I think you gave expressed permission by using the service. I use the service, and thus give permission. If you don't want them to have permission, don't use the service.
I think a bigger issue is that they change the terms of the service after-the-fact.
Engineers understand facts. Facts get in the way of political and corporate goals.
It also gets in the way of creativity, dealing effectively with people, and communicating.
It especially gets in the way of being in meetings on time and/or setting up meetings via teleconference well in advance of the meeting time so the first 30 minutes are spent on troubleshooting.
Well you spent a good time yelling at the other guy to quit stereotyping, then you provide this little gem:
Sadly, it's the semi-rich (six figure income) people who suffer from this the most: they have all that wealth yet have no time to enjoy it. They're ALWAYS working.
I make that, and work 40 hours a week, not a minute longer. I get my work done and earn the salary I signed a contract for within the confines of a 40 hour work week. Work-a-holics will never have time for anything, but that doesn't mean they'll make 6 figures, or that it takes being a work-a-holic to earn 6 figures.
I have an undergrad and a grad degree in Education. It's really not that hard to make 6 figures once you get to be 40 years old or so.
Bah! Our people haven't been the source of our success for over 100 years now. It's the resources and our emphasis on money=success that lets us -- an otherwise largely anti-intellectual, isolationist and jingoistic gathering of rednecks -- think we are the best at everything.
I think Apple realizes they will always be between 5-8% market share on the desktop, so why not focus on the 75% market share of iDevices instead?
I'm a very contented OS X user and my wife uses OSX even in her University Computer Science program, so it's not like it's a 'bad' thing you don't hear as much about OSX as you do iDevices.
Well, it's evidently not a waste of your time since you are trying to turn a simple analogy into some sort of intellectual dick size comparo.
It's really this simple. There's no need for the average user to ever need to get inside of their phone, therefore this is a complete non-issue.
For the VERY SMALL segment of EE nerds out there that want to play with capacitors and transistors, don't get an iPhone if you can't operate a $3 screwdriver.
And the fact you even entertain the thought that anybody opens a toaster for anything tells me this is, indeed, a waste of time.
The relevance is that, like a toaster, nobody ever opens their phone to "clean" it.
Is this really that hard? I'm inclined to think "yes" if people on here actually think it is normal to disassemble a toaster for cleaning. You know, turning it upside-down and wiping the sides with a cloth tends to do the job.
No, see, you bring up points that aren't really contested (except the ugly graphics and sub par experience part I suppose). But to simply yell out buzz phrases like "finder sucks!" indicates to me a deep seated bias that really isn't pertinent to the topic at hand.
Just out of curiosity...what kind of experience am I missing out on if I can't open my iPhone?
And just anecdotally, I have 4 iPhones in my household, 5 iPods, an iMac and a Macbook, none of which have ever needed one dime in repair costs, let alone "putting me out of a home".
See, that sort of hyperbole is right in line with the talking points I mention...it discredits the validity of your post.
Well, I can agree that the UI issues are indeed relative. I just don't think the issues you've pointed out are as bad as they are.
For example, you can simply drag any of your songs from the finder library to a CD/DVD and burn it that way. iTunes is just an additional layer of complexity for people who don't want to wander outside their little comfort zone.
Cleaning the filter on a range hood is akin to cleaning the screen of a smart phone. Something you have to and something the manufacturers do not intentionally prohibit you from doing.
And no, normal people don't disassemble their toasters to clean them.
Canon DSLR captures images on SD card. Plug camera into Macbook, import into Lightroom. Macbook's Time Machine makes wireless backups to the 500GB hard drive hidden in the closet (in case of burglary, but doesn't do anything for fire). I then purge all the lame pics (most of them) and then sync my Lightroom libraries across my iMac and my Win7 PC libraries for redundancy.
The great pics I upload to Flickr, and the rest I burn to a DVD and keep the DVD at work.
Not the greatest solution, but the key for my workflow is I didn't have to purchase anything in addition just for my photography. Everything is already being used for other purposes as well. People trying to price how much money per picture external storage would cost are leaving out the fact that most of us are already using that external storage anyway for other stuff on our computers.
Ahh, just the sort of maladjusted, socially challenged nerd response that keeps people coming back for more helpful insights like yours.
And it's modded +4 insightful as well. Yeah, responding to someones question with , "you should just die you dumbass" is very insightful.
But to the point, how does a USB drive not burn up in a housefire, or NOT get stolen by a burglar? See, when you stop to consider the question in full, as opposed to telling the guy to up and die for being such a stupid asshat, you'll find opportunity to actually be a benefit to society. Nice try, otherwise.
Well to each his own, but I agree with your sentiment.
I'm a hobbyist (at best...average gear, kit lens, have to make a concerted effort to remember to bring the camera, etc.) but I do have over 15,000 digital pics in my lightroom library. Of these, I may have 50 keepers (and about 1,000 fun snapshots), but I still have 15,000 files on my computer.
I've worked into my workflow the process of tagging/rating so that I can honestly feel fine with deleting 29 out of 30 pics of the Aztec pyramid I took (keeping the well composed, interesting one to work with more later).
Quick analogy...I administer the SAT and similar standardized tests. When reading the list of prohibited items, the students always say, "that's stupid, why would that be prohibited".
The answer is easy: somebody figured out a way to cheat with it.
The same thing goes for seemingly stupid TSA and on-bard flight rules. You may think they are dumb, but they are grounded in some sort of reality you are probably not aware of.
I never turn my phone off. I mute it and stick it in my pocket. Even then, they don't check to make sure EVERY SINGLE PASSENGER has physically turned their phone off, so it's obviously not a problem.
What makes it more obvious that there is no danger to in flight cell usage is that, for a fee, you can actually turn your phones on and use the airplane's wireless internet service.
Practical nuclear fusion is always 30 years away. Fast non-volatile memory tech to replace RAM and HD is always 10 years away. Duke Nukem Forever is forever 6 months away.
The year of Linux on the desktop is always next year.
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I think you gave expressed permission by using the service. I use the service, and thus give permission. If you don't want them to have permission, don't use the service.
I think a bigger issue is that they change the terms of the service after-the-fact.
Engineers understand facts. Facts get in the way of political and corporate goals.
It also gets in the way of creativity, dealing effectively with people, and communicating.
It especially gets in the way of being in meetings on time and/or setting up meetings via teleconference well in advance of the meeting time so the first 30 minutes are spent on troubleshooting.
Well you spent a good time yelling at the other guy to quit stereotyping, then you provide this little gem:
Sadly, it's the semi-rich (six figure income) people who suffer from this the most: they have all that wealth yet have no time to enjoy it. They're ALWAYS working.
I make that, and work 40 hours a week, not a minute longer. I get my work done and earn the salary I signed a contract for within the confines of a 40 hour work week. Work-a-holics will never have time for anything, but that doesn't mean they'll make 6 figures, or that it takes being a work-a-holic to earn 6 figures.
I have an undergrad and a grad degree in Education. It's really not that hard to make 6 figures once you get to be 40 years old or so.
Bah! Our people haven't been the source of our success for over 100 years now. It's the resources and our emphasis on money=success that lets us -- an otherwise largely anti-intellectual, isolationist and jingoistic gathering of rednecks -- think we are the best at everything.
I think Apple realizes they will always be between 5-8% market share on the desktop, so why not focus on the 75% market share of iDevices instead?
I'm a very contented OS X user and my wife uses OSX even in her University Computer Science program, so it's not like it's a 'bad' thing you don't hear as much about OSX as you do iDevices.
Oops, misread your post...disregard.
Yes, that's called convenience. Calling it lock-in makes you look petulant.
So sell your card on ebay and use the cash to buy hardware?
AC's poor communication skills account for misunderstanding.
He should have said, "since you can't buy hardware with an iTunes card". Instead, what he wrote inferred that you can't buy Apple hardware in England.
...you can't buy physical Apple products.
I lived in England for several years. Most of my Apple hardware was purchased there. You are just making stuff up.
Or even better is when they call a gay person gay, when they are indeed gay. That is so insulting when that happens, right?
Well, it's evidently not a waste of your time since you are trying to turn a simple analogy into some sort of intellectual dick size comparo.
It's really this simple. There's no need for the average user to ever need to get inside of their phone, therefore this is a complete non-issue.
For the VERY SMALL segment of EE nerds out there that want to play with capacitors and transistors, don't get an iPhone if you can't operate a $3 screwdriver.
And the fact you even entertain the thought that anybody opens a toaster for anything tells me this is, indeed, a waste of time.
The relevance is that, like a toaster, nobody ever opens their phone to "clean" it.
Is this really that hard? I'm inclined to think "yes" if people on here actually think it is normal to disassemble a toaster for cleaning. You know, turning it upside-down and wiping the sides with a cloth tends to do the job.
No, see, you bring up points that aren't really contested (except the ugly graphics and sub par experience part I suppose). But to simply yell out buzz phrases like "finder sucks!" indicates to me a deep seated bias that really isn't pertinent to the topic at hand.
Just out of curiosity...what kind of experience am I missing out on if I can't open my iPhone?
And just anecdotally, I have 4 iPhones in my household, 5 iPods, an iMac and a Macbook, none of which have ever needed one dime in repair costs, let alone "putting me out of a home".
See, that sort of hyperbole is right in line with the talking points I mention...it discredits the validity of your post.
Well, I can agree that the UI issues are indeed relative. I just don't think the issues you've pointed out are as bad as they are.
For example, you can simply drag any of your songs from the finder library to a CD/DVD and burn it that way. iTunes is just an additional layer of complexity for people who don't want to wander outside their little comfort zone.
Cleaning the filter on a range hood is akin to cleaning the screen of a smart phone. Something you have to and something the manufacturers do not intentionally prohibit you from doing.
And no, normal people don't disassemble their toasters to clean them.
Canon DSLR captures images on SD card. Plug camera into Macbook, import into Lightroom. Macbook's Time Machine makes wireless backups to the 500GB hard drive hidden in the closet (in case of burglary, but doesn't do anything for fire). I then purge all the lame pics (most of them) and then sync my Lightroom libraries across my iMac and my Win7 PC libraries for redundancy.
The great pics I upload to Flickr, and the rest I burn to a DVD and keep the DVD at work.
Not the greatest solution, but the key for my workflow is I didn't have to purchase anything in addition just for my photography. Everything is already being used for other purposes as well. People trying to price how much money per picture external storage would cost are leaving out the fact that most of us are already using that external storage anyway for other stuff on our computers.
Ahh, just the sort of maladjusted, socially challenged nerd response that keeps people coming back for more helpful insights like yours.
And it's modded +4 insightful as well. Yeah, responding to someones question with , "you should just die you dumbass" is very insightful.
But to the point, how does a USB drive not burn up in a housefire, or NOT get stolen by a burglar? See, when you stop to consider the question in full, as opposed to telling the guy to up and die for being such a stupid asshat, you'll find opportunity to actually be a benefit to society. Nice try, otherwise.
Well to each his own, but I agree with your sentiment.
I'm a hobbyist (at best...average gear, kit lens, have to make a concerted effort to remember to bring the camera, etc.) but I do have over 15,000 digital pics in my lightroom library. Of these, I may have 50 keepers (and about 1,000 fun snapshots), but I still have 15,000 files on my computer.
I've worked into my workflow the process of tagging/rating so that I can honestly feel fine with deleting 29 out of 30 pics of the Aztec pyramid I took (keeping the well composed, interesting one to work with more later).
Even so ... what happened to politeness and consideration for other passengers?
This has been a problem long before cell phones were around. Cell phones just make it even worse.
Quick analogy...I administer the SAT and similar standardized tests. When reading the list of prohibited items, the students always say, "that's stupid, why would that be prohibited".
The answer is easy: somebody figured out a way to cheat with it.
The same thing goes for seemingly stupid TSA and on-bard flight rules. You may think they are dumb, but they are grounded in some sort of reality you are probably not aware of.
I never turn my phone off. I mute it and stick it in my pocket. Even then, they don't check to make sure EVERY SINGLE PASSENGER has physically turned their phone off, so it's obviously not a problem.
What makes it more obvious that there is no danger to in flight cell usage is that, for a fee, you can actually turn your phones on and use the airplane's wireless internet service.
Practical nuclear fusion is always 30 years away.
Fast non-volatile memory tech to replace RAM and HD is always 10 years away.
Duke Nukem Forever is forever 6 months away.
The year of Linux on the desktop is always next year.
It's impossible to take offense by somebody so intellectually challenged that they find victory in insulting people's sexuality.
April fools on January 21st. Niiiiiice!