Sure you can (build and deploy from XCode with a signing profile for your machine), but it is harder to install on other people's machines (ad hoc distribution).
Help me out. Why would Lexus lock me (and my friend the mechanic) out of the engine I paid for, other than to force me to use their expensive authorised service agents?
Because if something goes wrong you or the press are going to blame them anyway. If they are expected to assume the responsibility, they have the right to reserve the authority.
Remember the brouhaha over the worm that exploited default SSH passwords on jailbroken iPhones? Some asshats found it in their hearts to blame Apple even though the users had bypassed the security precautions Apple set in place.
Ooh, $99, that's a fortune! The cost of two PS3 games! How can anyone afford that!
Better stick with Windows Mobile, with its $200 Visual Studio and $200 VeriSign certificate and... wait, that actually ended up more expensive? How did that happen?
But can they use that cheap, full version for commercial purposes? Methinks not: "This software is the complete and professional grade versions of the tools, but you must use them in pursuit of increasing your education, skills, and knowledge in either science, technology, engineering, mathematics, or design.".
And the Express edition does not support Windows Mobile development according to Microsoft.
A small note, there is no "just" in J2ME, because to use any fancy feature on a phone you need to delve into the vendor-specific extensions, crushing any cross-device market.
Er, no. He can upload his creation to his own iPhone without hassle, and his friend can get it from him with a three-month "ad hoc" license. No store involved at all.
"Only on a Mac" is no different from the "only on a Windows box" development for Windows Mobile. Well except that your argument seems to assume the family has a "free" PC. And Visual Studio, last time I checked, did not ship with all PCs... unlike X-Code's presence on Mac (if you choose to install it).
You wont to know why EVERY major business uses PCs?
Because there is software to lock down the PCs so that users cannot install what they want.
Because the platform, due to Microsoft's shady business practices over the decades, has become so dominant that business software developers targets it so you get a lock in, coupled with the push for Microsoft Office as a "de facto standard" which makes it hard for a business to choose a competitor like WordPerfect or StarOffice.
Because despite this control they exert, businesses still need anti-virus software and the rest that follows from the "freedom".
Because what Microsoft did is worse than what Apple are doing.
One of the first apps I installed on my iPhone was eReader because I had been a customer since my Palm Vx days. (Pity they refuse to sell me any more books after Barnes and Noble bought them.) There is Kindle, Stanza, BookShelf, and probably others.
If I want to read a PDF I upload it to AirSharing or any number of other file transfer apps.
(Just because something does not come bundled with the device does not mean it does not exist. It's a bit like buying a PC and discovering it does not come with Crysis.)
It's not really "getting around": Prior to the SDK/XCode release, Apple's preferred approach was that devs should write webapps. With HTML5 this is even more tempting than before, and there is no vetting process at all.
*sigh* Evolution, like gravity, is observed, scientific FACT. Or are you refuting genetics, biology, zoology etc.?
Creationism is kept out of scientific journals for the same reasons phlogiston is kept out of physics textbooks and the fate of Atlantis is kept out of history textbooks.
Or are you saying the Bible is reliable because we cannot tell who the authors were?
The Vikings also believed in a flat Earth, with a great worm (one of Loki's children) encircling the world of men (Midgard) with separate worlds for gods (Asgard) and "monsters" (Jotunheim).
Well, in the last double-episode of TNG, "All Good Things", there is a space-time anomaly which threatens to stop the first formation of the seeds of life on a nascent Earth. Way before there were any human predecessors...
We also have written evidence that Frodo set forth from the Shire in order to destroy the One Ring before it fell into the hands of Sauron. But so what?
Do any of you have a reasonably modern car? It's been a while since you were able to do much servicing to them yourself, everything is just computers and sealed systems these days.
But people tend to buy them anyway.
As for price and all that, the difference between a Mac and an equivalent PC is not much, especially given things like magsafe power connectors, the body build etc. of a MacBook. Complaining that Apple have no computers in the low end market is like complaining that BMW does not make any cars in the Fiat 500 segment.
Well that is the base premise for S&M and D&S sexuality isn't it?:)
The game studios hire straight out of school precisely because those younglings will not have accumulated any work experience that should have taught them that you really need a social life and that you have rights. They will think that what they are experiencing is what working life is.
No, crunch time means bad planning, or inflexible launch windows, both caused by the non-workers (i.e. management) that set plans and release dates. Release shit AFTER you know it is done. Or face crunch-time-stress induced errors.
Too many managers are in the "nine women one month" club of clueless people.
They are not stealing your jobs, your psychopathic companies are giving the jobs away. There is a difference.
"Intellectual property", apart from being a neologism for when laws intended to promote culture and science are abused to protect big business, is just a State-granted monopoly, and the U.S. did not respect foreign IP rights in the beginning either.
When Americans start to pay the "premium" for manufacturing at home instead of choosing the cheap, toxic, Chinese alternative, you will have a point.
Isn't that like saying that C++ is not object-oriented because classes are just fancy structs and methods are (pointers to) name-mangled top-level C functions?
Hey, look, Inspector Javert has a Slashdot user! Victor Hugo wrote the book for a reason, you know?
Seriously, you seem to be in the 19 century mindset that "criminal" should be a carreer, that once you have committed a crime then for the rest of your life, that was the only thing you should be doing. You would embrace an Islamic fundamentalist state based on strict applications of Sharia, and even claim they did not go far enough.
The largest movie distributor in Norway has decided to incinerate 650,000 DVDs instead of selling them to consumers. The reason stated was that they could only sell them for NOK 10-20 (USD 2-4) apiece, and they would take up store rack space that could be used for the more expensive releases.
Why should these price-fixing, market-dividing, creator-exploiting industries get the benefit of the law's protection - protection meant for cultural contributions but mis-applied to entertainment industry products? When they so blatantly disregard the rules for conducting business? How can they complain about unpaid downloads when they apparently do not want our money after all?
Taking implies a loss: However, there is no reduction of available goods or reduction in money when an unlicensed copy is made, in particular if it is of a digital product. A "pirate" copying for his own benefit does not deprive a company of anything except a potential income, but there is no compulsion when a product is made that there shall be a sale. The world does not owe anyone a profit.
The pirate is "leeching" off the money paid by the people buying the legal copies, though. But the industries push a myth that without economic compensation no "intellectual property" (more newspeak) would be created, despite millennia of just that occuring.
Yes, unlicensed copying is illegal, but the laws governing it are not the same applied for theft or embezzlement or the like. Equating them like the industries do in propaganda (but not in court) is wrong because it blurs the terms. And eventually people will stop taking them seriously.
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Sure you can (build and deploy from XCode with a signing profile for your machine), but it is harder to install on other people's machines (ad hoc distribution).
Apples and oranges. Yes, there are low-end PCs that are cheaper than Macs because Apple does not do low-end, but they are also cheaper than other PCs.
Help me out. Why would Lexus lock me (and my friend the mechanic) out of the engine I paid for, other than to force me to use their expensive authorised service agents?
Because if something goes wrong you or the press are going to blame them anyway. If they are expected to assume the responsibility, they have the right to reserve the authority.
Remember the brouhaha over the worm that exploited default SSH passwords on jailbroken iPhones? Some asshats found it in their hearts to blame Apple even though the users had bypassed the security precautions Apple set in place.
Ooh, $99, that's a fortune! The cost of two PS3 games! How can anyone afford that!
Better stick with Windows Mobile, with its $200 Visual Studio and $200 VeriSign certificate and... wait, that actually ended up more expensive? How did that happen?
But can they use that cheap, full version for commercial purposes? Methinks not: "This software is the complete and professional grade versions of the tools, but you must use them in pursuit of increasing your education, skills, and knowledge in either science, technology, engineering, mathematics, or design.".
And the Express edition does not support Windows Mobile development according to Microsoft.
A small note, there is no "just" in J2ME, because to use any fancy feature on a phone you need to delve into the vendor-specific extensions, crushing any cross-device market.
Er, no. He can upload his creation to his own iPhone without hassle, and his friend can get it from him with a three-month "ad hoc" license. No store involved at all.
"Only on a Mac" is no different from the "only on a Windows box" development for Windows Mobile. Well except that your argument seems to assume the family has a "free" PC. And Visual Studio, last time I checked, did not ship with all PCs... unlike X-Code's presence on Mac (if you choose to install it).
You wont to know why EVERY major business uses PCs?
Because there is software to lock down the PCs so that users cannot install what they want.
Because the platform, due to Microsoft's shady business practices over the decades, has become so dominant that business software developers targets it so you get a lock in, coupled with the push for Microsoft Office as a "de facto standard" which makes it hard for a business to choose a competitor like WordPerfect or StarOffice.
Because despite this control they exert, businesses still need anti-virus software and the rest that follows from the "freedom".
Because what Microsoft did is worse than what Apple are doing.
One of the first apps I installed on my iPhone was eReader because I had been a customer since my Palm Vx days. (Pity they refuse to sell me any more books after Barnes and Noble bought them.) There is Kindle, Stanza, BookShelf, and probably others.
If I want to read a PDF I upload it to AirSharing or any number of other file transfer apps.
(Just because something does not come bundled with the device does not mean it does not exist. It's a bit like buying a PC and discovering it does not come with Crysis.)
It's not really "getting around": Prior to the SDK/XCode release, Apple's preferred approach was that devs should write webapps. With HTML5 this is even more tempting than before, and there is no vetting process at all.
*sigh* Evolution, like gravity, is observed, scientific FACT. Or are you refuting genetics, biology, zoology etc.?
Creationism is kept out of scientific journals for the same reasons phlogiston is kept out of physics textbooks and the fate of Atlantis is kept out of history textbooks.
Or are you saying the Bible is reliable because we cannot tell who the authors were?
The Vikings also believed in a flat Earth, with a great worm (one of Loki's children) encircling the world of men (Midgard) with separate worlds for gods (Asgard) and "monsters" (Jotunheim).
Well, in the last double-episode of TNG, "All Good Things", there is a space-time anomaly which threatens to stop the first formation of the seeds of life on a nascent Earth. Way before there were any human predecessors...
We also have written evidence that Frodo set forth from the Shire in order to destroy the One Ring before it fell into the hands of Sauron. But so what?
Do any of you have a reasonably modern car? It's been a while since you were able to do much servicing to them yourself, everything is just computers and sealed systems these days.
But people tend to buy them anyway.
As for price and all that, the difference between a Mac and an equivalent PC is not much, especially given things like magsafe power connectors, the body build etc. of a MacBook. Complaining that Apple have no computers in the low end market is like complaining that BMW does not make any cars in the Fiat 500 segment.
Well that is the base premise for S&M and D&S sexuality isn't it? :)
The game studios hire straight out of school precisely because those younglings will not have accumulated any work experience that should have taught them that you really need a social life and that you have rights. They will think that what they are experiencing is what working life is.
No, crunch time means bad planning, or inflexible launch windows, both caused by the non-workers (i.e. management) that set plans and release dates. Release shit AFTER you know it is done. Or face crunch-time-stress induced errors.
Too many managers are in the "nine women one month" club of clueless people.
They are not stealing your jobs, your psychopathic companies are giving the jobs away. There is a difference.
"Intellectual property", apart from being a neologism for when laws intended to promote culture and science are abused to protect big business, is just a State-granted monopoly, and the U.S. did not respect foreign IP rights in the beginning either.
When Americans start to pay the "premium" for manufacturing at home instead of choosing the cheap, toxic, Chinese alternative, you will have a point.
Isn't that like saying that C++ is not object-oriented because classes are just fancy structs and methods are (pointers to) name-mangled top-level C functions?
A tachyon wants a word with you. Keep in mind it talks backwards though.
Yes, I think I misread your statement to indicate you were against legality for "Simpsons pr0n".
For the same reason that whether or not someone intends to commit murder does not change the legality of a kitchen knife.
There are shoe fetishists in the world. Should shoe stores set an 18 age limit since they - for a small minority - are sex toy vendors?
Hey, look, Inspector Javert has a Slashdot user! Victor Hugo wrote the book for a reason, you know?
Seriously, you seem to be in the 19 century mindset that "criminal" should be a carreer, that once you have committed a crime then for the rest of your life, that was the only thing you should be doing. You would embrace an Islamic fundamentalist state based on strict applications of Sharia, and even claim they did not go far enough.
The largest movie distributor in Norway has decided to incinerate 650,000 DVDs instead of selling them to consumers. The reason stated was that they could only sell them for NOK 10-20 (USD 2-4) apiece, and they would take up store rack space that could be used for the more expensive releases.
Why should these price-fixing, market-dividing, creator-exploiting industries get the benefit of the law's protection - protection meant for cultural contributions but mis-applied to entertainment industry products? When they so blatantly disregard the rules for conducting business? How can they complain about unpaid downloads when they apparently do not want our money after all?
Taking implies a loss: However, there is no reduction of available goods or reduction in money when an unlicensed copy is made, in particular if it is of a digital product. A "pirate" copying for his own benefit does not deprive a company of anything except a potential income, but there is no compulsion when a product is made that there shall be a sale. The world does not owe anyone a profit.
The pirate is "leeching" off the money paid by the people buying the legal copies, though. But the industries push a myth that without economic compensation no "intellectual property" (more newspeak) would be created, despite millennia of just that occuring.
Yes, unlicensed copying is illegal, but the laws governing it are not the same applied for theft or embezzlement or the like. Equating them like the industries do in propaganda (but not in court) is wrong because it blurs the terms. And eventually people will stop taking them seriously.