I'm a bit skeptic about the entire "antenna problem". I have not been able to reproduce the leftie-bug in any iphone4 i have held. I think it indeed just weakens signal a bit in places where signal already was bad.
I'm sure they will do that soon, it's not just about people doing it on their phones. People are going to apple stores and jailbreaking display units. THAT's going to push apple to put this into high priority.
Apple snobs: Linux users live in their mothers basement and never ever talked to a girl... which is a blatent lie, how do you think we got our mother to let us live in the basement. We ASKED her, by TALKING to HER! So there!
Don't lie to make yourself look better. You know she grounded you down there when you were 5 and forgot you even lived in the house since then.
Call me a social reject if you want, but I'm going to continue to not do business with companies that over-hype, under-perform, and lie to you with a condescending smirk on their face while they do it.
Good luck with that. Either you are a hypocrite, or will become a hermit. I don't know a single company that does not do all you noted. I think even drug dealers and beggars over-hype their reason to have your money.
it actually helps me do useful stuff in ways I couldn't before.
If you get the rubber band or a cover you wont have to hold your new iPhone that way any more.
Friend of mine has an iPhone4. He has tried, and tried, and tried, to replicate the lost signal by holding the phone certain way and has not been able to do it at all. From the little I read, it seems the signal is indeed weakened very lightly, but only enough to make an issue where ATT's service already sucks.
My Nexus One has a full call log and not one call drop. It was a replacement for a iPhone 3G which dropped a few calls per month. Same carrier, Same area. Zero drops since I left Apple.
Talking of Nexus One, at least the iPhone issue was fixed with a plastic bumper. How long did users wait for their day one Nexus Ones to finally work with 3G?
It's the equivalent of google putting a tape recorder in a public park in order to record bird songs and then some people happen to walk by talking about how they like to take it up the butt.
No, it's the equivalent of them driving with a huge audio amplifying system and recording private conversations just because you didnt bother to sound-proof your house. Any audio professional knows it's extremely easy to sound-proof your house, you saying you don't do this in yours? Then don't whine if some one records what you say in your house, you can't claim it's private if you don't use the technical tools available to you to protect it.
Also, please do ignore the fact they didn't just connect to unsecured networks: they capture all data from these networks they could and saved it. Didnt they tell everyone they were just taking photos?
You may miss that the same virus or site or whatever method used to compromise your password may had been used to compromise your credit card information, if you ever used it in any online retailer, including theirs.
Keyloggers in the user's computers. People that manage their iTunes accounts in virus infested computers are the most likely reason for this kind of stuff.
No, you cant gift apps for other users in your iPhone, but you can phish up the iTunes account login and password so you can buy anything you want and sync it to your computer, and then to your phone.
So you're saying that you want to switch away from AT&T, but instead of getting an Android phone, if you can't have an iPhone you'd settle for a crappy flip phone? I call BS. Have you even tried an Android phone for yourself, or are you relying on everyone else's opinion to make your choices?
Yes, I have tried it. Extensively. My brother (older) happens to be the only one person in the list of people I know that has an android and likes it. I have played with it a lot and the only plus i got to give it is that it gets good 3G coverage, not really a plus of the phone but of the carrier.
And you are reading only part of my post. I clearly noted that I like the iOS so much I'd buy an iPod Touch AND get the crappy flip phone to make calls on.
Don't take me wrong, the Android has it merits and I reasons for its fans to truly like it, but I just love the iOS. I actually turn the tables and ask anyone that criticizes the iOS if they have tried an iOS device for long enough to make an actual judgement. BTW: I get all the porn i want on the browser, so thats a rather mute point many (specially my brother) tries to push down my throat.
Even with the bashing my older brother makes me endure, he still acknowledges he would go for one if he was able to subsidize one from Verizon.
I know about 10 to 12 people that own Android phones. Of these, only one actually wanted a droid and hates the iPhone, he also happens to love/.
The rest only bought into Androids because it was the only thing to settle for that was available out of ATT. I only know one other person that just switched and he regretted the ATT switch. I am an iPhone user, didn't switch to ATT but in the last few years I have started to hate them as they keep degrading instead of improving. I have even considered jumping to Verizon due to the horrible service. If apple ever releases an iPod Touch thats equivalent to the iPhone 4, i will do the switch and just get me an iPod Touch 4 (or whatever they call it.) At that point I MIGHT settle for an Android device, but also likely i'll just get an old fashioned flip-flop phone.
If Apple releases an iPhone 4 for Verizon, I'll switch carriers overnight (unless they come out and actually implement limited data plans.)
He's just pointing out the truth: it's your responsibility to secure the radio transmitter that you hooked up to your computer. It's not my my responsibility to avoid picking up your signals.
It's also my responsibility to lock my house's door every day, but that does not give anyone the right to open in and walk by my house, much less peak through my stuff or listen in my conversations, because I forgot to lock the door.
It's not the same, true, but leaving my wifi open is not an invitation to hack into transmissions, at best, its an open invitation for other users to also access the internet through it. I'm no lawyer, and even if I was I could not claim to know the laws in every single state, but its very likely if there are investigations going on that the states that have started them do have laws against hacking communications.
Depends on where you played. There are times when you feel there's almost no one else logged on. You could possibly have entire zones for yourself in the less populated servers.
This actually isn't all that uncommon with WoW, either.
This. I play wow and had to level from 1 to 80 almost solo. If it was not for the cross-server random dungeon group feature I would had done all of it 100% solo. There is nearly no one in most zones in WoW either. Most people rush the early levels (and by early i mean 1-79.)
Would be nice, if you go with a lawyer and won, to be able to force the police dept to pay for your court costs (from lawyer to travel and loss of income)
What the console makers do is different from what Apple is doing: AFAIK none of the console makers mandate what language you have to write your apps with. Whether it's worse or not depends on perspective.
They do, and you must use their SDK and nothing else. The iPhone is not too different from consoles, it just does not require you to be a large corporation to be able to publish software for them. You still have to be a registered apple developer just as you have to be a registered Nintendo/Sony/MS developer to develop to those systems and as I just noted, to use their SDK and your software to be reviewed and approved for publishing.
1) Except if they are found to be violating antitrust laws.
For Apple to be found violating antitrust laws, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft all would have to get probed for doing worse in their video game consoles.
I'll happily accept the annoyance and pain that will be perpetual Flash dependency if the government forces console makers to open up their machines too, though.
Yup. Abysmal performance and instability on every platform. It's uniform across the board.
It get's worse with every release as well.
True that! Plus, games and anything you would likely use flash for can be developed in OpenGl + C++, other than a bit of testing for platform quirks, thats rather cross platform AND ends up being faster than a 1 legged turtle!
Flash is a god-awful piece of software, but the issue for many people is that it's the cheapest option to do cross-platform, dynamic applications. While the iPhone is a nice piece of kit, it doesn't have the levels of market penetration that makes it worthwhile developing your application twice, so developers are left with the choice to either drop iPhone OS support (which they'd rather not do because it's a nice marketing coup at the moment) or spending an extra amount developing an iPhone specific version of your app which probably won't give you the same ROI (of course, the other option is to use something like HTML5, but then you're screwed if you want to also offer your app on older desktop browsers which tend to have a much higher market penetration). Now, having said that, I too hope Flash dies sooner rather than later - but experience tells me this is unlikely to happen (since I'm stuck supporting IE6 on 50% of my projects, I don't see HTML5 saving the day in the near future).
Your application can be developed 100% in C++ for the iPhone. You only need Objective C if you going to be using the interface (ie: games don't need it) and then you can still just do the hooks in Objective C and the rest in C++
OpenGL also is available in most platforms. Heck, make a game with OpenGL and C++ at it's core, and you will be able to take it quickly to MacOS, Windows, Linux and potentially even the Nintendo Wii (if they had something like Apple's open policy that many say is closed.) Can't talk for the Android, last time I gazed at it it said you needed to program in Java with their SDK, there may be other options though.
Which codec should we use for HTML5 video? The one that doesn't work in Opera/Firefox or the one that doesn't work in Safari/(future)IE9?
I'm not in charge of standards, there is a group doing it though. Whatever ends up being used the most will be adopted by the others. It's the way it's always been.
Also, give me Farmville, badgersbadgersbadgers and Chatroulette in HTML and I'll buy what you say. But since you can't, I feel compelled to say you are wrong.
What I don't get is why Microsoft doesn't disallow to run windows on a mac (inside vmware or otherwise natively).
I mean, a big argument in favor of buying a mac is that it can always run windows anyway. That argument
would then disappear. Less people would be inclined to buy apple, and as a nice side-benefit, Jobs would get to
swallow some of his own tricks.
Not sure what this has to do with the iPhone and flash BUT: Windows does not make computers. They dont care where you run their OS as long as you do. Mac users buying Windows is just more money for them, nothing else, no loss.
That being told I have a mac, so do many friends. None of us would ever put windows on it. We have PCs for that, and Remote Desktop into them (I only sit on them to play the games that are not for mac.)
HTML5 poses as much threat to Apple as Flash does. I don't see Apple blocking it, but encouraging it instead. I don't think it's about control only, but about, for once, Apple using its power to bully a good standard into the web, for a change.
Where's the option for "I support Apple not because I agree with their acceptance policies but because I honestly don't want Adobe's crapware anywhere near my phone!"
After all, unlike my desktop where I can easily -remove- Flash or block it with browser plugins, if Flash is on my phone then they better make sure I can remove it!
This. Although hopefully more web sites will be built without flash thanks to the iPad's popularity so I have to worry less about stupid flash in the desktop.
Help & Preferences --> Classic Index --> Sections --> Apple (x)
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I'm a bit skeptic about the entire "antenna problem". I have not been able to reproduce the leftie-bug in any iphone4 i have held. I think it indeed just weakens signal a bit in places where signal already was bad.
I'm sure they will do that soon, it's not just about people doing it on their phones. People are going to apple stores and jailbreaking display units. THAT's going to push apple to put this into high priority.
Mine is hacked. Antenna is working perfectly fine.
Apple snobs: Linux users live in their mothers basement and never ever talked to a girl... which is a blatent lie, how do you think we got our mother to let us live in the basement. We ASKED her, by TALKING to HER! So there!
Don't lie to make yourself look better. You know she grounded you down there when you were 5 and forgot you even lived in the house since then.
Call me a social reject if you want, but I'm going to continue to not do business with companies that over-hype, under-perform, and lie to you with a condescending smirk on their face while they do it.
Good luck with that. Either you are a hypocrite, or will become a hermit. I don't know a single company that does not do all you noted. I think even drug dealers and beggars over-hype their reason to have your money.
it actually helps me do useful stuff in ways I couldn't before.
If you get the rubber band or a cover you wont have to hold your new iPhone that way any more.
Friend of mine has an iPhone4. He has tried, and tried, and tried, to replicate the lost signal by holding the phone certain way and has not been able to do it at all. From the little I read, it seems the signal is indeed weakened very lightly, but only enough to make an issue where ATT's service already sucks.
My Nexus One has a full call log and not one call drop. It was a replacement for a iPhone 3G which dropped a few calls per month. Same carrier, Same area. Zero drops since I left Apple.
Talking of Nexus One, at least the iPhone issue was fixed with a plastic bumper. How long did users wait for their day one Nexus Ones to finally work with 3G?
It's the equivalent of google putting a tape recorder in a public park in order to record bird songs and then some people happen to walk by talking about how they like to take it up the butt.
No, it's the equivalent of them driving with a huge audio amplifying system and recording private conversations just because you didnt bother to sound-proof your house. Any audio professional knows it's extremely easy to sound-proof your house, you saying you don't do this in yours? Then don't whine if some one records what you say in your house, you can't claim it's private if you don't use the technical tools available to you to protect it.
Also, please do ignore the fact they didn't just connect to unsecured networks: they capture all data from these networks they could and saved it. Didnt they tell everyone they were just taking photos?
You may miss that the same virus or site or whatever method used to compromise your password may had been used to compromise your credit card information, if you ever used it in any online retailer, including theirs.
No, you cant gift apps for other users in your iPhone, but you can phish up the iTunes account login and password so you can buy anything you want and sync it to your computer, and then to your phone.
So you're saying that you want to switch away from AT&T, but instead of getting an Android phone, if you can't have an iPhone you'd settle for a crappy flip phone? I call BS. Have you even tried an Android phone for yourself, or are you relying on everyone else's opinion to make your choices?
Yes, I have tried it. Extensively. My brother (older) happens to be the only one person in the list of people I know that has an android and likes it. I have played with it a lot and the only plus i got to give it is that it gets good 3G coverage, not really a plus of the phone but of the carrier.
And you are reading only part of my post. I clearly noted that I like the iOS so much I'd buy an iPod Touch AND get the crappy flip phone to make calls on.
Don't take me wrong, the Android has it merits and I reasons for its fans to truly like it, but I just love the iOS. I actually turn the tables and ask anyone that criticizes the iOS if they have tried an iOS device for long enough to make an actual judgement. BTW: I get all the porn i want on the browser, so thats a rather mute point many (specially my brother) tries to push down my throat.
Even with the bashing my older brother makes me endure, he still acknowledges he would go for one if he was able to subsidize one from Verizon.
I know about 10 to 12 people that own Android phones. Of these, only one actually wanted a droid and hates the iPhone, he also happens to love /.
The rest only bought into Androids because it was the only thing to settle for that was available out of ATT. I only know one other person that just switched and he regretted the ATT switch. I am an iPhone user, didn't switch to ATT but in the last few years I have started to hate them as they keep degrading instead of improving. I have even considered jumping to Verizon due to the horrible service. If apple ever releases an iPod Touch thats equivalent to the iPhone 4, i will do the switch and just get me an iPod Touch 4 (or whatever they call it.) At that point I MIGHT settle for an Android device, but also likely i'll just get an old fashioned flip-flop phone.
If Apple releases an iPhone 4 for Verizon, I'll switch carriers overnight (unless they come out and actually implement limited data plans.)
They dont want it to encourage competition.
He's just pointing out the truth: it's your responsibility to secure the radio transmitter that you hooked up to your computer. It's not my my responsibility to avoid picking up your signals.
It's also my responsibility to lock my house's door every day, but that does not give anyone the right to open in and walk by my house, much less peak through my stuff or listen in my conversations, because I forgot to lock the door.
It's not the same, true, but leaving my wifi open is not an invitation to hack into transmissions, at best, its an open invitation for other users to also access the internet through it. I'm no lawyer, and even if I was I could not claim to know the laws in every single state, but its very likely if there are investigations going on that the states that have started them do have laws against hacking communications.
Depends on where you played. There are times when you feel there's almost no one else logged on. You could possibly have entire zones for yourself in the less populated servers.
This actually isn't all that uncommon with WoW, either.
This. I play wow and had to level from 1 to 80 almost solo. If it was not for the cross-server random dungeon group feature I would had done all of it 100% solo. There is nearly no one in most zones in WoW either. Most people rush the early levels (and by early i mean 1-79.)
Would be nice, if you go with a lawyer and won, to be able to force the police dept to pay for your court costs (from lawyer to travel and loss of income)
What the console makers do is different from what Apple is doing: AFAIK none of the console makers mandate what language you have to write your apps with. Whether it's worse or not depends on perspective.
They do, and you must use their SDK and nothing else. The iPhone is not too different from consoles, it just does not require you to be a large corporation to be able to publish software for them. You still have to be a registered apple developer just as you have to be a registered Nintendo/Sony/MS developer to develop to those systems and as I just noted, to use their SDK and your software to be reviewed and approved for publishing.
1) Except if they are found to be violating antitrust laws.
For Apple to be found violating antitrust laws, Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft all would have to get probed for doing worse in their video game consoles.
I'll happily accept the annoyance and pain that will be perpetual Flash dependency if the government forces console makers to open up their machines too, though.
Flash provides developers a common ground.
Yup. Abysmal performance and instability on every platform. It's uniform across the board.
It get's worse with every release as well.
True that! Plus, games and anything you would likely use flash for can be developed in OpenGl + C++, other than a bit of testing for platform quirks, thats rather cross platform AND ends up being faster than a 1 legged turtle!
Flash is a god-awful piece of software, but the issue for many people is that it's the cheapest option to do cross-platform, dynamic applications. While the iPhone is a nice piece of kit, it doesn't have the levels of market penetration that makes it worthwhile developing your application twice, so developers are left with the choice to either drop iPhone OS support (which they'd rather not do because it's a nice marketing coup at the moment) or spending an extra amount developing an iPhone specific version of your app which probably won't give you the same ROI (of course, the other option is to use something like HTML5, but then you're screwed if you want to also offer your app on older desktop browsers which tend to have a much higher market penetration). Now, having said that, I too hope Flash dies sooner rather than later - but experience tells me this is unlikely to happen (since I'm stuck supporting IE6 on 50% of my projects, I don't see HTML5 saving the day in the near future).
Your application can be developed 100% in C++ for the iPhone. You only need Objective C if you going to be using the interface (ie: games don't need it) and then you can still just do the hooks in Objective C and the rest in C++
OpenGL also is available in most platforms. Heck, make a game with OpenGL and C++ at it's core, and you will be able to take it quickly to MacOS, Windows, Linux and potentially even the Nintendo Wii (if they had something like Apple's open policy that many say is closed.) Can't talk for the Android, last time I gazed at it it said you needed to program in Java with their SDK, there may be other options though.
Which codec should we use for HTML5 video? The one that doesn't work in Opera/Firefox or the one that doesn't work in Safari/(future)IE9?
I'm not in charge of standards, there is a group doing it though. Whatever ends up being used the most will be adopted by the others. It's the way it's always been.
Also, give me Farmville, badgersbadgersbadgers and Chatroulette in HTML and I'll buy what you say. But since you can't, I feel compelled to say you are wrong.
Will Quake 2 running in HTML5 do?
http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/01/google-html5-quake/
What I don't get is why Microsoft doesn't disallow to run windows on a mac (inside vmware or otherwise natively). I mean, a big argument in favor of buying a mac is that it can always run windows anyway. That argument would then disappear. Less people would be inclined to buy apple, and as a nice side-benefit, Jobs would get to swallow some of his own tricks.
Not sure what this has to do with the iPhone and flash BUT: Windows does not make computers. They dont care where you run their OS as long as you do. Mac users buying Windows is just more money for them, nothing else, no loss.
That being told I have a mac, so do many friends. None of us would ever put windows on it. We have PCs for that, and Remote Desktop into them (I only sit on them to play the games that are not for mac.)
HTML5 poses as much threat to Apple as Flash does. I don't see Apple blocking it, but encouraging it instead. I don't think it's about control only, but about, for once, Apple using its power to bully a good standard into the web, for a change.
Where's the option for "I support Apple not because I agree with their acceptance policies but because I honestly don't want Adobe's crapware anywhere near my phone!" After all, unlike my desktop where I can easily -remove- Flash or block it with browser plugins, if Flash is on my phone then they better make sure I can remove it!
This. Although hopefully more web sites will be built without flash thanks to the iPad's popularity so I have to worry less about stupid flash in the desktop.
Help & Preferences --> Classic Index --> Sections --> Apple (x)
It's lovely how, despite the tool being there for you to turn them off, you still feel obliged to let everyone else know about your intolerance for news that you could always had filtered out.