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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.
It does look kind of neat but I have all kinds of goodies on a jailbroke touch. I don't think I am going to upgrade to iOS 4 until someone comes up with a jailbreak. The goodies from Cydia repos are worth more than just a few extras that I really don't need.
MS did take the music away, Sony took the Linux away, Amazon did take the books away and now Apple takes the software away.
Slashdot is wise enough to list all the evils for users to note.
Our last real freedom is Linux.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Ignoring the fact that we're entering an era of mobile computers, iOS 4 runs on the iPad too. Is that a phone too by your twisted logic?
It can connect to cell networks.
Using skype I can make calls on it.
By what definition is it not a phone?
Just because it's large doesn't mean it can't be a phone too. Otherwise the NGage would have been an impossibility.
And before you start chuckling about holding up an iPad to your head, two words - bluetooth headset.
For someone on Slashdot you seem to have a pretty dull imagination as to what a phone can be.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Can't wait to see all the neat new stuff that won't run on my stale phone.
I bought an original base (4 GB) iPhone a couple months after it came out--refurbished, $249. When the 3G came out I sold my original one on eBay for right about what I paid for it*, plus or minus a few bucks (I forget exactly, and I had a case but lost the headphones, etc.) and bought a base (8 GB) 3G. When the 3GS came out I sold my $199 3G for $305 and got I a base (16 GB) 3GS--I just had to wait a couple months for an anniversary to roll around and then the upgrade price dropped from $399 to the regular $199. Now, for some reason, AT&T is telling me I can upgrade to an iPhone 4 for good old $199 so I'm just gonna wait a few weeks--a) for them to become available again and b) because I never buy new stuff right away.
So basically, I paid $249 three years ago and for that, I've gotten an annual free upgrade to a faster phone with more features and double the storage every time (this is the first year that won't happen) and, as a nice bonus, my phone has never been out of warranty. You'd think someone who runs a tech site might be aware of all this.
* vendor lock-in is usually evil but it has treated me very well. :-) Due to Apple's exclusive deal with AT&T, people who want iPhones but are on other networks pay quite a bit for used ones.
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
Bullshit. Here's Slashdot's RSS feed as of this post:
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If anything gets covered to a higher-than-average degree, it's Google and Google products, and even that's not by much. It's just a lazy, mindless meme from Apple-haters to claim Apple gets more coverage, because they are apparently unable to use their mouse to manipulate the scrollbar and move past the big ol' Apple story on the front page that they hate so much.
This thread doesnt have a thousand posts yet. It will. The apple boys have been saving their moderation points. They will use them here, and not on the carbon nano-tube article, the health-care article, or the google-wave article.
"His name was James Damore."
Bang on-- the only reliable example of people really missing it are Pandora. Or, possibly, GPS turn directions? Basically, audio-only stuff, which brings us to an interesting point, with both iPhone and iPad, YOU'RE not really a multitasking device either -- it's nice how these devices don't try to divide your attention, and running a new app is a bit like running a new, more specialized device.
That said -- 90s era Palm had better culture of "resuming right where you left off" apps, but now maybe iOS gets that back... and I think I might start liking that bottom of screen app bouncing the same way I like alt-tab in Windows...
SO YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: The Comic for Dealing with Death
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.
Some people may not like it but a lot of the public seems not to mind at all, so far - because Apple has been careful about making user restrictions as invisible as possible.
Which is part of the danger, since its not just apps that Apple censors (at random), but apparently what gets sold in things like the book store (less random, which is worse). When the public is unaware that they're being censored, that makes the censorship all the more potent. I'm pretty anyone who'd want a book banned would salivate at the opportunity to ban a book to the point that most people don't know it even exists.
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