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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.
The plural of "touch" is "touches" you fucking dumbass. People who put an apostrophe on every fucking word that ends with an S are starting to really piss me off.
I personally can't wait to see what measures this new software takes to control its users and limit their access to other programs.
Yeah, I bet it will be quite fascist... Oooohhh, look at the Apple logo! It's so SHINY! Wow. I gotta have one. I want it I want it!!
Sorry, I lapsed into the level of sophistication and the priorities of the average Apple fanboy. Yeah, a company dominating how you use a product you thought you purchased and owned sucks. You'd have to be blinded by trivial, shallow things not to see and understand that.
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boeing, boeing, gone.
Then don't use it.. You have a choice, and just complaining makes you look stupid.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Don't like it? Don't buy it. Some of us quite enjoy the user experience it provides. I'm sure you think we're sheep but we don't care. Just like we bought the product we liked and are happy with that purchase, we're fine with you buying the product you enjoy. So, again, you don't like the iPhone or any other Apple product? Fine. Don't buy it. Go buy something else.
Your "mindset" ( can something which is apparently microscopic even _have_ a set ? )
is tantamount to the "America : love it or leave it" line.
If no one ever complains, the consumer will always get shafted.
But I guess that's beyond your grasp, isn't it, you simple-minded fascist fuck ?
Actually, it's become cool and "in" on Slashdot to bitch and complain about everything from Apple. It's _also_ a problem that Slashdot seems to report every time Steve Jobs sneezes (or whatever) but that's not what the OP was complaining about. He was doing the typical "Apple is a big bad poo poo head" thing that is all the rage.
Remember, Apple is no longer the underdog struggling against their evil corporate counterparts. They're now an evil corporation and thus everything they do is to be reviled. That, of course, is despite the fact that they make excellent products that are popular which are also forcing other companies to adapt and evolve (seriously, look at the (smart)phone landscape before the iPhone and compare it to after the iPhone).
The problem some of us have is that there are times that Apple needs to be called out for stupid shit because, as with every single company out there, they aren't perfect and they fuck up from time to time but they really don't need to be called out Every. Gawddamn. Time. It's kinda tedious reading the same bullshit over and over again. Repetition doesn't make it more true...
Read on - I'm sure someone is, right this moment, comment on how we all used to hate on Microsoft but Apple is now worse than they ever were while someone else is bitching about Apple's walled garden approach.
I'm always amused by bitter Apple-haters and their generic, non-specific criticisms. Absolutely nobody is forced to buy an Apple device, they're not "controlling" me in any way, and Apple's app screening is required for quality control and the fact AT&T requires them to because apps are using their wireless network. Stop being goofy and melodramatic. You'll die happier.
See you in line for an iPhone 4.
"iSlaves?" The smugness from the Apple-hating Slashbots today is pretty amusing and shows how out of touch this readership is getting. It's bad enough you get news half a week behind everyone else.
To be fair, the high end iPad costs only $829.00 plus a 3G contract. As computers go that's really cheap. Someone will point out that the 3G contract is more expensive then the computer, but you don't have to get a 3G contract to have a functional iPad. The last computer I bought cost over $3000.00. They basically do the same things. Almost equally well. It's kinda depressing.
I call troll. For $500 (yes, including monitor) you can have a modern system capable of occasional gaming, playback of HD video, and minor audio production/graphic design work.
Yes. $500. Including a monitor.
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That is the dumbest logic I've ever heard. I guess since I can make a call on my laptop then that makes it a phone?
Technically a digital watch is a computer, a calculator is a computer. What's your point?
The iPhone has done more to liberate consumers in the mobile market than any phone before or since. It's not perfect, but the mobile landscape was radically different 3 years ago and much has changed for the better because of the iPhone's release. In fact it was so good that Google, RIM, Windows, etc. jumped on the bandwagon and decided to copy it.
The iPhone IS a phone and if you don't like the curated approach Apple takes then STFU and buy something else. Disguising your hatred of Apple as a complaint about freedom is ridiculous.
So... Apple are bad, but everyone else is worse so it's ok?
It's official. Most of you are morons.
Except for most of the time the Apple haters are the ones who get the facts wrong or exaggerate, so Apple fans spend a great deal of time correcting their lies/ignorance.
Take your disingenuous bullshit as an example. You stuck in the phrase "only from our store so we get a cut", as some stupid attempt to insinuate that this is the whole reason behind the curated app store model. What a load of self serving tripe. This is the kind of stupidity that Apple fans get sick of and why they defend against these sorts of BS arguments.
To correct your whiny rant I'll paraphrase your last statement:
The way you haters attack a company and then use disingenuous arguments is just sick. Most major corporations engage in business practices that are in some way unplatable to some of us. Even your beloved object of blind Apple hatred does this and is no different that Palm, Google or any other company. Get over it and quit trying to shoot the messenger who points it out when your beef is blind hatred of Apple.
Only hardcore Apple fanbois can justify calling what is essentially a tablet computer a phone
Only Apple Haters are so overwhelmed with rage, that they have forgotten what it means for the voice networks to fold into the data networks, and how any device that can be taken anywhere easily and receive data anywhere can at last be a phone.
Only Apple haters are so closed minded as to stick with the old way of thinking where "phone" was a specific dedicated consumer electronic device. Only Apple haters want to ignore the future, simply because Apple has anything to do with the direction devices are taking to get there.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I think it's an appliance in the same way that my PS3 is an appliance. There is a computer under the covers and the device is quite general purpose, but in the end its an appliance because I don't have the freedom to tinker.
How can I develop applications for the PS3?
The simple fact is, that I can't. If I just want to "tinker", there is really no realistic avenue for doing so.
But with the iPhone, ANYONE can sign up for the developer program. You never have to sell an app, for $99/year you can tinker all you like and deploy anything you want to the phone, to run any kind of software you want.
And thats ignoring the fact that if you are willing to go a little further still, you can simply jailbreak the device and also develop for it. Even if I crack the PS3 it doesn't make development for it any easier because there's so little public information about it, unlike the iPhone where there are a huge amount of books and material related to learning iPhone programming.
If I were going to teach a kid programming now, the absolute ideal platform would be an iPad or iPod touch. To do basic stuff it's easy enough to work with, and as I said there are tons of tutorials around now.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
your all just iCocks
If you don't like it, don't get it
If you do like it, great its free!
When you buy an Apple computer, you buy it for both...when you buy one of their new stupid handheld pieces of shit, you buy them because they look awesome and you will look hip.
Apple computers are useful, iPods, iPhones, iPads are useless single task devices that will be eclipsed by better products in less than 6 months time.
I'm sure you can build a shitty little computer system for $500. My mother can build a shitty little computer system for $500 (including monitor). Do you think that's a talent? I built the first machine that made me more then $100,000 for less then $10.
Can you build it so thin?
Cool art gallery, if you're into that sort of thing.
Steve Jobs hates it? Wow, I didn't see that. Can you send me a link to where he said he hated it?
Apparently the only freedom being lost is the freedom to tell the truth rather than misrepresenting everything when you discuss Apple? It's not smugness of Apple fanboys you should be worried about, it's the blind hatred and dishonesty of Apple haters such as yourself. Apple fans only come out in force when they see dishonest stupidity like you just wrote. They have to constantly correct the lies and disinformation of those like yourself who can't seem to grasp that everyone doesn't have to conform to your vision of the world. That (gasp!) people don't want to ADMINISTER their computers or devices at all, they just want them to work so they can move on with their day.
When you can get past your own ignorance and smugness then maybe you'll be able to see clearly to comment on others.
It's attached to a douchebag.