Ah vulgarities, the crutch of the inept. As if using them automatically makes you "more right".
Most of the people who care feel far to I33t to buy something from Apple, and the rest are perfectly happy to.
Baseless assumptions.
Heck, the need to jailbreak aka rooting is far more pressing on the Android side anyway - and then people will have to compile their own kernels to get a recent OS.
Bringing up Android's shortcomings is attempt to distract from the IOS and it's lock to the Apple App Store. I suppose it should be expected from a MacFanboy. Those shortcomings don't make Apple's case any better. Two wrongs != right.
And your lame excuse why there are so few Android apps is plain rationalisation.
WOW. You took a big leap here didn't you? You asked about 1 android app. Then you take my sarcastic/potshot response and blanket it across a whole other issue that you're trying to introduce. WOW. With all the distractions, misdirections, and half truths you zealously introduced in defense of your favorite computer company, you could work for the Scientologists. Although I'll admit, their cult doesn't seem to cough up cool tech like yours does.
Yep, I think that the music industry should see at least a few trillion dollars worth of profits for 2010 using the same model they use to claim damages.
A measly *few* trillion? They're expecting at least 75 trillion!
It's not about Apple supporting another companies product. It's about Apple blocking a competitor's product. Not a big deal when you don't have the vast majority of the customers (specifically, customers buying DRM locked music, recall that this lawsuit is based in 2004, according to TFA). Apple however had enough of the customer base that the courts may consider them having a monopoly, in which case antitrust laws come into effect.
One of the main elements of antitrust law:
-banning abusive behavior by a firm dominating a market, or anti-competitive practices that tend to lead to such a dominant position. Practices controlled in this way may include predatory pricing, tying, price gouging, refusal to deal, and many others.
Fairplay hasn't been used in anything but movies for 5 years now.
let's move into this decade please.
Also Fairplay wasn't apple's idea but the demands of the music industry who didn't want compatible RM schemes.
Apple is guilty of lots of things fairplay isn't one of them.
The lawsuit (or at least part of it) circles around the events of 2004. "Lets move into this decade please" doesn't work in the courtroom. =D Real's complaint isn't simply about Apple's use of fairplay, it's that Apple blocked non-fairplay DRM music from iTunes.
One competitor, RealNetworks Inc, responded in 2004 by introducing a new technology that would allow customers to play music downloaded from its site on their iPods. But Apple quickly announced a software upgrade to iTunes that once more blocked music from RealNetworks, the complaint charges.
What you're referring to requires jailbreaking your iPhone. You and all your friends may have the knowledge and expertise to jailbreak an iphone, but the vast majority of iPhone users do not. Cydia is a non-option for developers because it's excluded from the iPhone, not by some simple switch, but by software lock-in. Apple also implies that jailbreaking your phone will void your warranty. That you have to void your warranty just to access Cydia or any other alternative is an Apple designed restriction to prevent competition.
Developers like the OP want access to the vast iPhone user base, not the small percentage that Cydia offers. They're investing time and money into these apps. Apple's vague and ever changing *policies* (if you could even call them that) are developer un-friendly.
And while we're at it: where is the Gay Cure app for Android?
If the developer started mid-last year, he was restricted from using cross-platform compilers, he would either be re-writing the app for android, or maybe he only intended to write it once and chose Apple. Poor choice IMO.
In your haste to comment, you failed like so many others to READ.
You must be new here. If you're looking for commentary based on actually based on TFA, than perhaps slashdot is not for you...
Not new, I simply choose not to tolerate willful ignorance when source material is literally one click away.
I put illegal? because the record companies assert that it is, many others assert that it isn't, and I haven't seen a case that attempt to prosecute over it. American law is convoluted and easily twisted. Just because you and I believe it is legal doesn't mean we can't be successfully sued for it by corporations with expensive lawyers.
Only iTunes can place rights restricted music using the native "Fairplay" DRM on the iPod. That is how it is a monopoly. Everybody else has to use unrestricted formats.
Yeah, wow. That's really stifling competition.
If you want to purchase music from an artist or label that refuses to sell in an unrestricted format, then the iTunes store is your only avenue, short of (illegally?) ripping the music from a CD. Need an example? Try buying a Beatles MP3 on Amazon. It's all cover bands.
In your haste to comment, you failed like so many others to READ.
At issue is a piece of software called Fairplay that allowed only music bought on iTunes to be played on the iPod, according to the complaint.
One competitor, RealNetworks Inc, responded in 2004 by introducing a new technology that would allow customers to play music downloaded from its site on their iPods. But Apple quickly announced a software upgrade to iTunes that once more blocked music from RealNetworks, the complaint charges.
Lloyd said the deposition of Jobs would be limited to questions about the back-and-forth with RealNetworks in 2004.
It's not about buying music from iTunes. It's about Apple killing music from a competing retailer on the iPod.
Actually, flash works great on my ipod touch. Non apple browser, yet able to navigate some of the flash sites that were inaccessible in Safari. The difference in battery life? Maybe I lose an hour compared to Safari use, but nowhere near the doomsday situation the anti-flash mob portrays. Flash doesn't need to die, and it tends to advance faster then the HTML specs. It's not the best choice for everything, but it does have it's place.
Oh boo hoo. What a lame excuse. You can't buy strippers or a rub and tug in the mall or the grocery story. do you should produce whole salers boycot Kroger cause the restrict what they are allowed to put on the shelves?
What a poor analogy. You're comparing a single store or mall to what is really the only storefront for millions of customers around the world. When it comes to the iPhone, Apple isn't just one store in the community, they are the only store in the world, and they have hungry vicious lawyers working to keep it that way.
"aaaaaaargh!" isn't complaining simply that the store has rules, he's complaining that the store is also preventing competition by not allowing other stores to open up with access to iPhone users.
on the other hand, if all it takes is a petition to remove an app then boy is that a bad precedent to set.
Do you think if we complain about the highly offensive app store, they'll remove it too? I find Apple's wishwashyness on what goes in their app store to be highly offensive.
Developing Flash "apps" for a phone, eh? Here's a quick set of instructions:
- buy shotgun and ammo
- load shotgun
- insert in mouth
- pull trigger, repeat as needed
Seriously, I can't think of anything more suck-tastic than Flash apps on a phone. Piss-poor battery life, miserable performance and a UI that'll probably still think there's a mouse around...
Steve, the nurse said you need to get back in bed for your sponge bath...
Spock doesn't use a tricorder tablet because it has a million features and CPU to spare. He uses it because it is handy and can connect to the Millenium Falcon when it needs to perform more CPU-intensive calculations.
I think the trouble is these plants were built in the early 70s, before all that. They require active cooling to be safe, and nobody thought they'd see a magnitude 9 earthquake in their lifetime...
The plants survived the earthquake as planned. Cooling rods went into place and backup cooling pumps kicked in. The tsunami was the needle that broke the camel's back, disabling the backup generators that power the cooling pumps, which in turn led to the overheating they are struggling with today.
If anything, it shows that backup power/cooling at coastal/near-coastal nuclear plants needs to be built to be able to function underwater for periods of time, especially when you consider how difficult it is to get manpower and equipment through an area just hit by a tsunami.
Japanese dispute claim of no water in #4, claim helicopter crew was able to see water but the level isn't known. Last night saw on HNK news the U.S. will fly unmanned drones to verify water level, as getting close to pools involves very high exposure.
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Most of the people who care feel far to I33t to buy something from Apple, and the rest are perfectly happy to .
Baseless assumptions.
Heck, the need to jailbreak aka rooting is far more pressing on the Android side anyway - and then people will have to compile their own kernels to get a recent OS.
Bringing up Android's shortcomings is attempt to distract from the IOS and it's lock to the Apple App Store. I suppose it should be expected from a MacFanboy. Those shortcomings don't make Apple's case any better. Two wrongs != right.
And your lame excuse why there are so few Android apps is plain rationalisation.
WOW. You took a big leap here didn't you? You asked about 1 android app. Then you take my sarcastic/potshot response and blanket it across a whole other issue that you're trying to introduce. WOW. With all the distractions, misdirections, and half truths you zealously introduced in defense of your favorite computer company, you could work for the Scientologists. Although I'll admit, their cult doesn't seem to cough up cool tech like yours does.
Yep, I think that the music industry should see at least a few trillion dollars worth of profits for 2010 using the same model they use to claim damages.
A measly *few* trillion? They're expecting at least 75 trillion!
One of the main elements of antitrust law:
-banning abusive behavior by a firm dominating a market, or anti-competitive practices that tend to lead to such a dominant position. Practices controlled in this way may include predatory pricing, tying, price gouging, refusal to deal, and many others.
Apple looks good for "refusal to deal".
Fairplay hasn't been used in anything but movies for 5 years now.
let's move into this decade please.
Also Fairplay wasn't apple's idea but the demands of the music industry who didn't want compatible RM schemes.
Apple is guilty of lots of things fairplay isn't one of them.
The lawsuit (or at least part of it) circles around the events of 2004. "Lets move into this decade please" doesn't work in the courtroom. =D Real's complaint isn't simply about Apple's use of fairplay, it's that Apple blocked non-fairplay DRM music from iTunes.
One competitor, RealNetworks Inc, responded in 2004 by introducing a new technology that would allow customers to play music downloaded from its site on their iPods. But Apple quickly announced a software upgrade to iTunes that once more blocked music from RealNetworks, the complaint charges.
Developers like the OP want access to the vast iPhone user base, not the small percentage that Cydia offers. They're investing time and money into these apps. Apple's vague and ever changing *policies* (if you could even call them that) are developer un-friendly.
And while we're at it: where is the Gay Cure app for Android?
If the developer started mid-last year, he was restricted from using cross-platform compilers, he would either be re-writing the app for android, or maybe he only intended to write it once and chose Apple. Poor choice IMO.
Whats a "store"?
In your haste to comment, you failed like so many others to READ. You must be new here. If you're looking for commentary based on actually based on TFA, than perhaps slashdot is not for you...
Not new, I simply choose not to tolerate willful ignorance when source material is literally one click away.
I put illegal? because the record companies assert that it is, many others assert that it isn't, and I haven't seen a case that attempt to prosecute over it. American law is convoluted and easily twisted. Just because you and I believe it is legal doesn't mean we can't be successfully sued for it by corporations with expensive lawyers.
Did Apple give you that tinfoil hat? I think it's brainwashing you. Oh wait, I see the problem, they embedded a shuffle in it.
By your definition, neither did Microsoft. Yet they were successfully prosecuted as such.
Only iTunes can place rights restricted music using the native "Fairplay" DRM on the iPod. That is how it is a monopoly. Everybody else has to use unrestricted formats.
Yeah, wow. That's really stifling competition.
If you want to purchase music from an artist or label that refuses to sell in an unrestricted format, then the iTunes store is your only avenue, short of (illegally?) ripping the music from a CD. Need an example? Try buying a Beatles MP3 on Amazon. It's all cover bands.
At issue is a piece of software called Fairplay that allowed only music bought on iTunes to be played on the iPod, according to the complaint.
One competitor, RealNetworks Inc, responded in 2004 by introducing a new technology that would allow customers to play music downloaded from its site on their iPods. But Apple quickly announced a software upgrade to iTunes that once more blocked music from RealNetworks, the complaint charges.
Lloyd said the deposition of Jobs would be limited to questions about the back-and-forth with RealNetworks in 2004.
It's not about buying music from iTunes. It's about Apple killing music from a competing retailer on the iPod.
Steve Jobs Questioned In iTunes Monopoly Suit
Steve Jobs has been ordered to answer questions regarding Apple's iTunes music monopoly.
It wouldn't be a Slashdot headline if it didn't contradict itself in the summary. He is ordered to answer questions. He hasn't been questioned yet.
Actually, flash works great on my ipod touch. Non apple browser, yet able to navigate some of the flash sites that were inaccessible in Safari. The difference in battery life? Maybe I lose an hour compared to Safari use, but nowhere near the doomsday situation the anti-flash mob portrays. Flash doesn't need to die, and it tends to advance faster then the HTML specs. It's not the best choice for everything, but it does have it's place.
Funny that you use the term "Catholic" as if it applies to a group of like minded people. Catholicism is as fractured and splintered a group as any.
Never! nyuk-nyuk-nyuk.
also how could an iphone app cure the gay and why couldn't the company have made an app that cures cancer?
The Cancer curing app requires direct access to hardware that Apple doesn't allow outside developers access to.
Oh boo hoo. What a lame excuse. You can't buy strippers or a rub and tug in the mall or the grocery story. do you should produce whole salers boycot Kroger cause the restrict what they are allowed to put on the shelves?
What a poor analogy. You're comparing a single store or mall to what is really the only storefront for millions of customers around the world. When it comes to the iPhone, Apple isn't just one store in the community, they are the only store in the world, and they have hungry vicious lawyers working to keep it that way.
"aaaaaaargh!" isn't complaining simply that the store has rules, he's complaining that the store is also preventing competition by not allowing other stores to open up with access to iPhone users.
on the other hand, if all it takes is a petition to remove an app then boy is that a bad precedent to set.
Do you think if we complain about the highly offensive app store, they'll remove it too? I find Apple's wishwashyness on what goes in their app store to be highly offensive.
Developing Flash "apps" for a phone, eh? Here's a quick set of instructions:
- buy shotgun and ammo
- load shotgun
- insert in mouth
- pull trigger, repeat as needed
Seriously, I can't think of anything more suck-tastic than Flash apps on a phone. Piss-poor battery life, miserable performance and a UI that'll probably still think there's a mouse around...
Steve, the nurse said you need to get back in bed for your sponge bath...
Spock doesn't use a tricorder tablet because it has a million features and CPU to spare. He uses it because it is handy and can connect to the Millenium Falcon when it needs to perform more CPU-intensive calculations.
I suggest a new strategy, R2: let the Vulcan win.
I think the trouble is these plants were built in the early 70s, before all that. They require active cooling to be safe, and nobody thought they'd see a magnitude 9 earthquake in their lifetime...
The plants survived the earthquake as planned. Cooling rods went into place and backup cooling pumps kicked in. The tsunami was the needle that broke the camel's back, disabling the backup generators that power the cooling pumps, which in turn led to the overheating they are struggling with today.
If anything, it shows that backup power/cooling at coastal/near-coastal nuclear plants needs to be built to be able to function underwater for periods of time, especially when you consider how difficult it is to get manpower and equipment through an area just hit by a tsunami.
Japanese dispute claim of no water in #4, claim helicopter crew was able to see water but the level isn't known. Last night saw on HNK news the U.S. will fly unmanned drones to verify water level, as getting close to pools involves very high exposure.
I hope they remember to disarm this one...
Poole To Zuckerberg: You’re Doing It Wrong
That's what she said.
Just as I'm dumping them. They keep raising their rates, while making their service suck more and more. Great business plan AT&T!
Listen, people are idiots and fools are easily parted with their money. More, people have a short attention span and never follow up on the results.
It's quite true actually, I didn't even read past this line...