You missed the point, the consequences are much different. Apple employees aren't going to have their identities stolen just because a prototype got lost.
If you really want to run any program, just "jailbreak" it or sign up as a developer and you can install whatever app you please.
I have a dev cert and so far as i can tell you can only run apps as the OS intends them to be run, you can't actually alter anything else on the OS without jailbreaking. Many people don't want to run apps that Apple won't allow, they want to FIX the operating system in ways Apple refuses to do, for instance the pathetic Mail sound no one can actually hear, jailbreakers replace that with something louder quite often.
Quicktime doesn't offer 3rd parties a web video DRM system, and i'm not sure Apple has any plan to help implement one on their devices, that's what the App Store is for.
They also own the company that created it, and i presume that includes the patents they held, if any. If there are patents that Google now owns on VP8, it's possible those patents could be used defensively against other companies, but trolls are always a wild card.
According to some things i read the other day, the hardware support for h.264 is really just a programmable DSP in most cases, so they could program support for VP8 if it were being seriously considered, and that appears to be the direction of things.
The price of the original iPhone dropped pretty fast after launch, in fact it dropped and doubled in storage capacity. The difference was so large they had to issue apple store credits to early adopters.
I don't expect there to even BE a 16GB iPad 1 year from now or even 6 months.
Verizon doesn't restrict video streaming and VoIP even on their existing 3G network, but the amount of transfer is quite limited. I've got a Mi-Fi with a 10GB plan but i know if i were to use it for netflix i'd eat through that quickly.
In the U.S., Verizon charges something like $0.05 per MB for overages on it's mobile broadband plans, or $50 per GB. It used to be somewhere north of $200 per GB so at least it's improved, but i have to wonder how much of their capacity goes unused even while they charge people for transferring what is a relatively small amount of data.
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You missed the point, the consequences are much different. Apple employees aren't going to have their identities stolen just because a prototype got lost.
Dropping a laptop with SSNs hurts other people, dropping a prototype phone hurts Apple. So no, i wouldn't feel the same.
If you really want to run any program, just "jailbreak" it or sign up as a developer and you can install whatever app you please.
I have a dev cert and so far as i can tell you can only run apps as the OS intends them to be run, you can't actually alter anything else on the OS without jailbreaking. Many people don't want to run apps that Apple won't allow, they want to FIX the operating system in ways Apple refuses to do, for instance the pathetic Mail sound no one can actually hear, jailbreakers replace that with something louder quite often.
By the time you get around to setting up that Solaris server, Btrfs will have stabilized through 3-4 more mainline kernel releases.
Quicktime doesn't offer 3rd parties a web video DRM system, and i'm not sure Apple has any plan to help implement one on their devices, that's what the App Store is for.
But if you have the hardware you want to use it
Apple is the one pushing people toward HTML5 video
They also own the company that created it, and i presume that includes the patents they held, if any. If there are patents that Google now owns on VP8, it's possible those patents could be used defensively against other companies, but trolls are always a wild card.
According to some things i read the other day, the hardware support for h.264 is really just a programmable DSP in most cases, so they could program support for VP8 if it were being seriously considered, and that appears to be the direction of things.
They can back it by requiring hardware running Android and Chrome OS to support the codec in an adequate way that doesn't kill battery life.
So, is it cheaper to hire idiots to write most of the code and then hire someone smart later to fix it?
Stuff like Neurotically Yours and badgers, otoh, are a perfect fit for the medium.
(Semi)Complex games and full streaming HD video? Not so much.
Badgers are terrible for gaming and HD video. Plus they bite.
I know it's Slashdot tradition not to read the article before commenting but are we now refusing to read even the summary?
I'm not even going to read what you said before quoting you in this comment
I'd prefer they run on a separate machine. Someone else's machine in fact.
No the price dropped because Apple stopped making 4GB iPhone AND they cut the price of the 8GB by $100-200 or so.
I'm not talking about the iPhone 3G, i'm talking about the original device, the price dropped and the capacity doubled within 4 months.
I'm not buying an iPad
Clearly it will fail in the market, then, just like the iPhone did.
The price of the original iPhone dropped pretty fast after launch, in fact it dropped and doubled in storage capacity. The difference was so large they had to issue apple store credits to early adopters.
I don't expect there to even BE a 16GB iPad 1 year from now or even 6 months.
Helps you sleep at night by filling your room with the sound of doves and seagulls, but only if you use Windows or Mac.
Wallabies?
They've been around for 10 years and yet they all failed in the consumer market. I wonder if there's some reason for that.....
Verizon doesn't restrict video streaming and VoIP even on their existing 3G network, but the amount of transfer is quite limited. I've got a Mi-Fi with a 10GB plan but i know if i were to use it for netflix i'd eat through that quickly.
In the U.S., Verizon charges something like $0.05 per MB for overages on it's mobile broadband plans, or $50 per GB. It used to be somewhere north of $200 per GB so at least it's improved, but i have to wonder how much of their capacity goes unused even while they charge people for transferring what is a relatively small amount of data.
Because of contention for the airwaves or because of the backhaul?
You've described child abuse, i was asking about pedophilia itself as an orientation.
Homosexuality isn't a relationship, it's an attraction to the same sex, a sexual orientation in the mind.