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You really don't understand how crappy Flash is to begin with.

Well it is rumored to turn blue when exposed to moisture.

From october 2007, iChat Invisible Effect: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=377104

Both Apple and Nokia are investigating similar technologies for use for their touch screens, so chances are pretty good that at least one of these neat ideas will reach the market. That is, unless they get bogged down in a patent war over this too. (Microsoft's patent predates Apple's by nearly half a year it seems.)

I didn't say a single word about phones vs handhelds for gaming.

As far as gaming on phones are concerned, check out some of these numbers. Keep in mind that article is now a year and a half old.

Not to mention the elephant in the room.

I'm not saying that smartphone gaming will ever replace actual handhelds, but they still sell a hell of a lot of copies. To pass them off as being anything other than a growing business is foolish.

If you compare what is available on Android to what is Available on iOS, the vast majority of games worth playing are currently only available on iOS. Again, that has NOTHING to do with handhelds...I'm talking strictly about phones here.

Yes, it does. As usual, Slashdot misses the important part of the story, and misinformed nerd rage follows, getting worked up over false assumptions based on an incomplete picture. See:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=11307946&postcount=134
http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=11308180&postcount=144

Thanks for posting your expectations about something you know nothing about though.

Right back at ya.

Yes, it does. As usual, Slashdot misses the important part of the story, and misinformed nerd rage follows, getting worked up over false assumptions based on an incomplete picture. See:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=11307946&postcount=134
http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=11308180&postcount=144

Thanks for posting your expectations about something you know nothing about though.

Right back at ya.

Au contraire, Apple has over 20% of all PC sales now

Retail does not include most Business PC purchases... so I stand uncorrected.

Here is my keynote liveblog reference:

- NPD says Mac's share of retail sales in the U.S. was 20.7%.

Sun (now Oracle) supplies Java for all other platforms. They have their own release schedules, which are almost always different than ours, so the Java we ship is always a version behind. This may not be the best way to do it.

This hints that someone else will be taking over the JVM on Macs.

Why, with the exception of removing direct internal MacRumors links, this "story" looks to be identical wording to the MacRumors story on this.

This is the kind of culture they've wrought, where updates typically come annually. After all, if processors double transistor count every 2 years, surely Apple isn't too profligate in updating annually?

(I'll assume GP is an original MBA owner and hasn't noticed processor bumps, or is merely pining for the ability to self-upgrade. In the latter case, you know what you were getting into when you got an Apple, boyo.)

According to the Mac Buyer's Guide, it's way overdue too (days since update: 492).

There of course is an art to Apple lying, take this for example http://www.macrumors.com/2010/09/17/analyst-suggests-tablet-cannibalization-responsible-for-shrinking-u-s-notebook-retail-sales/. The claim is iPad is hurting notebook sales, the graph certainly looks like it, hmm, but wait that is a sales "GROWTH" chart. So not the number of units sold but the percentage more units sold than in previous cycles.

Quick thinking look at the graph, big drop in growth, oh yeah those two bargain months, with a huge jump in sales sucked up all the growth in the following months - hard plain reality. iPad sells, to people who one an apple computer and an iPhone and an iPod in that majority and the kind of customer they are means they went out and bought one at the earliest opportunity, so it reflects a peculiar market group not the overall market, like the Apple marketdroid PR=B$ suggests (so it is more interesting for psychologists to analyse that particularly marketing susceptible market that for the IT industry at large to base products on).

And yet, that's old technology (Apple released their 30" monitor in 2004 ... that's the same one they still sell today. Even earlier than that, IBM sold a 200dpi greyscale monitor back near 1999/2000 that was 2560x2048, intended for doctors viewing x-rays.

Before the HD standards were finalized, you could get higher resolution TVs, because there was no limit set.

Samsung and a few others had "Quad HD" monitors (3840 x 2160) on the market for a while, but I believe they've all been discontinued. (and it also cost something like US$25k)

1) iOS has a file manager. Complete with rm, cp, mv etc.

A built-in one? Do you have a citation for that? I'm not saying you're wrong, but I have never seen that anywhere, and have seen several posts like this bemoaning the lack of a file manager. I understand you can SSH into an iPhone, but I'm talking about a user-level file manager and command line. (Incidentally, command line access isn't the same thing as having a file manager. A file manager is a program which manages files (e.g., Windows Explorer, Nautilus, etc.).

Your problem is that Apple doesn't want you to (trivially) access any of these things. That doesn't mean that iOS doesn't have them. They're easily available if you jailbreak. And you're going to have to do more than jailbreak to run Chrome.

First, don't kid yourself: Apple doesn't want you to do any of those things at all. If it was up to Apple, jailbreaking would be illegal, and they'd be more than happy if any attempt to jailbreak bricked your phone.

Second, if it doesn't exist in the UI, for all intents and purposes, it doesn't exist. The UI controls what average users can do.

You're absolutely right about Chrome. That's one of the reasons I wouldn't use it on a tablet. A tablet should let you do all the things I mentioned without having to use Google to figure out have to get admin rights in your own system.

The question is whether the real reason for them to disallow Flash is really being "outdated" and "slow" or the fact that it would bypass the AppStore and take away their 30% cut.

In fact, their recent change in policy (allowing any tool as long as it doesn't download code) seems to back up that assertion - it's fine for Flash apps to be developed for the iPhone as long as Apple gets their cut.

There is no "cut" if the app is free.

The question is whether the real reason for them to disallow Flash is really being "outdated" and "slow" or the fact that it would bypass the AppStore and take away their 30% cut.

In fact, their recent change in policy (allowing any tool as long as it doesn't download code) seems to back up that assertion - it's fine for Flash apps to be developed for the iPhone as long as Apple gets their cut.

Because very few people are forced to use Apple products, but plenty of people are forced to use MS products...

I would beg to differ. Taking a random example, you cant use an ipod without installing endless Apple crap on your computer. I was forced to install quick time and iTunes and they came with other programs that auto run in the background and the updater tried repeatedly to sneakily install Safari and God knows what else. So taking one of the many iPod models, the iPod touch, thats an esimated 45 million people who have been forced to use Apple software products, hardly very few and thats just one of potentially thousands of product examples.
http://www.macrumors.com/2010/09/06/total-ipod-touch-sales-estimated-at-over-45-million/

http://www.macrumors.com/2010/08/25/apple-media-event-scheduled-for-september-1st/ I'm not sure if I'd like the $.99 rentals, but the cheaper iTV sounds intriguing.

Android's market share isn't close to #1, it's #4 in the US (unless it's passed Windows Mobile, which should be happening right around now), and that's higher than its worldwide share.

I think you are confusing market share with new phone sales. Market share is how much of the market is using a particular manufacturer's product. New sales is how many new customers in a certain, recent period bought a manufacturer's product. Last quarter, Android rocketed ahead of iOS in new sales, but it still doesn't even have half the market share, in the US or worldwide.

In the US, market share is:
RIM 35%
Apple 28%
Microsoft 15%
Android 13%

And while Apple's percentage of new sales did drop last quarter, they still had worldwide sales growth up 61% for the quarter. Market share percentage fell because Android sales grew by 886% in the quarter. The point that Android sales are doing really well is true, but they're no where near #1 in market share yet.

Re to your door
http://guides.macrumors.com/Twentieth_Anniversary_Macintosh
~"The $10,000 price tag also included delivery by a limousine and installation by a man wearing a tuxedo."

These wallpaper apps cannot access your contact's phone numbers, SMS messages or personal information.

Check out the manifest permissions on the apps in question. It is the last item that is the problem.

!Storage
modify Delete

!Your location
coarse (network-based) location

!Network communication
full Internet access

!Phone calls
read phone state and identity

The permission only allow the app to read the IMEI number of your phone (your hardware's unique identifying number), your phone number, and your currently programmed voice-mail number. If you hard coded your voice-mail password as part of your voice-mail number, then they have that too.

They shouldn't be stealing this info, and Google should separate "read phone state" from "read identity", but the stories on this app stating that your SMS's, contacts and grandmother's girdle being stolen and sent to China just plain wrong.

A kid tricked Apple into letting a tethering application through. So yeah, of course this could end up on the Apple app store.

The thing this story misrepresents is that voicemail passwords were not "hacked". Everything else this application purloined is also available to every other application with the same capabilities, because there are legitimate reasons for some applications to use them.

All of these problems would go away if people had more knowledge and control over the data that goes in and out of their devices. For some reason, we built our computer infrastructure on a model of secret promiscuity, on the ideology of "it's good to share everything!" and "hide everything complicated from the user, and make decisions for them!"

"Nobody can figure out that an nVidia 320M is supposed to be better than an nVidia 9400M."

Yes it's very difficult....

1) google "320m vs 9400M"
2) first link: "There aren't any benchmarks out yet for the 320m, but it is better than the 9400m"

requires two steps, that's very hard, nobody could possible figure that out.

Ah, the beauty of statistical slight of hand.

Actually, the REAL interesting ratio would be how many iPhone 4 vs. OTHER MANUFACTURERS calls are dropped.

Also, didn't I read somewhere that this seems to be primarily an ATT phenomenon? Did you ever stop to think that Apple couldn't exactly come out and say "Well hey, don't blame us. It's AT&T's shitty network."

I think the real problem is that, since the antenna design and circuitry IS actually better (higher gain overall), what is ACTUALLY happening is that people are able to place calls in more marginal areas than with the 3GS (several anecdotal reports around the intarwebs seem to confirm this); but those calls are VERY "fragile". Move your hand, or move your body, and that call that JUST makes it through at -120dBm(?) is suddenly below the PLL lock threshold at -122dBm (or whatever the magic cutoff is), and BAM! There goes your call. Whereas, the 3GS wouldn't even ATTEMPT the call at those signal levels.

And according to Jobs during the Q&A after this announcement, the Bloomberg story (that Gizmodo cites) is bullshit.

Funny thing is, according to Mac Rumors, Consumer Reports rated iphone4 higher than all other smartphones... including Androids. http://www.macrumors.com/2010/07/12/aside-from-signal-issue-consumer-reports-rates-iphone-4-highest-amongst-all-smartphones/

I haven't done it on a Mac, only on a PC under Linux (more or less following this documentation). You may have to find an alternate tool to send the ATA Security commands to the drive, if hdparm isn't working.

Mind you, the drive has to support ATA Security commands (some may not) and has to be in an 'unfrozen' state (many BIOSes/EFI firmware freezes the drive at boot). This may mean you'd need to power cycle (disconnect/connect) the drive while the computer is running to unfreeze it (which, as long as the drive is entirely unmounted, is safe for an SATA drive). You might also be able to boot with it disconnected and plug it once booted instead.

There seems to be some information (some similar to what I've already mentioned) specifically pertaining to Macs/OSX here, though I haven't tested it.

Those emails have now been rejected by Apple as fake.

http://www.macrumors.com/2010/07/01/apple-pr-latest-steve-jobs-email-exchange-is-fake/

Anyone can forge email headers.

You hold the phone in your left hand, you bridge the two antennas, wireless gets affected. That's not rocket surgery.

Next question?

iPhone 4, can NOT Upload 720p Videos to youtube direct from phone! What a Shame see http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=10309456

LINK:

http://forums.macrumors.com/maintenance.html?t=587946

Mac users are very fond of pointing out this distinction, leaving out that trojans and malware, and social engineering, these days are the overwhelming majority of Windows issues as well.

Yes. Yes they are.

Now please list the count of Windows trojans vs. mac trojans. I'll get you started with the Mac count:

1 (or is this trojan actually in the wild yet?)

After all, we are talking about active trojans in the wild...

Do you not think that a system with a few orders of magnitude fewer active security threats might not, in fact, be more secure for the average user.

No I don't. I just believe that the claim that Mac has no such issues now is proven wrong. That is all. Nobody have claimed that Windows doesn't have a longer list of malware in the wild.

And questioning whether this one is in the wild is either disingenuous or you haven't RTFA or anything else on the subject. This is clearly proven to be in the wild, fx as a disguised iPhoto app for download.

Among some of the first Mac OSX trojans discovered in the wild was this one in 1996: http://www.macrumors.com/2006/02/16/the-first-mac-os-x-virus-a-new-os-x-trojan/.

And in 1997: http://boingboing.net/2007/10/31/mac-trojan-in-the-wi.html

Then you had these two: http://www.scmagazineus.com/two-in-the-wild-trojans-target-mac-os-x/article/111551/ . The ARDAgent one was drive-by stealth install (which Mac users also are fond of pointing out is a Windows only problem)

You've had a handful of others in the wild as well, like:
http://blog.trendmicro.com/mac-os-x-dns-changing-trojan-in-the-wild/ http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/30265/iservices-trojan-removal-tool

etc. There are more, but again, I'm not in any way claiming the list isn't shorter than similar Windows list, nobody is. But the claim that Mac OSX have no such malware in the wild have clearly been proven wrong (a long time ago).

The link in the summary is to Mac Rumors, not to Mac OS Rumors, which is an unrelated site.

So I checked apple.com, and the *upgrade* is only $29, but if you're running an older 10.4 system then you need the full OS. That costs $170.

No, that's Apple trying to recover some of the money they didn't get when you skipped Leopard by selling you a package that includes iWork and iLife. But you can simply buy the regular, $29 version of Snow Leopard and install it directly:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=806789

Did you really think they expected you to install Leopard and then Snow Leopard on top of it if you decided to make a clean install or if your drive crashed and you were installing on a new drive? Come on, they are not that evil!

The case you're trying to put together here just isn't compelling. I really doubt that a significant number of high schoolers are getting training in AutoCAD or Micros POS, and apparently the AutoCAD gap may not be long for this world anyways. But I do think it's telling that, when asked to come up with examples of critical Windows-only software, you replied with:

1) a CAD program that costs thousands of dollars per seat, which you'd be lucky to find on ten or twenty computers in even a well-funded high school.

2) a point of sale system designed to be usable by people who have never had meaningful interaction with computers.

I don't consider .NET a compelling argument. First, because Microsoft developed it specifically to keep software development tied to the Windows platform. Second, because I -- a Linux user for eight years before I finally lost my senses and bought a Mac a few months ago -- have never once found myself thinking, "Maybe I should try Mono so that I can try out NiftySuiteX."

By the same style of argumentation, you could say that if a high schooler aspires to a career where Macs seem especially strong, like graphical design, filmmaking, music composition, or web design and development, a school that requires a PC is hamstringing her future career prospects.

I speak from experience when I say that the "huge training costs" just don't exist. My work runs a Mac-only shop*, not because of some inherent superiority of the platform, but because we're a non-profit and somebody donated a metric buttload of Mac hardware to our parent organization about ten years ago. I've seen plenty of volunteers and staff come through over the years, and despite the fact that most of them have virtually no Mac experience, I've never seen these huge training costs you've been rambling about. It's not like you have to teach people how to use Finder. It's not like it takes weeks to say, "It's apple-v to paste and apple-c to copy**". All the major end-user concepts (desktop, file browser, drag-n-drop, trashcan, web browser, office suite, etc.) are cross-platform, and don't really require explanation. Nor have I seen a non-coding environment where people were expected to install their own software or otherwise maintain their own computers. That stuff falls either to a specialized IT group, or to some self-appointed guru.

What little burden exists is minuscule compared to the burden of teaching the specialized applications that proliferate in any office environment.

"Giant waste of time and money?" I doubt it. You'd be right to be torched that a high school would require parents to buy kids a laptop, and worse, an especially expensive type of laptop, and double-worse when you consider that it's a public high school. The one-laptop-per-child concept*** is an expensive boondoggle, unless they're doing something really innovative with those laptops. Most schools don't; they just use the laptops as adjuncts to the traditional model.

But I'm sorry, the idea that teaching kids on Macs puts them at some huge disadvantage in the job market still strikes me as unlikely, even laughable.

* Okay, except for that one Ubuntu box I installed for volunteers to use.

** I've decided that these are the only two shortcuts most people know. I've done everything in my power to popularize apple-f and apple-a, but you have to choose your battles.

*** As opposed to the One Laptop Per Child program, which I'm a big fan of.

Apple has provided the API's to do the hardware decoding, and Adobe has a beta called Gala which has Mac OSX Hardware Acceleration enabled.. Adobe will have a release out soon that will incorporate the hardware decoding in OSX. My guess is Adobe had to fast-track the release of 10.1 to compensate for the wide open security holes they had lingering, and weren't prepared to merge the beta and the final release trees.

People seem to forget that Eric Schmidt (Google CEO) joined Apple's Board of Directors on August 29, 2006. He served for three years and, by all accounts, overstayed his welcome.

Sprint probably won't get it since their 4G is WiMax not LTE like everybody else.

Well, coincidentally (and conveniently), a rumor about that very thing hit the wires today. Just a rumor, of course, but an interesting one.

Thats because the iPhone doesn't have a SD reader so no memory upgrades, no easy way to transfer files beyond that bloated software program iTunes, no uploading good quality pictures instantly to the internet from a digital camera.... how quaint.

Why would it get rejected from the app store?

Why did this app get rejected? It didn't even violate any rules. Apple could do the same thing to Hulu if they wanted--you never know, that's the thing.

If Steve Jobs decides next week that audio-only songs are simply not useful and that from now on only songs with videos can be used on the device, then your are forced to bend over and take it, because you've already signed control of your device over to a technological caretaker.

A long time ago around the beginning of the Mac OS X era, Steve Jobs said, "Once you add a feature, you can't take it away". You seem to be confusing never allowing a feature in the first place with taking it away once it is there. How does what you said apply to Flash and why are you making up false pretenses?

Unfortunately, I remember reading the quote many years ago but google seems to be getting forgetful, so my reference is horrible.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=9840543&postcount=11 All the pages loaded from a local source (as seen in the image linked), so this is a render demo only. I will admit that the render speeds are lightning fast and I've come to prefer Chrome over FF for my casual browsing. However, If I'm doing research of any kind, I know I'm going to have some 50+ tabs and until Chrome has a tree style tab plugin, FF has the job.

And I can't possibly see that threat as a good thing, even in the eyes of the most hard-core Apple cheerleader/fanatic.

I think you're much too kind here to your average apple fanboy, or you are not reading sites like MacRumors. Here's an example that is coherently written (a big plus among posts from people who would like to see Apple buy ARM)

sometime in the future they will probably be able to re-buy their Disney DVDs for the iPad.

The future is now (actually, since 2006).

No, you are contractually obligated to run Apple OSes on 'Apple Branded hardware.'

IANAL, but I understand contract law and licensing law are separate animals, and licenses are not as binding as contracts. Despite pressing "I agree" you don't actually sign anything; the thing you're agreeing to is just a license, and unreasonable license requirements are sometimes judged invalid by the courts. If you bought a valid copy of OS X and ran it on a non-Mac I doubt anything bad would happen to you (aside from finding out your OS has stopped working after installing an update designed to deliberately sabotage your type of installation from your friends in Cupertino).

None of which contradicts the core idea of your statement, of course. The Psystar lawsuit was about this specific license requirement and Psystar argued that it's not valid. They lost this argument and are appealing.

No, you are contractually obligated to run Apple OSes on 'Apple Branded hardware.'

IANAL, but I understand contract law and licensing law are separate animals, and licenses are not as binding as contracts. Despite pressing "I agree" you don't actually sign anything; the thing you're agreeing to is just a license, and unreasonable license requirements are sometimes judged invalid by the courts. If you bought a valid copy of OS X and ran it on a non-Mac I doubt anything bad would happen to you (aside from finding out your OS has stopped working after installing an update designed to deliberately sabotage your type of installation from your friends in Cupertino).

None of which contradicts the core idea of your statement, of course. The Psystar lawsuit was about this specific license requirement and Psystar argued that it's not valid. They lost this argument and are appealing.

It's the same lie as with fixed broadband. The (mobile/fixed) operators have limited bandwidth, which is very costly to upgrade, and yet they want to drive increasing revenue through new applications. To put it simply, they don't want you actually using all the services you purchased to the full...for example:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=833011
I love the part where the AT&T drone says "we have to educate our [power] users"; translated as "shit, they're actually using the bandwidth they paid for!"

"The most annoying? That nobody has hacked Snow Leopard to restore real units."

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=777991

Actually, someone HAS hacked Snow Leopard to do exactly that:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=8484389&postcount=54