More precisely: They CLAIMED you could not remove it (and hence was an OS component rather than bundled), but a professor demonstrated that it could be removed.
You just need a complacent market leader who rests on his laurels and fails to innovate and move on. Case in point: Ashtom-Tate tried living off existing customers to their dBase line of desktop/DOS databases, along comes Windows and Microsoft Access and FoxPro, and then the dried-out husk of the once king of the database hill was sold for pennies to Borland.
The iPod should not have had a chance against the dominant music players at the time either: Expensive, used (practically) Mac-only Firewire for transfer, and was less portable than some competitors. Yet it prevailed.
App Inventor sort of reminds me of Sun's long abandoned Java Studio, which was supposed to let you create Java UI apps by drag and drop. Died a well-deserved death.
... by competing. If you feel that closed platforms are wrong, provide open platforms.
Complaining about other people that choose a different business model that you would have is just being a donkey. Put your moolah where your food-hole is and run your business model for real.
Publishers are refusing today anyway: J. M. Rowling was refused at five-six publishers before a small publishers decided to take a chance on Harry Potter, for instance.
In the 40 years before your example publisher gets to publish for free, other publishers who made deals will have been making money on that book. Any company that sits on their hands for forty years will go bust.
Copyright is implicit in all countries that have modified their laws to comply with the Berne Convention. Which the U.S. did in 1978 IIRC. But you need to register the copyright in order to sue for damages.
Indeed, people need to realize that copyright is a misnomer: The real name should be "copy monopoly", where some entity has the power to keep a work off the market - or from the public for that matter, and possibly in a form that is volatile, as in the case of old nitrate film. And for any work, when it has been destroyed the "right" to copy it becomes meaningless, since there is nothing to copy.
No, copyright was an incentive to create works to enter the public domain of culture: When copyright is reduced to retaining works as "assets" for coprorations long after the creator's death the contribution to culture is near zero.
In a hundred years' time, theater troupes will still be playing Romeo and Juliet, while hardly anyone can even name a play from the 20th century...
"Generate revenue for a Government" - really? Look up Hollywood Accounting (the high profits of the entertainment industry mysteriously disappear before they can get taxed), plus if that was the case then all drugs should be taxed (income) instead of being illegal (causing expenses) too?
Plus, there are multiple variants of copyright: Even if the play Romeo and Juliet is in the public domain, a movie adaptation will be under a separate copyright. So still many ways to make money off works.
iOS supports H.264, MPEG-4 and M-JPEG for video out of the box, so that's three not one.
And what is preventing you from recoding content, or for that matter install one of the multitude of apps that support other codecs and containers? VLC was pulled but there are others on the app store.
It bans interpreters and virtual machines that can download any code off the internet (except there is a Lua dev tool that you can type whatever code you want into). It does allow interpreters and emulators etc. that use code shipping internally or that is downloaded via the app store (e.g. in-app purchases for the Commodore 64 emulator).
As for the Android port of Flash it seems to be used for two things: 1) Playing video, i.e. just using the minimal video container and playback functionality that can just a well be replaced with some other container/playback software, and 2) As an excuse to install a Flash blocker on your phone.
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I think their newspeak for fragmentation is "diversification". Android is "diversified".
More precisely: They CLAIMED you could not remove it (and hence was an OS component rather than bundled), but a professor demonstrated that it could be removed.
Now some Finns have to use one of the multitude of other Torrent trackers. Or add "type:torrent" to a Google search. Oh the humanity!
Run it in VirtualBox - I had better success running some old DOS games in that combo than in DosBox...
I could'a been somebody, instead of a bum, which I am.
You just need a complacent market leader who rests on his laurels and fails to innovate and move on. Case in point: Ashtom-Tate tried living off existing customers to their dBase line of desktop/DOS databases, along comes Windows and Microsoft Access and FoxPro, and then the dried-out husk of the once king of the database hill was sold for pennies to Borland.
The iPod should not have had a chance against the dominant music players at the time either: Expensive, used (practically) Mac-only Firewire for transfer, and was less portable than some competitors. Yet it prevailed.
Doubting Lance's claims of purity is like doubting Kim Jong-Il's 11 hole-in-ones in his first golf match. It is not proper!
Sadly, Lance Armstrong has been elevated to an American icon, and allegations of doping are treated as lèse-majesté by his fans.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, post.
App Inventor sort of reminds me of Sun's long abandoned Java Studio, which was supposed to let you create Java UI apps by drag and drop. Died a well-deserved death.
... by competing. If you feel that closed platforms are wrong, provide open platforms.
Complaining about other people that choose a different business model that you would have is just being a donkey. Put your moolah where your food-hole is and run your business model for real.
Publishers are refusing today anyway: J. M. Rowling was refused at five-six publishers before a small publishers decided to take a chance on Harry Potter, for instance.
In the 40 years before your example publisher gets to publish for free, other publishers who made deals will have been making money on that book. Any company that sits on their hands for forty years will go bust.
Copyright is implicit in all countries that have modified their laws to comply with the Berne Convention. Which the U.S. did in 1978 IIRC. But you need to register the copyright in order to sue for damages.
Indeed, people need to realize that copyright is a misnomer: The real name should be "copy monopoly", where some entity has the power to keep a work off the market - or from the public for that matter, and possibly in a form that is volatile, as in the case of old nitrate film. And for any work, when it has been destroyed the "right" to copy it becomes meaningless, since there is nothing to copy.
No, copyright was an incentive to create works to enter the public domain of culture: When copyright is reduced to retaining works as "assets" for coprorations long after the creator's death the contribution to culture is near zero.
In a hundred years' time, theater troupes will still be playing Romeo and Juliet, while hardly anyone can even name a play from the 20th century...
"Generate revenue for a Government" - really? Look up Hollywood Accounting (the high profits of the entertainment industry mysteriously disappear before they can get taxed), plus if that was the case then all drugs should be taxed (income) instead of being illegal (causing expenses) too?
Plus, there are multiple variants of copyright: Even if the play Romeo and Juliet is in the public domain, a movie adaptation will be under a separate copyright. So still many ways to make money off works.
Sure, but the formal "War" was signed into law in 1971 by Richard "Not A Crook" Nixon.
iOS supports H.264, MPEG-4 and M-JPEG for video out of the box, so that's three not one.
And what is preventing you from recoding content, or for that matter install one of the multitude of apps that support other codecs and containers? VLC was pulled but there are others on the app store.
Hey, don't criticize the War on Drugs! It recently turned 40 and is starting to develop a bald spot. Go easy on him OK?
You guys are way behind: The French are already on their fifth republic...
For "free" substitute "paid for by someone else".
TANSTAAFL.
And the boxes are a totally different shade of white than Apple's.
Yeah, same goes for the Microsoft stores. I mean, they even use a totally different name for their Genius Bar.
Hell hath no fury like a fandroid scorned, I guess :O)
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Apple ignores Hackintosh computers completely.
As long as you are a hobbyist. Trying to market your machine as able to run Mac OS X is the stuff that landed Psystar in court.
By that logic, Apple are also to blame for not having PSN or XBox Live support on the iPhone. How horrible of them!
There is no entitlement for Adobe's proprietary Flash mess to run on any device out there.
And there are a few third party interpreters on the iOS store, but they cannot run code that is downloaded off the internet.
It bans interpreters and virtual machines that can download any code off the internet (except there is a Lua dev tool that you can type whatever code you want into). It does allow interpreters and emulators etc. that use code shipping internally or that is downloaded via the app store (e.g. in-app purchases for the Commodore 64 emulator).
As for the Android port of Flash it seems to be used for two things:
1) Playing video, i.e. just using the minimal video container and playback functionality that can just a well be replaced with some other container/playback software, and
2) As an excuse to install a Flash blocker on your phone.