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If a service isn’t using Apple’s in-app purchase platform, it can’t provide an outside link to purchase a subscription service.

We found that your app provides access to external mechanisms for purchases or subscriptions to be used in the app, which is not in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines.

This guideline states that apps "that link to external mechanisms for purchases or subscriptions to be used in the app, such as a 'buy' button that goes to a web site to purchase a digital book, will be rejected."

Microsoft reportedly offered to remove paid subscription options from its SkyDrive application to comply with Apple's rules. But Apple felt that move wasn't enough, as users can still sign up for the SkyDrive service through the application.

You might prefer more freedom. I'm not sure exactly how that will benefit you, but that's not for me to say. It's simply good enough that you (and others) have different preferences. Fair enough. Fortunately, Android is available and does exactly what you want.

So what's to complain about? Is anyone forcing you to use Apple's App Store? I've never heard of that happening.

maybe i like everything else about apple. i suppose its difficult for the koolaid-drinkers like yourself that will swallow whatever apple gives you to understand that normal people may have a criticism or two about the platform which doesnt necessarily mean we are going to use something else, i am sure you believe the privilege of them allowing you to use their platform is enough to suppress any thoughts of imperfection or will to have an opinion other than that fed to you by apple. your mentality is that of a pathetic sheep.

If a service isn’t using Apple’s in-app purchase platform, it can’t provide an outside link to purchase a subscription service.

We found that your app provides access to external mechanisms for purchases or subscriptions to be used in the app, which is not in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines.

This guideline states that apps "that link to external mechanisms for purchases or subscriptions to be used in the app, such as a 'buy' button that goes to a web site to purchase a digital book, will be rejected."

Microsoft reportedly offered to remove paid subscription options from its SkyDrive application to comply with Apple's rules. But Apple felt that move wasn't enough, as users can still sign up for the SkyDrive service through the application.

You might prefer more freedom. I'm not sure exactly how that will benefit you, but that's not for me to say. It's simply good enough that you (and others) have different preferences. Fair enough. Fortunately, Android is available and does exactly what you want.

So what's to complain about? Is anyone forcing you to use Apple's App Store? I've never heard of that happening.

maybe i like everything else about apple. i suppose its difficult for the koolaid-drinkers like yourself that will swallow whatever apple gives you to understand that normal people may have a criticism or two about the platform which doesnt necessarily mean we are going to use something else, i am sure you believe the privilege of them allowing you to use their platform is enough to suppress any thoughts of imperfection or will to have an opinion other than that fed to you by apple. your mentality is that of a pathetic sheep.

Right on his doorstep, Windows Phone has double digits already

If this is the case, you posting a citation proving it should be trivial. Or maybe your theory is nice, but it doesn't match reality...

You're right, it is trivial.

Citation 1
Citation 2

These were at the top of a simple google search, and are recent news items.

So yeah, maybe my "theory" (I presented no theory, just an observation of facts. You presented a theory. Please learn the difference) matches reality a bit better than yours.

There is a study, conducted by HP, but they won't even show the Munich team what's in it...

After reading Focus' report, Karl-Heinz Schneider, head of the Munich's municipal IT, immediately asked Microsoft to provide him with the study, however, Microsoft also refused to send it to him

Maybe the savings were based on the opportunity to buy from MS before their massive price hikes?

Citing momentum, Microsoft plans 400% price increase for Windows 8

Today Microsoft announced the suggested final pricing for its Windows 8 operating system: $199.99 for an upgrade Windows 8 Pro. Currently, you can move to Windows 8 Pro for $39.99. Thus, Microsoft plans a 500% increase in the price of the upgrade, starting on February first.

Microsoft is proud of how its operating system has performed thus far, at least publicly: “[w]e are seeing good momentum with Windows 8 today,” the company stated in its blog post announcing the pricing changes.

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2013/01/18/citing-momentum-microsoft-plans-500-price-increase-for-windows-8/

Hosts = a valid work-around per the source article, & I posted this -> http://www.start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&Itemid=74 which is ALL ABOUT custom hosts files, & what they can do for you as the end user of them to your benefit on a myriad of levels...

* It's like getting a turbo-charger for speed, quadruple your websurfing mileage/bandwidth back, a suit of armor vs. online threats, better reliability vs. DNS outages + redirect poisonings, & even better anonymity to an extent vs. DNSBL's & DNS request logs (lessening loads on those though, so "bonus" server-side to them on that account - less usage).

It works... & yes, IS on topic, because it provides the cure:

"Did a traceroute and this reveals an expected result. It is really the DNS which returns a wrong value Ã(TM)59.24.3.173Ã instead of the expected Ã(TM)207.97.227.239Ã, so it looks like a dns poisoning attempt or some other dns issue. Editing your /etc/hosts file or using opendns can help in this case." - FROM -> http://thenextweb.com/asia/2013/01/21/the-chinese-government-appears-to-have-completely-blocked-github-via-dns/

1 that's EASILY end-iser "manual-shift" controlled & made easier so for end users in a multithreaded self-contained single 'stand-alone' executable (pretty sure it could be considered portable too)!

I do both of the above (& tons more, for the concept of "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" -> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000/XP%22&btnG=Submit&gbv=1&sei=u5X-ULHKPJOg8QSr2YC4BA )

APK

P.S.=> Anyhow/anyways - see my subject above! apk

that you have to pay an arm and a leg for in the first place!

Soon to be five arms and five legs.

Citing momentum, Microsoft plans 400% price increase for Windows 8

Today Microsoft announced the suggested final pricing for its Windows 8 operating system: $199.99 for an upgrade Windows 8 Pro. Currently, you can move to Windows 8 Pro for $39.99. Thus, Microsoft plans a 500% increase in the price of the upgrade, starting on February first.

Microsoft is proud of how its operating system has performed thus far, at least publicly: “[w]e are seeing good momentum with Windows 8 today,” the company stated in its blog post announcing the pricing changes.

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2013/01/18/citing-momentum-microsoft-plans-500-price-increase-for-windows-8/

The source article proves me correct by this quote from its content:

"Did a traceroute and this reveals an expected result. It is really the DNS which returns a wrong value â(TM)59.24.3.173â instead of the expected â(TM)207.97.227.239â, so it looks like a dns poisoning attempt or some other dns issue. Editing your /etc/hosts file or using opendns can help in this case." - FROM -> http://thenextweb.com/asia/2013/01/21/the-chinese-government-appears-to-have-completely-blocked-github-via-dns/

* See subject-line above...

APK

P.S.=> This really takes the cake... lol!

... apk

The article has inexplicably vanished. Here's the text from the Google cache while it lasts:

Microsoft needed a great Christmas season. After years of product stagnation, and a big market shift toward mobile devices from PCs, Microsoft’s future relied on the company seeing customers demonstrate they were ready to jump in heavily for Windows8 products – including the new Surface tablet.

But that did not happen.

With the data now coming it, it is clear the market movement away from Microsoft products, toward Apple and Android products, has not changed. On Christmas eve, as people turned on their new devices and launched their first tweet, Surface came in dead last – a mere 2% compared to the number of people tweeting from iPads (Kindle was second, Android third.) Looking at more traditional units shipped information, UBS analysts reported Surface sales were 5% of iPads shipped. And usability reviews continue to run highly negative for Surface and Win8.

PC sales declining

This inability to make a big splash, and mount a serious attack on Apple/Android domination, is horrific for Microsoft primarily because we now know that traditional PC sales are well into decline. Despite the big Win8 launch and promotion, holiday PC sales declined over 3% compared to 2011 as journalists reported customers found “no compelling reason to upgrade.” Ouch!

Looking deeper, for the 4th quarter PC sales declined by almost 5% according to Gartner research, and by almost 6.5% according to IDC. Both groups no longer expect a rebound in PC shipments, as they believe homes will no longer have more than 1 PC due to the mobile device penetration – the market where Surface and Win8 phones have failed to make any significant impact or move beyond a tiny market share. Users increasingly see the complexity of shifting to Win8 as not worth the effort; and if a switch is to be made consumer and businesses now favor iOS and Android.

Microsoft’s monopoly over personal computing has evaporated

From 95% market domination in 2005 share has fallen to just 20% in 2012 (IDC, Goldman Sachs.) Comparing devices, in 2005 there were 55 Windows de

warning: your Facebook privacy settings have been reset

"And what if Facebook “accidentally” resets your settings, like what happened to thousands of users this week?"

It happens, often, to a lot of people. You're either lucky, or lying.

Wouldn't it be just easier to use no prefixes and have it magically work on all browsers?

If they're competent developers worth their salt, they'll list the nonstandard prefixes first, followed by the standard supported so things degrade gracefully. Its not like management likes to spend more money than they have to on things, even if it means brittle software. Done in by their own greed? Web development is further from traditional software development than closer and the quality variations attest to the low barriers to entry.

THe point of the story was how great it would be if Webkit owned a HUGE part of the market and how MS will benefit and how webmasters would be happy

How great is it is where we are presently at. It's not about developers being happy, it's about users. Without users buying these products/using software with rich features (because there is a market for them) there wouldn't be services offered for them. Why do users use it (Safari, Chrome)? Because it does what they want (in most cases) better than the competition. Competition is great for the end user because better products are created. Competition is what stopped the cluster fuck from the last decade which Microsoft is still playing catch-up on. Until they've got one of the top 3 positions with their latest browser wouldn't you agree that they're still playing catch up?

Perhaps the reason people use webkit is because it is what comes with their tablets and phones and works everyone? Not because they love it.

I made no claims about love, simply choice. Mobile phones are not bastions of choice, they're the exact opposite of general purpose computers, apples to oranges. Microsoft is late to the party and as such must make extra effort to woo people from entrenched players. Additionally there aren't any 3rd party browser choices on Microsofts platform either. Perhaps if they had moved faster they would've be like BSD to Linux. Your comment ignores the larger desktop market which presently still offers more flexibility software wise. For the sake of argument let's look at Statcounter metrics. Mobile platform market share in the US is split between iPhone and Android. Mobile browser market share lists Safari, Android Browser, and Opera Mini as the top 3 showing how much of an outlier these alternative browsers really are and should illuminate developers and clients support priorities. Most of the companies I've been at, ~10% or less of the market and management decrees we don't make a concerted effort, it's great if it does, but it's not a priority. We're not alone in this either.

So my point is to learn from your mistakes. Not repeat them and the more engines and adherence to a uniform way of functioning the better.

Even better, learn from the mistakes of others. The mistakes you're referring to should be attributed to the web developers, not the vendors, as the browsers support standards. Much like the situation where shoddily programmed applications require administrator rights to function and Microsoft incorrectly getting the ire of users when the developers are at fault for failing to follow proper coding conventions. Tools (markup) when wielded properly with experience and skill enable great things.

Why do people just make things up as you've done here?

Using the built in browser, browsing to maps.google.com redirected to just the generic search page. Google was refusing to serve up the webpage to windows phone users. This has nothing to do with APIs accessing google maps. They blocked the phones' browsers entirely.

To his defense, he just seems to be confusing together two separate recent episodes of Google blocking access to their service for Microsoft platforms.

One was WP8 phones being redirected away from mobile Google maps, just based on browser UA string (if WP8 users faked their UA, the service worked perfectly, so the mobile IE10 browser is fully capable of rendering the code). The other was that Microsoft is not getting the same rich API access to Youtube for WP8 Youtube app as Android and iOS Youtube apps are using, so lacking much of the functionality.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/01/05/calling-shenanigans-on-googles-windows-phone-8-maps-narrative/ http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/microsoft-fuming-over-google-block-of-youtube-windows-app-102979

It's even worse than that; those corporations you mentioned are buying up patent portfolios IN CONJUNCTION WITH patent mega-trolls like Intellectual Ventures. They are the mafia bosses of this whole syndicate, and they don't want anyone else on their turf.

They don't care if its an iPhone or not and I bet if all android type phones were lumped into a single category they would be just as high in theft rate as iDevices and maybe even higher.

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/12/16/these-muggers-want-iphones-only-let-owners-keep-droid-blackberry/

"Three separate incidents have seen students from Columbia University contact police after being stopped on 114th Street and asked to hand over mobile phones to the muggers. The thieves stole one victimâ(TM)s iPhone, but they reported rejected the opportunity to snatch a Motorola Droid, instead preferring to take cash, and reacted violently when a third victim claimed she did not own the Apple device."

So, you’ve got to balance, I guess you could say church and state, you got to balance that user experience, so that, in our case, we try to do one for 24 hours, no more, if it’s a real intrusive ad, and then we measure, you measure.

Well, I will try to torture Mark Westlake for 24 hours if it REALLY hurts.

My god... and the "none of our readers will be using adblockers" crap further down... WHY DO YOU THINK ANYONE WITH A BRAIN RUNS AN AD BLOCKER?

Because it is the only way to keep some fucking sanity! READ the quote again. For 24 hours... what is MISSING is per what? He tries to run a really intrusive ad only 24 hours per day? Wow, well that is protecting the user experience alright, if said user experience is absolute horror.

Not this guy does NOT state that they only test a potential new ad for how intrusive it is for 24 hours max and then measure the response to this new idea and then decide for or against using it again. That is NOT what he is saying. He is saying that if a really intrusive ad comes his way, he will run it BUT only for 24 hours because he knows that if he does it longer EVERYONE will leave. He does not limit how many DIFFERENT really intrusive ads he runs, just that any singular REALLY intrusive ad gets run for a maximum of 24 hours so that for a news site, EVERYONE who visits will have seen it... nice guy eh?

I first looked into ad blocking when the ISP I was using at the time ran a banner add that was a blinking nightmare for a service I was already using (UPC Cable) it was REALLY annoying and so I searched in how to block it proxy level so it would work on all my computers and browsers. I never went back but I do routinely update it to catch the new ads.

The reason is simple, give an advertising the finger and they will rape your children and sell their organs. It is NEVER enough for advertisers, the ads will always be more in your face, more jarring, more of them and getting more and more in the way of the content. TV ads are a prime example. Nobody really minded "this program brought to you by" messages. And interupting a 1 hour program three times gives those of us with bladder issues time to relieve themselves. And 4 times an hour, well why not. And 5 times an hour helps those with really bad bladders. And overlying ads over the closing credits hurts nobody. And overlaying ads over the actual program itself... FUCK IT! ENOUGH! NO MORE!

Someone made a nice graph of the DVD experience for pirates vs saps who buy their DVD's in the shops. http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2010/02/19/experience-dvd-pirate-vs-paying-customer/

Much the same can be said for the web browsing experience of those with and without an adblocker. Occasionaly I have to use a non-blocked browser and ARGH! The HORROR, the SLOWNESS, the virusses served by unchecked 3rd party ad servers.

The STUPIDITY of advertisers is such they are their own worst enemy. So... you want to serve me a video ad before I can see the video I want... okay... I am slightly irritated and will associate that irritation with the product you are about to show me but hey, irritation is good in trying to get me to buy something... then I wait for it to load... slowly and the ad is TOTALLY irrelevant to me (some car ad for a SUV that is only available in the US, I don't drive cars, don't like SUV's and am in the EU). Then the real video refuses to load, I reload the page. Same ad again. NOT GOING TO BUY! Want to watch another video, same ad. Another video. Same ad. Week later another video. Same ad... I NOW LOATH THAT CAR AND BRAND WITH A FIERCENESS MOST PEOPLE RESERVE FOR... well other ads to be honest. Dog poo on the sidewalk you just stepped in when you took off your shoe to remove a piece of glass that just boar straight into your big toe you just stumped against something? HAS GOT NOTHING ON THAT CAR AD!

So... I block and... life is wonderful, I get

First off do not tell 90% of corps who standardize on IE 6, 7, and 8 to go hell! Google docs is absolutely useless. Not even IE 8 which is the defecto standard for every single Intranet app in existence. I could see dropping IE 6 (that itself will cost business). Corps must use IE only as it is the only one with group policy, active directory, mass deployment, and a slow release cycle. Before the IE haters mod me down, ask yourselves why aren't you writing extensions to Firefox and Chrome for these features?

Defecto standard? Ain't that the truth. IE9 and lower are now legacy. IE7 is declining in use and is increasingly not worth supporting for many companies. Facebook dropped support for it in 2011. As of November Google dropped support for IE8. Supporting IE8 does have its merits but its now 2 versions behind the current offering, not to mention the partial CSS 2.1 support.

Also GoogleDocs is a glorified wordpad in functionality but with sharing. ...Office 365 has more features, integrates with the MS ecosystem, and supports older versions of IE where upgrading is out of the question and would cost more than savings with free Google Docs.

The internet is just a glorified PC experience with sharing. Microsoft missed the bus once before.

Google needs to:

So they can be just like MS? How is MS strategy working now: their browsers are behind the curve in many respects. Behind the curve is becoming Microsoft's strong suit in many areas. This is valid criticism, not to discount their innovation in other areas (Kinect, Metro, C# etc.)

Support ancient versions of IE.

Why not just have them use a LTS version of Firefox since it supports AD? IE for the shit apps, FF for everything else. If you want legacy software support, you pay for it like everyone else, and looks like the price is increasing. With IE its a pity these proprietary browsers have such shite standards support, maybe if these companies didn't paint themselves into a corner with brittle applications, developed most likely by the lowest bidder (it's low cost for a reason), they'd not be in the boat they're in now. I think it's time to change the mantra 'Nobody was fired for picking a Microsoft solution' since its the managers who are ultimately responsible for these shit sandwich mission critical systems with no exit strategy which have the company by the balls. If you are incompetent enough to be unable to upgrade the views to a system, you're doing it wrong. If it's a boondoggle then have the heads of those responsible, otherwise you will not encourage change, nothing is a motivator like self preservation.

Ancient software is typically bad idea. Old browsers need to go away for one simple reason: they're security nightmares.

With $500,000 worth of ancient apps that browser is not going away!

Support is dwindling. Vacuum tubes still exist after all...

XP users are stuck at IE 8 not to mention IE 8 is targeted for WIndows 7 users as well as it is the universal browser that works with both operating systems.

XP users are overdue for an upgrade, they're 3 versions behind now. I'd say Firefox is arguably the universal desktop browser since it runs on most platforms. A good lesson out of the last decade is standards, screw the 'one true platform.'

You can argue technical facts until you are blue in the face. If it is a cost it wont get adopted PERIOD! It works fine, it is what the PHB bet his reputation on that he feels you are ruining on these apps, workers hate change, it is not sox or

First off do not tell 90% of corps who standardize on IE 6, 7, and 8 to go hell! Google docs is absolutely useless. Not even IE 8 which is the defecto standard for every single Intranet app in existence. I could see dropping IE 6 (that itself will cost business). Corps must use IE only as it is the only one with group policy, active directory, mass deployment, and a slow release cycle. Before the IE haters mod me down, ask yourselves why aren't you writing extensions to Firefox and Chrome for these features?

Defecto standard? Ain't that the truth. IE9 and lower are now legacy. IE7 is declining in use and is increasingly not worth supporting for many companies. Facebook dropped support for it in 2011. As of November Google dropped support for IE8. Supporting IE8 does have its merits but its now 2 versions behind the current offering, not to mention the partial CSS 2.1 support.

Also GoogleDocs is a glorified wordpad in functionality but with sharing. ...Office 365 has more features, integrates with the MS ecosystem, and supports older versions of IE where upgrading is out of the question and would cost more than savings with free Google Docs.

The internet is just a glorified PC experience with sharing. Microsoft missed the bus once before.

Google needs to:

So they can be just like MS? How is MS strategy working now: their browsers are behind the curve in many respects. Behind the curve is becoming Microsoft's strong suit in many areas. This is valid criticism, not to discount their innovation in other areas (Kinect, Metro, C# etc.)

Support ancient versions of IE.

Why not just have them use a LTS version of Firefox since it supports AD? IE for the shit apps, FF for everything else. If you want legacy software support, you pay for it like everyone else, and looks like the price is increasing. With IE its a pity these proprietary browsers have such shite standards support, maybe if these companies didn't paint themselves into a corner with brittle applications, developed most likely by the lowest bidder (it's low cost for a reason), they'd not be in the boat they're in now. I think it's time to change the mantra 'Nobody was fired for picking a Microsoft solution' since its the managers who are ultimately responsible for these shit sandwich mission critical systems with no exit strategy which have the company by the balls. If you are incompetent enough to be unable to upgrade the views to a system, you're doing it wrong. If it's a boondoggle then have the heads of those responsible, otherwise you will not encourage change, nothing is a motivator like self preservation.

Ancient software is typically bad idea. Old browsers need to go away for one simple reason: they're security nightmares.

With $500,000 worth of ancient apps that browser is not going away!

Support is dwindling. Vacuum tubes still exist after all...

XP users are stuck at IE 8 not to mention IE 8 is targeted for WIndows 7 users as well as it is the universal browser that works with both operating systems.

XP users are overdue for an upgrade, they're 3 versions behind now. I'd say Firefox is arguably the universal desktop browser since it runs on most platforms. A good lesson out of the last decade is standards, screw the 'one true platform.'

as far as cellphones go (of which smartphones are a subset), nokia is still (as of 2012) only now second to samsung... nokia still sells more cellphones than apple

http://www.chipchick.com/2012/12/samsung-cellphone-sales.html
http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2012/12/18/for-the-first-time-in-14-years-samsung-passes-nokia-as-top-cellphone-brand-in-2012-apple-in-third/
http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/samsung-bumps-out-nokia-top-phone-maker-beats-apple-smartphones-1C7662756

apple may sell more smartphones than nokia, but more people are still going with the older (and cheaper) symbian-based phones

Since we're already raining on the Google parade, here are some more hard truths in platform adoption...

http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/12/04/android-jelly-bean-hits-6-7-adoption-ics-27-5-but-gingerbread-still-on-over-half-of-devices/

It's time we face it, this sucks. :/

This used to be good advice, because Macs were such a small share of the market that the malware authors didn't bother with them. This isn't quite so true any more.

It is true that Macs are not (relatively) free from threats anymore, but damn, they sure have a lot fewer to deal with. No?

Not anymore. Remember that story posted not so long ago?
http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2012/11/02/microsofts-security-team-is-killing-it-not-one-product-on-kasperskys-top-10-vulnerabilities-list/

Apple is on that list twice (QuickTime and iTunes). Adobe is there a lot. No Microsoft products.

Feel free to bring the conspiracy/fraudulent research theories but really it's time people move on with old stuff.

"The IE vulnerability compromises the security of virtual keyboards and virtual keypads, which can be used to reduce the chance of a keylogger recording every keystroke to learn your credit card numbers, passwords, and other sensitive information .. If you don't use IE, here's a video demonstration of the vulnerability in action":

A number of apps seem to have.

From http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2012/11/27/microsoft-we-have-sold-40-million-windows-8-licenses-thus-far/

Microsoft also informed TNW that a number of Windows 8 applications have crested the $25,000 revenue mark. It is at that threshold that applications pay only a 20% cut to Microsoft, and not the normal 30% fee

Also, see
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kevinash/archive/2012/10/31/my-windows-8-app-approaching-100-000-downloads.aspx

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2012/11/21/inspired-by-a-beetle-that-draws-water-from-the-air-scientist-creates-self-filling-water-bottle

Windows 8 was tested and found to be invulnerable to about 85% of all previous Windows 7 malware. That means there's about 15% of old malware that can infect the new hotness. Depends on your perspective for the precise phrasing, but 'huge chunk' is not completely false.

So nice to read a decent post about the original topic and not another who-to-blame-in-the-middle-east piece. Let's discuss.

I can count the number of serious players in large-scale cyberwar on one hand. Anonymous isn't one of them--and Israel is. Defacing websites and conducting DDoS is something you do to make a point--not make a difference in full-scale military conflict or subversive operations.

One of the things I am most amused by is the explicit reference to Israel's threat to cut off Palestinian internet access as the trigger for their actions. The death of multitudes of innocents on both sides isn't enough reason to take action, but if a Palestinian can't check his email, it's war! That, combined with the stance they took and the targets they are choosing, is a pretty clear indicator of their scope and level of maturity.

I would add one more interesting note worthy of a Slashdot post: In the constant P.R. war that is the Israel-vs.-Palestine conflict, Israel has converted their live blog of events into some sort of a web-based achievement game. They're getting a lot of flack, and it's fair to say it lacks taste, but to me it seems more of a P.R. failure and less an indication of eeeevil. Don't think I'll be trying to grind my Level 11 IDF Rifleman any time soon.

You're talking about previous versions of Windows Phone. Windows Phone 8 is a different OS, and the phones are actually decent now (hardware wise, on par with top android phones).

Windows Phone 8 has only been on sale a few days, so there is no possible way you could be confident in that.

They said the save thing about windows phone 7

http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2010/03/16/7-reasons-windows-7-phone-iphone-killer/
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/080811-windows-phone7.html
http://www.itpro.co.uk/627835/head-to-head-iphone-4-vs-windows-phone-7-vs-android
http://www.aido.com/blogs/my-blog--sanjays-blog/lg-windows-phone-7----the-iphone-killer
http://www.techulator.com/resources/4775-Few-Reasons-Why-Windows-Phone-iphone-killer.aspx

I don't know if you've heard, but Linux/Android PC's are moving 1.5 million units per day, with a half-billion unit installed base.

Exactly!

That totally debunks the market share argument since Android has not seen a malware explosion, even with it's huge market share.

Oh wait...

That's why Google has stated that Android does not need any malware scanner like Windows Defender

Oh, wait...

380 million is nothing to Apple. At least they weren't forced to apologize again. Mea culpa!

Like the parent to your post said, the Nexus 10:

"Google has also been working with Samsung to launch a 10-inch tablet, confirming leaks which suggested Google had teamed up with the Korean manufacturer for another device. Our source tells us that internally the tablet goes under the name “Codename Manta”, runs Google’s new Android 4.2 operating system (previously referred to as Key Lime Pie, but is set to retain the Jelly Bean branding), and will offer a 2560×1600 pixel (16:10) resolution, which we believe will offer around 300 pixels per inch (PPI) compared to the new iPad’s 264 PPI."

http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/10/21/revealed-everything-that-google-will-announce-at-its-android-event-on-october-29/

iPad 16GB with Angry Birds and 700,000 other apps-- $499
Surface 32GB no Angry Birds and fewer than 6,000 apps-- $499
Advantage iPad

iPad 32GB with Angry Birds and 700,000 other apps -- $599
Surface 32GB with no Angry Birds and fewer than 6,000 apps -- $599
Advantage iPad

iPad 64GB with Angry Birds and 700,000 other apps -- $699
Surface 64GB with no Angry Birds and fewer than 6,000 apps -- $699

And no one's going to buy a table to use Office.
Advantage iPad

Maybe NFC is the Betamax
Major League Baseball said that 12% of post season tickets have been used digitally via the new passbook app on iOS 6

You should qualify that percentage. It's only 12% of the single game post season tickets that were sold online, not 12% of all their single game post season tickets.

Also, that percentage doesn't take into account the iPhone users that bought the tickets but got lost on the way there, nor the iPhone users that bought the tickets that were just waved in by staff (or had to reprint their ticket on actual paper at the park itself) because the barcode couldn't be scanned in because of the glare on their screen, and nor does it count the iPhone users that were only trying to remove the unremovable PassBook icon from their homescreen and that ended up buying a ticket to the game by accident instead. :)

Actually, I was only kidding about that last one, iPhone users didn't accidentally buy post season tickets (at least not to my knowledge), but the part about iPhone owners being pissed off at having an unremovable PassBook icon on their homescreen, when most of them have no interest in buying Baseball tickets, nor any interest in PassBook. That part is completely true. Comments of these very upset iPhone users can be found all over the Internet.

You'll find these comments just next to some of the Android phone users complaining about having a NASCAR app on their phone, the only difference being that not all Android phones come with commercial bloatware, only some do, and that when they do, that bloatware can still be removed the homescreen even if it can't be removed from the phone.

That 800 is just 6.5% of the Internet radio streaming. That means the total Internet streaming business is over 15 times larger than that, which (assuming there is no overlap, which is of course quite false, but for the sake of argument) means there are 12,000 people making more than $50k.... which is actually a thriving industry.

Actually, the summary states something different: "Pandora accounts for just 6.5% of radio listening in the U.S". Internet radio pays higher fees than terrestrial radio. So, your calculation is not correct. Here's a quote:

"Consider this: last year Pandora generated $274MM of gross revenue, and paid $136MM of performance royalties — approximately 50 percent of the total revenue. In the same year, SiriusXM, on revenues of $2.7B paid $205M in royalties, or 7.5 percent. Radio delivered over cable television pays 15 percent of revenue. Radio delivered over the FM/AM spectrum pays nothing to performers." http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/09/21/meet-internet-radio-fairness-act-law-will-massive-financial-boon-pandora/

I'm actually confused by the claim that FM/AM radio pay nothing to performers, since I'm pretty sure that they did pay ( see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Society_of_Composers,_Authors_and_Publishers ). Anyway, my point is that you can't take "Pandora accounts for just 6.5% of radio listening in the U.S" and multiply everything by ( 100 / 6.5% ) to come up with a claim that "12,000 people making more than $50k".

There was no purple flare camera issue on the iPhone 4 / 4S

Not true. There was just no hysterical news vomit about it.

http://5.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/iphone-5-haze-on-the-4s.jpg http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/26/the-iphone-5s-camera-suffering-purple-haze-flaw-not-fast/

People tried to call in to report it, but their calls kept dropping.

I'm pretty sure he meant This article. The problem here is you can move any of the cameras a couple of degrees and change the pretty color from white to purple to perhaps blue or red. It's called a prism.

And if anybody thinks that a silly cell phone camera is going to deal with shooting into the sun with any degree of success, you're nuts. "Real" photographers understand that shooting into the sun works only sometimes - depends critically on the angle, the specific lens and camera and the brightness. I would hazard a guess that if the upset iPhone 5 user would simple twist the camera a few degrees, the purple haze would disappear and he would be free to win the Pulitzer Price as well as the National Geographic picture of the year. Or not.

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/26/the-iphone-5s-camera-suffering-purple-haze-flaw-not-fast/

Look at the comparison shots.

Really, These shots make the iPhone 5 look like a flawed piece of crap.

http://hothardware.com/News/Apple-Confirms-iPhone-5-Camera-Flaw-Suggests-Youre-Holding-It-Wrong/

The iPhone4 didn't do this.

The iPhone 4S did. Not sure about the iPhone 4.

http://5.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/iphone-5-haze-on-the-4s.jpg
http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/26/the-iphone-5s-camera-suffering-purple-haze-flaw-not-fast/

And yet it went without comment before. Why? It's a damn good camera for a phone, but it's not a DSLR. It's impossible to have DSLR level photography from phone that's 7.6 mm thick.

We heard the Apple apologists for the maps debacle, now we hear the Apple apologists for the camera debacle...

Look at the comparison pictures on both sites. They are not framed the same way. Both these websites are intentionally going out of their way to make the iPhone 5 look better even though it isn't.

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/26/the-iphone-5s-camera-suffering-purple-haze-flaw-not-fast/ Look at the comparison shots.

There was no purple flare camera issue on the iPhone 4 / 4S

Not true. There was just no hysterical news vomit about it.

http://5.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/iphone-5-haze-on-the-4s.jpg
http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/26/the-iphone-5s-camera-suffering-purple-haze-flaw-not-fast/

Here are photo comparisons with the 4s that do show the 4s with purple fringing.

http://5.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/iphone-5-haze-on-the-4s.jpg [mshcdn.com]
http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/26/the-iphone-5s-camera-suffering-purple-haze-flaw-not-fast/ [thenextweb.com]

Note that camera angle to light source is critical, to get the effect to show up on either phone. In your example comparison, if the photographer tried a bit more he could probably have found the angle to make the purple flare show on the 4S too.

This is a lot of fuss about nothing. But we're used to that with iPhone stories. No other phone gets this level of close examination for flaws. Not enough people care about other phones.

The iPhone4 didn't do this.

The iPhone 4S did. Not sure about the iPhone 4.

http://5.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/iphone-5-haze-on-the-4s.jpg
http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/26/the-iphone-5s-camera-suffering-purple-haze-flaw-not-fast/

And yet it went without comment before. Why? It's a damn good camera for a phone, but it's not a DSLR. It's impossible to have DSLR level photography from phone that's 7.6 mm thick.

by the very nature of the final word, this time around none of the account holders will get a chance to complain... posthumously.

So is the next move after "Would you please rat out your friend for using a nickname?" possibly going to be a particularly considerate pop-up like "Has this friend of yours gone belly-up?"

The travel/shipping expenses on his wax statue is going to be extreme. They will have to lease a new shipping truck every six months.

Okay. What's that, another $1,000,000? I doubt it. Apple has scores of lawyers on staff and a handful of law firms on retainer. It's unlikely that this will make a noticeable change to their workload. Remember the kerfluffle around the iPhone trademark? (http://yro.slashdot.org/story/07/02/22/134238/apple-cisco-settle-iphone-trademark-lawsuit) How about the iCloud trademark? (http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/09/07/icloud-communications-dumps-icloud-trademark-lawsuit-against-apple/) All forgotten now. Money changed hands and everybody went away happy.

Worst case for Apple is that they have to toss the design as well as pay money, in which case they'll have to pull their 2nd choice clock face out of the drawer.

Apple did win some of the design claims, including the front face and bezel etc.

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/08/24/a-verdict-reached-jury-apple-v-samsung-case/

For the infringement of the D’677 patent, covering the front face of the iPhone, Samsung was found to infringe on all devices aside from the Ace. On the D’087 patent, relating to the back of the iPhone, all Samsung devices aside from the S 4G and Vibrant only were found to infringe.

On the D’305 patent, all Samsung devices were found to infringe. That’s the design of Apple’s iOS icons. The jury also felt that Samsung should have known that the icons were being copied

..

Trade Dress

Samsung could not prove that the ’893 trade dress on the iPhone 3G was not protectable. The iPhone 3G trade dress was found to be diluted by many of Samsung’s products, despite not being registered. Only the Captivate, Charge, Epic 4G, Galaxy S 2, Skyrocket, Infuse and Epic 4G touch were found not to dilute the 3G’s trade dress.

The Galaxy S 4G, one of Samsung’s flagship devices, was found to dilute the trade dress of the iPhone 3G, cranking up the damages numbers quite a bit.

Read the link:
http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/19/dutch-security-researchers-hack-apple-iphone-4s-exploiting-safari/

They did it via a malicious webpage, which IMO is even worse than via NFC.

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/19/dutch-security-researchers-hack-apple-iphone-4s-exploiting-safari/

You jest, but that was my first thought too. I suspect that we'll see a sharp uptick in 419s written in Spanish over the next few months now that there are some nice official media reports from third parties to lend some credence to the scam.

There is some indication this is already happening. The Congressional Research Service released a report about it, and the report even used the word "Trolls" in the title.

Still the report is weak on actual recommendations, and spends a portion of its content defending trolls. Its encouraging for an arm of congress to even use the term Trolls, but with no clue as to a recommended solution there is a long way to go.

Evidence him being an "ass" http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/10/27/mystery-solved-why-steve-jobs-car-never-had-a-license-plate/
Evidence that he and Apple like locking stuff down: First off have you never used OS X or any iDevice?, secondly, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in#Apple_Inc., and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Apple_Inc.#Accusations_of_anti-competitive_behavior

bullshit. try saying something negative about android - even if it's based on facts, it'll be modded down.

For example (hey, watch this):

I think it is extremely hypocritical for all the Android fanbois to call for a boycott of Apple because of the Apple/Samsung lawsuit, but at the same time, give a free pass to both Google and Samsung for their abuses

1) Google's FRAND patent abuses - trying to get XBox 360 banned?!
2) Samsung's factories caused cancer, killed people, even the courts agreed, and Samsung refused to pay compensation
3) http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/09/02/heres-samsung-flew-bloggers-halfway-around-world-threatened-leave/ [and not just threaten, but actually left them there stranded - Nokia picked up the tab to send them home!]