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iOS 4 Releases Today
tekgoblin writes "Today Apple releases the much anticipated iOS 4 for iPhones and iPod Touches. No word on when we will see this update on the iPad." Can't wait to see all the neat new stuff that won't run on my stale phone.
I personally can't wait to hear what bullshit the whiny ass pussies make up to vent their hatred of Apple.
Full disclosure:
I am a network security professional who has been in the field for about 20 years. I own Apple equipment specifically because after 20 years, here is what I want:
No more goddamn hassles. I'm tired of tweaking. I'm tired of having to think about that sort of thing in my spare time. Life is short, and I'd much rather spend as much of it as possible with as few headaches as possible. Which is why I recently replaced my laptop with an ipad. No foolin'. And I use it for pretty advanced stuff, too. AND I'm one of those people who just want my gadgets to work together well.
Right now, despite the kneejerk reaction of people who don't actually own any apple equipment, my ipad is loaded with pornography, mostly from the hardcore likes of kink.com and environs. More than half the videos on my ipad have no DRM, because I pirated them. Or I ripped them from other media via open source applications under OS X.
Without any problems at all.
So, to tally up, from my own direct experience:
You can have all the non-DRM, pirated goodness on an ipad or iphone that you want.
You can be a computer super-geek and even a guru to some and still actually enjoy Apple equipment and software.
You can look at all the porn you like on your Apple devices.
And if you really care that much about what *I* choose to use for *MY* own enjoyment, you probably just have sour grapes because you can't afford one on a dell helpdesk salary.
Did you want to keep pointlessly whining or did you want to simply go and use something that's more suited to your needs?
Sorry, but the massive overhype of everything Apple the last 12 years or so makes it necessary to point out that some of their products are in fact harmful to their customers. To twist your trite copypasta pseudo-argument: If you people like Apple's products so much, then just buy them and shut the hell up about it; stop pestering everyone else with your advertising efforts.
Are we visiting the same Slashdot? There is lots of outcry here about the DRM and walled garden that is the Apple mobile platform, just hang around in this story for another twenty minutes or so and you will see plenty of comments about it.
But you're going to have to read at -1 to see them.
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Sophistication and priorities? Hmm.
Apple doesn't, in any actual fact, dominate how I use my iPhone, you know.
Can you play files encoded with WebM on your phone? No, because Jobs doesn't want you to. Can you run the native version of Google Voice? Nah. REJECTED.
Just because you are in denial of the control that Apple has on the iPhone doesn't mean that there is no control or domination. It's probably more akin to some kind of Stockholm syndrome.
End-users on the iPhone/iPad are much more comfortable than PC users in making use of a diverse array of applications. Yes, these apps are all approved by Apple, but I personally believe that part of the reason users are comfortable with the App Store is the simple fact that downloading apps will not, generally speaking, trash their device, take it over, or do something unexpected. Compare this to the open PC where you have huge amounts of malware and where even legitimate applications act in anti-user ways (like Sun's JVM which tries to install the Yahoo! toolbar). No surprise that other mobile platforms have introduced app stores of their own.
Err, no one is asking to abolish the App store. Just that there is a button somewhere deep down hidden which can activate software installs bypassing the App store. You can still have all the benefits you listed in this scenario.
In this environment claiming that Apple "dominates" usage of iOS or that the experience simply "sucks" doesn't seem that sophisticated to me.
Positing that Apple doesn't absolutely dominate the iOS by arbitrarily and capriciously rejecting and approving Apps for no discernible reasons is far from sophisticated.
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If Apple really was interested in stability, it'd a lot easier to swallow, but every time they update their licensing they put the lie to that sentiment.
In what way? Why can you not have a primary goal of stability while ALSO supporting a number of secondary goals?
And the stability I am talking about is SYSTEM stability, not app stability. Apple likes to ship apps that at least do not crash - beyond that, the underlying system remains stable and performant for the user no matter what madness the app might suddenly exhibit, because of the way the system is designed.
Which is part of the danger, since its not just apps that Apple censors (at random)
Apple does not censor (since Apple cannot control other publishing paths, Apple is only a distributor), and as I said the rejection of applications is not random, not even close to random.
When the public is unaware that they're being censored
How would they be unaware? There have been numerous stories about rejections. It's not like Apple keeps those things quiet, nor can they.
And anyone can load a PDF or ePub file into iBooks so sell it your own damn self if Apple is not willing to distribute it for you.
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