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Apple never denies apps or peripherals because they compete with Apple peripherals or apps. Never. The thing you are thinking of is when they don't approve apps that duplicate inherent iPhone/iPod touch functionality. That *can't* fit your idea that this is because it competes with their "own branded and thusly profitable peripherals" (or apps, I assume) (how do they lose a sale on something that is already part of the product?). This is easily explained by Apple's official reason: to keep the core experience intact.

iMovie, GarageBand, Texas Hold'em... These apps *all* have competition on the App Store. Docks, cables, headphones, smart covers, cases... These *all* have competitors in Made For iPod.

Your assertion is completely baseless.

What? I appreciate that you're coming from the Apple is amazing point of view, but seriously?

http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2008/09/13445/ - PodCasting app denied because Apple wants to keep the iTunes monopoly. Not because it duplicates anything on the phone, but because it duplicates functionality on the desktop.

http://androidencyclopedia.com/android-magazine-denied-on-apple-app-store/ - Android mag app denied on the AppStore - well because it's about Android. To me it's a pretty weak argument that you're so afraid of the competition that you attempt to prevent even learning about it? It's the equivalent of security through obscurity, why not compete on merit?

A quick google search shows millions of entries for this. I won't even bother getting into the publishing 30% debacle with in-app purchases which is a transparent attempt to lock down the iPhone to Apple iBooks offering.

Apple has a clear track record of doing this, saying anything else is just lying - definitely to others and potentially to yourself.

They don't control for control's sake. They don't even control for direct profit. They control to make the product more appealing to consumers. Control is *NOT* the purpose, control is the means. The purpose is a good working experience. Apple makes money by making products people want. They do this by making good products, not by controlling people. Every single Apple customer is a voluntary customer. They don't have a monopoly and they aren't a government. You don't hear people say, "I didn't want an [Apple Product], but I had to get one."

They do control for control's sake (although admittedly this is my opinion - since I can't mind read, and neither can you this is only opinion) and they do control for direct profit.

Yes a side effect of that control is somewhat of a decent working experience, but it were control for a good working experience then they would be more transparent with it - after all you want people to know what the control is, you don't want a confusing, variable and whimsical control experience unless you're after the control for the sake of control.

A well defined process with clear steps, feedback and acknowledgement would provide you with far more efficient (and I believe more effective) control for the purpose of providing a great working experience - but that isn't what the App Store has. And feel free to say it does, but it's really really easy to come up with counter arguments.

In other words, no, you can't cite a single example.

Not for the hardware side, no - but then again you can't provide evidence that they are all bunnies and light on hardware. For me the balance of probabilities indicate that they are as controlling on the hardware side as they are on the software side. There are millions of examples of that control (and don't get me wrong - sometimes that control is a good thing) on the software side. If you can show me that Apple is really a completely different company when it comes to MFI, great (although a weird split personality

Absolutely wrong. You're very misinformed.

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/20/commodore64-iphone-app-finished-denied-by-apple/

http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2008/09/13445/

http://www.iphonefreak.com/2011/02/sony-reader-denied-app-store-debut.html

http://mobihealthnews.com/6932/interview-the-iphone-medical-app-denied-510k/

http://gizmodo.com/5611169/why-the-hell-did-apple-pull-camera%252B-from-the-app-store

Google around, you'll find a million similar cases. Developers hear that their apps will be fine, and then at the last minute they are denied and not told why. It takes them alot of calling and emails to Apple and takes months before they can even find out why.

Judging from Apple's page, all the gestures are the same as the ones used by the current MacBook Pro trackpad. Apple didn't even bother to change the preferences panel (screenshot). Apple's claim to fame is keeping things simple as possible for consumers, and adding gestures that aren't supported by any other Apple device would tend to run against that.

Seeing as Apple has never bothered to provide official Windows driver support for their peripherals, I wouldn't hold my breath on that, either. Somebody will probably rip the appropriate bits out of Boot Camp if and when they update it to support the pad, however (this has been done before for other Apple devices).

Google and privacy. You might want to check out this, this, this, or this. People also forget that the majority of the world population is not living in the USA. US agencies are allowed to spy on non-US citizens as they like, although this is usually not emphasized for diplomatic reasons. Thus, not only terrorists and wrongdoers should be concerned about their privacy...unless Schmidt thinks that all non-US citizens are terrorists. Foreign governments should actually be much more concerned about Google than they seem to be, but as far as I know only former French president Chirac was concerned about Google and as a politician he turned out to be a wrongdoer, of course. LOL

You can make scroogle your search engine of choice although we all know that it helps less than some people might expect, because normally configured browsers leak a lot of information.

that iBart is "spying" sorry "analytics" on its users by sending who-knows-what-else data
to a third party

if this behaviour was on Windows app it would be condemmed instantly
and users would demand they stop it

i wonder how many other of the iPhone apps spy on its "users"

Except that it isn't so private. http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2008/03/13061/

I'd conjecture that most of those are getting OS X installed on them.

Ummm, you mean the "promise" ... er, requirement ... that they fought against the EU over for four years until they were fined over a billion dollars?

I don't give them much credit for that. It's all the EU's doing.

I can't see Apple being well pleased with this. They have a reputation to sustain!

In any case, OS X on netbooks is old hat. You can put it on an original Eee, for instance.

OS X really does work fine on general hardware. If your hardware is something Apple has a driver for. So, a bit like Linux without anything like as broad a support base, then.

(I personally prefer FreeBSD, but Linux supports my laptop immaculately.)

Gotta love capitalism! Besides, you can avoid the hardware now anyway between VMs and straight up x86 ports of OSX.

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Put all your important data on one of these - or better yet, don't rip the cable up - leave it alone so it looks like any other cable.

At least your car doesn't waste half of the petrol you put into it.

The Dirty Little Secret of Inkjet Printers [VIDEO]
http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2008/04/13130/
or here:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1181828/the_dirty_little_secret_of_inkjet_printers/

http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2008/03/13078/

Costs ~$8 apparently, but if it works, it works.

Maybe I was a bit hasty. But I'm with you there on the competition aspect, which seems to be hampering the innovation/upgrading of these services. Competition, or lack thereof, was the reason I was forced to sign up with the ISP who had a contract with the apartment complex I lived in, which I believe has been deemed illegal and now I'm still unable to get a competitive service since the only other ISP in the area, Adelphia, was bought by Comcast. I just hope wherever I move next has something other than Comcast.

No, OSX.

Yes, this was discussed in an earlier Slashdot story, " RIAA Argues That MP3s From CDs Are Unauthorized", and in a bunch of other places:

* Boing Boing p2pnet reddit Heise Online (German) Truemors BlogRunner/Digital Rights Hugh Casey IDG (Polish) Geek News Central CE Pro Gizmodo TechDirt Read/Write Web Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection TDPRI WhatReallyHappened.com Slyck Root.cz (Czech) Craigslist Forums Hard OCP Wired.com Uneasy Silence Overclock.net Wake World SpaceBattles.com Hydrogen Audio BrickFilms.com Hockey Zombie iLounge Zune Scene AllmanBrothersBand.com Golem (German) PC Magazin (German) Tweakers (Dutch) Mackauf (German) Wake Space Kino-eye.com Digital Copyright Canada Northwest Progressive Institute Louisville Music News Frant

Since Apple moved their OS to be based on BSD (as of OS X), there has been no truly technical reason that it can't be run on a PC. Common sense enforces the logic that Apple had to put some effort into preventing their OS from running on most PC hardware.

Take a look at:
http://osx86.thefreesuite.com/
http://uneasysilence.com/os-x-proven-hacked-and-running-on-an-ordinary-pc/

Obviously this shouldn't surprise anybody given that Apple's entire history is littered with examples of them actively preventing inter operation with Windows and *nix (up until OS X). They are even getting hammered in parts of Europe for iTunes being unnecessarily exclusive (ok, this is the one spot I take Apple's side, I say let them restrict iTunes to iPods...I DON'T ever want iTunes on my computer). Apple has spent time considering the benefits and clearly seen that locking people into their platform earns them more gains than playing nicely with the rest of the computing world. Sometimes they fail at this (look at the AppleTalk networking protocol), and sometimes they succeed (iTunes).

I don't mean to be to be a downer, but I think there are other factors as well that will prevent this particular model from taking of. Namely does it look cool, is it safe, and how well does it hold up under extreme weather cases. Following the links, the Aptera looks fugly as hell, mostly because it's trying to damn hard to look futuristic. Why can't electric car developers go with a more conservative design to ease acceptance? Instead they have to try their damndest to make the car look like ass and dick. Safety is another issue. Most electric cars like they'd crumple if you stubbed your toe on them; again, it's a design issue. The next is versatility. All those evil gas guzzlers: minivans, trucks, and suvs, do have a functional use of carrying a lot of stuff somewhere through any weather conditions. I doubt electrics will have enough torque to go over rocky terrain or through mud. Though, I suppose this is fine. It will just relegate the electric car to a commute car.
In terms of acceptance, I guess I'd really like to see an affordable electric car that looks normal.

(Ignore my previous post that's what I get for messing with my settings without my glasses on.)

There are lots of ways to install OS X on any hardware. So you can do it right now, if you're serious. Stability or features or not guaranteed.

Here is one place: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
and their forum: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showforum=85

http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/964/install_osx_tiger_on_intel_usb_drives_windows

http://www.uneasysilence.com/os-x-proven-hacked-and-running-on-an-ordinary-pc/

http://asendure.wordpress.com/2006/10/01/osx86-how-to-install-mac-os-x-on-vmware-server-amd-64/

So, go install it already. It is what I will probably do with my next machine. OS X/Linux and XP for games/Vista for games with DX10.

There are lots of ways to install OS X on any hardware. So you can do it right now if you're serious. Stability or features or not guaranteed. Here is one place: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page and their forum: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showforum=85 http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/964/install_osx_tiger_on_intel_usb_drives_windows http://www.uneasysilence.com/os-x-proven-hacked-and-running-on-an-ordinary-pc/ http://asendure.wordpress.com/2006/10/01/osx86-how-to-install-mac-os-x-on-vmware-server-amd-64/ So, go install it already. It is what I will probably do with my next machine. XP/ OS X/ maybe Linux /Vista for games with DX10.

Here's a link, for those who haven't heard it.

If you want to play on your own OLPC you can download the LiveCD and run it on any hardware you want.

http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/07/11520/

No. I've been looking too. Apparently, it isn't too difficult a matter to get an XBox 360 HD-DVD drive running on a PC though. You can already pick up one of those for $150 (or less) if you're lucky.
http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/11/8303/

>>has anybody even seen a PC version of the HD-DVD drive? I did a casual search and couldn't find any. The Blu-Ray drives have been available for months. HD-DVD looks like it's loosing the war on that front by not even fighting.

But what if they are active in trying to be the Ad Tracker for these sites, so that Big Brother can monitor the population a little more effectively?

Google and NSA Goolge and NSA Google and NSA

Then perhaps, it is justified.

Well it appears that blu-ray is falling behind and will be soon be dead. With HD-DVD porn and a hack for an affordable HD-DVD Drive.
It comes down to the basics... Money and Sex.

Sure does. http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/11/8303/

Let me say that if I could go into a store right now and buy a reasonably priced copy of OX X that would run on a plain PC, I would be running OS X at the moment (Yes, I understand that running on *any* hardware would make OS X less stable, but I would be willing to take the risk...and huge amounts of people would rather pay more for Apple's hardware and stability, and I wish Apple could see that and make us both happy).

But since that isn't going to happen, I'm really considering going to Ubuntu because I think MS is just going insane with Vista.

Actually, you can get OS X to run natively on a PC. You just need to ask yourself if its worth the trouble. I'd think you're better off just getting a Mac mini.

As the above mention, he doesn't think Ubuntu is too far behind OS X. I would be interested in hearing others thoughts on this?

There's no doubt that Mac is more polished and more user-friendly. But Ubuntu is a complete, polished, intuitive, full-featured environment. Provided you're not using non-standard hardware, pretty much everything works straight out of the box with very little tweaking.

In fact, Ubuntu on my laptop handles the various power-saving modes (sleep, hibernation) flawlessly and with no special configuration, whereas Windows XP would sometimes sleep, sometimes not, and refuse to come out of hibernation if and when it hibernated (which often had little bearing on how, or even if, it was configured to hibernate).

Much in contrast to a Windows install, the Ubuntu install is fast, easy, intuitive, contains all the software you'll need, doesn't require multiple reboots and separate installation (with more reboots) for installing software and device drivers, and doesn't require yet further instalalation and reboots for OS and software updates.

Last time I had to reinstall Windows after a drive failure it took over three hours and no fewer than 10 reboots to get the system installed (reboot), upgraded (reboot), upgraded to SP2 (reboot), updated again (reboot), install/update drivers (reboot), install Office XP (reboot), update to Office 2003 (reboot), security and other Office updates (reboot), more Windows updates since I now had Office installed (reboot), etc. Installing other necessary software required more reboots.

My last Ubuntu install (incidentally, my first) took all of 45 minutes start-to finish with OS and all software installed and upgraded. Much simpler than any other Linux I've installed (FC3, FC4, RHEL, Mandriva, SuSE) and in a completely different league than Microsoft.

But don't take my word. Try it out for yourself. Installation is even easier with Automatix for adding bits that aren't in the core Ubuntu distribution like all the multimedia codecs and various packages that don't meet Ubuntu's strict libre-only policy.

For those of you who actually want to see the entire install/configuration process... http://features.uneasysilence.com/mactel

http://www.uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/02/5351/
Quite frankly. Im not impressed.

it runs fine on my Toshiba Tecra laptop with a Ge-Force in it.

http://www.uneasysilence.com/os-x-proven-hacked-an d-running-on-an-ordinary-pc/

The articles have screenshots in them, but I didn't expect anyone to read that.

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000070054245/
http://www.uneasysilence.com/os-x-proven-hacked-an d-running-on-an-ordinary-pc/

On a side note, it is quite sad to see that a single application can crash the total OS. I hope when Palm switches to Linux this will all be over, with better resource management and all that.

Now regarding wifi extendability. There are SD wifi cards out there that work with other palms, and there is a ROM hack that allows you to use this SD wifi card on your treo 650. Haven't tried this one myself yet. Yes it's a shame that you have to do this ugly hack to get it running, and it may not be what you want to do for all the treos your company uses.

LINK to welcome video. LINK to RSS screensaver in OSX

LINK to welcome video. LINK to RSS screensaver in OSX

Once again, Slashdot gives no credit to whoever actually did all the research, or if the anonymous poster actually did it, which blog told him about the site. Quite a respectable news organization you've got here, what with anonymous users posting plagiarized research and non-credited links. So, who did he not credit?

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005_01_03_ind ex.html#110478296722920293
http://google.blognewschannel.com/index.php/archiv es/2005/01/03/what-search-engines-do-search-engine -companies-use/
http://demiliani.com/blog/archive/2005/01/03/2024. aspx
http://blog.comego.net/2005/01/visitorville-intell igence.html
http://www.uneasysilence.com/index.php?p=1876

I live and die by the device. It has its problems (random stupid resets) but overall it is not a bulky full featured PDA that gets the job done. Download the Treo 650 Drivers

Whoops: http://www.uneasysilence.com/index.php?p=1719

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I have THIS IOMEGA unit deployed, and have not had ONE problem with it. I know you were not looking for a commercial product, but with servers I don't dice it.

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The video is hosted at http://www.uneasysilence.com. I love the line right before the caller. Check it out!

If you have the clip e-mail me at admin (at) uneasysilence.com I would love to host it

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