Of course, that's not happening anytime soon, especially since the ISPs and media companies that they're partnered with have no interest in giving people decent upload rates.
I think if you look at most ISP's over time you'll see that upload rates have gotten far more symmetrical than they used to be. I just for example got moved from 15/5 to 25/25 for the same cost.
No they don't. Apple has been in 1st place in computer customer satisfaction for 9 years. It is the been #1 in phones for 5, etc... The developer community around Apple is fine with them.
To give you to major examples:
Apple on both the iPhone and iPad has had to run their warranty program at a loss for several years. They charge enough to help offset their costs and do this because not honoring warranties loses business.
They sold the iPad 2 at cost to 3rd party retailers (Best Buy...). They did this because Apple concluded what the proper price was for tablets, what the technology required was and decided that they margins needed to be very thin.
I'm not the one being outrageous here. You made some rather strong claims about Apple undermining security of the platform because wanted a competitive advantage. That notwithstanding that Apple has never sold browsers, and freely gives away webkit to "competitors".
Apple doesn't have secrecy rules for developers they bitch about the Apple process all the time quite publicly. This isn't "preconditions" evidence needs to stand up to basic scrutiny like what was being requested.
You can depend on Apple to be careful about protecting the interests of their platform and on average making very good choices. You cannot depend on Apple for any specific policy.
I'm measuring participation by voter turnout. Which is how I defined it in my post. You cut those parts. As far as knowledge, thing like being able to identify the candidates or specify a reason to support one over the other are much higher for national elections than state and much higher for state than local.
Most voters don't need to know the candidates complete records to determine who to support: which one is pro-life, which one is pro union, which one is a Democrat, which one is a Republican... gets you around 90% of the voters. Voters have well formed opinions on either the parties or a few determinative issues.
As for "unfounded". Things like voter turnout, cost to influence elections, success in getting elected to office... are all well founded measures. There is an entire body of literature on local vs. state vs. federal government.
Finally I did included counties. Counties could allow for differentiation. We used to have lots of laws that split on a county level, and there is no reason your freedom objections couldn't be handled more easily at that level.
As a case in point, Opera has repeatedly tried and failed to get an exemption for Opera Mini to ship security updates on a sane schedule in the app store.
Opera mini doesn't even render client side. Why would it need special exemptions?
They haven't in the past, and I have seen no indication that they will do so in the future.
Of course they have given all sorts of apps special treatment. I use some that got special treatment. Gambit Scheme asked for and received special treatment.
Apple needs to start supporting Classic and PPC code again.
When did Apple ever tell you they intend to support legacy indefinitely? You might like Z-OS by IBM which does this sort of decades long support arrangements.
As for the rest of it, sure, they'd have to do it - but how many users would it actually affect? 0.01%?..
I'd be at least 20% and might be closer to 90%. You are forgetting Apple is a Unix with a cool GUI. Those server products are instrumental to how the whole system works.
Bonjour = mDNS and zeroconf printing = CUPS xgrid sharing = zilla web sharing = apache calendar = webdav
This is one of the great things about OSX. It makes Unix servers safe and easy enough that entirely non technical users use these servers without even thinking about it.
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In terms of the key issue though iOS isn't secure against a hostile audience. iPhone users don't want full access and those that do jailbreak. iOS is restrictive about interpreters to try and reduce holes. OSX apps are loaded with interpreters. iOS has applications which can jailbreak but the people who know how to jailbreak using those applications know how to jailbreak without them. Performing an anti-interpreter clean up would be impossible on OSX. OSX would need to be secure enough that someone with physical access, shell access and multiple points of attack couldn't compromise the system.
Yes. The logfile is synced not the entire write. That way the database knows enough to recreate the lost data but hasn't had to call all those updates across the disk.
The iPhone app store has been the mechanism by which Apple is able to effectually enforce standards for iOS. The Mac app store is going to play a similar role for OSX. For example the vast majority of applications can and should sandbox. Apple has implemented some new APIs for saving state which is going to allow them to really take advantage of SSD OS wide. They most likely are going to start enforcing those rules. etc...
For example, if your app might need to roll out critical security updates on short notice
Apple is sane. You can get exemptions for just about anything from Apple if you work with them. The policies exist to prevent abuse, not use.
A 1x security update will go fast if you let them know it is urgent. If you frequently need security updates they will put a mechanism in place (assuming you have the market share to justify the hassle).
It isn't even that. macosforge is Apple. They are shifting their X11 support to their Unix team which supports all sorts of other Unixy stuff like MacRuby and MacPorts.
They didn't remove X11 support. You get an error message asking you if you want to download X11 from the open source XQuartz project. That page XQuartz are the people who created the X11.app in 10.5-7. They are moving from 2.6.3 to 2.7.0. http://www.macosforge.org/ is where Apple hosts all sorts of Unixy stuff like: MacPorts, MacRuby, WebKit...
Of course it is a help to them. It is how they picked up a huge swatch of developers and academic users. That's a key niche group of users that is willing to pay hardware premiums.
The version of OS X that comes after Mountain Lion will only let you install applications/software from the App Store.
We've been hearing about Apple's nefarious plans for a decade it hasn't happened. Command line installs still (Darwin) work fine in Mountain Lion and won't be via. the app store.
They aren't removing the Unix stuff their developer base likes.
So far the control has been paired with substantial value adds, and convenience features. There are strong objections from people who don't buy Apple products but how often do you see Apple people objecting to Apple's control. Apple isn't even going to begin losing market share till Apple customers object. And so far, with the exception of a few apps in the app store there hasn't been any kind of blowback among actual customers.
First off that feature of screen capture in Preview was there in 10.6 as well. It isn't creating a jpeg it is an entirely different mechanism than the old screen snap designed to allow for memory efficient collections of screen captures (to make video animations)
It supports -- save copy of screen to file, which you can then print save copy of screen to clipboard, which you can then print.
The Netscape monopoly was overthrown by Microsoft being willing to lose great deals of money and depending on your outlook being willing to leverage another monopoly.
The IE monopoly might very well have lasted a lot longer with concerted effort and government support.
I'm not sure how those examples lead to sanguine confidence that technological lock in is no bid deal.
Databases handle this problem all the time by using log files which keep a mini version of the call. Then on crash the engine just reruns the logfiles. You don't need to sync everything to maintain a reliable recovery.
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Of course, that's not happening anytime soon, especially since the ISPs and media companies that they're partnered with have no interest in giving people decent upload rates.
I think if you look at most ISP's over time you'll see that upload rates have gotten far more symmetrical than they used to be. I just for example got moved from 15/5 to 25/25 for the same cost.
No they don't. Apple has been in 1st place in computer customer satisfaction for 9 years. It is the been #1 in phones for 5, etc... The developer community around Apple is fine with them.
To give you to major examples:
Apple on both the iPhone and iPad has had to run their warranty program at a loss for several years. They charge enough to help offset their costs and do this because not honoring warranties loses business.
They sold the iPad 2 at cost to 3rd party retailers (Best Buy...). They did this because Apple concluded what the proper price was for tablets, what the technology required was and decided that they margins needed to be very thin.
I'm not the one being outrageous here. You made some rather strong claims about Apple undermining security of the platform because wanted a competitive advantage. That notwithstanding that Apple has never sold browsers, and freely gives away webkit to "competitors".
Apple doesn't have secrecy rules for developers they bitch about the Apple process all the time quite publicly. This isn't "preconditions" evidence needs to stand up to basic scrutiny like what was being requested.
This is sort of an impossible situation. You've presented a counter example where
a) Your case doesn't make sense on initial examination
b) You don't know the facts
I'm not sure how that proves anything about Apple's security policy. Examples have to hold up.
You can depend on Apple to be careful about protecting the interests of their platform and on average making very good choices. You cannot depend on Apple for any specific policy.
I'm measuring participation by voter turnout. Which is how I defined it in my post. You cut those parts. As far as knowledge, thing like being able to identify the candidates or specify a reason to support one over the other are much higher for national elections than state and much higher for state than local.
Most voters don't need to know the candidates complete records to determine who to support: which one is pro-life, which one is pro union, which one is a Democrat, which one is a Republican... gets you around 90% of the voters. Voters have well formed opinions on either the parties or a few determinative issues.
As for "unfounded". Things like voter turnout, cost to influence elections, success in getting elected to office... are all well founded measures. There is an entire body of literature on local vs. state vs. federal government.
Finally I did included counties. Counties could allow for differentiation. We used to have lots of laws that split on a county level, and there is no reason your freedom objections couldn't be handled more easily at that level.
As a case in point, Opera has repeatedly tried and failed to get an exemption for Opera Mini to ship security updates on a sane schedule in the app store.
Opera mini doesn't even render client side. Why would it need special exemptions?
They haven't in the past, and I have seen no indication that they will do so in the future.
Of course they have given all sorts of apps special treatment. I use some that got special treatment. Gambit Scheme asked for and received special treatment.
Apple needs to start supporting Classic and PPC code again.
When did Apple ever tell you they intend to support legacy indefinitely? You might like Z-OS by IBM which does this sort of decades long support arrangements.
As for the rest of it, sure, they'd have to do it - but how many users would it actually affect? 0.01%?..
I'd be at least 20% and might be closer to 90%. You are forgetting Apple is a Unix with a cool GUI. Those server products are instrumental to how the whole system works.
Bonjour = mDNS and zeroconf
printing = CUPS
xgrid sharing = zilla
web sharing = apache
calendar = webdav
This is one of the great things about OSX. It makes Unix servers safe and easy enough that entirely non technical users use these servers without even thinking about it.
____
In terms of the key issue though iOS isn't secure against a hostile audience. iPhone users don't want full access and those that do jailbreak. iOS is restrictive about interpreters to try and reduce holes. OSX apps are loaded with interpreters. iOS has applications which can jailbreak but the people who know how to jailbreak using those applications know how to jailbreak without them. Performing an anti-interpreter clean up would be impossible on OSX. OSX would need to be secure enough that someone with physical access, shell access and multiple points of attack couldn't compromise the system.
I just don't see that as likely.
Yes. The logfile is synced not the entire write. That way the database knows enough to recreate the lost data but hasn't had to call all those updates across the disk.
You forgot one more. Manual override the default setting when you right click on the app.
The iPhone app store has been the mechanism by which Apple is able to effectually enforce standards for iOS. The Mac app store is going to play a similar role for OSX. For example the vast majority of applications can and should sandbox. Apple has implemented some new APIs for saving state which is going to allow them to really take advantage of SSD OS wide. They most likely are going to start enforcing those rules. etc...
For example, if your app might need to roll out critical security updates on short notice
Apple is sane. You can get exemptions for just about anything from Apple if you work with them. The policies exist to prevent abuse, not use.
A 1x security update will go fast if you let them know it is urgent.
If you frequently need security updates they will put a mechanism in place (assuming you have the market share to justify the hassle).
$99 / year which isn't close to covering their costs. Essentially free.
Yeah the denial appears to be happening inside of Apple too as they have over the last few years opened up a ton of restrictions on iOS
If you want a voice interface, it's Siri or nothing.
That's not true even on iOS. I have Siri search, Dolphin Sonar and Google search all with their own voice interfaces.
They are not gaining any new market share they are losing it
Huh? Where are you getting this?
It isn't even that. macosforge is Apple. They are shifting their X11 support to their Unix team which supports all sorts of other Unixy stuff like MacRuby and MacPorts.
They didn't remove X11 support. You get an error message asking you if you want to download X11 from the open source XQuartz project. That page XQuartz are the people who created the X11.app in 10.5-7. They are moving from 2.6.3 to 2.7.0. http://www.macosforge.org/ is where Apple hosts all sorts of Unixy stuff like: MacPorts, MacRuby, WebKit...
Of course it is a help to them. It is how they picked up a huge swatch of developers and academic users. That's a key niche group of users that is willing to pay hardware premiums.
The version of OS X that comes after Mountain Lion will only let you install applications/software from the App Store.
We've been hearing about Apple's nefarious plans for a decade it hasn't happened.
Command line installs still (Darwin) work fine in Mountain Lion and won't be via. the app store.
They aren't removing the Unix stuff their developer base likes.
So far the control has been paired with substantial value adds, and convenience features. There are strong objections from people who don't buy Apple products but how often do you see Apple people objecting to Apple's control. Apple isn't even going to begin losing market share till Apple customers object. And so far, with the exception of a few apps in the app store there hasn't been any kind of blowback among actual customers.
First off that feature of screen capture in Preview was there in 10.6 as well. It isn't creating a jpeg it is an entirely different mechanism than the old screen snap designed to allow for memory efficient collections of screen captures (to make video animations)
It supports -- save copy of screen to file, which you can then print
save copy of screen to clipboard, which you can then print.
The Netscape monopoly was overthrown by Microsoft being willing to lose great deals of money and depending on your outlook being willing to leverage another monopoly.
The IE monopoly might very well have lasted a lot longer with concerted effort and government support.
I'm not sure how those examples lead to sanguine confidence that technological lock in is no bid deal.
Databases handle this problem all the time by using log files which keep a mini version of the call. Then on crash the engine just reruns the logfiles. You don't need to sync everything to maintain a reliable recovery.