I read his posts purely to see how far he can bend reality to support Apple. In his world, Apple never makes a mistake - or if they do, it's a calculated one that needed to be made. The only time he ever says anything that is not 100% Yay-Apple, it's a 1 liner and it's only sort-of critical at most.
Gruber is basically a full time Apple PR spokesperson.
No one could objectively read the last 10 of his posts (at any time in history) and not think "this guy is exceedingly pro-Apple". If you read Gruber and don't come away feeling like you're reading an Apple PR statement then I suggest you must have had quite a bit of the kool-aid yourself, already.
You reap what you sew, Apple. I sincerely hope the iPhone 5 does get banned for a period of time - maybe then Apple might start to back down on all this ridiculous "litigate not innovate" garbage and start trying to compete on their own merits, once more.
That's utter nonsense. Windows Server Backup is about a billion times better then NTBackup. Pure image based backup, allowing multiple versions of files to be stored, Exchange aware, SQL aware and allowing individual files to be restored, easily. I would use WSBU over NTBackup any day of the week (and do). It works every time - and offers damn near instant bare metal recovery of corrupted servers. NTBackup, on the other hand, required you to rebuild from scratch and then manually restore files, apps, etc, painfully.
Just because you never learned how to use a tool doesn't make it bad. It is trivial to configure WSBU to backup individual components, such as system state, volumes or yes, even individual folders. Again - *you* not knowing how to do something doesn't make it impossible.
And for the obligatory Slashdot 2012: no, I am not paid or affiliated in anyway with Microsoft. Sometimes people like the changes they make because they actually tried them and found them better.
This would explain why every Windows 7 and yes, Windows 8 PC in this office, in Perth Western Australia, suddenly thinks it's snowing outside. It has *never* snowed in Perth. Like... never ever. It's actually about 20oC outside right now.
Does this mean Microsoft's desktop weather widgets for 7 and the weather charm for 8 have been using Google for their information??!? Come on, what is this? Bing (http://googleblog.blogspot.com.au/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses-google-search.html)?
Yes, as has been mentioned above - Android users use apps, not archaic web browsers. iOS doesn't have appropriate apps so they resort to the web. Seems a suitable explanation to me an one I've seen discussed many times, elsewhere. For example, I can browse Wikipedia by App, instead of Safari. I use my Android all the time - but I open Chrome to browse about once a week because everything I care about is served up to me in app format (Google Currents, Pulse, etc, etc).
My explanation would be that if 68% of phones are Android, then Apple isn't dominating the trains. If you it is on your train, then either your train is an anomaly or you're "wrong".
Now admittedly, you're an American, so in your World, Android is only about 51% of the market, not 68%, so you have a higher probability of seeing an iPhone than I would but this isn't Google coloured glasses - this is simple maths. If "the World" claims there are more Androids than iPhones - but "you" claim otherwise, well... one of us is wrong here.
Because maybe it's a PowerPoint presentation, not a KeyNote Presentation. And Maybe he works at a company for a living. And maybe everyone there uses the same PPT documents. So He would then need a Mac to change his PPT to Keynote (yes, I am sure it's probably possible without a Mac but maybe that requires software that's not, you know, Microsoft PowerPoint - the app he wanted to use (or is perhaps forced to use by Group Policy which prevents him installing other apps, thus destroying the Keynote argument))- and any changes he made would then have to be remade in PPT and anytime someone else updated it, he'd need to re-convert it and be aware of the changes. Maybe he also doesn't want to have to go through the resulting KeyNote in fine detail to make sure the conversion didn't screw anything up, every single conversion (in both directions).
The Galaxy S3 and the HTC One X cost more than an iPhone and they're the flagship phones for Android. Most people buy phones on contracts for peanuts upfront. Cost is not a major factor here.
Or maybe your market is only relevant to iOS type users. Or maybe your marketing people have only concentrated on iOS. Or maybe there's already a perfectly good free or built in Android app that covers what you're doing? Or maybe only people inclined to buy iOS are inclined to want your app? You've given no details for us to know.
Your company not being able to sell something to Android doesn't mean Android is where the problem is. I could make a new Exchange ActiveSync app and charge $100 for and then claim no one buying it is proof "Android sucks" but all it really proves is I didn't do any market research before starting work.
As for your comment re what you see on the train - you see what you want to see. if nearly 70% of phones are Android and yet you claim otherwise because of what you see, then you're not seeing reality - you're either missing or ignoring phones that don't suit your intended mental outcome.
You're not getting better signal strength by rebooting, you're rejoining a tower by rebooting. Your signal strength is dropping off over time because your provider has over-subscribed your area in terms of users vs tower capacity. Getting an iPhone won't change this.
I have to say, I went out looking for an iPad3 but came home with a Galaxy 10.1. Why? 3 Reasons:
1. The shop sold it to me very cheap, as it was ex demo and had a tiny, tiny scratch on the side.
2. I already had a Galaxy S2, so ecosystem wise, it made more sense (apps, Google things, etc).
3. As much as I liked the iPad3, it felt so primitive, with static icons and no widgets etc.
My primary purpose of the purchase was to take notes in meetings and show clients information, without needing a laptop. The Galaxy Note 10.1 would have been idea, because of the handwriting but it wasn't around when I made this purchase.
Then, I took the Galaxy 10.1 home and found it quick sluggish at times. To be honest, it was quite disappointing. I barely used it. Anyway, I got sick of waiting for Samsung to release ICS (still "coming soon"), so I dropped AOKP ICS ROM on it and it's like a brand new device. It's fast, it's really usable, it doesn't lag and I can't put it down. It's what Android was meant to be.
My point in this rambling response? Android is a million miles in front of iOS on the phone - that's clear. But on the tablet, only now with ICS and JB is there true parity. The beauty of the Nexus 7 is that it's Pure Android. I am a total fandroid but I freely admit that my Galaxy 10.1 sucked while using Honeycomb and TouchWiz and this has been a major problem in PC land, too - vendors crapping up PCs / tablets with their own bloat.
The problem I see for Android on the tablet is the same vendors who make this mistake on PCs are producing the tablets.
Yeah Apple products (and by extension Apple consumers) are totally superior because Apple makes more money than Android device makers. Yeah. Totally. Makes sense.
SO let me summarise your (oft claimed) pro-Apple point.
1. Apple products contain effectively the same hardware as midrange Android devices. 2. Apple products sell less than Android products. 3. Apple makes a lot more money.
So let me help you understand this a little more clearly and then perhaps you can explain to everyone why you're so proud of the situation. I'll spell it out slowly, so you can understand.
1. Apple is selling less devices and those devices costs around the same or less to make. 2. Apple makes more money.
Do you see the issue here? Where do you suppose that money is coming from? I'll give you a hint: you.
What blows my mind about this "Sure Apple sells less but they make more, therefore Apple Wins!!1!" argument is the people making it don't seem to understand what they're saying is "Apple is selling me a device that costs less to make for more money than the competition, therefore I win". AND YOU'RE PROUD OF THIS??!?!
Perhaps you can explain why you to the crowd why being ripped off makes you feel superior or smarter? Because by all other standards, it should have the opposite effect.
Yeah that sounds like a reasonable conclusion based on the little info I provided. Unfortunately, the reason I tried those channels is they're totally free in my area. All my other equipment is fine but the MBA cannot even see the signal on channel 14 and it drops it badly on 13. Doesn't really bother me - it's just "one of those things".
I have a MacBook Air (2011) and I have noticed that it 100% cannot find any base stations on channel's 13 or 14, which sucks. Perhaps your problem is related to the channel?
I have been running the Office 2013 preview release on my work PC for a good 6 hours now (so I therefore assume myself to be an authority on this matter) and I quite like it.
Samsung also invents more than 10 times what Apple does. Apple outsources the difficult part of the engineering of every single one of their products: mostly to Samsung and Foxconn. Samsung, on the other hand, manufacture and design (see: invent) most of the components. And a shit-tonne of other things, like engines, heavy machinery, etc. So I would expect them to file 10x the patents Apple do.
Apple is way worse than the other tech firms because Apple's single strategic goal in the mobile marketplace appears to be banning competition by utilising the overwhelming-pro-US-company, US legal system. Ever noticed how Apple keeps winning bullshit patent bans at home but not overseas? So has the rest of the World. And so has Apple.
So to stay maker of the #1 selling smart phone, Apple isn't even trying to compete with Android - they're already literally years behind on the OS. They're just trying to ban the competition.
I would love to see how Steve Jobs would've reacedt to being shown this story in 1984, while hiding the name Apple until he'd passed judgement. Given time travel, I'd go record that conversation and bring it forward for all to see.
Not if you're using IEx in an Active Directory domain. They won't flag the domain controller or the ISA/ForeFront server in this exact scenario, because they're explicitly told not to. Chrome or FF probably do but IE plays by the domain controller's rules.
But no one checks the certificate (well few people anyway), unless the browser flags them to.
What a lot of employers are doing is redirecting all https traffic to an internal proxy which uses the domain's (active directory domain that is) trusted certificate - so all domain clients automatically trust the certificate. So when you go to https://my.bank.com/ or whatever, you're actually going to your internal proxy, which is decrypting the traffic, inspecting it and then re-encrypting it with my.bank's certificate and sending it on.
You'd never know unless you clicked on the certificate in your browser and read the details. As the browser will leave the certificate "green" or whatever (trusted), 99.999999% of people would never think to check.
Microsoft's ISA has been offering this functionality since 2003 and in the latest versions, it's downright trivial to set this functionality up (I have done it for clients).
I always thought it was a bit evil and highly questionable to do this when staff are not aware, as it means the IT team can easily steal banking details, etc. It also puts a larger onus on the company to ensure their servers are not pwn3d by someone else. I get that it's all "company time and company equipment" - but when staff are not aware this is happening and exposing person information and banking details, etc, I think it's wrong.
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How is this insightful??!?
I read his posts purely to see how far he can bend reality to support Apple. In his world, Apple never makes a mistake - or if they do, it's a calculated one that needed to be made. The only time he ever says anything that is not 100% Yay-Apple, it's a 1 liner and it's only sort-of critical at most.
Gruber is basically a full time Apple PR spokesperson.
No one could objectively read the last 10 of his posts (at any time in history) and not think "this guy is exceedingly pro-Apple". If you read Gruber and don't come away feeling like you're reading an Apple PR statement then I suggest you must have had quite a bit of the kool-aid yourself, already.
You reap what you sew, Apple. I sincerely hope the iPhone 5 does get banned for a period of time - maybe then Apple might start to back down on all this ridiculous "litigate not innovate" garbage and start trying to compete on their own merits, once more.
That's utter nonsense. Windows Server Backup is about a billion times better then NTBackup. Pure image based backup, allowing multiple versions of files to be stored, Exchange aware, SQL aware and allowing individual files to be restored, easily. I would use WSBU over NTBackup any day of the week (and do). It works every time - and offers damn near instant bare metal recovery of corrupted servers. NTBackup, on the other hand, required you to rebuild from scratch and then manually restore files, apps, etc, painfully.
Just because you never learned how to use a tool doesn't make it bad. It is trivial to configure WSBU to backup individual components, such as system state, volumes or yes, even individual folders. Again - *you* not knowing how to do something doesn't make it impossible.
And for the obligatory Slashdot 2012: no, I am not paid or affiliated in anyway with Microsoft. Sometimes people like the changes they make because they actually tried them and found them better.
No, higher altitude locations that aren't really part of Perth don't count. :-P
And who do they use?
This would explain why every Windows 7 and yes, Windows 8 PC in this office, in Perth Western Australia, suddenly thinks it's snowing outside. It has *never* snowed in Perth. Like... never ever. It's actually about 20oC outside right now.
Does this mean Microsoft's desktop weather widgets for 7 and the weather charm for 8 have been using Google for their information??!? Come on, what is this? Bing (http://googleblog.blogspot.com.au/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses-google-search.html)?
Oh about 500 million....
Hang on a minute!
Nineteen Dickity? Highly dubious!
Yes, as has been mentioned above - Android users use apps, not archaic web browsers. iOS doesn't have appropriate apps so they resort to the web. Seems a suitable explanation to me an one I've seen discussed many times, elsewhere. For example, I can browse Wikipedia by App, instead of Safari. I use my Android all the time - but I open Chrome to browse about once a week because everything I care about is served up to me in app format (Google Currents, Pulse, etc, etc).
My explanation would be that if 68% of phones are Android, then Apple isn't dominating the trains. If you it is on your train, then either your train is an anomaly or you're "wrong".
Now admittedly, you're an American, so in your World, Android is only about 51% of the market, not 68%, so you have a higher probability of seeing an iPhone than I would but this isn't Google coloured glasses - this is simple maths. If "the World" claims there are more Androids than iPhones - but "you" claim otherwise, well... one of us is wrong here.
Because maybe it's a PowerPoint presentation, not a KeyNote Presentation. And Maybe he works at a company for a living. And maybe everyone there uses the same PPT documents. So He would then need a Mac to change his PPT to Keynote (yes, I am sure it's probably possible without a Mac but maybe that requires software that's not, you know, Microsoft PowerPoint - the app he wanted to use (or is perhaps forced to use by Group Policy which prevents him installing other apps, thus destroying the Keynote argument))- and any changes he made would then have to be remade in PPT and anytime someone else updated it, he'd need to re-convert it and be aware of the changes. Maybe he also doesn't want to have to go through the resulting KeyNote in fine detail to make sure the conversion didn't screw anything up, every single conversion (in both directions).
What a stupid suggestion, honestly.
The Galaxy S3 and the HTC One X cost more than an iPhone and they're the flagship phones for Android. Most people buy phones on contracts for peanuts upfront. Cost is not a major factor here.
Or maybe your market is only relevant to iOS type users. Or maybe your marketing people have only concentrated on iOS. Or maybe there's already a perfectly good free or built in Android app that covers what you're doing? Or maybe only people inclined to buy iOS are inclined to want your app? You've given no details for us to know.
Your company not being able to sell something to Android doesn't mean Android is where the problem is. I could make a new Exchange ActiveSync app and charge $100 for and then claim no one buying it is proof "Android sucks" but all it really proves is I didn't do any market research before starting work.
As for your comment re what you see on the train - you see what you want to see. if nearly 70% of phones are Android and yet you claim otherwise because of what you see, then you're not seeing reality - you're either missing or ignoring phones that don't suit your intended mental outcome.
You're not getting better signal strength by rebooting, you're rejoining a tower by rebooting. Your signal strength is dropping off over time because your provider has over-subscribed your area in terms of users vs tower capacity. Getting an iPhone won't change this.
The old "Apple makes more money than Android so I win" argument appears again!
Covered perfectly, here: iOS fan: Apple makes more money per device so I am smarter than you.
I have to say, I went out looking for an iPad3 but came home with a Galaxy 10.1. Why? 3 Reasons:
1. The shop sold it to me very cheap, as it was ex demo and had a tiny, tiny scratch on the side.
2. I already had a Galaxy S2, so ecosystem wise, it made more sense (apps, Google things, etc).
3. As much as I liked the iPad3, it felt so primitive, with static icons and no widgets etc.
My primary purpose of the purchase was to take notes in meetings and show clients information, without needing a laptop. The Galaxy Note 10.1 would have been idea, because of the handwriting but it wasn't around when I made this purchase.
Then, I took the Galaxy 10.1 home and found it quick sluggish at times. To be honest, it was quite disappointing. I barely used it. Anyway, I got sick of waiting for Samsung to release ICS (still "coming soon"), so I dropped AOKP ICS ROM on it and it's like a brand new device. It's fast, it's really usable, it doesn't lag and I can't put it down. It's what Android was meant to be.
My point in this rambling response? Android is a million miles in front of iOS on the phone - that's clear. But on the tablet, only now with ICS and JB is there true parity. The beauty of the Nexus 7 is that it's Pure Android. I am a total fandroid but I freely admit that my Galaxy 10.1 sucked while using Honeycomb and TouchWiz and this has been a major problem in PC land, too - vendors crapping up PCs / tablets with their own bloat.
The problem I see for Android on the tablet is the same vendors who make this mistake on PCs are producing the tablets.
Yeah Apple products (and by extension Apple consumers) are totally superior because Apple makes more money than Android device makers. Yeah. Totally. Makes sense.
SO let me summarise your (oft claimed) pro-Apple point.
1. Apple products contain effectively the same hardware as midrange Android devices.
2. Apple products sell less than Android products.
3. Apple makes a lot more money.
So let me help you understand this a little more clearly and then perhaps you can explain to everyone why you're so proud of the situation. I'll spell it out slowly, so you can understand.
1. Apple is selling less devices and those devices costs around the same or less to make.
2. Apple makes more money.
Do you see the issue here? Where do you suppose that money is coming from? I'll give you a hint: you.
What blows my mind about this "Sure Apple sells less but they make more, therefore Apple Wins!!1!" argument is the people making it don't seem to understand what they're saying is "Apple is selling me a device that costs less to make for more money than the competition, therefore I win". AND YOU'RE PROUD OF THIS??!?!
Perhaps you can explain why you to the crowd why being ripped off makes you feel superior or smarter? Because by all other standards, it should have the opposite effect.
Yeah that sounds like a reasonable conclusion based on the little info I provided. Unfortunately, the reason I tried those channels is they're totally free in my area. All my other equipment is fine but the MBA cannot even see the signal on channel 14 and it drops it badly on 13. Doesn't really bother me - it's just "one of those things".
I have a MacBook Air (2011) and I have noticed that it 100% cannot find any base stations on channel's 13 or 14, which sucks. Perhaps your problem is related to the channel?
It's a good thing no one has lately been abusing poor security in the Apple App store to download paid apps, for free....
I have been running the Office 2013 preview release on my work PC for a good 6 hours now (so I therefore assume myself to be an authority on this matter) and I quite like it.
Samsung also invents more than 10 times what Apple does. Apple outsources the difficult part of the engineering of every single one of their products: mostly to Samsung and Foxconn. Samsung, on the other hand, manufacture and design (see: invent) most of the components. And a shit-tonne of other things, like engines, heavy machinery, etc. So I would expect them to file 10x the patents Apple do.
Apple is way worse than the other tech firms because Apple's single strategic goal in the mobile marketplace appears to be banning competition by utilising the overwhelming-pro-US-company, US legal system. Ever noticed how Apple keeps winning bullshit patent bans at home but not overseas? So has the rest of the World. And so has Apple.
So to stay maker of the #1 selling smart phone, Apple isn't even trying to compete with Android - they're already literally years behind on the OS. They're just trying to ban the competition.
I would love to see how Steve Jobs would've reacedt to being shown this story in 1984, while hiding the name Apple until he'd passed judgement. Given time travel, I'd go record that conversation and bring it forward for all to see.
Not if you're using IEx in an Active Directory domain. They won't flag the domain controller or the ISA/ForeFront server in this exact scenario, because they're explicitly told not to. Chrome or FF probably do but IE plays by the domain controller's rules.
See http://www.isaserver.org/tutorials/Configuring-HTTPS-Inspection-Forefront-Threat-Management-Gateway-TMG-2010.html for how to.
As you can see, if the unsuspecting IE user doesn't investigate, they'd never know what's going on.
But no one checks the certificate (well few people anyway), unless the browser flags them to.
What a lot of employers are doing is redirecting all https traffic to an internal proxy which uses the domain's (active directory domain that is) trusted certificate - so all domain clients automatically trust the certificate. So when you go to https://my.bank.com/ or whatever, you're actually going to your internal proxy, which is decrypting the traffic, inspecting it and then re-encrypting it with my.bank's certificate and sending it on.
You'd never know unless you clicked on the certificate in your browser and read the details. As the browser will leave the certificate "green" or whatever (trusted), 99.999999% of people would never think to check.
Microsoft's ISA has been offering this functionality since 2003 and in the latest versions, it's downright trivial to set this functionality up (I have done it for clients).
I always thought it was a bit evil and highly questionable to do this when staff are not aware, as it means the IT team can easily steal banking details, etc. It also puts a larger onus on the company to ensure their servers are not pwn3d by someone else. I get that it's all "company time and company equipment" - but when staff are not aware this is happening and exposing person information and banking details, etc, I think it's wrong.
Sorry.
I started reading down the list and half way I thought "oh. Replace Zune with iTune and he's talking about the iPhone".