The iOS app had the manual turn-by-turn you have in the web version of Google Maps. Apple chose to open the market to Navigon, TomTom and others to make commercial navigation apps for the platform, with great success: Both of them floated to the top in the "most grossing" category in iTunes.
If you do not like platforms that cater to third parties, stick to friend-less platforms like Linux.
i paid $0 for iOS 6 on my iPhone 4S though. Unless you were on an iPhone 3G and nedded to upgrade since your phone would be left in the cold otherwise, you did not have to get an iPhone 5 to get the new OS.
What are you babbling about? Any iOS user can switch to Bing or Yahoo search, the mail app supports a shed load of mail services, and there are numerous alternatives to anything Google offers (except all that "have Google+ invitations show up in Google Calendar without your consent" stuff). It's in everybody's minds that are not Google to not give Google too much power. Especially if they compete with Google.
First, doing so would violate the terms of service for Facebook so I would have to close the account immediately. Second, if I did I would show an inclination to divulge confidential information for a reward - in this case, a job - and would you really hire such a person? Third, even if I told you, what would you need it for? If you used it to log in and in effect impersonate me, you would have committed computer fraud. Is that something you would like to have on your record?
Now if you'll excuse me, I will go and offer my skills to a more ethical company."
Monopolies are held to a different standard than their minuscule competitors.
They would not "pull licenses" to their customers just because "the EU" is being nasty to them. The licenses have been granted to companies and individuals that have no say in the matter, so why should they be punished?
And where would they sue, anyway? In the European courts where they no longer would be welcome? Microsoft is a legal entity that only exists as a fiat of law: They have no rights other than those granted to them by Governments. If Microsoft were as utterly stupid as you indicate, Europe would just revoke Microsoft's copyright - a Government-granted monopoly, remember - and put Windows into the public domain there, thus making the "illegal" use legal.
Maybe you can explain how you come to the conclusion that OS X is closed (on the computers). Then again, that is me expecting too much since you have no knowledge of the subject, and are just ranting.
So, exactly like the Playstation Store, XBox Live Marketplace and a shedload of other closed environments. If you develop for iOS you know this going in.
The competition part is to develop for a different platform without such a requirement.
Er, Samsung recently moved their camera production TO China from Korea in order to make it cheaper. Try again with your white-washing of that giant with its tendrils deep in the South Korean government - military dictatorship or fledgling democracy alike.
Yeah that worked so well for Detroit... (Okay, the issue there was more complacency and a blindness to the emerging competition, but still...)
Remember, one of the reasons Apple computers were much more expensive than their PC counterparts back in the day was that Apple retained manufacturing here while HP and Dell moved manufacturing to Asia, until demand outstripped capacity and they, too, had to start manufacturing in countries more focused on mass production of something else than cars.
Yes, American consumers would find it in their patriotic hearts to pay a "home made" premium* on items manufactured in the good old homeland.
Or... they would just go to Chinatown and buy a cheap imported knock-off.
*) The numbers sometimes quoted that the "premium" would not be particularly high makes the assumption that the parts assembled are imported: But to truly be "Made in America" should not as many of the components be manufactured there as well? And there are few places where you can build enough capacity to meet demand - China "wins" because they use cheap manual labor instead of expensive automated plants.
They are paid 40% above the average - since when is that considered slave labor? Slaves are usually just provided food and shelter for their pains. Oh you mean they earn less than Americans would have? Well, their costs of living are also comparatively lower.
But I am sure American companies would love a law that mandated U.S. companies to use domestic manufacturing. I am sure the companies would not relocate their headquarters out of the country to get away from such "socialism", but would take it on the chin like the patriotic citizens they are.
Right: When "everyone" has an iPhone it's for everyone. Not just for the old guard of designers who bought Macs back before the turn of the century. Clinging to that outdated stereotype is like thinking only pizza-faced teen freetards use Linux and Android.
How do you figure that taking a percentage for selling a good - which practically every fucking store in the whole fucking world does - is "anti-competitive"? Are you new to this we call "the real world"?
DUH! Everyone knows you put your recipes on it. Then use it in the kitchen with all the heat and liquids than can easily spill and so on... makes sense. Or did somehow back then.
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Yeah, there is nothing wrong with Android 2.3, the leading platform.
Google fans also deny there was ever anything called Buzz or Wave.
The iOS app had the manual turn-by-turn you have in the web version of Google Maps. Apple chose to open the market to Navigon, TomTom and others to make commercial navigation apps for the platform, with great success: Both of them floated to the top in the "most grossing" category in iTunes.
If you do not like platforms that cater to third parties, stick to friend-less platforms like Linux.
... and that includes the first versions of Google Maps, ironically enough.
i paid $0 for iOS 6 on my iPhone 4S though. Unless you were on an iPhone 3G and nedded to upgrade since your phone would be left in the cold otherwise, you did not have to get an iPhone 5 to get the new OS.
What are you babbling about? Any iOS user can switch to Bing or Yahoo search, the mail app supports a shed load of mail services, and there are numerous alternatives to anything Google offers (except all that "have Google+ invitations show up in Google Calendar without your consent" stuff). It's in everybody's minds that are not Google to not give Google too much power. Especially if they compete with Google.
"No.
First, doing so would violate the terms of service for Facebook so I would have to close the account immediately.
Second, if I did I would show an inclination to divulge confidential information for a reward - in this case, a job - and would you really hire such a person?
Third, even if I told you, what would you need it for? If you used it to log in and in effect impersonate me, you would have committed computer fraud. Is that something you would like to have on your record?
Now if you'll excuse me, I will go and offer my skills to a more ethical company."
Now that sounds like prostitution to me.
Monopolies are held to a different standard than their minuscule competitors.
They would not "pull licenses" to their customers just because "the EU" is being nasty to them. The licenses have been granted to companies and individuals that have no say in the matter, so why should they be punished?
And where would they sue, anyway? In the European courts where they no longer would be welcome? Microsoft is a legal entity that only exists as a fiat of law: They have no rights other than those granted to them by Governments. If Microsoft were as utterly stupid as you indicate, Europe would just revoke Microsoft's copyright - a Government-granted monopoly, remember - and put Windows into the public domain there, thus making the "illegal" use legal.
Maybe you can explain how you come to the conclusion that OS X is closed (on the computers). Then again, that is me expecting too much since you have no knowledge of the subject, and are just ranting.
Market share is not profits: You will realize this when you start looking at Ferrari versus Toyota.
So, exactly like the Playstation Store, XBox Live Marketplace and a shedload of other closed environments. If you develop for iOS you know this going in.
The competition part is to develop for a different platform without such a requirement.
Heh, just google "Black Friday sale video" if you want to watch American riots... every year, like clockwork.
At least they are looking into it : http://www.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/
Er, Samsung recently moved their camera production TO China from Korea in order to make it cheaper. Try again with your white-washing of that giant with its tendrils deep in the South Korean government - military dictatorship or fledgling democracy alike.
Yeah that worked so well for Detroit... (Okay, the issue there was more complacency and a blindness to the emerging competition, but still...)
Remember, one of the reasons Apple computers were much more expensive than their PC counterparts back in the day was that Apple retained manufacturing here while HP and Dell moved manufacturing to Asia, until demand outstripped capacity and they, too, had to start manufacturing in countries more focused on mass production of something else than cars.
Yes, American consumers would find it in their patriotic hearts to pay a "home made" premium* on items manufactured in the good old homeland.
Or... they would just go to Chinatown and buy a cheap imported knock-off.
*) The numbers sometimes quoted that the "premium" would not be particularly high makes the assumption that the parts assembled are imported: But to truly be "Made in America" should not as many of the components be manufactured there as well? And there are few places where you can build enough capacity to meet demand - China "wins" because they use cheap manual labor instead of expensive automated plants.
They are paid 40% above the average - since when is that considered slave labor? Slaves are usually just provided food and shelter for their pains. Oh you mean they earn less than Americans would have? Well, their costs of living are also comparatively lower.
But I am sure American companies would love a law that mandated U.S. companies to use domestic manufacturing. I am sure the companies would not relocate their headquarters out of the country to get away from such "socialism", but would take it on the chin like the patriotic citizens they are.
Right: When "everyone" has an iPhone it's for everyone. Not just for the old guard of designers who bought Macs back before the turn of the century. Clinging to that outdated stereotype is like thinking only pizza-faced teen freetards use Linux and Android.
Well, it starred the same Italian Stallion as the same character but turned the original message inside-out.
Believing that a Communist regime is beneficial to workers is like believing that anyone can become rich in a capitalist society.
How do you figure that taking a percentage for selling a good - which practically every fucking store in the whole fucking world does - is "anti-competitive"? Are you new to this we call "the real world"?
DUH! Everyone knows you put your recipes on it. Then use it in the kitchen with all the heat and liquids than can easily spill and so on... makes sense. Or did somehow back then.
I am quite sure no open-source license has a clause that says "to redistribute this program you must improve it first.".
Then I switched to Open Office.
TO BE CONTINUED...
... "whoops, did I type that out loud?"