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iPhone App In App Store Limbo Open Sourced
recoiledsnake writes "The author of iPhone prototyping tool Briefs has decided to open source it after the App store submission has been in limbo for over three months. The app had got into trouble for what Apple believes is being able to run interpreted code, though the author denies it, saying all the compiling happens on the Mac. While Rob stays civil, his co-worker blasts Apple for not even rejecting the app. Three months is nothing compared to Google Voice for the iPhone though, which is still being studied further by Apple after more than a year."
An offtopic thought: given the recent (re?)surge of seemingly organized trolls here, mod points allocated by the automated system are going to waste, both from the karma-whoring trolls to mod up their own posts and from the people in the audience/freakshow modding them down. I have come across recent discussions in the usual places regarding playing the Slashdot moderation system, so I think the question must be asked: how many points wasted would be needed to destabilize the system by impoverishing it? If the number of posts and moderations increase and remain stable over a period of time, malicious or not, will the system compensate?
Emotions! In your brain!
I never trust anyone after they've had their mind bugled. Yeah, I've heard that you can be rehabilitated - but, I just won't ever trust you again. Call me a bugle bigot, it won't bother me. I don't HAVE to be politically correct. I've heard that mind bugling is the gateway to kiddie diddling - not sure if I believe it or not. It sure makes a guy think though. Should we have a no bugling zone around our schools?
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
So the "Testing"/"+1 Insightful" messages sprinkled over the discussions from the last weeks actually was, as I thought, test messages for modbots? Did anyone else think that when they saw them?
Emotions! In your brain!
I tromboned yours, but in hindsight regret how things happened so quickly, and I never really got a chance to know you. Still, I hope that one day you'll realise that I'm not trying to replace your father. I just want us to be friends, for your mother's sake.
-- Using the preview button since 2005
No, you're not going to be able to bury this discussion by making the first post a troll.
You are welcome on my lawn.
USB was not standard on PCs first. The iMac was the first 'legacy free' machine. It had USB and FireWire, but no ADB ports. It came with a USB keyboard and mouse. The PC I bought two years after the iMac was introduced had a very modern motherboard by PC standards, but it still had two PS/2 ports, two RS-232 ports, and a parallel printer port. It came with a PS/2 keyboard and a PS/2 mouse.
The iMac, as the original poster suggested, was responsible for creating a demand for USB peripherals. Previously, people who made peripherals for Macs used ADB, people who made them for PCs used RS-232 or PS/2. With the iMac, you had to use USB. Because PCs started to ship with USB at around the same time, using USB meant that you could create peripherals that worked with Mac and PC, which was a larger market.
Remember, the iMac was released in 1998. Windows 95 shipped without USB support. It wasn't until OSR 2.1, in August of 1997, that Windows supported USB at all. This was only a year before the iMac launched and, because machines using it still came with all of the legacy ports, there was no incentive to provide USB hardware.
If the iMac had come with ADB connections, Mac users would have continued to buy ADB peripherals, and PC users would have continued to buy PS/2 / Serial / Parallel peripherals for a long time. If you remember 1998-1999, think about the USB devices that you saw in shops around that time. Almost all of them had the same transparent coloured plastic look as the iMac, because their main target audience was iMac owners.
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