The vast majority of copies of Photoshop are pirated. This has not prevented "photoshopping" from becoming a verb, and in fact it has likely helped immensely. Try again.
What this also means is that if I want to develop an image editor for home users and sell it for a reasonable fee, then I will have problems doing that because everyone gets Photoshop for free.
In this case their logic makes some sense. The difference is that instead of pirating Photoshop you could buy a much cheaper alternative or support open source.
We keep replacing our desktop environment every once in a while, now recently with Unity/GNOME3. Have we actually gone anywhere? At the same time OS X is in many ways very similar to the original Mac interface almost 30 years ago.
Why should it be a flat piece of glass with a computer and battery attached to it? Google is looking into making glasses, now that's innovation! The other manufacturers should look at Google and start thinking outside the box.
I think it would be much better for everyone if Samsung just started innovating instead of copying Apple. I really mean that, no matter if it's right or not almost every single "pad" out there looks like an iPad. I expect someone like Samsung to be able to come up with something of their own.
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The vast majority of copies of Photoshop are pirated. This has not prevented "photoshopping" from becoming a verb, and in fact it has likely helped immensely. Try again.
What this also means is that if I want to develop an image editor for home users and sell it for a reasonable fee, then I will have problems doing that because everyone gets Photoshop for free.
Pirated copy != lost sale.
If the app costs 99 cents then it was actually a lost sale.
The machine is 64 bit but some components aren't.
In this case their logic makes some sense.
The difference is that instead of pirating Photoshop you could buy a much cheaper alternative or support open source.
No, it's a setting that you control and can override on a per-app level.
I see, I would probably buy another game instead but I guess that's just me.
Yeah because Windows apps are never pirated.
Who says that Windows works? Unless your the size of Microsoft or Adobe, being successful on Windows in this regard is really hard.
And you suggest that it being a poor game is a good reason to pirate it?
I thought FTFF was to just remove the notion of files altogether and replace it with Launchpad.
No, it will be called "The New OS X".
With their new naming strategy it's likely to be *The New OS X*
It won't, and never will. But it is something. And with enough somethings the sum of somethings may become fairly large.
Sure but how many share your choice of DE?
I guess we're talking twm or similar.
Yes because it *fends* the, off.
Didn't you pay attention?
We keep replacing our desktop environment every once in a while, now recently with Unity/GNOME3. Have we actually gone anywhere? At the same time OS X is in many ways very similar to the original Mac interface almost 30 years ago.
Can the Linux desktop survive that long?
Yes, Apple doesn't put Samsung's logo on their.
Put them side by side and look at them. Yes, they are copying Apple.
That's why patents expire.
So you're saying the iPad was not innovative?
Why should it be a flat piece of glass with a computer and battery attached to it?
Google is looking into making glasses, now that's innovation!
The other manufacturers should look at Google and start thinking outside the box.
Isn't that why we have patents? To give innovators an exclusive period of time.
Is it evil to defend your intellectual property?
I suspect enforcing GPL is also evil?
Apple is far away from having a majority.
It just happens that they make all the money.
I think it would be much better for everyone if Samsung just started innovating instead of copying Apple. I really mean that, no matter if it's right or not almost every single "pad" out there looks like an iPad. I expect someone like Samsung to be able to come up with something of their own.