Asshole much? Basically what you are saying is that there are three Android phones like there are three iPhones: The Nexus 1, the Nexus S and the Galaxy Nexus. The rest are apparently crap but that is not the OS' fault, because they are Google partners that are supposed to be beneficiaries from the "openness" of Android? Your assholery seems to indicate that Android is just as "closed" as iOS since you only should use the official Google phones...
The 30% cut is only for content purchased directly through apps managed using their services: If I buy a Kindle book on amazon.com and sync it to the Kindle app on the iPhone or iPad without Apple seeing a cent of what I paid. Seriously, did you expect a company to provide a channel for another commercial entity for free? It's not anti-competitive, and 30% happens to be what Google and Microsoft charge in their app stores...
Foxconn staff aren't any more Apple staff than they are Cisco staff, HP staff, Microsoft staff... they are a third-party supplier. Do you complain that your bakery does not mill its own dough? Apple's staff outside Cupertino are in their stores, their sales, their repair facilities etc.
Ripping off how? Should all companies be not-for-profit? Nobody are forcing people to buy iOS devices, people choose them over cheaper alternatives the same way people rather eat at proper restaurants than at McDonald's.
Of course the Android "ecosystem" (whatever that is) is thriving world wide, after all it's free for low-cost phone manufacturers to use as they like. The Chinese can just download the source, rip out anything that gives Google money and replace it with local alternatives instead. TANSTAAFL but you do not need to pay for it yourself all the time...:)
What are you going to use it for? Android UI is still sluggish because iOS prioritizes interactivity and graphics more than Android does. What do you need the world's best screen for if the software makes it act like poop?
The difference might be that Android started life as a phone OS while iOS started life as a tablet OS. The phone functionality of iOS, apart from the hardware, are extensions on top of the core functionality, which seems to be "responsive UI at all costs".
1) Turn off the iPhone 2) Connect it to a machine running iTunes while holding down the home button 3) Answer "yes" when prompted whether you want to do a reinstall.
Um, that is only a point if you forget that you have a jailbroken phone and choose to update from Apple instead of waiting for a untethered jailbreak of the new release. iOS software updates are not mandatory.
Given that modern society both accept children born outside of marriage, and also accept heterosexual marriages where no children are produced, your logic falls apart. I mean, the Bible also describes bread, does that mean only religious people get to define what bread is?
Try what? iTunes/iBooks adds the DRM when the book is downloaded, this is well known ever since Jon Lech Johansen examined the goings-on regarding Fairplay for music files back in the day. So I was thinking of the books sold there.
But yeah, you can use the iBooks Author to make non-DRMed ePub/"APub" books and distribute through other channels than the iBooks Store.
It's not tied to iTunes so there's no worry about DRM.
Yeah, because only iTunes/iBooks use DRM. Adobe Digital Editions do not exist... HTML5? Which variant of that? And is not a web browser a "3rd party app"?
Darn, I wish you had told me that earlier, here I was happily subscribing to magazines in Zinio and thought I was reading them comfortably on my iPad, but it turns out that is not possible!
Need a laptop? Bullshit, you just put a lightweight Bluetooth keyboard into the sack.
iPad haters seem more and more like envious brats...
A tablet works in portrait form, which most books look best in. A laptop? Not so much. An iPad is easy to read on while standing - a laptop? Not so much. Plus if you are reading what is that large slab of keys doing there? Nothing, it is just in the way. "Actual work" does not enter into the picture when we focus on the task at hand: Reading a book.
Seriously, do you not see that your "toy" argument is just as valid for a "Wintendo" laptop? Or are you saying laptops have see-through backs so the teacher can see whether you are just playing some Facebook game du jour?
Google? You mean the company that scans "orphan" works, hoping that the copyright holders don't make a fuss? They are free to make an equivalent service for Android if they like. But they don't because schools would frown on their ad-based model where you, the user, is the product.
Well, ePub with encryption of the contents. But there are tools to get around that; the best is to stick to publishers that use watermarking instead though.
That would kill the Indian software industry dead! How else are the workers supposed to find code examples to copy and paste? Asking on mailing lists take too long, even though they send reminders half an hour after posting the question!
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Do the people at Apple truly know all the information in the universe?
Not until Siri comes out of beta.
I don't think he has been to China or India where most of those Android sales take place. In the rich world iPhone rules the roost.
Is that an example of "we lose money on every sale but will make it back in volume" Bizarro-world logic?
Asshole much? Basically what you are saying is that there are three Android phones like there are three iPhones: The Nexus 1, the Nexus S and the Galaxy Nexus. The rest are apparently crap but that is not the OS' fault, because they are Google partners that are supposed to be beneficiaries from the "openness" of Android? Your assholery seems to indicate that Android is just as "closed" as iOS since you only should use the official Google phones...
The 30% cut is only for content purchased directly through apps managed using their services: If I buy a Kindle book on amazon.com and sync it to the Kindle app on the iPhone or iPad without Apple seeing a cent of what I paid. Seriously, did you expect a company to provide a channel for another commercial entity for free? It's not anti-competitive, and 30% happens to be what Google and Microsoft charge in their app stores...
Foxconn staff aren't any more Apple staff than they are Cisco staff, HP staff, Microsoft staff... they are a third-party supplier. Do you complain that your bakery does not mill its own dough? Apple's staff outside Cupertino are in their stores, their sales, their repair facilities etc.
What "basic functionality" does an iPhone lack, if that was what you hinted at?
Ripping off how? Should all companies be not-for-profit? Nobody are forcing people to buy iOS devices, people choose them over cheaper alternatives the same way people rather eat at proper restaurants than at McDonald's.
Of course the Android "ecosystem" (whatever that is) is thriving world wide, after all it's free for low-cost phone manufacturers to use as they like. The Chinese can just download the source, rip out anything that gives Google money and replace it with local alternatives instead. TANSTAAFL but you do not need to pay for it yourself all the time... :)
What are you going to use it for? Android UI is still sluggish because iOS prioritizes interactivity and graphics more than Android does. What do you need the world's best screen for if the software makes it act like poop?
The difference might be that Android started life as a phone OS while iOS started life as a tablet OS. The phone functionality of iOS, apart from the hardware, are extensions on top of the core functionality, which seems to be "responsive UI at all costs".
I thought MarketEnabler opened up the Android Market to all devices? Have they plugged that hole?
Plus, it's easy to do a "factory reset".
1) Turn off the iPhone
2) Connect it to a machine running iTunes while holding down the home button
3) Answer "yes" when prompted whether you want to do a reinstall.
Um, that is only a point if you forget that you have a jailbroken phone and choose to update from Apple instead of waiting for a untethered jailbreak of the new release. iOS software updates are not mandatory.
Given that modern society both accept children born outside of marriage, and also accept heterosexual marriages where no children are produced, your logic falls apart. I mean, the Bible also describes bread, does that mean only religious people get to define what bread is?
Try what? iTunes/iBooks adds the DRM when the book is downloaded, this is well known ever since Jon Lech Johansen examined the goings-on regarding Fairplay for music files back in the day. So I was thinking of the books sold there.
But yeah, you can use the iBooks Author to make non-DRMed ePub/"APub" books and distribute through other channels than the iBooks Store.
It's not tied to iTunes so there's no worry about DRM.
Yeah, because only iTunes/iBooks use DRM. Adobe Digital Editions do not exist... HTML5? Which variant of that? And is not a web browser a "3rd party app"?
I smell an astroturfer.
Why not ask the same of any book publisher? "pushing global warming and how bad Oil is" - gee, got an agenda yourself or something?
You can put whatever ePub or PDF you want in the iBooks app if you so desire. Or use any of the multitude of other eBook reader apps.
You mean something like the hundred or so books about Linux and Windows that are already in the iBooks Store?
The terms for the iOS store are not worse than Google's for the Marketplace (no porn, no apps for alternate stores etc.)
Sounds like the type of linkbait that would pass muster; the actual article would of course not have anything to do with the headline...
In fact it sounds so good it would be duped the same day!
Get off my lawn mode detected. Now, compute the difference in weight between an iPad with 20+ books and those 20+ books in printed form.
The iPad is not a reading device.
Darn, I wish you had told me that earlier, here I was happily subscribing to magazines in Zinio and thought I was reading them comfortably on my iPad, but it turns out that is not possible!
Need a laptop? Bullshit, you just put a lightweight Bluetooth keyboard into the sack.
iPad haters seem more and more like envious brats...
A tablet works in portrait form, which most books look best in. A laptop? Not so much. An iPad is easy to read on while standing - a laptop? Not so much. Plus if you are reading what is that large slab of keys doing there? Nothing, it is just in the way. "Actual work" does not enter into the picture when we focus on the task at hand: Reading a book.
Seriously, do you not see that your "toy" argument is just as valid for a "Wintendo" laptop? Or are you saying laptops have see-through backs so the teacher can see whether you are just playing some Facebook game du jour?
Google? You mean the company that scans "orphan" works, hoping that the copyright holders don't make a fuss? They are free to make an equivalent service for Android if they like. But they don't because schools would frown on their ad-based model where you, the user, is the product.
What, didn't you hear about the Stop Toxic Automobiles Act of 1912?
Well, ePub with encryption of the contents. But there are tools to get around that; the best is to stick to publishers that use watermarking instead though.
That would kill the Indian software industry dead! How else are the workers supposed to find code examples to copy and paste? Asking on mailing lists take too long, even though they send reminders half an hour after posting the question!