Sure. And they will sell more hardware if free software is locked out from the open web, so they gang up with Microsoft to lock out the free competition. Apple wants an MPEG-LA license-dependent html5, and refuses to support free and open standards. That's how they hope to kill Mozilla.
Vorbis isn't any worse than the competition. Certainly better than mp3, and AFAIK with better encoders than AAC. Quality isn't the reason why Apple refuses to support it. Denying competition is.
No, and it never will. Apple's support for "open standards" is limited to only support for such standards when they depend on proprietary formats like AAC, mp3, h.264, etc. No support for Vorbis, Theora, VP8 or anything that can be implemented freely without a patent license. You wouldn't want free software to be able to compete, would you?
Ah, the usability of having slightly more pixels on a screen that still sucks in direct sunlight? The "retina display" is actually just an item on a feature list.
Citation for AT&T mobile phone service being unavailable for most of the world outside the U.S.A.? It would be easier for you to just refute me, if I were wrong. As for Android phones selling well, Amazon.co.uk has the HTC Desire as their #1 (iPhone 3GS #18), Amazon.de has the Samsung Galaxy S as #2, HTC Desire as #7, iPhone nowhere on the list, Amazon.fr has HTC Tattoo #2, iPhone #5, Samsung Galaxy Spica #8, HTC Desire #9. Note that this is for all mobile phones, not only smartphones. Of course, Amazon is probably not the place most people go when shopping for phones, but they are among the few sites that publish best seller lists.
I noticed the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini (followed by the Desire) was the top selling phone at one Norwegian phone carrier, but that one doesn't have the iPhone (although several carriers do have them). Telia.se lists two android phones among their 10 "popular products" (the iPhone 3GS higher on the list).
Only the most delusional Apple fanboys believe Android isn't popular, or that AT&T has anything to do with Apple's sales worldwide.
Why should I care about some corporation's profits again? If they make money, they obviously take them from their customers (and in Apple's case from their developers as well). Obviously, I'd prefer buying from a viable company so that I'm guaranteed long-term support, but the well-being of a company's stock holders is none of my concern. Fact is, Apple's strategy is to fleece their customers at every opportunity. You support it only because you're a delusional fanboy.
Read his other comments as well, then. He's consistently twisting both facts and logic to make Apple seem like the only logical choice, but for all other reasons than those "other qualities" you mention. devjj is a typical Apple fanboy fraud.
And a good thing it is. Ever since OS X became popular, you were guaranteed a +5 just for saying something positive about Apple. The influx of moron Apple fanboys is what destroyed Slashdot as a geek site.
Liar. You "vastly prefer" buying from Apple to any open system, and that's all there is to it. Symbian is open, and vastly more widespread than the iOS. Android is open. Maemo is open. Saying that "the open system" is never going to happen is patently absurd.
Nonsense. AT&T is irrelevant in the rest of the entire world, and Android phones sell very well in countries where the iPhone is available on all major carriers.
Your reasoning is flawed. Consumers don't rule when they buy into closed platforms, they are ruled. They no longer own their own data, but get access to it through a subscription to expensive hardware or software that doesn't last very long and is forced into obsolescence after a few years anyway. A closed platform is just like a closed document format. They have been going away for a long time.
Coming up with original ideas is easy. Coming up with good ideas is difficult. Coming up with good ideas that also are original only happens by pure luck. I wouldn't worry too much about it. Shakespeare's works are mostly remakes, all of them better than the originals. You may reach higher as a giant standing on the shoulders of a midget than as a midget standing on the shoulders of a giant, but YMMV.
No, your pseudoargument is bullshit because it states something reasonable ("you don't have to buy it") while arguing something which is not ("so quit whining").
Certainly. But people really need to be made aware that they should not buy from Apple if they don't want to be spied on. Don't you agree?
Of course you don't: if you did, you wouldn't cough up that bullshit pseudoargument of "don't buy it if you don't like it" (i.e.: "stop complaining, as no one forces you to buy it").
It's different from Google like this: Quoting Cory Doctorow: "This is different from Android, in that Google does not gather your information unless you opt in, and if you do opt in, you can opt out later.
"By contrast, Apple gathers your information without asking you to opt in, and does not present you with the option of opting out.
"What's more, Apple is presenting these new terms retrospectively. People who bought iPads and iPods on the understanding that they could be used without having their location information gathered and shared now find that they *must* allow this information to be gathered and shared (I suppose you could try not updating iTunes, but then you would also have to not upgrade your OS -- OS upgrades come with iTunes upgrades -- and be prepared to be locked out of the app store, and since Apple's use of DRM prevents third parties from putting apps on your devices, you're fundamentally abandoning any hope of loading any code, even third-party code, onto your iPad and iPod)."
Of course, he may or may not be correct.
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Sorry, but the massive overhype of everything Apple the last 12 years or so makes it necessary to point out that some of their products are in fact harmful to their customers. To twist your trite copypasta pseudo-argument: If you people like Apple's products so much, then just buy them and shut the hell up about it; stop pestering everyone else with your advertising efforts.
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Sure. And they will sell more hardware if free software is locked out from the open web, so they gang up with Microsoft to lock out the free competition. Apple wants an MPEG-LA license-dependent html5, and refuses to support free and open standards. That's how they hope to kill Mozilla.
Calling the MPEG-LA a cartel would be more accurate than calling it "an international standards body".
Vorbis isn't any worse than the competition. Certainly better than mp3, and AFAIK with better encoders than AAC. Quality isn't the reason why Apple refuses to support it. Denying competition is.
No, and it never will. Apple's support for "open standards" is limited to only support for such standards when they depend on proprietary formats like AAC, mp3, h.264, etc. No support for Vorbis, Theora, VP8 or anything that can be implemented freely without a patent license. You wouldn't want free software to be able to compete, would you?
Ah, the usability of having slightly more pixels on a screen that still sucks in direct sunlight? The "retina display" is actually just an item on a feature list.
Citation for AT&T mobile phone service being unavailable for most of the world outside the U.S.A.? It would be easier for you to just refute me, if I were wrong. As for Android phones selling well, Amazon.co.uk has the HTC Desire as their #1 (iPhone 3GS #18), Amazon.de has the Samsung Galaxy S as #2, HTC Desire as #7, iPhone nowhere on the list, Amazon.fr has HTC Tattoo #2, iPhone #5, Samsung Galaxy Spica #8, HTC Desire #9. Note that this is for all mobile phones, not only smartphones. Of course, Amazon is probably not the place most people go when shopping for phones, but they are among the few sites that publish best seller lists.
I noticed the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini (followed by the Desire) was the top selling phone at one Norwegian phone carrier, but that one doesn't have the iPhone (although several carriers do have them). Telia.se lists two android phones among their 10 "popular products" (the iPhone 3GS higher on the list).
Only the most delusional Apple fanboys believe Android isn't popular, or that AT&T has anything to do with Apple's sales worldwide.
Well, if you aren't a fanboy, you're a troll.
Why should I care about some corporation's profits again? If they make money, they obviously take them from their customers (and in Apple's case from their developers as well). Obviously, I'd prefer buying from a viable company so that I'm guaranteed long-term support, but the well-being of a company's stock holders is none of my concern. Fact is, Apple's strategy is to fleece their customers at every opportunity. You support it only because you're a delusional fanboy.
Read his other comments as well, then. He's consistently twisting both facts and logic to make Apple seem like the only logical choice, but for all other reasons than those "other qualities" you mention. devjj is a typical Apple fanboy fraud.
And a good thing it is. Ever since OS X became popular, you were guaranteed a +5 just for saying something positive about Apple. The influx of moron Apple fanboys is what destroyed Slashdot as a geek site.
Liar. You "vastly prefer" buying from Apple to any open system, and that's all there is to it. Symbian is open, and vastly more widespread than the iOS. Android is open. Maemo is open. Saying that "the open system" is never going to happen is patently absurd.
Nonsense. AT&T is irrelevant in the rest of the entire world, and Android phones sell very well in countries where the iPhone is available on all major carriers.
ScummVM.
Your reasoning is flawed. Consumers don't rule when they buy into closed platforms, they are ruled. They no longer own their own data, but get access to it through a subscription to expensive hardware or software that doesn't last very long and is forced into obsolescence after a few years anyway. A closed platform is just like a closed document format. They have been going away for a long time.
Coming up with original ideas is easy. Coming up with good ideas is difficult. Coming up with good ideas that also are original only happens by pure luck. I wouldn't worry too much about it. Shakespeare's works are mostly remakes, all of them better than the originals. You may reach higher as a giant standing on the shoulders of a midget than as a midget standing on the shoulders of a giant, but YMMV.
Wrong. You have to agree to the new terms if you want to update you iGadget.
No, your pseudoargument is bullshit because it states something reasonable ("you don't have to buy it") while arguing something which is not ("so quit whining").
"Opting out applies only to Apple advertising services and does not affect" the collection and dissemination of location data.
Certainly. But people really need to be made aware that they should not buy from Apple if they don't want to be spied on. Don't you agree?
Of course you don't: if you did, you wouldn't cough up that bullshit pseudoargument of "don't buy it if you don't like it" (i.e.: "stop complaining, as no one forces you to buy it").
It's different from Google like this: Quoting Cory Doctorow: "This is different from Android, in that Google does not gather your information unless you opt in, and if you do opt in, you can opt out later.
"By contrast, Apple gathers your information without asking you to opt in, and does not present you with the option of opting out.
"What's more, Apple is presenting these new terms retrospectively. People who bought iPads and iPods on the understanding that they could be used without having their location information gathered and shared now find that they *must* allow this information to be gathered and shared (I suppose you could try not updating iTunes, but then you would also have to not upgrade your OS -- OS upgrades come with iTunes upgrades -- and be prepared to be locked out of the app store, and since Apple's use of DRM prevents third parties from putting apps on your devices, you're fundamentally abandoning any hope of loading any code, even third-party code, onto your iPad and iPod)."
Of course, he may or may not be correct.
Sorry, but the massive overhype of everything Apple the last 12 years or so makes it necessary to point out that some of their products are in fact harmful to their customers. To twist your trite copypasta pseudo-argument: If you people like Apple's products so much, then just buy them and shut the hell up about it; stop pestering everyone else with your advertising efforts.
Every platform except the closed ones that don't allow you to run an interpreter, of course.
You've obviously never seen an Italian Go master at the top of his game.
Your analogy is stupid and wrong.
It's not news, it's just a reminder that there's a new Apple gadget for sale and people should head over and spend, spend, spend. It's spam.