Can you point to examples where software authors have been sued by Apple? Last I checked neither HTC not Samsung are "software developers".
But since you really seem to be against patents, why not direct your ire at the institutions like USPTO that actually accept the patents in the first place?
Well, none of that applies to Apple's other devices (apart from apps for the iOS devices), where you can watch whatever content you like, and they cost far less than twice their competitor's price as you suggest. But haters gonna hate.
The problem is, what will they call it? They already have a product called Apple TV...
Not if you want it dynamic; look at.Net Workflow: You can write your CodeActions in C#, but you exchange data between workflow actions in Visual Basic. This is because they have interpreters for runtime evaluation of VB but not of C#.
People who use the derogatory term "willfully lazy" lack empathy and cannot be bothered to examine what makes people unemployed. "Fellow human beings" that exploit workers and profit form misery are not fellows, they are leeches.
Argh, mod point where art thou? The "Techrights" blog entry is definitely full of holes, promoting lies and substituting emotion for any attempt at proof for his claims.
Sure, on the receiving end. And as long as you can get away with modifications like TiVo did. But I was thinking about writing and selling software, and then some non-customer comes along and demands source, just because they heard of it or got it from someone else.
No, it's more like AC/DC fans are more happy than fans of Krokus.
"Hey, Google, we have this phone OS that is a copy of Blackberry!" "Nice, but Apple are coming out with the iPhone, can you rewrite it to copy that instead?" "Sure! Hey, did you trick Sun into thinking we were going to actually pay them for embedded Java"? "Yes, they are going to be so miffed when we make our own VM and just pilfer the developers instead!"
Noone denies it exists. However, it has not been used. You probably have a knife in your kitchen that can be used to kill with, but unless you actually do so it is not a murder weapon.
Well, it's a beta. Maybe it will expand later, maybe it won't. Maybe it's a sales trick, much like Samsung's refusal to put ICS on the Galaxy S and 1st gen Tab.
Well, if the company gets accused of illegal activities and the Feds come around, such automatic procedures and aversion to leaving "paper trails" could be considered systematic proactive destruction of evidence...
As a software developer, phone calls kill my efficiency. Interruptions in general do, in fact.
I prefer to focus on a task, and when it is convenient to switch focus to a different task anyway, then it makes sense to check email or voicemail.
As for PHBs who have no concept about workloads and time, try and make them fill two gallons of water in a one-gallon bottle.
A company buys the skills and time of their employees. If they expect to get extra time for free from them, ask if they also expect to get extra electricity for free from the power company. And one man's "excuses" is another man's explanations.
Then don't install the update that removes the option. After all it's your hardware. But Amazon's and B&N's services.
Nothing prevents you from running whatever you want on it, you just need to accept that they have no obligation to make it easy to use it in a different manner than they prefer.
Sure, as long as you accept that if it stops working, and you go to complain, they tell you "talk to the hand, then buy a new one."
And if you make too many modifications to your car, and you get in an accident, the insurance company are going to laugh hard at your non-standard and thus uncovered vehicle.
"Already demonstrated" how? To my knowledge, NO app has ever been remotely killed on iOS, though they have said they have the ability to do so. However, both Amazon Kindle (with the unlicensed "1984" edition) and Google (repeatedly to nuke apps that turned out to be trojans) have done so.
What? Patents are PUBLISHED, so the competition can read them and come up with a different (and theoretically better) way of doing things. The GPL is a copyright-dependent license - without copyright, everything would in effect be "BSD sans attribution" licensed.
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Can you point to examples where software authors have been sued by Apple? Last I checked neither HTC not Samsung are "software developers".
But since you really seem to be against patents, why not direct your ire at the institutions like USPTO that actually accept the patents in the first place?
Well, none of that applies to Apple's other devices (apart from apps for the iOS devices), where you can watch whatever content you like, and they cost far less than twice their competitor's price as you suggest. But haters gonna hate.
The problem is, what will they call it? They already have a product called Apple TV...
Not if you want it dynamic; look at .Net Workflow: You can write your CodeActions in C#, but you exchange data between workflow actions in Visual Basic. This is because they have interpreters for runtime evaluation of VB but not of C#.
No, the SDK (part of XCode) is free, it's distributing that has a fee attached to it.
People who use the derogatory term "willfully lazy" lack empathy and cannot be bothered to examine what makes people unemployed. "Fellow human beings" that exploit workers and profit form misery are not fellows, they are leeches.
Argh, mod point where art thou? The "Techrights" blog entry is definitely full of holes, promoting lies and substituting emotion for any attempt at proof for his claims.
Sure, on the receiving end. And as long as you can get away with modifications like TiVo did. But I was thinking about writing and selling software, and then some non-customer comes along and demands source, just because they heard of it or got it from someone else.
No, it's more like AC/DC fans are more happy than fans of Krokus.
"Hey, Google, we have this phone OS that is a copy of Blackberry!"
"Nice, but Apple are coming out with the iPhone, can you rewrite it to copy that instead?"
"Sure! Hey, did you trick Sun into thinking we were going to actually pay them for embedded Java"?
"Yes, they are going to be so miffed when we make our own VM and just pilfer the developers instead!"
The U.S. invaded and failed to rectify Somalia ages ago, Bush didn't want to sink his feet into that mire again.
You need to light-en up; you responded to a post that just continued the joke centered around the "relativity speed limit".
News flash: The parts they have replaced are the non-open-source parts, i.e. Google's proprietary apps.
Which is why the GPL is bad for businesses: Why would you want to spend resources catering to non-customers?
Noone denies it exists. However, it has not been used. You probably have a knife in your kitchen that can be used to kill with, but unless you actually do so it is not a murder weapon.
I fail to see where I mentioned Ubuntu. Can you point out where I spread any FUD in my short paragraph?
Well, it's a beta. Maybe it will expand later, maybe it won't. Maybe it's a sales trick, much like Samsung's refusal to put ICS on the Galaxy S and 1st gen Tab.
"Paperless office" has been redefined to mean an office where the printer paper has been exhausted.
Well, if the company gets accused of illegal activities and the Feds come around, such automatic procedures and aversion to leaving "paper trails" could be considered systematic proactive destruction of evidence...
As a software developer, phone calls kill my efficiency. Interruptions in general do, in fact.
I prefer to focus on a task, and when it is convenient to switch focus to a different task anyway, then it makes sense to check email or voicemail.
As for PHBs who have no concept about workloads and time, try and make them fill two gallons of water in a one-gallon bottle.
A company buys the skills and time of their employees. If they expect to get extra time for free from them, ask if they also expect to get extra electricity for free from the power company. And one man's "excuses" is another man's explanations.
Then don't install the update that removes the option. After all it's your hardware. But Amazon's and B&N's services.
Nothing prevents you from running whatever you want on it, you just need to accept that they have no obligation to make it easy to use it in a different manner than they prefer.
But pretending you can own something of God's creation is clearly satanism...
Sure, as long as you accept that if it stops working, and you go to complain, they tell you "talk to the hand, then buy a new one."
And if you make too many modifications to your car, and you get in an accident, the insurance company are going to laugh hard at your non-standard and thus uncovered vehicle.
Why doesn't the U.S. Army wage its wars on its own soil? Department of Defense, not Department of Attack.
"Already demonstrated" how? To my knowledge, NO app has ever been remotely killed on iOS, though they have said they have the ability to do so. However, both Amazon Kindle (with the unlicensed "1984" edition) and Google (repeatedly to nuke apps that turned out to be trojans) have done so.
What? Patents are PUBLISHED, so the competition can read them and come up with a different (and theoretically better) way of doing things. The GPL is a copyright-dependent license - without copyright, everything would in effect be "BSD sans attribution" licensed.
Linux kernel is under a modified GPL (so fails as an example of the FSF-GPL), and constitutes a relatively tiny (and replaceable) part of Android.