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Apple To Charge for Some iApps
randomErr writes "News.com has this story that according to sources familiar with the plans, Apple is expected to announce at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco Tuesday that consumers will have to pay for new versions of iDVD, iPhoto and iMovie. Previously, Apple had offered upgrades to its digital media, or 'i' applications, for free."
Hey, maybe this will encourage people to dump Mac OS altogether and start using Linux, where all the apps are free. Maybe they really do support open source!
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I'm a firm believer that while Apple is more expensive, its products do tend to be better. Sure a Ford will get you around town as well as a Mercedes, but you'd never mistake the quality of the Mercedes for that of the Ford.
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I have NEVER in 8 years been screwed over by MS in software. Never had to upgrade software because of an update, never had software stop working because of an update, and never been CHARGED for a fucking update.
.NET thing, they are also having to upgrade to XP and Microsoft is not giving it away for free. Additionally Microsoft is notorious for having their service packs disable functionality. The worst example I can think of is having three NT boxes go down after service pack updates costing me an entire nights sleep as well as lost productivity reinstalling the pre-service pack OS. The only way you could not question the Microsoft upgrade path is to recognize you are getting locked into a solution and upgrade path by going Wintel because of a lack of open standards among other things.
You can question MS's business ethics, you can question product quality but you can't question their upgrade path.
Well, lets see. Just recently I have had to upgrade three machines here in the lab to XP because of administrative tools that have changed and for those lost souls out there buying into the whole
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Do you like it? No? Then what are you waiting for? Go and install one of Linux/PPC distros on you Mac. The sooner you do it the less poison will byte you back.
Apple is a good hardware vendor. But all the history of Apple's software development is an example of stupidity of their top managers. Remind it to them - abandon Apple software for it.
Less is more !
Oh boy. Lets see. Let me click on "Windows Update" on my three year old Win2K system. Here we go..Ok..whats this? "Download Microsoft .NET Framework". Hmm, where is the fee? I can't seem to find one. Maybe because its stone cold free.
.NET using the free .NET framework? For that I need XP.
.NET with Visual Studio.NET, in which case your level of expertise would disqualify you from getting near any one of my computers.
Hrmmmmm. O.K. I'll bite the troll......How am I supposed to develop
Perhaps your confusing
Ewwww. Why would I want to touch one of *your* computers? Besides, what do you know of my expertise?
Or maybe even worst, your confusing updraging an iAPP with upgrading an OS, in which case you should be disqualified from posting on Slashdot.
If you look at my number, you will see that I've been around Slashdot for a while. Before you from the appearance of it. And while we are at it, if you are going to be nasty, at least check your spelling/grammar. Otherwise you look like an idiot.
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First of all, you can use .Net framework SDK - free download. You will get command line compilers and docs. Not really different from developing with gcc. .NET.
Second - Visual Studio.Net indeed works with Windows 2000 and everything but ASP.NET development works even on NT4. So no, you do not need XP to develop for
Gee, I guess that's what I get from listening to the Microsoft sales rep. after the support guys had problems integrating the environment in 2000. Thanks.
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There was a long period of time when I didn't visit Slashdot because I couldn't stand the one-sided editorial bent. Although there are obviously still certain tendencies, I have recently found this site to be much more open to alternative opinions and worth a few minutes of reading each day. In fact, I recently created this new account and started posting again. Unfortunately, it's stories like this that make me wonder whether I made the right decision. Except for the "from the dept" line, there is little to stop readers from taking this story as fact and not just a totally unverifyable rumor!
Granted, CNet did post this story, but I'm not happy with their journalistic practices either, and right now I'm talking about Slashdot. I don't feel it's in the community's best interests for the editors to feed into this rumors-as-fact frenzy. Just yesterday, this very site reported as fact that Apple was discontinuing the iMac, when in fact all that was happening was a switch in suppliers. Was there a followup story correcting this, or even an update to the headline? Nope. I suspect that the same thing will happen if January 7th comes and goes and Apple doesn't reveal any plans to charge for iApps, leaving readers with opinions in their minds based on something that wasn't even true.
This rumor frenzy isn't even limited to Apple, although it happens to be a very prolific subject of speculation. Slashdot is supposed to be reporting news for nerds, not rumors.