1) Forget about it, it's their device and they'll do what they want with it, no matter if you like it or not.
2) Learn another language. WTH is wrong with developers these days? It's not that hard to learn another language! Makes me ponder if most the flash developers are actually programmers or just script kiddies.
3) Web authors: start using HTML5 video standards and quit the stupid flash video player already!!!
Finally: I actually hopes flash dies, I hate the tech on my browsers and hate feeling forced to install it on every computer I have. Flash should die and Adobe should turn all their Flash authoring tools into HTML5 authoring tools instead. Heck, that would get them into the iphone too!!!
Wow, you would really have to be blinded to not see through this.
Every other Apple product release in the past they have done exactly the same thing.
I'll eat my hat if the same PR isn't released during the next Apple product release.
False. They only done so with the ipads and iPhones, perhaps because... it happened? They have not done this with the iPods (at least not with most of them) or any of their "new" or "upgrade" computer lines.
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Yeah, it has a e-ink screen, but the contrast (dark gray on light gray) is awful.
It also happens to not cause nearly as much eye-strain, as well as working in bright light.
I read this eye-strain justification a lot, but truth be told, at the end of a work day, there are very few people out there that feel the effects of eye-strain compared to those that don't.
Sure, there are enough to justify a product that avoids the eye-strain, but its still a minority. Most people still leave work and go home to sit in front of a computer and read blogs, watch youtube, etc for hours without suffering any eye-strain.
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His predictions are correct. The first iPods were lame. The (first) iPad is lame.
He did not say that they will not sell well with a high profit margin.
"In one case, a 9-year-old girl accidentally shared her contact list in Gmail with a person who has a 'sexually charged' username, the lawmakers said in the letter."
In one case, the parents of a 9 year old girl weren't paying attention, like they should have been, while their daughter surfed the web and they were upset at their lack of parenting skills and decided it imperative that they defer to the Federal Government to help them solve this problem.
Maybe, just maybe, mommy and daddy did their work and considered Gmail safe. And maybe, just maybe, Google decided it was OK to opt everyone into Buzz without letting anyone know about it.
People in/. love to blame this kind of stuff on parents, but fact is, Google pushed Buzz into any gmail user without informing properly. It just suddenly showed up there. You would have to do daily audits of every single action your child takes in the internet if you wanted to catch this, and even then it would had been easy to miss the change.
Barnes & Noble's device is fairly decent, although its missing Wikipedia and some of the features could be better done. Why is this is being set up as an Apple vs. Amazon fight when, of the several companies putting out eReaders, Apple is the only one who doesn't actually have a device available for sale right now?
But it's not really an Apple Vs Amazon, it's a Publishers Vs Amazon, Amazon is loosing it's enjoyed monopoly on eBooks the day the iPad hits the streets and now publishers get options. Apparently, the Kindle will become a side market with the iPad being the main point of interest for publishers.
Thing is, anything other than this would be illegal. If Apple went in and agreed with Amazon on a price, it would become price fixing and both companies would be in trouble.
But this is precisely what Microsoft was trying to make happen. It did, and now you want to remove all blame from them? I don't think many of us would agree.
Off course no one here would agree!!! This is Slashdot, Bashing Microsoft for anything and everything is what people do when there is no iPhone/iPad discussions to bash Apple for having closed devices.
Oh and I forgot, you CAN sign up to develop software with Apple's SDK for private use only, (company software that's not meant to be distributed via the app store and installed directly from a computer.)
Does Google have a contract term preventing you from distributing software developed for Android through anything other than the Android Marketplace? No? Then it's not the same...
Good thing there is more than one SDK for the iPhone!!!:D
Hmmm.... well, the first app you put there to jailbreak does not need a jailbroken phone, now does it?
The Apple cult seems bound and determined to jettison the Mac and replace it with something that will do nothing that Big Brother doesn't approve of.
Funny how people keep calling Apple Big Brother just for wanting to control one device. It was not apple tracking my entire internet life last time I checked, it was Google. And pepole willingly buy Android devices and carry them with Latitude turned on... I just get baffled by some people's logic... Anyways, submit to Big Brother, get an android, let them follow your every move. I'll keep putting whatever I want in my iPhone.
... to change Apple's icon to be borg like the way Microsoft's is ?
That 1984 commercial gets more ironic by the moment.
I'd say a Monopoly guy would make a better icon, but only if you turn Google's into Big Brother, ever watching, ever tracking, never respecting your privacy.
Can you imagine what a shitstorm this would cause if MS tried this? They get bitchslapped for even INCLUDING their own software with their OS, much less actively blocking all competitors and refusing to let anyone install software without their approval. I guess if you're Apple it's okay to engage in anti-competitive business practices.
From Android's Marketplace Agreement:
Google may remove the Product from the Market or reclassify the Product at its sole discretion. Google reserves the right to suspend and/or bar any Developer from the Market at its sole discretion.
From Microsof'ts Marketplace Agreement:
Microsoft reserves the right to remove any Application from the Windows Marketplace and to disable previously downloaded copies of such Application for any reason.
The iPhone actually has ways to install software without going through the App store, if you ever jailbroke an iPhone you should know that as it happens via USB. You can also develop software exclusively for your company and install it in similar ways, like a tool for your employees to sign in their time, as an example. Apple just does not support openly.
You CAN do whatever you want with your iPhone. You are being warned you cant put anything you want on the app store, and you agree you will not hack their phone with the SDK they didnt sell you, instead licensed to you under those terms.
If you were actually concerned about this you would know by now this, but truth is you just superficially care and, as most, just use the excuse to bash The Evil Big Company.
It's Apple's phone. They don't have to allow anyone to develop for it. They could keep it a completely closed platform with no 3rd party apps at all if they wanted to. That's their choice to make, not yours (barring jailbreaks/cracks/whatever). Obviously some people don't like such a closed platform... And it will affect their sales... But that's something Apple needs to weigh when making their policies.
Actually, it's your phone, not theirs, but it's their market and their SDK that happens to not sold, just licensed at no cost (not the same as being given away for free.)
Agree, not sure why people cry this much, specially since Google's Android Marketplace agreement includes this:
Google may remove the Product from the Market or reclassify the Product at its sole discretion. Google reserves the right to suspend and/or bar any Developer from the Market at its sole discretion.
I use gmail mainly because they provide free webmail with IMAP.
As far as online mail interfaces go, though, my favorite is Yahoo Mail's. It's a shame I must pay to get IMAP with them. I HATE Gmail's interface. Hate, hate hate hate hate. They attempt to treat the thing as some form of threaded forum. That's not evolution, it's regression.
If yahoo started offering email forwarding and IMAP for free, I'd just start forwarding all my gmail email into my yahoo mail account and never log into gmail again.
Mac users are very willing to open up their wallets and pay for nearly anything.
Linux users tend to rarely want to pay for anything. Even if install base may be similar (this ignore that most macs come equipped with above average graphic chips, while most Linux machines are cheap netbooks,) actual money market share is so insignificant for Linux that it's unlikely (albeit not impossible) anyone would spend much time porting commercial applications to the platform, specially software that must sell massive amount of copies at very low prices to actually make a profit. That's not to mention having to support software for so many different versions of Linux out there can be as taxing as porting for a whole new platform. A Linux steam would be forced to pick one Linux version to support and not spend resources on any other, limiting their market drastically.
The reason there are not mainstream games being developed for Linux is not the difficulty of the port, it's the non-existing profitability of the market.
I know people, actual people, who host webcomics, that are about to shut down their sites and not because they don't get enough traffic, but because lately a huge percentage of viewers are using ad blocks, and the percentage get larger every day.
Problems he face are anywhere between "clients" not wanting to pay because he got less views than he said he had traffic, or clients just not wanting to advertise anymore on his site.
Every time readers blocks ads and go to pages, they are helping kill the sites they visit. But it's not your job, car or mortgage payments that are in the line. It's just some stranger that may loose his job or not be able to make his car or mortgage payments, not you.
Well, if you ACTUALLY want to be the next Microsoft you should start by finding friends that are geniuses and stealing their ideas, but I think my point should had come across.
It's not THAT hard, if you actually want to be the next Microsoft, but that does not seem to be the issue here. You see, Microsoft was a group of people that did a product and then sold it to some one else, well, licensed it.
What most people want is to write code for a company without being employes on their own terms.
If you want to be the "next Microsoft" then you have to work in something you think will change the world in your spare time and then get ready to distribute it. There are enough online distribution channels these days for you not to be forced into signing up with a specific publisher. You just have to keep realistic goals for what you can do on your own.
You've got it completely wrong when you say they don't make computers (or devices) for most people. That's *exactly* what they do.
You got wrong saying I said that. I just said they make luxury devices (by the fault luxury devices are expensive, if it's too expensive for you then you are not the target.)
I also stated that the iPad is not a computer, many are expecting it to be one. It's a luxury ebook reader/media player, anyone that expects it to be a computer is not the target of that particular device.
Apple does makes computers for "most people [that can afford the higher price]", but to be honest, that's not "most people".
I disagree with you about apple computers price tag. Sure, if you put everything together in them it is worth it's price tag. But often you want a computer that may be high end but you could care less about it's gaming capabilities. I don't play on my laptops and I don't do 3D work so I find paying for the extra 3D power just wasted money.
I don't ask Apple make them cheaper, although i do wish they made middle-range PC portables. That's besides the point, though. Computer building is not black or white, there are many levels between what apple offers and the horrible 400 bucks laptops in the market. Apple computers are on the high end of pricing and does not means a cheaper PC is junk or makes sacrifices, it means it does "just enough" and that's the key phrase when I buy computers.
That aside, I love my iPhone (recently jailbraked with backgrounder to run multiple apps at once) and may get the iPad, my wife has an iPod nano and I have a shuffle I use at the gym (got before I got the iPhone.) I'm not criticizing Apple, just curious why people want to hate that the iPad is not targeted at them.
Apple chooses their price point. They don't choose what people are willing to pay for an item.
If Apple had brought it out at $1000, I doubt many people would buy them. At $500 I'm still not interested in it. If I'm in their target market (and I think I should be) then it is overpriced by at least a couple hundred dollars.
If they want me to pay more for it, then it needs to do more. A camera would be nice. Multitasking is a necessity. I hate the constant starting and stopping of apps on the iPhone (and if the next iPhone OS doesn't support backgrounding third party apps, I'm bailing on the iPhone, too). Also multiple apps sharing the big screen (instead of the lame 2x blurrification of the iPhone apps, run 4 of them on screen at a time!).
It's interesting how you say that you think you should be in their target market then proceed to make it clear you are not by explaining your requirements, ranging from price to features.
I am not sure why people take this attitude instead of just accepting it's not aimed for them. Apple does not makes computers for most people. Apple makes luxury devices that (outside of computers, that are luxury/overpriced) are designed with dedicated uses, not for general computing with applications sharing the screen. If that's what you want then you should either wait for Apple to make an OSX keyboard-less MacBook or just get yourself an Asus T91, that is out right now. Or even better, just wait for their eee Pad.
Apple's iPad is a luxury eBook reader that has a few extra goodies, will likely dub as a gaming device and media playback.
The only grudge I have with the iPad is a lack of camera. The thing would had been the perfect video-communication device with the inclusion of a low-res front pointing camera.
I really miss the Internet of the mid-90's...back when Netscape was king, an animated.gif was exciting, and Vivo Video was used for streaming. I know things were much more primative then, but there was a certain charm that just isn't present on today's Internet.::sigh::
There was no charm, its all nostalgia (yearning for the past in an idealized form.) It happens everywhere, but I see it a lot with MMOs where people keep calling uppon the charm of the old EverQuest or the old Ultima Online, etc.
15 years from now, today's teenagers will say just what you are saying now about the days when Facebook, Tweeter, Youtube and Google were the main internet hits and cumbersome Flash plugins were required to see dynamic content.
I actually am confused about this, when they added parental controls they should had been able to just flag these as "not opt for minors" and prevent them from downloading on iPhones with parental controls enabled...
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1) Forget about it, it's their device and they'll do what they want with it, no matter if you like it or not.
2) Learn another language. WTH is wrong with developers these days? It's not that hard to learn another language! Makes me ponder if most the flash developers are actually programmers or just script kiddies.
3) Web authors: start using HTML5 video standards and quit the stupid flash video player already!!!
Finally: I actually hopes flash dies, I hate the tech on my browsers and hate feeling forced to install it on every computer I have. Flash should die and Adobe should turn all their Flash authoring tools into HTML5 authoring tools instead. Heck, that would get them into the iphone too!!!
Wow, you would really have to be blinded to not see through this. Every other Apple product release in the past they have done exactly the same thing. I'll eat my hat if the same PR isn't released during the next Apple product release.
False. They only done so with the ipads and iPhones, perhaps because... it happened? They have not done this with the iPods (at least not with most of them) or any of their "new" or "upgrade" computer lines.
Yeah, it has a e-ink screen, but the contrast (dark gray on light gray) is awful.
It also happens to not cause nearly as much eye-strain, as well as working in bright light.
I read this eye-strain justification a lot, but truth be told, at the end of a work day, there are very few people out there that feel the effects of eye-strain compared to those that don't.
Sure, there are enough to justify a product that avoids the eye-strain, but its still a minority. Most people still leave work and go home to sit in front of a computer and read blogs, watch youtube, etc for hours without suffering any eye-strain.
His predictions are correct. The first iPods were lame. The (first) iPad is lame.
He did not say that they will not sell well with a high profit margin.
That is not a prediction, that is an opinion.
"In one case, a 9-year-old girl accidentally shared her contact list in Gmail with a person who has a 'sexually charged' username, the lawmakers said in the letter."
In one case, the parents of a 9 year old girl weren't paying attention, like they should have been, while their daughter surfed the web and they were upset at their lack of parenting skills and decided it imperative that they defer to the Federal Government to help them solve this problem.
Maybe, just maybe, mommy and daddy did their work and considered Gmail safe. And maybe, just maybe, Google decided it was OK to opt everyone into Buzz without letting anyone know about it.
People in /. love to blame this kind of stuff on parents, but fact is, Google pushed Buzz into any gmail user without informing properly. It just suddenly showed up there. You would have to do daily audits of every single action your child takes in the internet if you wanted to catch this, and even then it would had been easy to miss the change.
Barnes & Noble's device is fairly decent, although its missing Wikipedia and some of the features could be better done. Why is this is being set up as an Apple vs. Amazon fight when, of the several companies putting out eReaders, Apple is the only one who doesn't actually have a device available for sale right now?
For one because without being out the iPad had such a high level of pre-orders it's likely to be even more successful than the iPhone. http://www.newsfactor.com/news/Strong-Demand-Reported-for-iPad/story.xhtml?story_id=10300BOVCI9L&full_skip=1
But it's not really an Apple Vs Amazon, it's a Publishers Vs Amazon, Amazon is loosing it's enjoyed monopoly on eBooks the day the iPad hits the streets and now publishers get options. Apparently, the Kindle will become a side market with the iPad being the main point of interest for publishers.
Thing is, anything other than this would be illegal. If Apple went in and agreed with Amazon on a price, it would become price fixing and both companies would be in trouble.
Thank your financial partners, not Microsoft.
But this is precisely what Microsoft was trying to make happen. It did, and now you want to remove all blame from them? I don't think many of us would agree.
Off course no one here would agree!!! This is Slashdot, Bashing Microsoft for anything and everything is what people do when there is no iPhone/iPad discussions to bash Apple for having closed devices.
Oh and I forgot, you CAN sign up to develop software with Apple's SDK for private use only, (company software that's not meant to be distributed via the app store and installed directly from a computer.)
Does Google have a contract term preventing you from distributing software developed for Android through anything other than the Android Marketplace? No? Then it's not the same...
Good thing there is more than one SDK for the iPhone!!! :D
The Apple cult seems bound and determined to jettison the Mac and replace it with something that will do nothing that Big Brother doesn't approve of.
Funny how people keep calling Apple Big Brother just for wanting to control one device. It was not apple tracking my entire internet life last time I checked, it was Google. And pepole willingly buy Android devices and carry them with Latitude turned on... I just get baffled by some people's logic... Anyways, submit to Big Brother, get an android, let them follow your every move. I'll keep putting whatever I want in my iPhone.
... to change Apple's icon to be borg like the way Microsoft's is ?
That 1984 commercial gets more ironic by the moment.
I'd say a Monopoly guy would make a better icon, but only if you turn Google's into Big Brother, ever watching, ever tracking, never respecting your privacy.
Can you imagine what a shitstorm this would cause if MS tried this? They get bitchslapped for even INCLUDING their own software with their OS, much less actively blocking all competitors and refusing to let anyone install software without their approval. I guess if you're Apple it's okay to engage in anti-competitive business practices.
From Android's Marketplace Agreement: Google may remove the Product from the Market or reclassify the Product at its sole discretion. Google reserves the right to suspend and/or bar any Developer from the Market at its sole discretion.
From Microsof'ts Marketplace Agreement: Microsoft reserves the right to remove any Application from the Windows Marketplace and to disable previously downloaded copies of such Application for any reason.
The iPhone actually has ways to install software without going through the App store, if you ever jailbroke an iPhone you should know that as it happens via USB. You can also develop software exclusively for your company and install it in similar ways, like a tool for your employees to sign in their time, as an example. Apple just does not support openly.
You CAN do whatever you want with your iPhone. You are being warned you cant put anything you want on the app store, and you agree you will not hack their phone with the SDK they didnt sell you, instead licensed to you under those terms.
If you were actually concerned about this you would know by now this, but truth is you just superficially care and, as most, just use the excuse to bash The Evil Big Company.
It's Apple's phone. They don't have to allow anyone to develop for it. They could keep it a completely closed platform with no 3rd party apps at all if they wanted to. That's their choice to make, not yours (barring jailbreaks/cracks/whatever). Obviously some people don't like such a closed platform... And it will affect their sales... But that's something Apple needs to weigh when making their policies.
Actually, it's your phone, not theirs, but it's their market and their SDK that happens to not sold, just licensed at no cost (not the same as being given away for free.)
Google may remove the Product from the Market or reclassify the Product at its sole discretion. Google reserves the right to suspend and/or bar any Developer from the Market at its sole discretion.
I use gmail mainly because they provide free webmail with IMAP.
As far as online mail interfaces go, though, my favorite is Yahoo Mail's. It's a shame I must pay to get IMAP with them. I HATE Gmail's interface. Hate, hate hate hate hate. They attempt to treat the thing as some form of threaded forum. That's not evolution, it's regression.
If yahoo started offering email forwarding and IMAP for free, I'd just start forwarding all my gmail email into my yahoo mail account and never log into gmail again.
Mac users are very willing to open up their wallets and pay for nearly anything.
Linux users tend to rarely want to pay for anything. Even if install base may be similar (this ignore that most macs come equipped with above average graphic chips, while most Linux machines are cheap netbooks,) actual money market share is so insignificant for Linux that it's unlikely (albeit not impossible) anyone would spend much time porting commercial applications to the platform, specially software that must sell massive amount of copies at very low prices to actually make a profit. That's not to mention having to support software for so many different versions of Linux out there can be as taxing as porting for a whole new platform. A Linux steam would be forced to pick one Linux version to support and not spend resources on any other, limiting their market drastically.
The reason there are not mainstream games being developed for Linux is not the difficulty of the port, it's the non-existing profitability of the market.
I know people, actual people, who host webcomics, that are about to shut down their sites and not because they don't get enough traffic, but because lately a huge percentage of viewers are using ad blocks, and the percentage get larger every day.
Problems he face are anywhere between "clients" not wanting to pay because he got less views than he said he had traffic, or clients just not wanting to advertise anymore on his site.
Every time readers blocks ads and go to pages, they are helping kill the sites they visit. But it's not your job, car or mortgage payments that are in the line. It's just some stranger that may loose his job or not be able to make his car or mortgage payments, not you.
What about you just don't visit the site? If they annoy you, don't waste their resources or your time.
Well, if you ACTUALLY want to be the next Microsoft you should start by finding friends that are geniuses and stealing their ideas, but I think my point should had come across.
It's not THAT hard, if you actually want to be the next Microsoft, but that does not seem to be the issue here. You see, Microsoft was a group of people that did a product and then sold it to some one else, well, licensed it.
What most people want is to write code for a company without being employes on their own terms.
If you want to be the "next Microsoft" then you have to work in something you think will change the world in your spare time and then get ready to distribute it. There are enough online distribution channels these days for you not to be forced into signing up with a specific publisher. You just have to keep realistic goals for what you can do on your own.
You've got it completely wrong when you say they don't make computers (or devices) for most people. That's *exactly* what they do.
You got wrong saying I said that. I just said they make luxury devices (by the fault luxury devices are expensive, if it's too expensive for you then you are not the target.)
I also stated that the iPad is not a computer, many are expecting it to be one. It's a luxury ebook reader/media player, anyone that expects it to be a computer is not the target of that particular device.
Apple does makes computers for "most people [that can afford the higher price]", but to be honest, that's not "most people".
I disagree with you about apple computers price tag. Sure, if you put everything together in them it is worth it's price tag. But often you want a computer that may be high end but you could care less about it's gaming capabilities. I don't play on my laptops and I don't do 3D work so I find paying for the extra 3D power just wasted money.
I don't ask Apple make them cheaper, although i do wish they made middle-range PC portables. That's besides the point, though. Computer building is not black or white, there are many levels between what apple offers and the horrible 400 bucks laptops in the market. Apple computers are on the high end of pricing and does not means a cheaper PC is junk or makes sacrifices, it means it does "just enough" and that's the key phrase when I buy computers.
That aside, I love my iPhone (recently jailbraked with backgrounder to run multiple apps at once) and may get the iPad, my wife has an iPod nano and I have a shuffle I use at the gym (got before I got the iPhone.) I'm not criticizing Apple, just curious why people want to hate that the iPad is not targeted at them.
Apple chooses their price point. They don't choose what people are willing to pay for an item.
If Apple had brought it out at $1000, I doubt many people would buy them. At $500 I'm still not interested in it. If I'm in their target market (and I think I should be) then it is overpriced by at least a couple hundred dollars.
If they want me to pay more for it, then it needs to do more. A camera would be nice. Multitasking is a necessity. I hate the constant starting and stopping of apps on the iPhone (and if the next iPhone OS doesn't support backgrounding third party apps, I'm bailing on the iPhone, too). Also multiple apps sharing the big screen (instead of the lame 2x blurrification of the iPhone apps, run 4 of them on screen at a time!).
It's interesting how you say that you think you should be in their target market then proceed to make it clear you are not by explaining your requirements, ranging from price to features.
I am not sure why people take this attitude instead of just accepting it's not aimed for them. Apple does not makes computers for most people. Apple makes luxury devices that (outside of computers, that are luxury/overpriced) are designed with dedicated uses, not for general computing with applications sharing the screen. If that's what you want then you should either wait for Apple to make an OSX keyboard-less MacBook or just get yourself an Asus T91, that is out right now. Or even better, just wait for their eee Pad.
Apple's iPad is a luxury eBook reader that has a few extra goodies, will likely dub as a gaming device and media playback.
The only grudge I have with the iPad is a lack of camera. The thing would had been the perfect video-communication device with the inclusion of a low-res front pointing camera.
I really miss the Internet of the mid-90's...back when Netscape was king, an animated .gif was exciting, and Vivo Video was used for streaming. I know things were much more primative then, but there was a certain charm that just isn't present on today's Internet. ::sigh::
There was no charm, its all nostalgia (yearning for the past in an idealized form.) It happens everywhere, but I see it a lot with MMOs where people keep calling uppon the charm of the old EverQuest or the old Ultima Online, etc.
15 years from now, today's teenagers will say just what you are saying now about the days when Facebook, Tweeter, Youtube and Google were the main internet hits and cumbersome Flash plugins were required to see dynamic content.
I actually am confused about this, when they added parental controls they should had been able to just flag these as "not opt for minors" and prevent them from downloading on iPhones with parental controls enabled...