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Apple tore down the walls of its own garden a few YEARS ago, when they started allowing full-blown Sideloading of any ol' iOS App the User wanted.

They did? I can just go to an alternate app store and download an app to my phone and run it? I mean, I can do that on my Note 5, nothing else needed! So iOS now allows that, too?

More or less. The "official" way to do so is to use XCode 7 or later. Which means that you will be compiling from Source. Here's a list on github of Open Source iOS Apps. Some (indicated) are also in the App Store, by some are not. By the way, it is also a good way to learn how to code iOS Apps in Swift or ObjC. By the way, you will note that one of the Projects is for VLC, which famously withdrew itself from the iOS App Store.

However, there is also a tool called "Cydia Impactor" for Mac, Linux and Windows. While I don't know much about it, it purports to work to install non-blessed Apps without the need for jailbreaking, nor need for a Mac, nor XCode. It is supposed to be able to Install non-blessed IPA files. Here's an example of installing Moviebox using Impactor.

And now we're past the end of my knowledge on the subject. But it does appear to be as open as say, Linux, at this point, as far as App installation/development goes. No, you still don't have the source to the OS; but you don't have that with any DELIVERED Android version, either.

but what happens when all the charging stations are in use?

Has this ever happened?

Yes, it has. http://www.valuewalk.com/2016/...

I should have included this link as one reference point;

http://www.valuewalk.com/2014/...

Just because it's "strictly business" doesn't mean that North Korea wasn't involved. They probably know how to short stocks too.

The broken english used in the threats is a match to a google translation from gramatically correct Russian. That doesn't seem like a coincidence to me. Since the Russians hacked the NASDAQ as recently as July 2014, maybe they had something to do with it. And Russians are known to enjoy manipulating stocks

Mind you, I don't think this has anything to do with manuipulating stocks. I think it is far more likely that it was some person who didn't like Sony very much and the deflection onto the DPRK was just a red herring. But if shorting stock WAS the angle, the Russians have a lot of experience doing it.

Because the inadmissable sample is a much cheaper lead that can be done before spending money on the real thing.

Alright buddy, I look forward to your response to this. Occam's razor is a funny thing--it bends every which way depending on how uninformed the user is. After the Deepwater Horizon spill, BP launched a $200 million whitewashing campaign, including a now-defunct youtube channel full of propaganda videos--
http://www.prwatch.org/news/20...
--but there's no way any of that would go towards paid trolls! Oh wait, there totally is.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story...

The slashdot summary doesn't even mention the death threats sent by BP agents in the original article.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indep...
"Billie Garde, BP's deputy ombudsman, in a letter to the Government Accountability Project dated December 18, 2012, stated clearly that "BP America contracts management of its Facebook page to Ogilvy Public Relations" and added, "Ogilvy manages all of BP America's social media matters". According to BP America, Ogilvy has a group of 10 individuals in different time zones that perform comment screening of the page," wrote Garde.

In spite of this, you want to tell me that, even though Samsung pays trolls:
http://www.techmtaa.com/2013/1...
http://www.valuewalk.com/2013/...

Even though telecoms pay trolls:
http://www.vice.com/read/troll...
Even though non-domestic propaganda contractors like Leonie Industries pay trolls to troll domestically:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetw...
"USA Today reports that in his campaign against the reporters, Chidiac created "fan sites" with URLs matching the names of the reporter and editor who worked on the stories and then filled those sites with content that criticized the journalist's past reporting."

...even despite all this, you somehow think that Exxon-Mobil, the second richest corporation in the world, wouldn't pay trolls for the purpose of PR cleanup?
If you don't think opinion here makes a difference, then ask yourself why every topic about the NSA is full of endless "fuck beta" comments and huge blobs of meaningless text with bolded sections telling you how to configure your router. Maybe it doesn't make a difference, but it seems like there are many with deep pockets who do not agree with you.

Regardless, you have a lot of reading to do before you're fit to tell anyone about occam's razor re: paid shills.

Not to mention the electricity for the Tesla (tada!) isn't free.
  24 cents per mile.

Nice try. They measured a drag race up to 111 miles per hour.

Actual representative cost per mile is available here and note that the cost per mile column is in CENTS, not dollars. (That chart largely agrees with Tesla's calculator on their official site.

Its a lot closer to 2.14 cents per mile in my state.
Even in California, where your cherry was picked from the real cost is 3.82 cents per mile.

Not to mention the electricity for the Tesla (tada!) isn't free.
 
  24 cents per mile.

No shit, their stock has been taking it on the chin. Down from 175 from when the story hit to below 140.. Analysts think it's more appropriately valued at this price while others like Deutsche Bank are bullish at $200/share.

Buy on the rumor, sell on the fact.

On a related note there is a rumour that Nokia were about to switch to Android just before the buyout.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/nokia-reportedly-considered-switching-to-android-before-microsoft-deal/421972-11.html

This leads some analysts to speculate that Microsoft bought Nokia to save Windows phone:
http://www.valuewalk.com/2013/09/microsoft-bought-nokia-to-save-windows-phone/

Ouch! Conservative prediction: general trend for Apple is down, for market share, for sales and for stock price. Go ahead and think of it as a retrace after a runup if it makes you feel better.

Oh, look, your conservative estimate was wrong. Like I said, stocks go up and down.

Wow, you really are a koolaid guzzler. Why believe me?

"Many analysts are not happy with the actual iPhones unveiled by Apple Inc. (AAPL) on Tuesday. They’re concerned that the iPhone 5C isn’t priced low enough to be able to adequately address emerging markets."

"Garcha also noted that the specs of both handsets are “not quite on par” with those of other high-end handsets."

Ouch! Conservative prediction: general trend for Apple is down, for market share, for sales and for stock price. Go ahead and think of it as a retrace after a runup if it makes you feel better.

Nokia's share price has gone down over 50% since Elop took the helm..

There, fixed that for you: In September 2010, when it was announced that Elop would become the new CEO of Nokia its stock was at about $10 and today it is at $4. Besides ... Nokia Downgraded By Moody’s Deep Into Junk Territory

Well the reasons for them doing it are simple: Self Preservation. If you had your E-Mail, Social Contacts/Pictures etc. in a system that was regularly tapped by the NSA and the FBI, then you might think twice about using those services. Google's freely available services that you can use but while you're using them, we'll mine every piece of information out of you that we can. They're a commercial NSA and when the real NSA steps on their toes, possibly driving users away that's not good for business. Facebook and Microsoft have the same problem, hell all free cloud based services have a problem now with this "215" section of the law. Yes, Google is an 800lb Gorilla and so is Microsoft, well 650lb now and Facebook, meh, 400lb. If they start pushing on those idiots like Feinbitch who as chairwomen of the Senate Intelligence Committee (boy there's an oxymoron for you) stating that the NSA has access to your phone conversations, when they want. If they start pushing on DC and getting all the masses lined up, maybe things will change. The EFF and ACLU have some pretty sharp lawyers as well and they haven't had much luck in cracking all of the intrusions into our privacy and the secrecy of why the government needs this information. Feinstein and others with her mentality in DC are the reason we have this mess to begin with, now the feign ignorance and shock or coyishly say "well it has thwarted terrorism." Funding comes from congress, there is no way in hell that She and members of her committee didn't have direct knowledge of what was going on, much less every member of the House and Senate for the past decade. They've written the laws that allow the secrecy and the pulling of information without warrants and because of that and the nature of the legal process in this country, lower courts bar cases from moving forward on "National Security" reasons. This is an affront to the 4th amendment yet alone the 1st amendment as Google is claiming. Like I said, good luck because those Federal Judges have to look at the law as written and do you think that stooge Holder isn't going to appeal his way up to the Supreme Court if an "activist" judge somehow rules against the Government?

Also anybody out here should remember back in 2007 there was an uproar because of the warrantless wiretapping going on. What happened then? Well the cases dragged on and then congress gave the telecomms immunity in a new piece of legislation.

Oh and the only case that is still moving forward since 2007 (it is 2013 now after all) is being held up by the Justice Department and that retard Clapper..

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=190892480

James Clapper, director of national intelligence, personally urged U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White to throw out the remaining lawsuit. Clapper wrote the judge in September that the government risks "exceptionally grave damage to the national security of the United States" if forced to fight the lawsuit.

That case has EFF lawyers behind it, think they'll be successful?

So the constitution and out privacy violated in the names of National Security. Shit, Woz hit it on the mark the other day.
http://www.valuewalk.com/2013/06/apple-inc-aapl-co-founder-steve-wozniak-rethinks-america/

In Wozniak’s view, the Patriot Act started things going downhill, and he said there isn’t even “a free open court anymore.” He compared the U.S. government to a king who rounds up people and kills them or puts them in prison. He said when reading the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, he doesn’t see how the things that are happening now are actually allowed to happen.

He also compared the U.S. to Russia. He said that when he was growing up, the Russian government would follow people around, s

Note all this discussion of "revenue" rather than "profits"...

Because that is the right metric, because it shows growth, which is kind of what you want in a acquisition, In reality a company already serving web content should absorb all the costs, your right they could buy bonds...or lottery cards with the money, but they seem to be sensibly buying a company where they already have in house expertise, is aligned with their business model, is growing (in a market that is growing)...and has the potential for exponential growth.

In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion(the largest at the time). Its argued today its worth http://www.valuewalk.com/2012/03/google-inc-goog-youtube/ [valuewalk.com] $45.7 Billion Ironically in the context of this article Google outbid Yahoo. In terms of numbers http://allthingsd.com/20100319/the-numbers-behind-the-worlds-fastest-growing-web-site-youtubes-finances-revealed/ [allthingsd.com] youtube revenue for the year before the sale to Google was $15,057 (whole making losses of hundreds of thousands each month)

There are problems but those are nothing to do with the figures...acquisitions often take time to merge successfully if at all. The fact that there is incredible competition from known established large companies (Youtube;Netflix Amazon etc)...with others controlling the ecosystems (Google, Apple, Samsung, Microsoft), and more.

I wish people would stop looking at financial figures in isolation..its just stupid.

The acquisition is priced at over $1billion. Max annual revenue for Tumblr is $13million projected to be $100million this year(high hopes that are highly unlikely, I predict $20million).

Yahoo! is paying through the nose for a highly unprofitable company with no hope of ever generating a ROI.

This acquisition is massive folly!

I am sick of this back of a fag packet figure being banged around. In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion(the largest at the time). Its argued today its worth http://www.valuewalk.com/2012/03/google-inc-goog-youtube/ $45.7 Billion Ironically in the context of this article Google outbid Yahoo. In terms of numbers http://allthingsd.com/20100319/the-numbers-behind-the-worlds-fastest-growing-web-site-youtubes-finances-revealed/ youtube revenue for the year before the sale to Google was $15,057 (whole making losses of hundreds of thousands each month)

I have no idea whether this is a good deal. But these figures are not of relevance.

Stop cutting a pasting from other sites and think for yourself (registering would be a good start too)

Probably why Pincus was voted the 4th worst CEO in the USA in 2012 http://www.valuewalk.com/2012/12/the-worst-ceos-of-2012/

http://www.valuewalk.com/2012/12/the-top-10-colossal-tech-fails-of-2012/

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/28/tech/web/tech-fails-2012/

Stop making sense! it's slashot ... the ravenous MS hating Apple loving one-eyed hangout spot for the geek that isn't really a geek because they thrive on the simplicity of using machines contrived by idiots for idiots.

http://www.valuewalk.com/2012/11/apple-inc-aapl-may-have-climbed-to-the-top-of-the-tree/ = First it was 1T then it was 700B and now ... now its 675B :)

There is only one way now for this company and it's down.... BTW I keep seeing people on the street with iPhone 4GS. Did anyone actually manage to pick up a 5 yet? Not that I could tell the difference between the two devices I actually had to ask them what they had because at a glance you can't tell the two apart (unless you're a gay Apple loser).

1. Send fake tweet

2. Buy oil stocks after they go up

3. Sell them after they go down again

4. BUSTED!

FTFY

Turn on a dime? Zynga will be crushed by Facebook if they every become part of a viable threat, by having their games demoted to where they are stripped of operating cash. The change in games ranking was Facebook throwing their weight around just because they could here.