They blocked a dictionary app because the dictionary also had definitions for inappropriate words.
Oddly enough, they don't block the Wikipedia app. You can find nudity on Wikipedia. Quick alert Gestapo Steve Jobs!
Here's Apple's rationale in a nutshell : if it's an app sold through our store we might be held liable, if you pull in content of the web voluntarily it's no longer our problem. Seems reasonable to me.
This is why I bought an android. Every time I see a story like this it just makes me feel better about my choice
Who the hell publishes a book as an app ? Not even an iBook or whatever they are calling it, an application. If you want to read the book just use THE publishing tool of this age: the internet. The website is here (warning contains "plump cartoon penis") and can be read on Android and *gasp* iPhone.
I would never even consider owning a telecommunication/internet device that came with somebody's seemingly arbitrary and contradictory moral strictures as the arbiter of what I may use the device for. Ownership of Apple products has always been about willing to go into their secretive walled garden but lately with the hostility and snarkiness that has been shown to both Apple developers and consumers the experience is more akin to living in Gaza.
Yes not being able to buy a book through one (1) store is the same as living in a war zone where the essentials of life are blockaded. That's not overdramatic at all. You can get/buy the book through other channels (as a pdf for example) and put it on your phone to read with another program or, you know, through the friggin' website (NSFW, contains traces of nuts) as Apple continuously says to do to get content to the phone without Apple approval. That's not to say this behavior doesn't sucks and doesn't need to be challenged but the hyperbole isn't helping any.
TFA said it was one of the documents a warning label was put on. Also not being american I'm more familiar with the declaration of independence than the constitution, which is quite boring (except for the part about people with bear arms, awesome.)
Because it's still perfectly acceptable to consider a black person as only 3/5 of a person, and it's perfectly acceptable to refer to native Americans as 'savages' (as in the Declaration of Independence).
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, but Corporations are more equal than others. That products are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Patentability, Copyright and the pursuit of Profit. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their powers from the payment of the governing. That whenever any Form of Behavior becomes destructive to the maximization of profits, it is the Right of the Corporate to alter or to abolish it.
Speaking of reality distortion: you keep claiming the Android platform was somehow around in 2005, it wasn't. It was a twinkling in the eye of a startup gobbled up by Google.
Here's the simplified version : - 2007/06 : iPhone launch - 2007/11 : Android launch
Wikipedia : "At the same time as the announcement of the formation of the Open Handset Alliance on 5 November 2007, the OHA also unveiled Android, an open source mobile phone platform based on the Linux operating system."
Google acquired a lot of companies. Sometimes for the patents, sometimes for the tech and sometimes for the people. If you look at news articles from the time it wasn't clear at all if Google really wanted to go into the cell phone business or even if that was what Android was making. By your own timeline they sat on it for more than 2 years and by the time the Google G1 came out it was clearly influenced by the iPhone (this is a good thing.) iPhone release : june 2007, Android 1 release : november 2007 but the HTC Dream (first Android handset) wasn't available until october 2008.
So yes, I think Google got a swift kick up the backside when they saw the iPhone and decided to step up efforts on a tech that they had in their arsenal but hadn't fully developed or focused on. This is no criticism, we're all better for it and I say that as an iPhone user.
Correct, the monotheistic God of the Old Testament is referred to with the plural... that is one of the reasons for a Trinitarian view of God. The plural was also used as a superlative, however... sort of like saying "God of gods."
Probably because the monotheistic god came from an earlier polytheistic tradition by way of henotheism, worshiping a single god while accepting the existence or possible existence of other deities (cfr. "You shall have no other gods before me".)
So is Apple being testy because of Android....or is this the gameplan all along, and Android was a good pre-emptive strike?
I don't think so. Google was one of the most important partners when the iPhone got its start: Google search, Maps, Youtube it was all on there. Then they decided they wanted a piece of the pie instead of depending on Apple and started directly competing with them making inane jabs in the process comparing Apple to North Korea and targeting them in their presentations. Don't start a fight if you can't take a punch.
Meanwhile people like Iggy Pop got screwed over in roughly the same period :
"And, by the way, when people say that the group sells or an artists sells an album, this is a misnomer. A company sells them. A company generally owns the master, the company owns the right to manipulate the accounts and will cheat and steal from the artists. The artist gets zilch. The artist also has to fend off divorce settlements, girlfriends, drug dealers, managers, lawyers, agents - a whole panoply of crooks."
I work with people in their 50's that got their start in IT changing the tape spools on the mainframe. Some have poor eyesight and rely on habit and muscle memory more than young people who grew up using Windows PC's. Yes they will need some training to find the functions that they used to use and have been moved to places that might be unintuitive to them, and no there is nothing wrong with them.
I could go with the "not my native language" defense but even I should have seen that one:-) Apparently it got past my spell czech (bad Tibor!) because there's an archaic nautical use of the verb spelled that way.
Problem is art has never payed well except in the last half century or so and then only for a few superstars. Now shysters are trying to sell absolute control over works on the promise artist will somehow get payed more, they won't.
"People only made money out of records for a very, very small time. When The Rolling Stones started out, we didn’t make any money out of records because record companies wouldn’t pay you! They didn’t pay anyone!
Then, there was a small period from 1970 to 1997, where people did get paid, and they got paid very handsomely and everyone made money. But now that period has gone.
So if you look at the history of recorded music from 1900 to now, there was a 25 year period where artists did very well, but the rest of the time they didn’t."
Same goes for authors. There's a reason "starving author" is such a well known concept.
*raises hand...* Had Lasik 2 years ago, and now have Keratoconus... Turns out I shouldn't have had Lasik done, but I had no idea, and they didn't find it then. It normally shows up mid to late 20's I believe.
Man that sucks. I've heard of people getting it earlier but I first noticed it in my late 20's myself. In hindsight I'm probably lucky to be such a lazy SOB because I kept putting off having LASIC despite my mother's advice to have it done. Oh well, luckily with news like this, riboflavin crosslinking and stemcell research moving ahead in leaps and bounds there's plenty of reason for us to be optimistic.
Be sure to have it done by a qualified professional that thoroughly checks your eyes topology beforehand ! LASIK is contraindicated if you have some condition like keratoconus which can be mild or asymptomatic and undiagnosed. You can ruin your eyes if you have LASIK in this case however, I have seen examples on keratoconus sufferers message boards.
In diseases like keratoconus, a degenerative eye disorder, there are cases in which even transplanted corneas degenerate again in time. A synthetic obviously wouldn't have this problem. I suppose it could also be custom made to the eye making for a better fit than organic parts sliced off of a corpse which are bound to be imperfect. Corneal transplants are rejected in keratoconus cases in roughly about 10% of cases and people who have rejected one graft seem more predisposed to reject following grafts as well. Those people would also be helped by this procedure. As someone who has (relatively mild at the moment) keratoconus I certainly welcome this news.
Couldn't we sink a pipe down to near the leak to get more of the oil before it spreads ? Heck build an entire damn water purification plant with dozens of pipes going all the way down over the damn thing if needed. A water purification rig.
Think before you post online, whichever site or mailing list. Too many people post without thinking.
Seriously, should I have to do this ? And when I make a joke in public to one of my friends should I first glance over my shoulder to see if there's some HR loon or middle manager stalking me who could use a joke as an excuse to fire me ? That's not the kind of society I want to live in. (It's also in fact NOT the society I live in because luckily I happen to live in a country with decent social protections and unions.) This is the sort of thing we used reproach the USSR for : peoples lives being destroyed because they get reported for saying the "wrong things" without recourse.
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When their contract is up they go for the hot new stuff, which next week will include VP8 compatibility on Android phones and iPhones, which are both of the platforms that drive tech today.
Would they inlcude hardware decoders for V8 too ? Why include new hardware if there is no clear quality advantage and vendors have already standardized on h264 ? Unless Google pulls a microsoft and starts aggressively pushing this tech on everyone at the exclusion of alternatives it isn't going anywhere.
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They blocked a dictionary app because the dictionary also had definitions for inappropriate words.
Oddly enough, they don't block the Wikipedia app. You can find nudity on Wikipedia. Quick alert Gestapo Steve Jobs!
Here's Apple's rationale in a nutshell : if it's an app sold through our store we might be held liable, if you pull in content of the web voluntarily it's no longer our problem. Seems reasonable to me.
You're kiding right ? There are several readers out there including for jailbroken phones and open source. Then there's a couple of options to self publish through some vendors or as an independant straight through Apple.
Sure there are times when making app might provide some added value but to call it the easiest way is simply not true.
This is different to Walmart deciding not to carry content its store owners find objectionable, how?
That doesn't make the news anymore. Trolling Apple: cheaper than an advertising budget !
This is why I bought an android. Every time I see a story like this it just makes me feel better about my choice
Who the hell publishes a book as an app ? Not even an iBook or whatever they are calling it, an application. If you want to read the book just use THE publishing tool of this age: the internet. The website is here (warning contains "plump cartoon penis") and can be read on Android and *gasp* iPhone.
I would never even consider owning a telecommunication/internet device that came with somebody's seemingly arbitrary and contradictory moral strictures as the arbiter of what I may use the device for. Ownership of Apple products has always been about willing to go into their secretive walled garden but lately with the hostility and snarkiness that has been shown to both Apple developers and consumers the experience is more akin to living in Gaza.
Yes not being able to buy a book through one (1) store is the same as living in a war zone where the essentials of life are blockaded. That's not overdramatic at all. You can get/buy the book through other channels (as a pdf for example) and put it on your phone to read with another program or, you know, through the friggin' website (NSFW, contains traces of nuts) as Apple continuously says to do to get content to the phone without Apple approval. That's not to say this behavior doesn't sucks and doesn't need to be challenged but the hyperbole isn't helping any.
TFA said it was one of the documents a warning label was put on. Also not being american I'm more familiar with the declaration of independence than the constitution, which is quite boring (except for the part about people with bear arms, awesome.)
Because it's still perfectly acceptable to consider a black person as only 3/5 of a person, and it's perfectly acceptable to refer to native Americans as 'savages' (as in the Declaration of Independence).
You've never been to /b/ then ?
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, but Corporations are more equal than others. That products are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Patentability, Copyright and the pursuit of Profit. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their powers from the payment of the governing. That whenever any Form of Behavior becomes destructive to the maximization of profits, it is the Right of the Corporate to alter or to abolish it.
Speaking of reality distortion: you keep claiming the Android platform was somehow around in 2005, it wasn't. It was a twinkling in the eye of a startup gobbled up by Google.
Here's the simplified version :
- 2007/06 : iPhone launch
- 2007/11 : Android launch
Wikipedia : "At the same time as the announcement of the formation of the Open Handset Alliance on 5 November 2007, the OHA also unveiled Android, an open source mobile phone platform based on the Linux operating system."
No kidding. PC design needs more Dieter Rams and less Liberace.
Google acquired a lot of companies. Sometimes for the patents, sometimes for the tech and sometimes for the people. If you look at news articles from the time it wasn't clear at all if Google really wanted to go into the cell phone business or even if that was what Android was making. By your own timeline they sat on it for more than 2 years and by the time the Google G1 came out it was clearly influenced by the iPhone (this is a good thing.) iPhone release : june 2007, Android 1 release : november 2007 but the HTC Dream (first Android handset) wasn't available until october 2008.
So yes, I think Google got a swift kick up the backside when they saw the iPhone and decided to step up efforts on a tech that they had in their arsenal but hadn't fully developed or focused on. This is no criticism, we're all better for it and I say that as an iPhone user.
Correct, the monotheistic God of the Old Testament is referred to with the plural... that is one of the reasons for a Trinitarian view of God. The plural was also used as a superlative, however... sort of like saying "God of gods."
Probably because the monotheistic god came from an earlier polytheistic tradition by way of henotheism, worshiping a single god while accepting the existence or possible existence of other deities (cfr. "You shall have no other gods before me".)
If only someone would port Oolite to iOS. There was a rumor that Elite would be available in the C64 emulator for iPhone/iPad but it's not there yet.
So is Apple being testy because of Android....or is this the gameplan all along, and Android was a good pre-emptive strike?
I don't think so. Google was one of the most important partners when the iPhone got its start: Google search, Maps, Youtube it was all on there. Then they decided they wanted a piece of the pie instead of depending on Apple and started directly competing with them making inane jabs in the process comparing Apple to North Korea and targeting them in their presentations. Don't start a fight if you can't take a punch.
Meanwhile people like Iggy Pop got screwed over in roughly the same period :
"And, by the way, when people say that the group sells or an artists sells an album, this is a misnomer. A company sells them. A company generally owns the master, the company owns the right to manipulate the accounts and will cheat and steal from the artists. The artist gets zilch. The artist also has to fend off divorce settlements, girlfriends, drug dealers, managers, lawyers, agents - a whole panoply of crooks."
I work with people in their 50's that got their start in IT changing the tape spools on the mainframe. Some have poor eyesight and rely on habit and muscle memory more than young people who grew up using Windows PC's. Yes they will need some training to find the functions that they used to use and have been moved to places that might be unintuitive to them, and no there is nothing wrong with them.
I could go with the "not my native language" defense but even I should have seen that one :-) Apparently it got past my spell czech (bad Tibor!) because there's an archaic nautical use of the verb spelled that way.
Problem is art has never payed well except in the last half century or so and then only for a few superstars. Now shysters are trying to sell absolute control over works on the promise artist will somehow get payed more, they won't.
Here's a nice quote from a recent Mick Jagger interview :
"People only made money out of records for a very, very small time. When The Rolling Stones started out, we didn’t make any money out of records because record companies wouldn’t pay you! They didn’t pay anyone!
Then, there was a small period from 1970 to 1997, where people did get paid, and they got paid very handsomely and everyone made money. But now that period has gone.
So if you look at the history of recorded music from 1900 to now, there was a 25 year period where artists did very well, but the rest of the time they didn’t."
Same goes for authors. There's a reason "starving author" is such a well known concept.
*raises hand...* Had Lasik 2 years ago, and now have Keratoconus... Turns out I shouldn't have had Lasik done, but I had no idea, and they didn't find it then. It normally shows up mid to late 20's I believe.
Man that sucks. I've heard of people getting it earlier but I first noticed it in my late 20's myself. In hindsight I'm probably lucky to be such a lazy SOB because I kept putting off having LASIC despite my mother's advice to have it done. Oh well, luckily with news like this, riboflavin crosslinking and stemcell research moving ahead in leaps and bounds there's plenty of reason for us to be optimistic.
Be sure to have it done by a qualified professional that thoroughly checks your eyes topology beforehand ! LASIK is contraindicated if you have some condition like keratoconus which can be mild or asymptomatic and undiagnosed. You can ruin your eyes if you have LASIK in this case however, I have seen examples on keratoconus sufferers message boards.
In diseases like keratoconus, a degenerative eye disorder, there are cases in which even transplanted corneas degenerate again in time. A synthetic obviously wouldn't have this problem. I suppose it could also be custom made to the eye making for a better fit than organic parts sliced off of a corpse which are bound to be imperfect. Corneal transplants are rejected in keratoconus cases in roughly about 10% of cases and people who have rejected one graft seem more predisposed to reject following grafts as well. Those people would also be helped by this procedure.
As someone who has (relatively mild at the moment) keratoconus I certainly welcome this news.
Couldn't we sink a pipe down to near the leak to get more of the oil before it spreads ? Heck build an entire damn water purification plant with dozens of pipes going all the way down over the damn thing if needed. A water purification rig.
Apparently they're not even doing the booming right.
Think before you post online, whichever site or mailing list. Too many people post without thinking.
Seriously, should I have to do this ? And when I make a joke in public to one of my friends should I first glance over my shoulder to see if there's some HR loon or middle manager stalking me who could use a joke as an excuse to fire me ? That's not the kind of society I want to live in. (It's also in fact NOT the society I live in because luckily I happen to live in a country with decent social protections and unions.) This is the sort of thing we used reproach the USSR for : peoples lives being destroyed because they get reported for saying the "wrong things" without recourse.
When their contract is up they go for the hot new stuff, which next week will include VP8 compatibility on Android phones and iPhones, which are both of the platforms that drive tech today.
Would they inlcude hardware decoders for V8 too ? Why include new hardware if there is no clear quality advantage and vendors have already standardized on h264 ? Unless Google pulls a microsoft and starts aggressively pushing this tech on everyone at the exclusion of alternatives it isn't going anywhere.