As long as they pay the $30 a month, part of the lure of the iPad 3G was that you didn't have a contract and you could choose to not pay for a month, then they could sign up when they needed it again.
Actually it would be $35 for you per month and that's assuming you didn't go over 3GB, if you did it would be $45 which under the old plan would be a flat $30.
And they've grandfathered the $30unlimited people... for as long as they keep paying, once you drop it, you stand little chance of getting the $30 plan back. In other words they know the people with the fear that they'll start going over 2GB a month fleecing and extra $5 a month out of them for every month they don't go over the 2GB limit on the new plan. This is huge because a contractless plan was a huge selling point, being able to switch to an unlimited plan for a month that you needed it then back to the cheaper plan or dropping it during a month you don't need it altogether.
Make no mistake, this is an effort to extort more money from their customers by feeding them a load of bullshit.
This is a nice swift kick in the nuts right when it's expected that Apple will be pushing more streaming services such as more movie plans, chat and more streaming music.
I'd regret it if I didn't know that Apple's network is complete shit in the two places I really need a wireless connection, my car going from NJ to Mass. and in my building at work where every signal is complete crap (except for Verizon who installed repeaters).
I did buy the Wifi one, knowing full well that I would rather pay $60 a month for the ability to move to a Mifi or tether off my iPhone (I have no intention on paying them to jailbreak and use a better wireless tether solution).
This is pure bullshit though. The $30 a month plan with unlimited (pure unlimited no cap) was a HUGE selling point to the 3G iPad.
Honestly though folks, this is right up there with Verizon's move to push everyone (EVERYONE) into an extra $10 a month for data, even people that want no data and are asking for all data to be turned off. This is what happens in an unregulated industry full of greed. You get unreasonably high voice plan costs and ridiculous text messaging costs and efforts to cut customers off at the knees over time. Wait till LTE is released for both Verizon and AT&T and see how ridiculous that will be. At that point you should have a unified voice and data plan (LTE pushes voip over data unifying the connection), but I'm willing to sure as hell bet they continue charging for both separate and Verizon trying to get you to pay $10 a month for data. Assuming 4G catches on with Sprint, expect them to introduce a cap to that service (currently they sell you on unlimited 4G access with a cap on 3G access on the same plan). It's ridiculous but they have all of the US by the balls and no one is standing up to this crap.
You could just sell the phone to subsidize the next phone... if you buy the right device they will hold their value.
I just sold a fully hacked xv6700 for $100. Sure it's not the $400 I paid 4 years ago, but then again, it's a 4 year old phone in good condition with a massive hacker backing.
Those iPad owners are grandfathered in, as long as they keep paying on that plan.
Part of the allure of the iPad was being able to drop and pick up the plan AT WILL because you are not locked in to a contract. They will no longer be able to do so.
It does, it's really just this developer trying to drum up support for his app... which BTW, looks like he might have taken a queue (and probably code) from popular desktop overlay software such as Conky.
Print support for the iPad is moving forward, it plays portable games well and it is a good receiver for multimedia, not the server. The remainder of the stuff you mention isn't meant to be done with a portable device anyway.
And as you point out, people use their home PC for a lot of things, well the iPad is NOT a replacement for the home workhorse computer. It has never meant to replace that. It's working quite well in my home with a Linux server dishing out the mass of my media to my iPad (and many other devices). And the iPad has freed me from my desk when I'm at home for the mundane tasks without making sacrifices in the laptop or desktop decision. Meanwhile simultaneously freeing me from all of the headaches that a full fledged laptop system has put on me with regard to backing up and keeping it running in top shape (backup is completely handled through iTunes). Moreover, I use it as a portal to a virtual machine on that server freeing me from all the ties to lesser power of such a device without sacrificing batter life. My iPad is great, it's done so much more for me than a new laptop could have and yet that I recognize it isn't a replacement for a laptop, desktop or portable music device. It is it's own niche that has enriched my life.
The iPad is not a replacement device, it fills a new niche and you don't get that, so please move on and stop spreading FUD.
No, they don't want the iPhone turning into this vast wasteland of crap turned out by graphic designers instead of programmers which is what was starting to happen to the web with regard to flash. And Flash IS CRAP, it's a resource hog that doesn't extend what you can already do if you bothered to use more efficient native calls.
BTW, Apple does not control how Apple iAds are displayed, it's just a framework to help new developers inject Ads to fund their work and in the same vein allows Apple to capitalize on in-app advertising, they just happened to demonstrate how Apples iAd framework will provide a much more interactive experience using an actual web standard (HTML5). You will not see an iAd unless the developer puts ads into their app.
The versions of the swf that are open do not include all features. It's a "when we get to it" approach from Adobe. The end result is that they open up version 8 and then release version 9. We're now on version 10 and not all features are available. The end result is that the open plugins are never up to date and Adobe is the only place to go to, yet they get to keep the appearance of being open to dupe people like you.
I'd also argue that you're living in Adobe's ideal world which is Windows. NONE of the flash plugins outside of windows support hardware acceleration, they're stuck on your core process support.
You might want to go and research what the WC3 ACTUALLY is again, you have much to learn. It is a consortium to build (open) standards. You know, so a company like Opera or Microsoft couldn't change all of the standards for the web and own content presentation. These people exist to prevent a company like Adobe who is actively trying to do this from owning the web. The WC3 operates on a royalty free patent policy, in other words they won't make it a standard if you have to pay for it. This is one of the reasons why while the video tags have been introduced as a standard, there is no standard codec (h.264 is not royalty free, and video likely never have a standard codec will be due to the MPEG-LA stranglehold).
Uh. I'll agree with you when my 64-bit flash client comes out for ubuntu. My recently updated 10.04 system no longer has support.
Better yet, how about some ARM processor support.
Get over it, h.264 works in Linux and it's working a lot easier than flash does. If you're already willing to accept flash, you're already throwing out the proprietary vs. open source argument.
In the meantime, Adobe would like to charge everyone to develop on their platform. They're content to making it so all web graphic design courses are centered around their tools and they're content to only support a small segment of the market despite trying to make these stupid claims of "uniform code for all platform" BS.
This isn't an Apple issue. This is an Adobe is evil issue. I could care less about what Apple thinks, it's just fortunate they agree the web shouldn't be tied to a content creation baron like Adobe.
Also, the h.264 and flash issue are TWO SEPARATE ISSUES. h.264 is a codec for video support, flash pushes their own craptacular codec through their flash video players, if they wanted they could write the players to support h.264 as well. Flash is a web technology that requires a plugin to decode various interactive multimedia content (not necessarily video). You may want to re-research your issues with h.264 and redirect them toward the evil MPEG-LA.
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Except that you never actually see him turn into the smoke monster. Also, the Man in Black is just one of the forms it takes on. There is even an instance in the bottom of the temple with Ben where it is suggested the being that is the Man in Black that can take the forms of dead and controls the smoke monster (you see the smoke around the being that is in the form of Alex).
Again, nothing is answered. All we even know of the Smoke is that it came from the cave of light, we don't know why it jumped out after Jacob's brother's limp and unconscious body falls down the waterfall into the cave of light.
Battlestar ended all plotlines, ended EVERYONE's stories, including the ship's. It dragged a little, yes, but it drove to resolution.
Lost ended Jack's story and didn't end anything else. We don't even have a resolution for the Island. We would have been better served if the whole side story didn't exist, everyone else got off the Island and Jack slowly laid down in the bamboo field after turning the wheel one more time with Vincent licking his face into a flash of white (rather than fade to black) wondering if the Island disappeared (and thus ending it's story).
They could have taken all that wasted side story time this last season to do just what they promised us, a focus on the unexplained events of the Island. They could have opened up the Island's story. They failed.
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No, the doctor actually "fixed" what was broken. Except that we don't know what was broken.
Amazingly, the island has a wheel that can move the island through time and space, but if you uncork it, all the water sources on the island dry up, you get a lot of rain, and yet the island falls apart rather than sinking into the ocean (nothing at all that you would expect to happen when you uncork something and all things that are NEVER EXPLAINED).
A lot of people tell me that I missed the point, that we had a character driven show with well written characters. I say, 'eff that, we have a show that after 6 years of character development pissed on everyone that wasn't Jack (everyone else in the series either had no final resolution or died needlessly and unexpectedly) and gave you the end of Jack's story with no understanding ultimately what the Island is. It isn't even related to the "in between place" that wasn't introduced until the final season and yet was the driving plot for Jack's storyline.
We got 5 seasons of Jack's character development (not story development) and one season of Jack walking back and forth on the Island to ultimately throw his and the world's enemy off of a cliff. Sounds like they ripped off Kevin Smith's description of Lord of the Rings to me.
Considering the bankruptcy of that company might actually lead to the remaining companies reconsidering their practices as well as flooding the economy with some sorely needed money over a company that isn't funding nearly as many jobs as you would think. I would rather save the american auto industry than those sadistic oil barons. Hell, put the money into making MORE EFFICIENT cars. Break the hold the oil companies have had over the auto industry as well in one massive fell swoop.
Don't care if it is. I don't know why all of our internet traffic these days isn't encrypted. Good job Google for stepping up even on the simplest of things.
It won't. Apple already knows this is dead territory with their "hobby" the AppleTV. People aren't interested in buying these things, if they were, they probably already have a console system, a bluray player with streaming support or they bought a computer with the sole purpose of hooking it up to their tv. Unless they're giving this away for free, people won't adopt it.
Hell the AppleTV at least delivers functionality and interaction with iTunes which is very ubiquitous, this hooks up with nothing other than the internet.
It is not a standard, and no you can not write a better one or it would have been done.
Stop thinking you know what you're talking about. Until you come back with an IEEE or RFC# where it states that adobe is a standard your input in the matter is useless.
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Except that AT&T is the bad guy here and we already knew that all of the cell phone providers were evil.
If you drop it, you will no longer have $30/unlimited, you will only have the $25/2GB option from then on.
Therefore you either continue paying $30 every month or you lose a significant selling point for the iPad (thus bait and switched).
This is not a reasonable downgrade. For my current iPhone 16% less cost for 60% less data.
They're planning LTE just like AT&T and Verizon are. You'll be ahead of WiMax, but you won't be ahead of the real 4th generation big boys.
As long as they pay the $30 a month, part of the lure of the iPad 3G was that you didn't have a contract and you could choose to not pay for a month, then they could sign up when they needed it again.
They are grandfathered in for as long as they pay monthly.
Actually it would be $35 for you per month and that's assuming you didn't go over 3GB, if you did it would be $45 which under the old plan would be a flat $30.
And they've grandfathered the $30unlimited people... for as long as they keep paying, once you drop it, you stand little chance of getting the $30 plan back. In other words they know the people with the fear that they'll start going over 2GB a month fleecing and extra $5 a month out of them for every month they don't go over the 2GB limit on the new plan. This is huge because a contractless plan was a huge selling point, being able to switch to an unlimited plan for a month that you needed it then back to the cheaper plan or dropping it during a month you don't need it altogether.
Make no mistake, this is an effort to extort more money from their customers by feeding them a load of bullshit.
This is a nice swift kick in the nuts right when it's expected that Apple will be pushing more streaming services such as more movie plans, chat and more streaming music.
I'd regret it if I didn't know that Apple's network is complete shit in the two places I really need a wireless connection, my car going from NJ to Mass. and in my building at work where every signal is complete crap (except for Verizon who installed repeaters).
I did buy the Wifi one, knowing full well that I would rather pay $60 a month for the ability to move to a Mifi or tether off my iPhone (I have no intention on paying them to jailbreak and use a better wireless tether solution).
This is pure bullshit though. The $30 a month plan with unlimited (pure unlimited no cap) was a HUGE selling point to the 3G iPad.
Honestly though folks, this is right up there with Verizon's move to push everyone (EVERYONE) into an extra $10 a month for data, even people that want no data and are asking for all data to be turned off. This is what happens in an unregulated industry full of greed. You get unreasonably high voice plan costs and ridiculous text messaging costs and efforts to cut customers off at the knees over time. Wait till LTE is released for both Verizon and AT&T and see how ridiculous that will be. At that point you should have a unified voice and data plan (LTE pushes voip over data unifying the connection), but I'm willing to sure as hell bet they continue charging for both separate and Verizon trying to get you to pay $10 a month for data. Assuming 4G catches on with Sprint, expect them to introduce a cap to that service (currently they sell you on unlimited 4G access with a cap on 3G access on the same plan). It's ridiculous but they have all of the US by the balls and no one is standing up to this crap.
You could just sell the phone to subsidize the next phone... if you buy the right device they will hold their value.
I just sold a fully hacked xv6700 for $100. Sure it's not the $400 I paid 4 years ago, but then again, it's a 4 year old phone in good condition with a massive hacker backing.
Those iPad owners are grandfathered in, as long as they keep paying on that plan.
Part of the allure of the iPad was being able to drop and pick up the plan AT WILL because you are not locked in to a contract. They will no longer be able to do so.
Or I could just jailbreak my iPhone and give AT&T the finger.
It does, it's really just this developer trying to drum up support for his app... which BTW, looks like he might have taken a queue (and probably code) from popular desktop overlay software such as Conky.
The Xbox arcade and Wii are full of independent titles. How long have you been under that rock, I'm guessing about 2 years based on your comment.
Um, that just proves the point, it's not a replacement device but you're trying to argue that it is.
Print support for the iPad is moving forward, it plays portable games well and it is a good receiver for multimedia, not the server. The remainder of the stuff you mention isn't meant to be done with a portable device anyway.
And as you point out, people use their home PC for a lot of things, well the iPad is NOT a replacement for the home workhorse computer. It has never meant to replace that. It's working quite well in my home with a Linux server dishing out the mass of my media to my iPad (and many other devices). And the iPad has freed me from my desk when I'm at home for the mundane tasks without making sacrifices in the laptop or desktop decision. Meanwhile simultaneously freeing me from all of the headaches that a full fledged laptop system has put on me with regard to backing up and keeping it running in top shape (backup is completely handled through iTunes). Moreover, I use it as a portal to a virtual machine on that server freeing me from all the ties to lesser power of such a device without sacrificing batter life. My iPad is great, it's done so much more for me than a new laptop could have and yet that I recognize it isn't a replacement for a laptop, desktop or portable music device. It is it's own niche that has enriched my life.
The iPad is not a replacement device, it fills a new niche and you don't get that, so please move on and stop spreading FUD.
No, they don't want the iPhone turning into this vast wasteland of crap turned out by graphic designers instead of programmers which is what was starting to happen to the web with regard to flash. And Flash IS CRAP, it's a resource hog that doesn't extend what you can already do if you bothered to use more efficient native calls.
BTW, Apple does not control how Apple iAds are displayed, it's just a framework to help new developers inject Ads to fund their work and in the same vein allows Apple to capitalize on in-app advertising, they just happened to demonstrate how Apples iAd framework will provide a much more interactive experience using an actual web standard (HTML5). You will not see an iAd unless the developer puts ads into their app.
The last HP printer I had, blew two full black ink cartridges into the well below the rest spot for the printer head.
$30 worth of ink shot into a pool useless sludge.
The versions of the swf that are open do not include all features. It's a "when we get to it" approach from Adobe. The end result is that they open up version 8 and then release version 9. We're now on version 10 and not all features are available. The end result is that the open plugins are never up to date and Adobe is the only place to go to, yet they get to keep the appearance of being open to dupe people like you.
I'd also argue that you're living in Adobe's ideal world which is Windows. NONE of the flash plugins outside of windows support hardware acceleration, they're stuck on your core process support.
You might want to go and research what the WC3 ACTUALLY is again, you have much to learn. It is a consortium to build (open) standards. You know, so a company like Opera or Microsoft couldn't change all of the standards for the web and own content presentation. These people exist to prevent a company like Adobe who is actively trying to do this from owning the web. The WC3 operates on a royalty free patent policy, in other words they won't make it a standard if you have to pay for it. This is one of the reasons why while the video tags have been introduced as a standard, there is no standard codec (h.264 is not royalty free, and video likely never have a standard codec will be due to the MPEG-LA stranglehold).
Uh. I'll agree with you when my 64-bit flash client comes out for ubuntu. My recently updated 10.04 system no longer has support.
Better yet, how about some ARM processor support.
Get over it, h.264 works in Linux and it's working a lot easier than flash does. If you're already willing to accept flash, you're already throwing out the proprietary vs. open source argument.
In the meantime, Adobe would like to charge everyone to develop on their platform. They're content to making it so all web graphic design courses are centered around their tools and they're content to only support a small segment of the market despite trying to make these stupid claims of "uniform code for all platform" BS.
This isn't an Apple issue. This is an Adobe is evil issue. I could care less about what Apple thinks, it's just fortunate they agree the web shouldn't be tied to a content creation baron like Adobe.
Also, the h.264 and flash issue are TWO SEPARATE ISSUES. h.264 is a codec for video support, flash pushes their own craptacular codec through their flash video players, if they wanted they could write the players to support h.264 as well. Flash is a web technology that requires a plugin to decode various interactive multimedia content (not necessarily video). You may want to re-research your issues with h.264 and redirect them toward the evil MPEG-LA.
Except that you never actually see him turn into the smoke monster. Also, the Man in Black is just one of the forms it takes on. There is even an instance in the bottom of the temple with Ben where it is suggested the being that is the Man in Black that can take the forms of dead and controls the smoke monster (you see the smoke around the being that is in the form of Alex).
Again, nothing is answered. All we even know of the Smoke is that it came from the cave of light, we don't know why it jumped out after Jacob's brother's limp and unconscious body falls down the waterfall into the cave of light.
Battlestar ended all plotlines, ended EVERYONE's stories, including the ship's. It dragged a little, yes, but it drove to resolution.
Lost ended Jack's story and didn't end anything else. We don't even have a resolution for the Island. We would have been better served if the whole side story didn't exist, everyone else got off the Island and Jack slowly laid down in the bamboo field after turning the wheel one more time with Vincent licking his face into a flash of white (rather than fade to black) wondering if the Island disappeared (and thus ending it's story).
They could have taken all that wasted side story time this last season to do just what they promised us, a focus on the unexplained events of the Island. They could have opened up the Island's story. They failed.
No, the doctor actually "fixed" what was broken. Except that we don't know what was broken.
Amazingly, the island has a wheel that can move the island through time and space, but if you uncork it, all the water sources on the island dry up, you get a lot of rain, and yet the island falls apart rather than sinking into the ocean (nothing at all that you would expect to happen when you uncork something and all things that are NEVER EXPLAINED).
A lot of people tell me that I missed the point, that we had a character driven show with well written characters. I say, 'eff that, we have a show that after 6 years of character development pissed on everyone that wasn't Jack (everyone else in the series either had no final resolution or died needlessly and unexpectedly) and gave you the end of Jack's story with no understanding ultimately what the Island is. It isn't even related to the "in between place" that wasn't introduced until the final season and yet was the driving plot for Jack's storyline.
We got 5 seasons of Jack's character development (not story development) and one season of Jack walking back and forth on the Island to ultimately throw his and the world's enemy off of a cliff. Sounds like they ripped off Kevin Smith's description of Lord of the Rings to me.
Considering the bankruptcy of that company might actually lead to the remaining companies reconsidering their practices as well as flooding the economy with some sorely needed money over a company that isn't funding nearly as many jobs as you would think. I would rather save the american auto industry than those sadistic oil barons. Hell, put the money into making MORE EFFICIENT cars. Break the hold the oil companies have had over the auto industry as well in one massive fell swoop.
Don't care if it is. I don't know why all of our internet traffic these days isn't encrypted. Good job Google for stepping up even on the simplest of things.
It won't. Apple already knows this is dead territory with their "hobby" the AppleTV. People aren't interested in buying these things, if they were, they probably already have a console system, a bluray player with streaming support or they bought a computer with the sole purpose of hooking it up to their tv. Unless they're giving this away for free, people won't adopt it.
Hell the AppleTV at least delivers functionality and interaction with iTunes which is very ubiquitous, this hooks up with nothing other than the internet.
It is not a standard, and no you can not write a better one or it would have been done.
Stop thinking you know what you're talking about. Until you come back with an IEEE or RFC# where it states that adobe is a standard your input in the matter is useless.