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The Surprising Statistics Behind Flash and Apple
Barence writes "PC Pro's Tom Arah has dug up some statistics that cast severe doubt over Steve Jobs' assertion that Flash is the technology of the past, and Apple's iOS is the platform of the future. He quibbles with Net Applications' assertion that iOS growth is 'massive,' considering that mobile accounts for only 2.6% of web views, and the iOS share stands at only 1.1%. By comparison, Silverlight penetration now stands at 51% while 97% of web surfers have Flash installed, according to Stat Owl. 'At least when Bill Gates held the web to ransom he had the decency to first establish a dominant position,' Arah claims. 'In Steve Jobs' case, with only 1.1% market share, the would-be emperor isn't even wearing any clothes.'"
I can't see my right mouse button, so it can't be an aesthetic thing.
I can see several fingers that are totally useless on top of an Apple mouse, which can be operated by a stump.
So unless Apple's primary goal is accessibility for amputees, the only explanation is that Steve Jobs still clings to haptic studies done in the 80s that showed that Apple users are less confused when prevented with fewer ways to control things, while he's ignored a couple of decades' worth of feedback that Apple would sell more computers if they gave the user more control.
No, Apple didn't not provide a multibutton mouse out of the box, however right click, which is has the key equivilent of control-left click has been around since before OS X and you can use multi-button mice just fine with Macs. They just didn't ship with one ... and no one cared enough to buy one ... you do realize 99.9% of the windows users out there don't know what right click does ... right?
As for replacing it with something better ... well they already tried, and we fanboys hated it because it fucking sucked. And now the magic mouse, which may actually be better but its brand new and I haven't tried one.
You're bitching about something that hasn't actually been an issue for at least 10 years (since OSX just turned 10) and a few years before that since it was in previous versions.
Just go ahead and start whining about it not being upgradable too while you're at it, on and that the monitor is built in to ever modal. I mean, if you're going to talk out your ass about things that haven't been true for probably longer than you've actaully used computers in general then you might as well go all the way.
Persistent Volume manager for Kubernetes - https://github.com/dwimsey/openshift-pvmanager
So you're pro-Flash in some posts (Yay for super-closed standards controlled by Adobe!) and in others you're bashing Apple for claiming to be more pro-openness since they're not open enough (Boo! I want my technically inferior format that may or may not be patent-encumbered!)?
Can you please make up your mind?
Greylisting is to SMTP as NAT is to IPv4
Added support for it, yes. Actually supplied a laptop configuration with it OOTB? No. Yet another reason that I HATE HATE HATE the Apple UI. Still, a lot of people love it. Thank Ghu for choice in the marketplace! :)