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I'm sorry, there are plenty better examples
Your iPhone comes with a complicated list of rules about what you can and can't do with it. You can't install unapproved third-party applications on it. You can't unlock it and use it with the cellphone carrier of your choice.
As Gruber noted, that's not really that complicated. It doesn't count as complicated if you can explain it in two sentences.It's why all gaming-console manufacturers make sure that their game cartridges don't work on any other console...
I think we need another word for this than "lock-in", because a lot of the examples he cites are lock-in but mostly in the sense that Nintendo probably doesn't want to be an international standards body for video game formats. The word might be "cost". If Nintendo worries about Nintendo's problems, then they're easier to solve than trying to solve everyone's problems. Why? It's lower cost. Costs less time, less money, it's less risky. And in defense of some of those entities, firm standards rarely result in innovation. Having an ISO for hand-held game controllers might result in an easy way to write code for controllers with six buttons and vibration, but having standards for game controllers doesn't result in the Wiimote. Not worrying abut six-button vibrating controllers does.
Schneier's half-right, but he's also saying that lock-in is always a conscious factor and not just, yanno, the cost of the thing. I'm locked into my current metropolitan area by the cost of moving, but it's not city hall's problem.
As for conscious lock-in, if you don't want a phone with lock-in, you're free to get one. Enjoy paying twice as much for calls and having a per-call fee. Lock-in costs less than stuff without lock-in because it reduces risk. It's a valuable tool and one that, despite the Slashdot crowd's feeling, most consumers have little problem with as a way to get goods more cheaply. -
Re:First thoughts
Client-side includes (CSI, maybe you've seen its TV show?
<head profile="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/draft-ietf-html-relrev-00.txt">
To encode a CSI, just put rel="include" on any hyperlink (a or link tag). The include link-type can co-exist with others in the rel attribute, it's a space-separated list:
<a href="readme.text" rel="include" type="text/x-markdown"> Release Notes</a>
No browsers implement CSI, but several JavaScript projects do. The pre-XHR "csi.js" script once at http://csincludes.org/ has been rolled into the "ariah.js" Ajax project at http://ariah.org/, downloadable from http://ariah.googlecode.com/ since December. CSIncludes.org now points to a decent explanation of CSI on Ariah's wiki.
The Ariah source code isn't exactly easy to grok, but it is pretty cool; uses CSI to do client-side templates (rel="template"), client-side Markdown parsing through Showdown, and a lot more. For example, you can do rel="include source" to show source code instead of parsing the file.
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Re:Now's your chance, MS!
The funniest thing is, people started saying (once dual-booting was mentioned) that Windows would be the new "Classic" mode in OS X. (In a sense.) Now, not only do we have that, we have things like Parallels' "coherence" mode which makes Windows behave exactly like Classic apps did--an other-OS window floating among all your OS X windows.
So basically, Apple (a third party, relative to Microsoft) and Parallels (a third party, relative to Apple) have done exactly what Vista should have done. If that were running on Windows, you literally wouldn't even know what was running in "classic" mode and what wasn't. Once again, the competition, working with orders of magnitude less resources than MS, is literally years ahead of Redmond. Un-effing-real.
Another neat thing is that the performance of a virtual machine is very close to the performance of an old OS on hardware from the same era: on my MacBook, Windows 2000 feels just as peppy as it does running natively on my 1 GHz PIII desktop. Running XP in full-screen mode, you'd need a stopwatch to know that you weren't working on my dad's HP laptop. -
Actually, it was quite an insightful comment...
...and probably much closer to what really happens behind the scenes in Cupertino than Apple fanboys care to believe. Read John Gruber's piece over at Daring Fireball about how Apple-watchers basically have to practice Kremlinology in order to separate the signal from the noise, or in the case of Apple, the clues from the silence: "When, in the face of white-hot speculation, Apple goes totally silent both officially and privately, that's when they have something big."
Gruber also makes an interesting case that Apple have become absolute masters at subtly meta-managing the "rumor economy" to their public relations benefit. It certainly translates into literally millions of dollars they save on marketing, and only adds to the company's mystique. That alone is priceless as far as the brand is concerned.
I think this was only modded "Flamebait" because you were being an asshole about it, and pretty much guaranteed that your insight wouldn't be taken seriously. Even fanboys are capable of being insulted, and no one likes to be compared to sheep.
Nice! I just checked back and you've been correctly modded "Insightful". Maybe there should be an "Insulting but Insightful" mod tag.
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Re:Short on Options!
First of all, I was referring to the parent's assertion willy-nilly that you could use Remote Disk to install the OS without further explanation. Second, your "use an external optical drive?" solution sounds rather annoying - how many external optical drives does the average user have lying around!? Fortunately, it appears that Remote Disc supports netbooting, allowing you to boot the MacBook Air from a Mac OS X Install DVD in another computer. I presume this is installed in the boot ROM and makes use of EFI.
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Re:John Gruber said it best...Hmm, interesting. That quote was originally in this short post about e-voting - but he seems to have changed it since. I still have the original version in my RSS reader. There, the last paragraph reads
I think it's been very frustrating for computer experts who've been highly critical of electronic voting machines. The decisions to use them were being made by bureaucrats who were either incapable, unwilling -- or, worst of all, too dishonest -- to recognize the accountability problems with them. In general, computer people love computers -- so when computer people tell you "don't use computers for that", or "don't use these computers for that", you really ought to listen.
Much shorter and more to the point, I think. -
Scrivener for HTML and LaTeX
What the article didn't mention is that with Scrivener projects you can use MultiMarkdown, a derivative of John Gruber's excellent Markdown plain text to HTML converter to format text for other uses. You can then export the marked up Markdown files to HTML or LaTeX. That makes Scrivener not only an excellent writing program but a brilliant formatting one.
You can, of course, also read and write RTF and DOC formats if you don't want to manually format text.
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Re:Boo Vista, A common theme for 2007?
I agree with John Gruber. If Apple has a few more "disappointments" like the iPhone next year, it will make its shareholders very, very, happy.
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Re:How Ironic
AAC is not Apple Proprietary, it is in fact License and Royalty Free and a superior Codec. Hence the reason that it is pushed as MP3's successor.
That is also incorrect. T.T
From Daring Fireball:
"For up to 400,000 units per year, AAC playback costs $1.00 per unit; for more than 400,000 units per year, the price drops to $0.74 per unit."
I've always been under the understanding that the only truly free codec is OGG.
I think Fraunhofer pushed AAC as being MP3's successor partially because, at the time, the music labels were looking for someone to blame for music piracy, and they were looking in Fraunhofer's direction since they had invented MP3 but did not include any sort of DRM from the get-go. They wanted the pirates to move off their format to take the heat way. -
Running Windows apps natively would make no sense
I think Gruber had it right when he said that Apple wants its users to think of Windows as the new Classic, i.e. if Windows apps run inside Mac OS X, they should do so the way Mac OS 9 apps used to run inside OS X: With distinctly different windows, in a separate environment, and a bit glitchy. Users need to be reminded that running Windows apps is not the preferred choice, but merely a last resort.
The idea is to tell users "Yeah, you can run your Windows apps using Parallels or VMWare if you really have to, but if you can, we'd much rather you ran real Mac applications." Running Windows apps quasi-natively by implementing the APIs would send the wrong message; it would put Windows apps on the same or a similar level as Mac apps. That's a bad thing: The Mac relies on Mac-only or "better on Macs" applications; the high quality of software is one of the Mac's selling point. If developers could write Windows apps and they would run on Macs just fine, hey, why not write Windows apps and have five or ten times the market at no additional cost?
Of course, I'd personally love to see something like this; Office for Macs is about to lose support for Macros, so I'll probably have to run Office in Parallels, soon. Come to think of it... Maybe that's Apple's way of fixing Microsoft's Macro Mistake? Maybe the idea is to let Windows Office run natively on Macs?
Anyway, Apple's actions have been extremely hard to predict recently, so I'm not ruling out anything. Maybe they are indeed going to give the Windows APIs the Carbon treatment... -
All DRM'ed to hell.
Via Daring Fireball, here's Mark Pilgrim on The Future of Reading. John Gruber of Daring Fireball has raised some questions about the DRM in Kindle ebooks (he loathes it): it's not possible to share books, even with other Kindle owners.
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Re:Note total absence of word "Microsoft"
Harrumph!
When I saw the first "Good Times" meme http://daringfireball.net/2003/08/good_times it was hilariously funny because everybody knew E-mail was just text - then I saw Word macros and became afraid, then angry that functionality trumped security. Now I am telling people "you paid for it, you got it" and helping them reformat, reinstall & lock down after my moment of primitive glee over their trembling lower lips...once. -
Re:then why is the iphone killing everything?
This sounds much like what Palm's CEO said previously: "We've learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone," he said. "PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in." Indeed not. Where are Palm now?
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Intego at it again
Yes, but hasn't Intego tried to scare Mac users into purchasing their virus protection before? In fact, they've done this quite a bit. Check out their report and pay close attention to the "Means of protection" paragraph at the end of the article.
The news is Intego attempting to scare up business, this is not a Mac virus, especially when you have to do quite a few stupid things along with giving permission to install from an admin. My goodnes... -
Re:Archive and install(2) or (3) are the best option.
What's wrong with (1), the plain old upgrade? That's what I always use, and have never had a problem. Of course, I back up before and upgrade - but why should I erase and do a clean install? Daring Fireball reference:
Arguments that there is something mysteriously dangerous or deficient about the default upgrade procedure -- and that you should do a clean install instead, followed by tedious hours manually migrating software and data and preferences from your old installation -- are voodoo. Apple's installer engineers spend a ton of time making the default upgrade procedure as convenient as possible.
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Re:Thats great...
So...you mean the iTunes WiFi Store.
It exists already, works great, and syncs and tracks perfectly with the desktop iTunes.
And, apparently, works only, as the name suggests, over Wi-FI, not over EDGE, which means that the "celltowers" part of
That being said, a real killer feature would be to provide an app where (over wifi/celltowers) you can search or browse for specific applications and download them through the wifi/celltowers.
wouldn't work.
(The picture is linked to from a Daring Fireball item.)
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Gruber covered this quite well
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Re:You know what?Perhaps you can see what Daring Fireball had to say about it - http://daringfireball.net/linked/2007/september#thu-20-shipley. Terrific essay from Wil Shipley on Apple's growing hubris
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Re:When does Jon "Daringfireball" Gruber apologize
A. he will get 2 macs :
http://daringfireball.net/2006/09/challenge_update
And B, he would lose since it's not out of the box hack, since it has to contains a specific 3rd party drivers. -
When does Jon "Daringfireball" Gruber apologize?
Apple cultist Jon Gruber offered a MacBook to David Maynor and Jon Ellch if the wifi hack was true.
It was true. He owes them a laptop... -
Worthless Numbers
Many of the numbers iSuppli comes up with are pretty much made up. Regardless, most news organizations assume that the entire difference between retail of the device and the iSuppli number is "pure profit," etc. - this is utter nonsense. Previous iSuppli numbers have been shot down by reason, I hope to see the same thing in this instance.
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Re:But what if it's in my pocket?
I know with my iPhone I can easily click the volume up/down button on the side in my pocket and I can stop/start/skip ahead songs using the button/microphone on the headphones. (which can also answer calls, send to vm, place on hold, etc). iPod touch probably has a similar feature.
It doesn't. The iPhone headphones don't control the iPod Touch.
As well, there's no external volume control on the iPod Touch.
A double-tap of the Home button brings up track-changing and volume controls, even when you have the screen locked, which is a nice feature, but it's still impossible to use without looking at it.
Info gleaned from http://daringfireball.net/2007/09/ipod_touch_featuresYou can double-click the Home button to bring up on-screen playback controls, even when the screen is locked. Nifty. But, unlike the iPhone, the Touch has no hardware volume buttons, and it doesn't have a play/pause/next-track clicker on the headphone cable. That clicker is my very favorite thing about the iPhone's music player; I think it'll be a pain to use an iPod Touch that's in your pocket. (AppleInsider notes that you can't just plug iPhone headphones into an iPod Touch, either -- the Touch doesn't support the clicker.)
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Re:Reading between the lines
You forgot to translate something as "I'm high as a kite."
It's a standard:
http://daringfireball.net/2005/04/adobe_translatio n
http://daringfireball.net/2007/02/macrovision_tran slation
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/04/16/dhh-tr anslation
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/06/24/fm-tra nslation
http://waffle.wootest.net/2007/09/01/pr-speak-nbc- universal/
http://waffle.wootest.net/2007/05/02/pr-speak/
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Re:Reading between the lines
You forgot to translate something as "I'm high as a kite."
It's a standard:
http://daringfireball.net/2005/04/adobe_translatio n
http://daringfireball.net/2007/02/macrovision_tran slation
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/04/16/dhh-tr anslation
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/06/24/fm-tra nslation
http://waffle.wootest.net/2007/09/01/pr-speak-nbc- universal/
http://waffle.wootest.net/2007/05/02/pr-speak/
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Re:iPhone Hacking End-User Insecurity
Yeah. Although it's funny how all that crapware is always for Windows. Maybe Gruber had it right after all. The "iMac demographic" is a lot less forgiving towards crapware than the Windows demographic.
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Re:Microsoft do it again
Don't forget Mac and Linux. The ability to register a custom protocol handler to launch programs in the OS is standard. The ability to reference said protocol handler in a hyperlink is also standard. These problems effect every (major) OS.
MacOSX has had a number of vulnerabilities due to URI handling:
Daring Fireball - Using the 'telnet' URI Protocol to Delete Files
Mac OS X Volume URI Handler Registration Code Execution Vulnerability
Apple Mac OS X SSH URI Handler Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
As long as you can get a browser to pass arbitrary data to an application you will be vulnerable. What needs to happen is that the custom protocol handlers should be white-listed by default requiring the user to explicitly allow a new protocol handler. Any protocol handler not handled directly by the browser should display a dialog to inform the user of the action and permit them to cancel it. The user needs to be aware that they're not clicking on a "normal" hyperlink.
Ultimately I think the only way to really mitigate these kinds of security problems is to sandbox or virtualize the browser, which is actually what MS has done with IE7 in Vista. Vulnerabilities are inevitable so the OS and browser should do what it can to limit the extent of the damage that can be caused. -
Re:iClone likely has cut & paste, unlike iPhon
Weezul wrote; Isn't the iPhone inherently "badly integrated" with itself because it lacks cut & paste?
John Gruber, of daringfireball.net, makes the argument that "it's good that the 1.0 iPhone shipped without them", even though he wishes this functionality were present. -
Universal DRM-free on iTunes
Surprisingly, Universal won't have DRM free music on iTunes
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The Dumbest Question I've Ever Heard
Apropos Intel, via Daringfireball.net:
One question that came from the audience wondered why Apple doesn't participate in the "Intel Inside" program, in which PC manufacturers affix the well-known labels to their computers.
"We like our own stickers better," Jobs said. "Don't get me wrong. We love working with Intel. We're proud to ship Intel products in Macs. They're screamers, and combined with our OS, we've tuned them well. It's just that everyone knows we use Intel processors. We'd rather not tell them about the product that's inside the box." -
Re:Oh, the irony....
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Daring Fireball
Even fellow Mac Bloggers are pointing and laughing at this "article". So much for his credibility.
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Re:command list (mirror)
That is indeed what Singh claims, and for the most part I believe him to be completely correct. Apple does not use TPM for applications running on the OS. HOWEVER, if you might remember, OS X did not easily run on non-apple PCs, even though in theory they should be the same. Articles such as:
http://daringfireball.net/2005/08/trusted
state that Apple specifically used TPM as a means to keep OS X running only on signed Apple HW. This is based off of what the OSx86 grouped claimed (who wrote the hack to get it working on the PCs). So if it's not true, then either they're lying, the hack doesn't really work, or there's misinformation about what happened.
Of course, all of this is besides the point. The hardware on the iPhone exists to do TPM, and to sign the binaries. Apple does not have a past of doing this, but it's not impossible for them to either -
Re:SQL
also looks like it has some kind of SQL server, or at least a client designed to connect to one:
SELECT name, rootpage, sql, %d FROM '%q'.%s WHERE %s
Or a library that somehow supports SQL queries against a database, even if the database code is built into the library rather than running in a server, such as, oh, say, SQLite, as per this crash log which says one of the shared libraries MobileMail was using was "/usr/lib/libsqlite3.0.dylib"?
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Re:Apple ends up looking bad (er, less than great)I'm an American jackass spending $2k on phones because they can play H.264, have a nice UI, and won't crash, LOL.
Correction: you are an american jackass buying an apple 1.0 (meaning: it's unstable, as most apple 1.0 hardware/software).
People are already having problems with their mail program crashing.
You are an american jackass buying a beautiful, lusty phone, but that doesn't have lots of standard features people expect on phones, such as:- No filesystem access: which means you can't download stuff with the browser, no attaching files in mail
- No flash or java in safari
- Crippled bluetooth: not even file transfer
- You can't use the phone as a modem
- No usb mass storage support
And even some of the features are badly implemented:- No copy and paste
- No landscape mode outside safari
- No junk mail filter
- No IM
- No GPS, a bummer on google maps
I am glad the phone won't be available ever in Venezuela. It is a pretty phone, the UI is mostly great, you have a great browser, but they could have made the phone better. -
Re:The software
It looks like it really is OS X. John Gruber posted a Mail.app (actually called MobileMail.app on the iPhone) crash log that reveals all sorts of interesting about the filesystem layout, including the existence of
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Re:The software
It looks like it really is OS X. John Gruber posted a Mail.app (actually called MobileMail.app on the iPhone) crash log that reveals all sorts of interesting about the filesystem layout, including the existence of
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Re:74GB capacity?
See Regarding the 80 GB iPhone Capacity in the Activation and Sync Video for John Gruber's take on it.
JP
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It needs to be said: FUCK "corporate IT."
I think Apple has pretty effectively proven by now that it can do just fine without having to shuffle and buckdance for "corporate IT." When has "corporate IT" ever led the way in anything? The average corporate IT department is staffed by some of the most play-it-safe, unimaginative, "we do what we're told" yes-men you'll find anywhere. It might be HEADED by one or two clueful people, and the general staff may be OTHERWISE intelligent, but creative thinkers and proactive problem-solvers they are not. (In general.)
The PHBs run the show, and if the PHBs are won over by the shininess and sexiness of Apple's new toy, the company's IT department WILL be made to fall in line. If that means turning on IMAP on the Exchange server they sank their money into in their usual lemming-like orgy of uncreativity a few years ago, then that's what will be done. If the iPhone is anything approaching a hit, third-party software vendors will quickly come in and offer products to make sure the iPhone bends to all manner of paranoid corporate needs. And the PHBs will say "buy that third-party software so the iPhone works with our system." Or maybe they'll even say "chuck the server solution we have and go with something that works better with the iPhone."
Apple's very much on a "fuck you very much" roll these days when it comes to Microsoft, so you'll not see any Exchange interoperability any time soon. And finally, Apple's in a place where they can afford to be so cocky. (I prefer to say it's not cockiness, but rather, a demonstrated commitment to choosing open-source, open-standard solutions over a competitor's proprietary solution.) Let's say the iPhone DOESN'T get anywhere in corporate IT. Big deal; the iPod -- and let's be honest, the Macintosh too -- prove that Apple will thrive without the blessing of corporate IT departments.
In short, Apple just doesn't NEED corporate IT. And I am INCREDIBLY sick and tired of hearing the usual Wall Street and "me-too" tech industry press JACKASSES continue to make the same retarded braying sounds, every time Apple does -- well, anything, about how the "lack of acceptance by corporate IT" will DOOM Apple to failure. Right. So they should be going out of business any day now, no?
Fact is, Apple is one of those companies that sets the agenda FAR more often than it follows it. The real short-sightedness here is among all those self-proclaimed "experts" who seem to believe that the status quo is the way it'll always be. Yeah. That's why we're all still using WANG terminals and VMS. Or the GEM desktop. Or desktop computers made by IBM. Hell, I bet they'd have you believe Microsoft will still be ruling the desktop in 15 years. (Not saying Apple will, but Microsoft? Nah.) Dipshits.
Daring Fireball says most of the above well, also.
FYI, not buying the iPhone, despite being somewhat of an Apple fanboy and Mac consultant by trade. I DO have the ability to see the iPhone's shortcomings, believe it or not . . . -
Re:Yawn
Apparently the WSJ author means MS Outlook lock-in, but I'm willing to wager Lotus Notes was meant as well. Many IT departments hang on to it as a way of defending their little empire. Unix and Mac users in fact liked to joke that part of why Windows took over the corporate world lies in how much support it needs, and so choosing it meant ensuring the company would still need you and even give you some underlings.
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Daring Fireball
John Gruber has an article about this, for those interested.
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Re:Pie Chart is all about marketing
Having people browse the web with Safari on Windows does nothing for Apple's bottom line.
Not necessarily.
But the primary reason is simply money. Safari is a free download, but it's already one of Apple's most profitable software products.
It's not widely publicized, but those integrated search bars in web browser toolbars are revenue generators. When you do a Google search from Safari's toolbar, Google pays Apple a portion of the ad revenue from the resulting page. (Ever notice the "client=safari" string in the URL query?)
from Daring Fireball
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Re:The reason Safari is on Windows...
...isn't to entice people to buy a Mac.
It's to act as a development vehicle for iPhone, since all third party iPhone apps will be rich Web 2.0/AJAX applications.
Exactly. In addition, they might be hoping to make some money from search results, in the same way the Mozilla Foundation does:
"It's not widely publicized, but those integrated search bars in web browser toolbars are revenue generators. When you do a Google search from Safari's toolbar, Google pays Apple a portion of the ad revenue from the resulting page. (Ever notice the "client=safari" string in the URL query?)" - source
This suggestion seems to be confirmed by the behavior I noticed: when you try to create a bookmark to google.com, or even to set it as your homepage. It'll popup a window asking you whether you really want to set google as your homepage (or bookmark it), as "you can already use the search bar to search google anyway". -
Re:Maynor's exploit seems to be real
All you need to know about Maynor, from the level-headed and well-spoken John Gruber:
http://daringfireball.net/search?q=maynor
Gruber is probably somewhat biased in favour of the Mac as a platform but certainly has no compunctions about taking Apple to task for their flaws either.
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Re:Safari on Windows....What's in it for Apple?They get paid for every Google search done through the integrated search form. That's worth something.
From Mr. Gruber at Daring Fireball:According to this report by Ryan Naraine, for example, the Mozilla Foundation earned over $50 million in search engine ad revenue in 2005, mostly from Google.
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No, he was not.
No, he was not.
Geez, if you really believe that whole Ou-invented idea that Apple somehow "orchestrated" a smear campaign against Maynor and got Dalrymple and Chartier to play along with them, you should stop reading zdnet and start reading a real news outlet. It's one of the most inane tech conspiracy theories I've ever heard. -
Re:Open Letter
I don't know if someone already has mentioned, but I think Safari is a smokescreen. Real intention might be to bring back OPENSTEP to Windows, or the Yellow Box on Windows. Just like Intel version of OS X was secretly maintained at Apple, it would appear that OPENSTEP was alive and well at Apple. That Safari runs on Windows implies that other Cocoa apps can run on Windows as well. I don't know what this means in grand scheme of things, but one benefit Apple could have is to attract third party developers.
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Re:Cool
Oh shit, is that the brushed metal theme I see on that screenshot there? Somebody'd better give B.M. a call!
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No no noThen he retracted his statement, saying he didn't know if it was the _default_ or not. Here's his quote, from a link on Daring Fireball:
I don't know Apple's product plans for Leopard so it certainly wouldn't be appropriate for me to confirm anything. [...] There certainly have been plenty of published reports from various sources that ZFS is in Leopard, I guess we will all have to wait until it is released to see if ZFS made it as the default, or if they simply announce that it will become the default in a future release.
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Re:Neooffice - differences?
Getting a LITTLE off topic, but thanks to both of the posts clarifying the relationship of Carbon and Cocoa! As I said, I'm the new guy! But a little more quick research finds that a significant enough part of the community has a hard time with the differences as well. A few informative bits here:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2001/05/23/coc oa_vs_carbon.html
http://blogs.msdn.com/rick_schaut/archive/2004/02/ 10/70789.aspx
http://daringfireball.net/2006/10/some_assembly_re quired
http://wilshipley.com/blog/2006/10/pimp-my-code-pa rt-12-frozen-in.html
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Re:"Just a phone"? Want to bet?
Obviously they won't reach 70+% market share. That was also not the comparison I was making. I was merely pointing out that calling the iPhone "just a phone" because it doesn't do more than other cell phones was similar to calling the iPod "just an iPod" because when it came out, it didn't do more than other MP3 players.
And yes, the iPhone is already a game changer. No high-end phone manufacturer can afford to ignore the iPhone or "keep going as it always has." If they do, the iPhone may very well soon break the 1% market share Apple is aiming for. And, in fact, the other manufacturers aren't ignoring the iPhone: LG, Palm; and Palm again.
So far, cell phones were about hardware design and lifestyle ads. Apple is changing the game, and we'll all benefit.