No, the maps really are part of the operating system and not just an app. Assuming you define "operating system" to include the UI toolkit.
Keep in mind iOS 6 replaces the maps in every application that uses the built-in iOS map widget. So your mobile realty app will all of a sudden think that house you want to look at is across town, and your Starbucks app will direct you to drive through a couple of houses to get to a Starbucks that's three blocks down from where it really is. Basically any app that uses the existing maps widget now has bad maps.
So, yeah: it really is a part of the OS changing for the worse. Assuming you think of an OS as including the basic UI toolkit, which most people do.
You launch Xcode, go into preferences and there's a bit where you can download the various iOS SDKs.
No, there isn't. You go into Xcode Preferences, and on the downloads tab, it lists the various iOS simulators you can download. Downloading the 5.1 iOS simulator does not download the iOS 5.1 SDK. You can't select iOS 5.1 as a target. You can't compile against the iOS 5.1 SDK. If you manually go through the Xcode bundle, you can verify that the only iOS SDK available is the 6.0 SDK. All you can do is run iOS 5.1 apps that you've already built, I guess?
Seriously, if anyone knows how to get the 5.1 SDK, I'd love to know. As far as I can tell, it's just gone, unless you backed up Xcode and can revert to 4.3. Which I didn't.
I have both the iOS 5.1 Simulator and the iOS 5.1 documentation downloaded from the Xcode Preferences Download tab. Neither of them includes the SDK, and I still can't build apps that target iOS 5.1.
Given how bad Apple's maps are, yeah, it probably should take up half the screen.
But on the other hand, it should exist in the first place. I've looked at the iOS 6 Apple map app. (Briefly, the iPad I have for work is an original iPad, so no iOS 6 for it. Also, fuck Apple for removing support for developing in iOS 5.1 if you update Xcode. It's just flat-out gone, you can't do it any more. Can't download the old SDK, can't revert to the older version thanks to the App Store handling downloads now.) If the link is there, it's hidden pretty damned well.
After all, from this point on Apple is going to start using the maps feedback to improve the map.
I agree that, if you're going to decide to create a new map, you're going to have to release it in a state where it's full of errors. It's just not possible to carefully go through every bit of the map and ensure the data is 100% accurate.
When Google Maps was first released, it had some pretty hilarious accuracy problems. Points of interest were somethings nowhere near the thing they represented or were for things that didn't exist any more. Street numbers were sometimes comically wrong. But they fixed this by crowd sourcing the data and making it easy for people to fix problems. They created most of the 3D buildings by crowd sourcing that.
So, how is Apple taking feedback? You can't just go to the map, click on a POI, and say "edit." If you go to maps.google.com, there's a handy "report a problem" link on the bottom left corner. No such link in Apple Maps.
Maybe that can be a new feature in iOS 7. "One more thing. You know how our maps frequently send you through houses or other obstacles, thinking there are roads in the way? Now you can easily report those errors! With our new 'Map Correction App,' complete with Siri support..."
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Uh, you're sure he wasn't, you know, joking? It's this thing where people say silly things to try and make people laugh. I ask, because the article immediately follows up the Romney quote with "[t]he crowd also heard from comedian Dennis Miller..." which makes me thing that there is just a chance that Romney may have been joking. Just possibly.
Unless there's some proof the remark wasn't made in jest, which I certainly don't see. I mean, I'm sure Romney's bad at making a joke, but that seems like the more likely explanation than him literally thinking the windows should roll down in an airplane.
I have something like five iPhone dock cables - these are cables I've built up from owning various iPods over the years.
Of course, I have even more USB micro-B cables. You know, the data cable that every fucking phone that isn't an Apple piece of shit uses? And then, even more USB mini-B cables. (By "mini/micro B" I mean the A end is standard sized.)
Do you know how many iPhone 5 cables I have? Absolutely none! Moving the iPhone 5 off the crap Apple needless proprietary cable is a good idea. Replacing it with a brand new proprietary cable? Absolutely braindead.
Do you know why it's nice to have everything use one cable? Because I carry around a USB micro B and two USB mini B cables with my laptop. I have a couple of USB cables connected to my PS3 at home. I have a couple connected to my desktop. If I arrive at work and need to charge my phone, I don't need to go hunting for a cable, I already have one dedicated to my work computer!
And, no, they don't need a "special dock cable" to do video out or whatever Apple's bullshit reason is for that. Every single digital camera I've ever owned for the past decade managed to do video out without needing a proprietary connector. The newer ones even include HDMI.
Except that Samsung thing is about actual technology theft. As in, literally stealing technology from Samsung (via ex-employees).
Apple, on the other hand, sued over rounded corners and icons in a grid. (You know, something my Samsung phone used in 2005. Long before the iPhone was released.)
This is, yet again, about actual technology, and not rounded corners. From the patent brief it sounds kind of silly (it sounds like they're talking about being logged into a chat with the same account via multiple clients), but it's still actual technology and not just "we arranged icons that contain rounded corners in a grid and so did they." It's hardly the same thing as Apple is doing.
I don't think anyone can out-evil Apple in this patent war. Apple hasn't invented a damned thing in the mobile space, but they've managed to patent the ridiculous since they're unable to compete on actual merit.
Samsung suing a competitor over allegedly poaching employees to steal trade secrets isn't quite the same thing.
Actually, iOS does support auto-resizing. Unfortunately:
No, that's not right, Cocoa was fine; they must have just reinvented the wheel for iOS, poorly.
No, Cocoa was not fine. The autoresizing system Cocoa uses sucks. iOS 5 supports it just fine, though, but it's nearly useless. And support is there by default, as there are still a few times when the view size changes in iOS and you need to rely on Cocoa Touch's autoresize:
1. Landscape versus Portrait. The view will autoresize by default. Unfortunately, autoresize is so bad at what it does, that I wound up overriding it and just manually setting the bounding boxes of the widgets on screen. I expect most apps do that because the autoresize support is so awful. (Apparently this is the reason why, until iOS 4 or something, Xcode's default template for iOS apps disabled the portrait mode entirely.)
2. The view shrinks because you're in a call. When in a call, the status bar doubles in size and your app loses several pixels off the top. (I think it's 22 in retinal, but whatever, you get the idea.) This is something that just about no app bothers testing for, despite the iOS simulator including explicit support for testing. But it's another thing autoresizing is supposed to deal with.
Fortunately, another AC responder indicates that they're adding a new "constraint based" system for iOS 6. Sadly, having also written a Cocoa app that used the new support for that, this is almost certainly going to be even worse. It's call "auto layout" and there are some 200,000 Google results on how to disable the damned thing.
Java servlets are running on the server side, which makes this a moot point.
Not if it's your server. For example, say you're a hosting provider, and offer hosting of Java servlets. Tomcat provides an option to enable the Java sandbox for embedded servlets, and the vulnerability being discussed would allow them to bypass it. If the servlets are being provided by potentially hostile sources, that's a problem.
I can't really think of any other scenarios where the Java sandbox is enabled (other than Java Web Start, I suppose, which are basically "applets" by another name). The point remains that the vulnerability effects any code that uses the Java sandbox to securely run potentially hostile code.
...is that CVE-2012-4681 uses a vulnerability during Applet execution.
Not quite. Applets are the most likely infection vector, but the vulnerability exists in any Java code.
Basically, what CVE-2012-4681 does is let untrusted Java code turn off the Java sandbox. Applets are about the only Java code where the sandbox is likely to be enabled by default, but there are scenarios where the sandbox is used by non-applet code. (As an example, in a Java servlet environment (think Java CGI), the individual pages might be run in the Java sandbox.)
Which means that, for the most part, this only effects applets, since most Java code isn't run in the Java sandbox anyway. But it's conceptually possible that it opens security holes in other Java-based code, if that code happens to run within the Java sandbox.
Romney's entire campaign strategy is pretty much 'I'm not Obama' and 'Obama bad' and of course neither of them say anything particularly offensive on the surface of it. If they did that they might actually lose voters.
Sounds like a good plan to me. A very similar plan worked for Obama in 2008...
I tried pulling it off the Dock on my work Mac. It added it back for me. (I have a work project that involves writing an iPad app (for no reason, mind you, other than it's a buzzword), which means I have a Mac as my work machine. In case anyone wonders why I use a Mac.)
high dpi support? in osx it's a fucking joke, it's beyond shit
If anyone doesn't believe this, you should read the Mozilla bug on getting high DPI support on Mac OS X in Firefox. Basically, it's never going to happen because the API for doing it is so fucked up. ("But isn't it just rendering things at twice resolution?" Read the bug. It isn't. There are so many edge cases it isn't funny.)
ui menus detached from apps on a big screen?
I am convinced no one at Apple has ever tried running a Mac OS X on multiple monitors. It is beyond shit at that. It basically runs on the iPad model of "one app at a time." What, you want your test app in one monitor while the debugger is in the other? Fuck you! You get one menu bar, telling which app is focused is impossible, and whichever app isn't on the "dominant" screen has the menu bar on the wrong monitor.
what's more, it's not intuitive at all! there's dozens of things in osx you just have to know, half the users don't even know wtf launchpad is.
Remember how everyone hates that Gnome 3 app launcher thing? The thing that Ubuntu started forcing on everyone? Remember how everyone hates the Metro UI, to the point Microsoft has dropped the "metro" brand? That's the fucking Launchpad. Apparently it's been decided from on high that people like losing their entire screen to a display of giant icons they can slowly scroll through to find whatever they actually wanted. Bleh.
The error message is when trying to open an unidentified app is
Depends on the app. The app I know doesn't work under Mountain Lion with the "this app is damaged and should be moved to the trash" is Minecraft.
However, that's a lie. If you run it from the command line (via Minecraft.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub), it runs just fine. The problem is with Gatekeeper.
Apparently it effects a ton of other Java programs for Mac OS X, but Minecraft is the only Java program I know that people actually use.
Congratulations on focusing on half the post. The other half is about the "usage and diagnostic data" that Mac OS X sends to Apple - which does contain information about what applications you have installed, and has since whenever they added that feature.
Exactly what data does Apple get? Well, according to Apple themselves, they collect "[u]sage information (for example, data about how you use Apple and third-party software, hardware, and services)." What does that mean? Who knows.
The bottom line is that if you don't want some company to know what third-party software you're using on "their" computer, you don't want to go Apple.
The 'warnings' and 'lies' you describe have yet to be seen by me..
Here, let me Google that for you. Amusingly Google autocompleted that for me from "app is d," so it's not exactly an uncommon error. Generally speaking, the app is not damaged when you get that error - it just isn't Apple-blessed. If you try and run it through the command line, it'll run just fine.
Which kind of disproves the idea that Gatekeeper is about security, if all it takes to bypass it is fork() and exec().
You mean the OS that, by default, blocks you from running content that isn't blessed by Apple? Yes, you can download apps from sources that aren't the App Store - but they still have to be signed, otherwise, it either will refuse to run or lie to you and say that the app is "damaged" and you should "drag it to the trash."
And if you try and disable this "feature" then it yells at you, warning you of dire consequences if you try and allow non-Apple-blessed apps to run.
Now I don't know if it sends Apple a list of every non-App Store app you run, but by default, it will send "diagnostic and usage data" to Apple and has for quite some time, so...
In any case, if your plan to avoid being spied on is "use Apple," you're an idiot.
Unless the joke was that Mac OS X is a downgrade from Windows 8, which is true, but it sounds like you're saying Mountain Lion is a way to opt out of being spied on by a giant corporation, and it isn't.
I know it's hard to do, but try and think of a common scenario where someone who does not own an iPad may be asked to help figure out why it can't print to the printer it's next to. Hint: it involves other people, possibly related.
I also happen to be working on an iPad app for my job, so there's that too, but so far all I've ever done involves the iPad simulator and not the actual device. And Squiggle-Q doesn't work to reboot the actual hardware. (But don't worry about the app - you'll never see it, because there's no reason for it to even exist, let alone be an iOS app, let alone be an iPad-only iOS app.)
Not to mention that, at least in my experience, the iPad only "works" with printers. The last time I tried to print something off an iPad using AirPrint, I had to reboot the iPad to even get it to see the printer. After which it did print - eventually. I'm not sure why it's so ungodly slow, but it is.
But, hey, it "worked." After finding out the brain-dead way you turn off an iPad. (Yep, that's intuitive - hold the "lock" button.)
It is? What's the magic incantation to turn that on?
I ask because of tools like iExplorer, which let you access the entire iOS device's file system and download files unencrypted.
Which means that if it's on by default, it's trivial to bypass. I've used the tool I linked before to try and debug a broken iPad - you just plug it in, and it can pull files off the device, just like that. It's also not the only solution.
And that's not mentioning things like iCloud backup, which is turned on by default last I checked. And, sure, Apple says it's encrypted (except your email and notes - those aren't). I'll let someone else download the source to the iCloud server software and see if they're telling the truth...
No, you're right, when Apple comes out and publicly says "we're never going to support USB 3.0, Thunderbolt is the future" I should be smart enough to know that they're lying and expect them to randomly change their position in the future. Apple lies all the time ("we invented rounded rectangles!") so it makes sense to assume that they're lying when they indicate that they won't support a standard. After all, they did it with USB 2.0. ("FireWire is the future! USB 2.0 is dead!")
And, clearly, when a price point of $3000 is quoted multiple times - both by people defending Apple and those defending freedom - I should assume that everyone is wrong and go look it up myself. Except, of course, $3000 is, in fact, the price of the laptop if sanely specced, and $2200 is the useless "bare-bones" version, and therefore not a useful price point.
You really should not doubt something so easily verified by a website...
Didn't Apple very publicly refuse to use USB 3.0 and instead adopt Thunderbolt as the only highspeed connect? (Googles it) Why, yes, yes they did. You'll have to forgive me for not being aware that they did a complete 180 and finally admitted that no one is using Thunderbolt.
Then you can use any 6Gb/s SATA drive at full speed from your laptop.
So your solution to the unupgradeable hard drive is, what, duck-tape a SATA drive and Thunderbolt enclosure to the bottom? Seems like a better solution would be to buy an equivalent, upgradeable PC for half the cost and slap in a 2TB drive.
I can see you've never sold software for a living, since obviously the simply re-compile which takes a minute, could result in many sales from people with the displays.
Yes, I love potentially introducing bugs in software just to make the text crisper, and requiring an additional $2200 or whatever and new testing procedures to ensure everything works correctly. Or I could just ignore the incredibly tiny market of people who'd even notice, and not bother. Hmmm... Tough choice.
base price for the Retina is $2200, not $3k.
Odd, the $3000 base price has been quoted over and over in this thread and this is the first time anyone has claimed otherwise. You'll forgive me for not bothering to look up something that's been posted uncontested in this thread multiple times.
I don't see why it is so hard for you to grasp that the actual resolution is 2880x1800. Why would you want to lower it?
I don't see why you can't grasp that fact that it's a 15" laptop. Rendering things as "native" 2880x1800 resolution would make things so incredibly tiny you'd never be able to see it unless you were holding the laptop inches from your eyes. There's a reason no other laptop manufacturer has jammed such a large display into a 15" laptop - there's no point.
And, besides, non-retina apps (which, no matter how much you wish it weren't true, are still "most of them") are just scaled to twice size. So no matter how much you claim otherwise, you're still getting effectively a 1440x900 display. It just happens to have extra pixels that make things imperceptibly smoother because everything has been antialiased for the past decade anyway.
and frankly were I you I'd get a new user ID as this one is permanently tainted now by your post.
Says the well-known Apple shill. How much are they paying you to astro-turf Slashdot again?
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No, the maps really are part of the operating system and not just an app. Assuming you define "operating system" to include the UI toolkit.
Keep in mind iOS 6 replaces the maps in every application that uses the built-in iOS map widget. So your mobile realty app will all of a sudden think that house you want to look at is across town, and your Starbucks app will direct you to drive through a couple of houses to get to a Starbucks that's three blocks down from where it really is. Basically any app that uses the existing maps widget now has bad maps.
So, yeah: it really is a part of the OS changing for the worse. Assuming you think of an OS as including the basic UI toolkit, which most people do.
You launch Xcode, go into preferences and there's a bit where you can download the various iOS SDKs.
No, there isn't. You go into Xcode Preferences, and on the downloads tab, it lists the various iOS simulators you can download. Downloading the 5.1 iOS simulator does not download the iOS 5.1 SDK. You can't select iOS 5.1 as a target. You can't compile against the iOS 5.1 SDK. If you manually go through the Xcode bundle, you can verify that the only iOS SDK available is the 6.0 SDK. All you can do is run iOS 5.1 apps that you've already built, I guess?
Seriously, if anyone knows how to get the 5.1 SDK, I'd love to know. As far as I can tell, it's just gone, unless you backed up Xcode and can revert to 4.3. Which I didn't.
I have both the iOS 5.1 Simulator and the iOS 5.1 documentation downloaded from the Xcode Preferences Download tab. Neither of them includes the SDK, and I still can't build apps that target iOS 5.1.
Given how bad Apple's maps are, yeah, it probably should take up half the screen.
But on the other hand, it should exist in the first place. I've looked at the iOS 6 Apple map app. (Briefly, the iPad I have for work is an original iPad, so no iOS 6 for it. Also, fuck Apple for removing support for developing in iOS 5.1 if you update Xcode. It's just flat-out gone, you can't do it any more. Can't download the old SDK, can't revert to the older version thanks to the App Store handling downloads now.) If the link is there, it's hidden pretty damned well.
After all, from this point on Apple is going to start using the maps feedback to improve the map.
I agree that, if you're going to decide to create a new map, you're going to have to release it in a state where it's full of errors. It's just not possible to carefully go through every bit of the map and ensure the data is 100% accurate.
When Google Maps was first released, it had some pretty hilarious accuracy problems. Points of interest were somethings nowhere near the thing they represented or were for things that didn't exist any more. Street numbers were sometimes comically wrong. But they fixed this by crowd sourcing the data and making it easy for people to fix problems. They created most of the 3D buildings by crowd sourcing that.
So, how is Apple taking feedback? You can't just go to the map, click on a POI, and say "edit." If you go to maps.google.com, there's a handy "report a problem" link on the bottom left corner. No such link in Apple Maps.
Maybe that can be a new feature in iOS 7. "One more thing. You know how our maps frequently send you through houses or other obstacles, thinking there are roads in the way? Now you can easily report those errors! With our new 'Map Correction App,' complete with Siri support..."
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Is Java the new Flash?
No.
Flash used to be useful.
Uh, you're sure he wasn't, you know, joking? It's this thing where people say silly things to try and make people laugh. I ask, because the article immediately follows up the Romney quote with "[t]he crowd also heard from comedian Dennis Miller..." which makes me thing that there is just a chance that Romney may have been joking. Just possibly.
Unless there's some proof the remark wasn't made in jest, which I certainly don't see. I mean, I'm sure Romney's bad at making a joke, but that seems like the more likely explanation than him literally thinking the windows should roll down in an airplane.
I have something like five iPhone dock cables - these are cables I've built up from owning various iPods over the years.
Of course, I have even more USB micro-B cables. You know, the data cable that every fucking phone that isn't an Apple piece of shit uses? And then, even more USB mini-B cables. (By "mini/micro B" I mean the A end is standard sized.)
Do you know how many iPhone 5 cables I have? Absolutely none! Moving the iPhone 5 off the crap Apple needless proprietary cable is a good idea. Replacing it with a brand new proprietary cable? Absolutely braindead.
Do you know why it's nice to have everything use one cable? Because I carry around a USB micro B and two USB mini B cables with my laptop. I have a couple of USB cables connected to my PS3 at home. I have a couple connected to my desktop. If I arrive at work and need to charge my phone, I don't need to go hunting for a cable, I already have one dedicated to my work computer!
And, no, they don't need a "special dock cable" to do video out or whatever Apple's bullshit reason is for that. Every single digital camera I've ever owned for the past decade managed to do video out without needing a proprietary connector. The newer ones even include HDMI.
Except that Samsung thing is about actual technology theft. As in, literally stealing technology from Samsung (via ex-employees).
Apple, on the other hand, sued over rounded corners and icons in a grid. (You know, something my Samsung phone used in 2005. Long before the iPhone was released.)
This is, yet again, about actual technology, and not rounded corners. From the patent brief it sounds kind of silly (it sounds like they're talking about being logged into a chat with the same account via multiple clients), but it's still actual technology and not just "we arranged icons that contain rounded corners in a grid and so did they." It's hardly the same thing as Apple is doing.
I don't think anyone can out-evil Apple in this patent war. Apple hasn't invented a damned thing in the mobile space, but they've managed to patent the ridiculous since they're unable to compete on actual merit.
Samsung suing a competitor over allegedly poaching employees to steal trade secrets isn't quite the same thing.
Actually, iOS does support auto-resizing. Unfortunately:
No, that's not right, Cocoa was fine; they must have just reinvented the wheel for iOS, poorly.
No, Cocoa was not fine. The autoresizing system Cocoa uses sucks. iOS 5 supports it just fine, though, but it's nearly useless. And support is there by default, as there are still a few times when the view size changes in iOS and you need to rely on Cocoa Touch's autoresize:
1. Landscape versus Portrait. The view will autoresize by default. Unfortunately, autoresize is so bad at what it does, that I wound up overriding it and just manually setting the bounding boxes of the widgets on screen. I expect most apps do that because the autoresize support is so awful. (Apparently this is the reason why, until iOS 4 or something, Xcode's default template for iOS apps disabled the portrait mode entirely.)
2. The view shrinks because you're in a call. When in a call, the status bar doubles in size and your app loses several pixels off the top. (I think it's 22 in retinal, but whatever, you get the idea.) This is something that just about no app bothers testing for, despite the iOS simulator including explicit support for testing. But it's another thing autoresizing is supposed to deal with.
Fortunately, another AC responder indicates that they're adding a new "constraint based" system for iOS 6. Sadly, having also written a Cocoa app that used the new support for that, this is almost certainly going to be even worse. It's call "auto layout" and there are some 200,000 Google results on how to disable the damned thing.
Java servlets are running on the server side, which makes this a moot point.
Not if it's your server. For example, say you're a hosting provider, and offer hosting of Java servlets. Tomcat provides an option to enable the Java sandbox for embedded servlets, and the vulnerability being discussed would allow them to bypass it. If the servlets are being provided by potentially hostile sources, that's a problem.
I can't really think of any other scenarios where the Java sandbox is enabled (other than Java Web Start, I suppose, which are basically "applets" by another name). The point remains that the vulnerability effects any code that uses the Java sandbox to securely run potentially hostile code.
...is that CVE-2012-4681 uses a vulnerability during Applet execution.
Not quite. Applets are the most likely infection vector, but the vulnerability exists in any Java code.
Basically, what CVE-2012-4681 does is let untrusted Java code turn off the Java sandbox. Applets are about the only Java code where the sandbox is likely to be enabled by default, but there are scenarios where the sandbox is used by non-applet code. (As an example, in a Java servlet environment (think Java CGI), the individual pages might be run in the Java sandbox.)
Which means that, for the most part, this only effects applets, since most Java code isn't run in the Java sandbox anyway. But it's conceptually possible that it opens security holes in other Java-based code, if that code happens to run within the Java sandbox.
Romney's entire campaign strategy is pretty much 'I'm not Obama' and 'Obama bad' and of course neither of them say anything particularly offensive on the surface of it. If they did that they might actually lose voters.
Sounds like a good plan to me. A very similar plan worked for Obama in 2008...
launchpad? shit.
I tried pulling it off the Dock on my work Mac. It added it back for me. (I have a work project that involves writing an iPad app (for no reason, mind you, other than it's a buzzword), which means I have a Mac as my work machine. In case anyone wonders why I use a Mac.)
high dpi support? in osx it's a fucking joke, it's beyond shit
If anyone doesn't believe this, you should read the Mozilla bug on getting high DPI support on Mac OS X in Firefox. Basically, it's never going to happen because the API for doing it is so fucked up. ("But isn't it just rendering things at twice resolution?" Read the bug. It isn't. There are so many edge cases it isn't funny.)
ui menus detached from apps on a big screen?
I am convinced no one at Apple has ever tried running a Mac OS X on multiple monitors. It is beyond shit at that. It basically runs on the iPad model of "one app at a time." What, you want your test app in one monitor while the debugger is in the other? Fuck you! You get one menu bar, telling which app is focused is impossible, and whichever app isn't on the "dominant" screen has the menu bar on the wrong monitor.
what's more, it's not intuitive at all! there's dozens of things in osx you just have to know, half the users don't even know wtf launchpad is.
Remember how everyone hates that Gnome 3 app launcher thing? The thing that Ubuntu started forcing on everyone? Remember how everyone hates the Metro UI, to the point Microsoft has dropped the "metro" brand? That's the fucking Launchpad. Apparently it's been decided from on high that people like losing their entire screen to a display of giant icons they can slowly scroll through to find whatever they actually wanted. Bleh.
Nah, you only will need to pay once Java 6 reaches end of life last month. I mean, November. I mean, next February.
(And, yes, seriously - the Java 6 EOL date has been pushed forward twice so far. Presumably because Java 7 still isn't quite ready on all platforms.)
Seriously though, they don't have out-of-schedule updates for critical security bugs?
Well, it's Oracle, so I expect they do, they just cost extra. I mean, you are up to date on your Oracle Certified Java Security Support, right?
(Note: I'm joking. The actual service is called Oracle Premier Support for the Java SE Platform and you only need it to get security patches for "old" versions of Java.)
The error message is when trying to open an unidentified app is
Depends on the app. The app I know doesn't work under Mountain Lion with the "this app is damaged and should be moved to the trash" is Minecraft.
However, that's a lie. If you run it from the command line (via Minecraft.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub), it runs just fine. The problem is with Gatekeeper.
Apparently it effects a ton of other Java programs for Mac OS X, but Minecraft is the only Java program I know that people actually use.
Congratulations on focusing on half the post. The other half is about the "usage and diagnostic data" that Mac OS X sends to Apple - which does contain information about what applications you have installed, and has since whenever they added that feature.
Exactly what data does Apple get? Well, according to Apple themselves, they collect "[u]sage information (for example, data about how you use Apple and third-party software, hardware, and services)." What does that mean? Who knows.
The bottom line is that if you don't want some company to know what third-party software you're using on "their" computer, you don't want to go Apple.
The 'warnings' and 'lies' you describe have yet to be seen by me..
Here, let me Google that for you. Amusingly Google autocompleted that for me from "app is d," so it's not exactly an uncommon error. Generally speaking, the app is not damaged when you get that error - it just isn't Apple-blessed. If you try and run it through the command line, it'll run just fine.
Which kind of disproves the idea that Gatekeeper is about security, if all it takes to bypass it is fork() and exec().
You mean the OS that, by default, blocks you from running content that isn't blessed by Apple? Yes, you can download apps from sources that aren't the App Store - but they still have to be signed, otherwise, it either will refuse to run or lie to you and say that the app is "damaged" and you should "drag it to the trash."
And if you try and disable this "feature" then it yells at you, warning you of dire consequences if you try and allow non-Apple-blessed apps to run.
Now I don't know if it sends Apple a list of every non-App Store app you run, but by default, it will send "diagnostic and usage data" to Apple and has for quite some time, so...
In any case, if your plan to avoid being spied on is "use Apple," you're an idiot.
Unless the joke was that Mac OS X is a downgrade from Windows 8, which is true, but it sounds like you're saying Mountain Lion is a way to opt out of being spied on by a giant corporation, and it isn't.
I know it's hard to do, but try and think of a common scenario where someone who does not own an iPad may be asked to help figure out why it can't print to the printer it's next to. Hint: it involves other people, possibly related.
I also happen to be working on an iPad app for my job, so there's that too, but so far all I've ever done involves the iPad simulator and not the actual device. And Squiggle-Q doesn't work to reboot the actual hardware. (But don't worry about the app - you'll never see it, because there's no reason for it to even exist, let alone be an iOS app, let alone be an iPad-only iOS app.)
Not to mention that, at least in my experience, the iPad only "works" with printers. The last time I tried to print something off an iPad using AirPrint, I had to reboot the iPad to even get it to see the printer. After which it did print - eventually. I'm not sure why it's so ungodly slow, but it is.
But, hey, it "worked." After finding out the brain-dead way you turn off an iPad. (Yep, that's intuitive - hold the "lock" button.)
It is? What's the magic incantation to turn that on?
I ask because of tools like iExplorer, which let you access the entire iOS device's file system and download files unencrypted.
Which means that if it's on by default, it's trivial to bypass. I've used the tool I linked before to try and debug a broken iPad - you just plug it in, and it can pull files off the device, just like that. It's also not the only solution.
And that's not mentioning things like iCloud backup, which is turned on by default last I checked. And, sure, Apple says it's encrypted (except your email and notes - those aren't). I'll let someone else download the source to the iCloud server software and see if they're telling the truth...
No, you're right, when Apple comes out and publicly says "we're never going to support USB 3.0, Thunderbolt is the future" I should be smart enough to know that they're lying and expect them to randomly change their position in the future. Apple lies all the time ("we invented rounded rectangles!") so it makes sense to assume that they're lying when they indicate that they won't support a standard. After all, they did it with USB 2.0. ("FireWire is the future! USB 2.0 is dead!")
And, clearly, when a price point of $3000 is quoted multiple times - both by people defending Apple and those defending freedom - I should assume that everyone is wrong and go look it up myself. Except, of course, $3000 is, in fact, the price of the laptop if sanely specced, and $2200 is the useless "bare-bones" version, and therefore not a useful price point.
You really should not doubt something so easily verified by a website...
Didn't Apple very publicly refuse to use USB 3.0 and instead adopt Thunderbolt as the only highspeed connect? (Googles it) Why, yes, yes they did. You'll have to forgive me for not being aware that they did a complete 180 and finally admitted that no one is using Thunderbolt.
Then you can use any 6Gb/s SATA drive at full speed from your laptop.
So your solution to the unupgradeable hard drive is, what, duck-tape a SATA drive and Thunderbolt enclosure to the bottom? Seems like a better solution would be to buy an equivalent, upgradeable PC for half the cost and slap in a 2TB drive.
I can see you've never sold software for a living, since obviously the simply re-compile which takes a minute, could result in many sales from people with the displays.
Yes, I love potentially introducing bugs in software just to make the text crisper, and requiring an additional $2200 or whatever and new testing procedures to ensure everything works correctly. Or I could just ignore the incredibly tiny market of people who'd even notice, and not bother. Hmmm... Tough choice.
base price for the Retina is $2200, not $3k.
Odd, the $3000 base price has been quoted over and over in this thread and this is the first time anyone has claimed otherwise. You'll forgive me for not bothering to look up something that's been posted uncontested in this thread multiple times.
I don't see why it is so hard for you to grasp that the actual resolution is 2880x1800. Why would you want to lower it?
I don't see why you can't grasp that fact that it's a 15" laptop. Rendering things as "native" 2880x1800 resolution would make things so incredibly tiny you'd never be able to see it unless you were holding the laptop inches from your eyes. There's a reason no other laptop manufacturer has jammed such a large display into a 15" laptop - there's no point.
And, besides, non-retina apps (which, no matter how much you wish it weren't true, are still "most of them") are just scaled to twice size. So no matter how much you claim otherwise, you're still getting effectively a 1440x900 display. It just happens to have extra pixels that make things imperceptibly smoother because everything has been antialiased for the past decade anyway.
and frankly were I you I'd get a new user ID as this one is permanently tainted now by your post.
Says the well-known Apple shill. How much are they paying you to astro-turf Slashdot again?