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Apple Removes Wi-Fi Finders From App Store
jasonbrown writes "Apple on Thursday began removing another category of apps from its iPhone App Store. This time, it's not porn, it's Wi-Fi. Apple removed several Wi-Fi apps commonly referred to as stumblers, or apps that seek out available Wi-Fi networks near your location. According to a story on Cult of Mac, apps removed by Apple include WiFi-Where, WiFiFoFum, and yFy Network Finder."
Or you can jailbreak your iPhone in about five minutes and do the same thing if you really want to. Personally I think jailbreaking the iPhone makes it have almost as poorly designed an interface as Android so I don't do it. I did try it though to see just how easy it is to do.
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
Your argument would carry more weight if I didn't have years of experience in how crappy a platform Windows is - especially for games. Refusing to install, failing to run, random crashes, conflicting versions, missing dll files, etc. You can keep that crap - I'll stick to consoles where programmers and users know what to expect and will have many fewer problems. Android isn't a bad platform to develop for, it's better than Windows anyway, but it does have issues largely due to the flexibility it tries to offer (and a crap UI). Maybe this is balanced by letting developers code in Java instead of having to learn an oddball language like Objective-C.
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
Anyone that relies on a single app, cateogry of app, or platform for their financial well being is crazy.
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
You also forgot to specify that Android Developers can specify which version of the Andriod OS that their App will be available for on the Android Market. So if a Dev knows that their App will not work with pre 1.6 or pre 2.0 devices, they can deliver their app in such a way that it will not even be on the market for those who cannot properly run the program. The tired argument of too many hardware models is typical FUD spewed by entities like Apple, who like to have 100% control of their platform at every layer. I'm not saying the iPhone is a bad system in any means (have an iPod Touch myself) but I always laugh when I hear some Apple Fan making this same argument over and over again like the movie Groundhog Day. It wasn't right the first time and it's not right the next five billion times either.
Poor baby those mean old men gave you the chance to make millions of dollars. How cruel of them.
How dare they update their OS and expand their SDK giving more opportunity to make money.
Why their so cruel they might even come up with a new device that will expand the market for your apps even further making you waste your time counting money.
One of the prerequisites for owning an iPhone is having more money than sense, and being willing to spend it on frivolous things that are free/cheap elsewhere. That has applied to most Apple products throughout history. Take almost any application available for free on Linux, and there is someone publishing a $20 shareware equivalent for Mac OS(X), and hundreds to tens of thousands of Mac users paying for it.
If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me (who carries and has access to a lot of random hardware on a regular basis) for an iP____ charger, when I had access to dozens of normal standard (usb, barrel plug, etc) chargers... I'd have a lot of dollars.