Assuming that the data is reliable in any way.
I have a Nest, and I've turned off auto away because it was awful at predicting when I'd actually left the house. It could be useful in theory, but in practice it's a lot less accurate than you're giving them credit for. Is the Nest collecting data about you? Sure. Is that data likely to be useful against you in anyway, very unlikely.
So I guess this week we don't think that information wants to be free?
In the words of RMS
I believe that all generally useful information should be free. By 'free' I am not referring to price, but rather to the freedom to copy the information and to adapt it to one's own uses... When information is generally useful, redistributing it makes humanity wealthier no matter who is distributing and no matter who is receiving.
Songbird lists the "add new files in this folder to my library" feature as "coming soon" - so I'm not sure how songbird is "better" than iTunes in this respect.
Out of the list of features in the summary, skins is the only addition... so this boils down to whether or not you wants skins.
Of course, if it's a closed- vs open-source question, then that can be discussed as well, but it wasn't raised in the summary.
Of course, competition is awesome, and I'm happy to see it coming to OS X - I just don't think the OP did a good job of summarizing the changes.
Not to be picky, but "[insert country here] Idol" knock-offs, originate somewhere other than the good 'ol USA something like 75% of the time... not that this fact changes that entertainment is bad on a global scale, it just means that not all the crap is originating in the USA.
Where's iChat or am I supposed to keep spending like $0.15 a text for SMS. Speaking of SMS, where's the damn MMS? 3rd party apps mean anything? We've seen AIM in the past. I mean, yeah, video chat would be great, but isn't this a step in the right direction?
How about spam filtering on the mail client. This is supposed to be "just like the desktop OS X" so how hard can it be to upgrade the mail client to more completely resemble the functionality of mail.app on the desktop?
No discussion of how the 1st gen phones will handle location. CoreLocation (?) seems to handle this using triangulation, as previously announced. Not as accurate as GPS, but it's something.
Nice one month slip on the OS and app store. Slip? When was it previously announced? The software supporting the store won't be out until then anyway.
So as a 1st generation owner, the only major upgrade in my day to day is the ability to get 3rd party apps. Hopefully 3rd party apps will fill in the gaping holes. 3rd party apps, apple push application support, exchange support, and a few other features. Were you expecting Apple to unlock hardware features in the phone you bought?
TFa is off the mark - at least in Leopard downloads are thrown into a "Downloads" folder, NOT the Desktop. Accidentally clicking on one of these downloads is not an issue,
While this practice hasn't been common, it has been happening for a while now. Harvey Danger released an album maybe 3-4 years ago on this model, and I'd really like to see them getting more credit for it. They're not as popular as Radiohead or NiN, and I think that should earn them some extra credit. The more we talk about smaller bands doing this, the better.
While you're talking about RPGs and automatic weapons, why not throw in computer viruses? Realistically in this day they'd make a better weapon and are less likely to kill people.
There's a big difference between allowing two inputs (one for each hand) and true multi-touch (i.e. all fingers on each hand) -- this example is the former, Surface is the latter.
Microsoft also supports multi-touch, which the video doesn't mention at all - I suspect this demo did not support any kind of gesture support, or more than two simultaneous touches.
How about noise? Maybe you want to run the dishwater when you're out of the house so that it doesn't bother you when you're trying to relax at home? That feature in itself would be worth it for some.
Are people seriously bragging about composited graphics? I mean, Vista shipped with them a year ago.. VISTA. Are people supposed to be impressed with a feature set that has been available for years? Can we please get past this and move on to things that really matter?
The truth is that the Phone Company or in this case Apple, no matter how smart they believe they are, cannot duplicate the inventive power of a free market.
The "free" phone market was stuck in UI limbo, with consumers buying primitive phones because there was no alternative. The free market is a great thing, but unless you have a good variety of companies competing within it it's not a useful mechanism for progress. Apple competing in the market is a _very_ good thing for consumers, software SDK or not, as we'll all soon see through competing products.
Apple does have a tendency to be authoritarian, but it's not as bad as people usually say. It's more that the company's focus is on the average user, and that until they can find a way to have both usability and extensibility in their products, usability wins out. The SDK is coming, and the fact is they're going to have the SDK out there before anyone else has any serious competitors to the iPhone, so it's not like the free market is out-pacing Apple.
I'm totally in favour of being critical of Apple, and any other company, when they deserve it - but in this case you're just asking for too much too fast, and Apple isn't going to do that if they have to sacrifice quality.
Yes. France disagreed with the U.S. about Iraq (and yes, even though their reasons for doing so weren't the most honorable, it's fairly safe to say at this point that they were on the "right" side of the debate). Uh, since when is being opposed to a racist, oil-fueled war not honourable?
Surprise! The world does not hate Americans by default. Most of them don't approve of what the government's doing, but neither do 70% of Americans these days. Are you sure about that? The default is probably a lot different than you think.
And even if I did, the software is still not there, and don't say "bootcamp" like it means something. We've been able to dual boot in linux forever.
Sigh, poster missed the point. It's not about dual booting, or even partitioning the drive easily (although those are extremely well implemented) - it's about proper driver support.
Unfortunately many people do That said, it's getting better each revision. I just wanted to point out that in some situations it's the only "officially supported" choice.
Ah thanks, that makes all the difference. It's really not being a zealot to ask for people to be honest. I agree with you, the iPhone probably won't come with many features that IT departments can use to better to support it. But until the features are known, it's plain FUD to act like an authority when none exists.
The iPhone, due to its lack of support for third-party software, has none of this. I'm sorry, but what is this statement based on? As far as I can tell, the phone has not been released yet and Apple has not announced whether or not they will provide "device management" software. This is total speculation at the moment, unless you have some other source of information that you're not disclosing. It would be very helpful if people refrained from jumping on the "I hate the iPhone bandwagon" with made up "facts" until after the product is released.
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And the gas can and matches would take considerably less time to use too.
No, I don't.
Assuming that the data is reliable in any way. I have a Nest, and I've turned off auto away because it was awful at predicting when I'd actually left the house. It could be useful in theory, but in practice it's a lot less accurate than you're giving them credit for. Is the Nest collecting data about you? Sure. Is that data likely to be useful against you in anyway, very unlikely.
What do you possibly have in your house that it's worth somebody's time to hack your thermostat?
The "no" is that Firewire was pretty much the last hardware standard that Apple had a major hand in.
How about ARM?
I believe that all generally useful information should be free. By 'free' I am not referring to price, but rather to the freedom to copy the information and to adapt it to one's own uses... When information is generally useful, redistributing it makes humanity wealthier no matter who is distributing and no matter who is receiving.
Songbird lists the "add new files in this folder to my library" feature as "coming soon" - so I'm not sure how songbird is "better" than iTunes in this respect. Out of the list of features in the summary, skins is the only addition... so this boils down to whether or not you wants skins. Of course, if it's a closed- vs open-source question, then that can be discussed as well, but it wasn't raised in the summary. Of course, competition is awesome, and I'm happy to see it coming to OS X - I just don't think the OP did a good job of summarizing the changes.
Not to be picky, but "[insert country here] Idol" knock-offs, originate somewhere other than the good 'ol USA something like 75% of the time... not that this fact changes that entertainment is bad on a global scale, it just means that not all the crap is originating in the USA.
how about: GPS: AGPS / GPS(just this month)
TFa is off the mark - at least in Leopard downloads are thrown into a "Downloads" folder, NOT the Desktop. Accidentally clicking on one of these downloads is not an issue,
To be fair, Office 2008 is a POS. It's something, but they didn't really put a lot of effort into it. Where's the compatibility with docx?
While this practice hasn't been common, it has been happening for a while now. Harvey Danger released an album maybe 3-4 years ago on this model, and I'd really like to see them getting more credit for it. They're not as popular as Radiohead or NiN, and I think that should earn them some extra credit. The more we talk about smaller bands doing this, the better.
Maybe you can help me find the CTRL key on my iPhone?
While you're talking about RPGs and automatic weapons, why not throw in computer viruses? Realistically in this day they'd make a better weapon and are less likely to kill people.
There's a big difference between allowing two inputs (one for each hand) and true multi-touch (i.e. all fingers on each hand) -- this example is the former, Surface is the latter.
Microsoft also supports multi-touch, which the video doesn't mention at all - I suspect this demo did not support any kind of gesture support, or more than two simultaneous touches.
How about noise? Maybe you want to run the dishwater when you're out of the house so that it doesn't bother you when you're trying to relax at home? That feature in itself would be worth it for some.
Are people seriously bragging about composited graphics? I mean, Vista shipped with them a year ago.. VISTA. Are people supposed to be impressed with a feature set that has been available for years? Can we please get past this and move on to things that really matter?
The "free" phone market was stuck in UI limbo, with consumers buying primitive phones because there was no alternative. The free market is a great thing, but unless you have a good variety of companies competing within it it's not a useful mechanism for progress. Apple competing in the market is a _very_ good thing for consumers, software SDK or not, as we'll all soon see through competing products.
Apple does have a tendency to be authoritarian, but it's not as bad as people usually say. It's more that the company's focus is on the average user, and that until they can find a way to have both usability and extensibility in their products, usability wins out. The SDK is coming, and the fact is they're going to have the SDK out there before anyone else has any serious competitors to the iPhone, so it's not like the free market is out-pacing Apple.
I'm totally in favour of being critical of Apple, and any other company, when they deserve it - but in this case you're just asking for too much too fast, and Apple isn't going to do that if they have to sacrifice quality.
Sigh, poster missed the point. It's not about dual booting, or even partitioning the drive easily (although those are extremely well implemented) - it's about proper driver support.
Unfortunately many people do That said, it's getting better each revision. I just wanted to point out that in some situations it's the only "officially supported" choice.
Ah thanks, that makes all the difference. It's really not being a zealot to ask for people to be honest. I agree with you, the iPhone probably won't come with many features that IT departments can use to better to support it. But until the features are known, it's plain FUD to act like an authority when none exists.
But yeah, spot on with the rest of it.