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Forced iAds Coming To OS X?
mario_grgic writes "Apple insider brings a story about expansion and renewal of a current 'Advertisement in Operating System' patent that Apple's Steve Jobs and other contributors have. The patent describes in detail (with OS X screen shots) how the forced ads would work (they would disable some OS functionality until the ad is viewed), but apparently it also applies to any device with a UI, including phones, TVs, set top boxes, etc. With Apple's recent entry into the mobile ad business, and its ambition to own half of all the mobile ads served during the second half of this year, it certainly makes one wonder if Apple would dare and put something like this in its desktop OS. I wonder if this would push more people to open source alternatives?"
I can add that to the list of reasons to not buy the over priced crap Apple sells and idiots worship.
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Anyone else read "forced AIDS"?
... guess so... it's on the tags .
I've hated steve jobs ever since he needed a new liver and jumped ahead of everyone on the list to get one. I hope that anyone that died due to the extra long wait can rest knowing that their sacrifice ensured that the world wouldn't have to go on without all the doofy ideas of a douche egomaniac.
I also think that Apple can't afford to not do this. They have been forced to reduce their prices on their hardware, eating away their margins.
I guess you just missed Apple's Q3 Earnings report, then. Sorry they didn't call you in your Mom's basement.
There are a large number of things that I hate Apple products for, the desktop environment that does not lend itself to heavy multitasking (from a user perspective)
I don't know where your "information" comes from; but OS X multitasks JUST fine. One time, simply as a test, I simultaneously encoded video, watched other video (including that CPU-hogging Flash shit), browsed, and listened to iTunes with a visualizer running, and compiled an XCode project, all without the slightest hiccup in UI performance or slowdown in other functionality, on my 5 year old 1.8GHz G5 DP, with only 1.25GB of RAM. Therefore, I'd say that OS X does heavy multitasking at least as good as any other OS. Don't whine about thread creation overhead and the like; what matters is how responsive the system remains TO THE USER. Apple has really figured out how to prioritize tasks.
Apple stuff is easy for simple users.
That's a meme that needs to die once and for all.
I am an embedded developer with over thirty years' experience. Now call me "simple".
And, in case you haven't noticed, Apple has an incredible presence among academics, and a pretty strong (and growing) following among IT professionals, and software and web devs, too. I guess they're all "simple users", too, eh?
poorly organized layout which makes Spotlight the main way to access your files and programs
You do mean the same Volume -> Directory -> File structure that EVERY filesystem has used since, well, since their were hierarchical file systems, right?
Actually Spotlight was created because Apple realized that the WHOLE PARADIGM was getting too unweildy, and that hard drives were getting too large, for the old heirarchy to work (for anyone at all). Perhaps Microsoft agreed, because they went right out and copied it immediately for Visturd (and Win 7, I assume).
Oh, and the Linux guys must think their "layout" is pretty "poorly organized", because Beagle is a direct Spotlight clone. I do notice, however, like many, many Free software projects, it is now languishing (due to lack of financial support, no doubt).
So now what, fucktard?