following a Server-Client architecture like XNU, Minix, NT... Has not get stable or ready at all.
FreeBSD is as well monolithic operating system and so is OpenBSD and NetBSD (according wikipedia).

GPL license is great for the community (read it like every human and every country and every government and every corporation) but it is not great for those who are greed, biased and very short sighted people who wants to slave others under their control and control when and what innovation is released and control that with patents and hiding knowledge what other humans has helped them to gain.

Apple hired several of the FreeBSD devs, and lots of the code was, and continues to be, given back to the FreeBSD project. Also, in case you haven't noticed it, that Apple-sponsored code includes the rewrite to WebKit that all you Chrome users like so much. You might want to check out the other stuff here and here. Also, if you use CUPS to print anything, thank Apple - they bought the source code from the original developer. Use zeroconf for networking? Thank Apple for their open standard (as opposed to Microsoft's closed one, which wasn't adopted by the IETF).

Apple hired several of the FreeBSD devs, and lots of the code was, and continues to be, given back to the FreeBSD project. Also, in case you haven't noticed it, that Apple-sponsored code includes the rewrite to WebKit that all you Chrome users like so much. You might want to check out the other stuff here and here. Also, if you use CUPS to print anything, thank Apple - they bought the source code from the original developer. Use zeroconf for networking? Thank Apple for their open standard (as opposed to Microsoft's closed one, which wasn't adopted by the IETF).

Nope. iTMS music doesn't count towards the total. http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/

Isn't that the technology underlying the Magic Trackpad?

http://www.apple.com/magictrackpad/

Is there a reason why one couldn't create a driver to work w/ two of them and print an overlay for a keyboard?

1920*1080 which is the highest consumer resolution available is around 2MP

Apple's Thunderbolt Display (and the 27" Cinema Display before it) is 2560x1440.
Dell's 27" U2711 has the same resolution (I think they may be using the same panel), and the 30" U3011 is 2560x1600.

2560*1600 which is the highest resolution available for individual displays in the market is around 4MP

The Eizo RadiForce LS560W is 3840x2160. The RX840 is 4096x2160. And although most people would not want a monochrome monitor, you can get them all the way to at least 4096x2560, like the GX1030. And that is just sticking to Eizo monitors, I didn't check other high end brands.

I get your point, but your numbers are quite off

Not to answer for the original poster, but for me personally, I like having a centrally-stored list of feeds and a reader UI that I can access from any web browser. My favorite news reader app for iOS also happens to only support Google Reader as a feed source.

Yes.

Yes you do.

You do deserve better ebooks. Because the current quality of ebooks is destroying the Internet, and, dare I say it, destroying the fabric of America itself. And as every red-blooded American knows, the Internet and the United States of America ARE EXACTLY THE SAME THING.

Every night I weep, weep bitter tears, at the terrible, terrible, quality of ebooks infesting our world. Me, I blame socialists. Or fascists. Or communists. Or atheists. Or Christians. It's the socio-fascist-communo-godless-theocratic industrial complex destroying the world one lousy ebook at a time.

... which is why you should immediately run out and buy a copy of Pay Me, Bug!, available on Amazon.com (Kindle), Barnes and Noble (Nook), Smashwords (epub, Kobe, PDF, LRF, PalmDoc), and iTunes. It is the only chance we all have to ensure a better tomorrow.

Two big reasons:

1. OS X is a lot more open. than iOS.

2. For a backdoor to be useful, it has to have a covert way to communicate. All the internet hardware for OS X is straightforward to monitor for unexplained network access. It would be much easier to sneak data out through the wireless carrier portion of iOS.

"I think we can safely assume any closed operating system is backdoored."

http://opensource.apple.com/

A.