Well, I've seen this mentioned a few times but surely you should provide some evidence as to why you think there is no succession plan. I mean apple is after all famously secretive!
I'm happy you won't get modded up because you sure are full of hyperbole;)
Perhaps you should ask for your money back because that education was a waste. Even a cursory check on wikipedia shows that you are insulting the true victims of facism.
Now run along back to your walled garden games console and enjoy your hypocrisy;);)
My toaster can only make toast out of the box without some serious modding. Thankfully there are a whole lot of other choices if I don't like the restrictions imposed on me by the evil toaster company.
Google says "We don't like it so we will not distribute it. You're of course free to get it elsewhere."
Are you sure that this freedom is virally guaranteed? Otherwise Google are actually saying "we wash our hands of it, please check with your friendly, neighbourhood handset provider"
I don't know the answer to this, but if no then we need to start adding this very important caveat to all generalisations made about what the customer can expect from android powered phones.
Except that there is no such practical thing as an "Android user" as you haven't considered the handset manufacturer, network provider and the stacks of legalese that they put between you and your OS. Not to mention any modifications that have been applied to your phone to lock down your experience, eg crapware that can't be removed, blocking root access etc.
And google by the way are responsible for this because when they chose the android license (as a known side effect of the linux codebase they elected to use) they knew full well this shit would happen. So remember that android is only open to your local cuddly handset provider, Google couldn't give a stuff about you. Except for your lovely private data.
Well ok, except that Apple has received a lot of flack for running a curated app store period. The argument that Apple should allow alternative stores is much more legitimate, but as I see it the stores themselves are equally as closed.
Google and google alone chose to base Android on the Linux kernel and apache harmony libraries so yes, they are entirely responsible for the resultant license. Correction: they bought Android in order to claw their way back up with Apple as quickly as possible.
Boy, the Google apologists are rapidly catching up with the Apple apologists and may even surpass them in a future release;)
An open box inside a locked box is still effectively locked, so I see little difference. Google collude with the handset manufacturers on this because they don't explicitly forbid this practice in their legalese.
Not sure which fanbois modded you up, but you are NOT insightful. You got a basic fact wrong, that multitasking is the only way to save state, and ran with it. All the apps I use on my iTouch take me back to where I last was when I bring them up again.
Meanwhile, the geeks are running around blasting Apple products for all the things they "don't have" and recommending complex alternatives.
Wait, so multitasking is a "complex alternative"? Please.
Yes, MICROSOFT'S XBOX is meant to be a computing appliance. But ffs, no fucking user-level multitasking? Christ, people bitched and complained about PalmOS and it's lack of multitasking, and now you're cheering it on like it's some kind of feature. It's fucking baffling.
That and the fact that the XBOX is a completely closed off system puts it off my list. No, I don't believe a GAMES CONSOLE must be a general purpose computer. But I do believe that I should at least be able to install what I want on it from whatever source I like, and I should be able to run more than one fucking GAME at the same damn time.
But I'm constantly being made aware that my PC represents a nearly infinite amount of options in every usage category -- where Apple railroads me into a pre-approved (albeit always compatible) solution.
Doesn't your Mac also afford you with a nearly infinite amount of options? I'm not saying what the outcome would be but to be fair you would have to compare the iPhone with rival phones, NOT with a PC.
You forgot to add balance to your argument - about 9 out of 10 computers sold are windows machines right? So the result of the Microsoft lock-in is NINE TIMES worse than that of Apple - and even worse applies this lock-in to a supposedly neutral platform.
Anyway some of us on Slashdot actually enjoy the vendor lock-in provided by Apple strange as it may seem to you - less configuration, better support etc - so please don't try to spoil a perfectly valid business model for us. Remember if you don't like it there is a competitor that you can choose that is NINE TIMES bigger.
In several minutes of searching, I am able to find no credible, objective evidence of this (no, Fox News is not credible or objective).
In several minutes of searching, I am able to find no credible, objective evidence of this (no, your slashdot post about Fox News is not credible or objective).
Just kidding, Fox News are scum, when compared to the other News channels. They know how they are scum.
I'd like to elaborate. You claim that you are able to create two boxes, one for religion and one for science and attach a label to each box that describes the contents so incredibly perfectly. I'm assuming you must be very young ( 40/50) because only the young, bless them, haven't yet realized that the world can't be split up into parcels so easily.
So you want proof in the existence of God? Well here it is: we exist, and that's proof enough for a lot of folk. But please feel free to provide a counter example.
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Well, I've seen this mentioned a few times but surely you should provide some evidence as to why you think there is no succession plan. I mean apple is after all famously secretive!
I'm happy you won't get modded up because you sure are full of hyperbole ;)
Perhaps you should ask for your money back because that education was a waste. Even a cursory check on wikipedia shows that you are insulting the true victims of facism.
Now run along back to your walled garden games console and enjoy your hypocrisy ;) ;)
My toaster can only make toast out of the box without some serious modding. Thankfully there are a whole lot of other choices if I don't like the restrictions imposed on me by the evil toaster company.
Google says "We don't like it so we will not distribute it. You're of course free to get it elsewhere."
Are you sure that this freedom is virally guaranteed? Otherwise Google are actually saying "we wash our hands of it, please check with your friendly, neighbourhood handset provider" I don't know the answer to this, but if no then we need to start adding this very important caveat to all generalisations made about what the customer can expect from android powered phones.
Except that there is no such practical thing as an "Android user" as you haven't considered the handset manufacturer, network provider and the stacks of legalese that they put between you and your OS. Not to mention any modifications that have been applied to your phone to lock down your experience, eg crapware that can't be removed, blocking root access etc. And google by the way are responsible for this because when they chose the android license (as a known side effect of the linux codebase they elected to use) they knew full well this shit would happen. So remember that android is only open to your local cuddly handset provider, Google couldn't give a stuff about you. Except for your lovely private data.
Well ok, except that Apple has received a lot of flack for running a curated app store period. The argument that Apple should allow alternative stores is much more legitimate, but as I see it the stores themselves are equally as closed.
Google and google alone chose to base Android on the Linux kernel and apache harmony libraries so yes, they are entirely responsible for the resultant license. Correction: they bought Android in order to claw their way back up with Apple as quickly as possible.
;)
Boy, the Google apologists are rapidly catching up with the Apple apologists and may even surpass them in a future release
An open box inside a locked box is still effectively locked, so I see little difference. Google collude with the handset manufacturers on this because they don't explicitly forbid this practice in their legalese.
Not sure which fanbois modded you up, but you are NOT insightful. You got a basic fact wrong, that multitasking is the only way to save state, and ran with it. All the apps I use on my iTouch take me back to where I last was when I bring them up again.
Meanwhile, the geeks are running around blasting Apple products for all the things they "don't have" and recommending complex alternatives.
Wait, so multitasking is a "complex alternative"? Please.
Yes, MICROSOFT'S XBOX is meant to be a computing appliance. But ffs, no fucking user-level multitasking? Christ, people bitched and complained about PalmOS and it's lack of multitasking, and now you're cheering it on like it's some kind of feature. It's fucking baffling.
That and the fact that the XBOX is a completely closed off system puts it off my list. No, I don't believe a GAMES CONSOLE must be a general purpose computer. But I do believe that I should at least be able to install what I want on it from whatever source I like, and I should be able to run more than one fucking GAME at the same damn time.
Man this is going to be easy ;)
They don't even hold a candle to gaffer tape programmers.
to a car?
Mmmmm, mackerels in brine
But I'm constantly being made aware that my PC represents a nearly infinite amount of options in every usage category -- where Apple railroads me into a pre-approved (albeit always compatible) solution.
Doesn't your Mac also afford you with a nearly infinite amount of options? I'm not saying what the outcome would be but to be fair you would have to compare the iPhone with rival phones, NOT with a PC.
APPLE is JUST AS GUILTY
Actually Apple is "a ninth" as guilty.
You forgot to add balance to your argument - about 9 out of 10 computers sold are windows machines right? So the result of the Microsoft lock-in is NINE TIMES worse than that of Apple - and even worse applies this lock-in to a supposedly neutral platform.
Anyway some of us on Slashdot actually enjoy the vendor lock-in provided by Apple strange as it may seem to you - less configuration, better support etc - so please don't try to spoil a perfectly valid business model for us. Remember if you don't like it there is a competitor that you can choose that is NINE TIMES bigger.
In several minutes of searching, I am able to find no credible, objective evidence of this (no, Fox News is not credible or objective).
In several minutes of searching, I am able to find no credible, objective evidence of this (no, your slashdot post about Fox News is not credible or objective). Just kidding, Fox News are scum, when compared to the other News channels. They know how they are scum.
I'd like to elaborate. You claim that you are able to create two boxes, one for religion and one for science and attach a label to each box that describes the contents so incredibly perfectly. I'm assuming you must be very young ( 40/50) because only the young, bless them, haven't yet realized that the world can't be split up into parcels so easily. So you want proof in the existence of God? Well here it is: we exist, and that's proof enough for a lot of folk. But please feel free to provide a counter example.
And oh, anyone else notice the irony that the Chrome _browser_ for Linux seems largely like an afterthought right now?
Me, I did!