You can be secure against every known vulnerability. If someone goes to the trouble to find a zero day and write an exploit for it to compromise the largest number of machines possible, it's better to not be running the most common platform. End of story.
Whilst you may technically be correct, I think the NSA/FBI/CIA have more pressing concerns than joe random on the other side of the world's porn collection.
This is the thing. Even if you trust an organization to try and do the right thing, do you trust their IT staff to be competent? Do you trust their provider? Unfortunately most people by nature are far too trusting with all this stuff.
Those in the armed forces are included in the people who should be doing something about the situation. Yes, this could officially be treason. However your government is already committing far worse on an unprecedented scale. People like Manning and Snowden are the real patriots in your country.
Given that it is your governments job to enforce the constitution and related laws (and if changes are needed to the constitution, get them done via the proper process - not just ad-lib and make it up as they go along or ignore parts they don't like without due process), and your current puppets have violated many aspects of same, one could argue that the leadership of the united states is indeed under attack by another part of the populace.
And this is my point. The founding fathers clearly could foresee this sort of thing happening and wrote into the constitution provisions for the people to oust a hostile government. For all the harping on a lot of people do about your rights over there, there's been a distinct lack of action with regards to keeping your government in check.
You can't have it both ways. If you want those rights, you need to ensure those in charge uphold them. And if they don't take action.
The fact that you guys have had the current sort of situation since at least the 60s-70s and haven't done anything about it yet, possibly until it is way beyond too late is something the guys who wrote your constitution would find most disappointing.
I know it must be hard for some of you guys who have lived there all your life being brainwashed from birth all through school, etc - but your constitution and the right to bear arms was written specifically because the founding fathers wanted to ensure that you guys had an option if you didn't trust your government.
You've kept the right to bear arms bit so far, but it's about time you got around to that holding your government accountable to the people bit.
Firewire != USB, never was intended that way, and never pushed that way. They serve two ENTIRELY different purposes, exactly the same as thunderbolt and USB do today. Comparing the two like they're in competition just makes you look retarded. As does the rest of your post actually. So what, your phone had copy/paste first? What was it out of interest? do you still use it? why not?
But whatever. I'm sure in 10 years Microsoft will rise from the ashes to buy Apple, convert all our iCloud accounts to SkyDrive, and finally show us once and for all that OEM software licensed to run on commodity hardware is the One True Way to deliver a perfect experience to your users.
Not likely. Azure actually drives iCloud so there's no need for microsoft to get rid of icloud, they make money anyway. And as to the second point - unlikely. They've been trying for 30+ years now and the end result still sucks.
I have to disagree. Long before MP3 players were popular MP3 CD players were the best thing and the benefit MP3 players was very obvious.
To nerds maybe. The average consumer, who just wants to listen to music had no fucking idea. Apple did what they always do - they took the disparate bits of technology, stuck them together, added the secret sauce (the UI) and made it desirable. Some people here seem to be in total denial, but for 99% of the population, the UI is important. It's why vi is not the worlds most popular text editor, and why you won't see twm outside of some old greybeard's workstation.
Those early Microsoft/Intel tablets were really jumping the gun -- the technology just wasn't there yet, at least not at commodity prices
Ohhhhkaaay. Explain to me then why it's now 3 years later, in 2013 and Microsoft still can't built a desirable tablet to save the company? The technology is there, at a commodity price, evidently.
Um... the amount of apple advertising I see is fairly minimal. They don't promote their products anywhere near as much as many other companies. Their products sell themselves because most people who use them actually like them.
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Try going to work at a large company.
Really, given the complete failure to secure well... any of their desktop software, is there any surprise?
You can be secure against every known vulnerability. If someone goes to the trouble to find a zero day and write an exploit for it to compromise the largest number of machines possible, it's better to not be running the most common platform. End of story.
Yup. That would have been circa... 2000 ish? So you just know they've been either in the firmware, or compromising RNGs since at least that long.
Whilst you may technically be correct, I think the NSA/FBI/CIA have more pressing concerns than joe random on the other side of the world's porn collection.
This is the thing. Even if you trust an organization to try and do the right thing, do you trust their IT staff to be competent? Do you trust their provider? Unfortunately most people by nature are far too trusting with all this stuff.
Those in the armed forces are included in the people who should be doing something about the situation. Yes, this could officially be treason. However your government is already committing far worse on an unprecedented scale. People like Manning and Snowden are the real patriots in your country.
Given that it is your governments job to enforce the constitution and related laws (and if changes are needed to the constitution, get them done via the proper process - not just ad-lib and make it up as they go along or ignore parts they don't like without due process), and your current puppets have violated many aspects of same, one could argue that the leadership of the united states is indeed under attack by another part of the populace.
And this is my point. The founding fathers clearly could foresee this sort of thing happening and wrote into the constitution provisions for the people to oust a hostile government. For all the harping on a lot of people do about your rights over there, there's been a distinct lack of action with regards to keeping your government in check.
You can't have it both ways. If you want those rights, you need to ensure those in charge uphold them. And if they don't take action.
The fact that you guys have had the current sort of situation since at least the 60s-70s and haven't done anything about it yet, possibly until it is way beyond too late is something the guys who wrote your constitution would find most disappointing.
You still think you actually have free speech over there? Read this.
I know it must be hard for some of you guys who have lived there all your life being brainwashed from birth all through school, etc - but your constitution and the right to bear arms was written specifically because the founding fathers wanted to ensure that you guys had an option if you didn't trust your government.
You've kept the right to bear arms bit so far, but it's about time you got around to that holding your government accountable to the people bit.
It's a marketing slogan/trademark. Like google's "Don't be evil" and MacDonald's "100% real beef(tm)".
no desire, either.
Heaps of open/next step is inherited. Most of the core libaries of objective-c for instance.
comprehension fail. i'll take "well secured niche os" over "well secured high value target" any day of the week, thanks.
So do i. FreeBSD headless, OS X if i want to actually interact with the thing.
Apple is still more profitable.
Firewire != USB, never was intended that way, and never pushed that way. They serve two ENTIRELY different purposes, exactly the same as thunderbolt and USB do today. Comparing the two like they're in competition just makes you look retarded. As does the rest of your post actually. So what, your phone had copy/paste first? What was it out of interest? do you still use it? why not?
And? The wright brothers didnt invent screws or internal combustion either but they pioneered heavier than air powered flight.
I like that my iphone GPS works when I'm not in my car and walking around on foot in a foreign country on holiday. but hey, glad you like your garmin.
Not likely. Azure actually drives iCloud so there's no need for microsoft to get rid of icloud, they make money anyway. And as to the second point - unlikely. They've been trying for 30+ years now and the end result still sucks.
To nerds maybe. The average consumer, who just wants to listen to music had no fucking idea. Apple did what they always do - they took the disparate bits of technology, stuck them together, added the secret sauce (the UI) and made it desirable. Some people here seem to be in total denial, but for 99% of the population, the UI is important. It's why vi is not the worlds most popular text editor, and why you won't see twm outside of some old greybeard's workstation.
Ohhhhkaaay. Explain to me then why it's now 3 years later, in 2013 and Microsoft still can't built a desirable tablet to save the company? The technology is there, at a commodity price, evidently.
Sure. And that would have been about 1-5 percent of the iTunes user base.
Um... the amount of apple advertising I see is fairly minimal. They don't promote their products anywhere near as much as many other companies. Their products sell themselves because most people who use them actually like them.