This is a huge misunderstanding of what the hell the 24 hour news cycle means.
news organizations really need to fill about 8 to 10 hours of news programming and the rest is taken up by commentary(or in MSNBC's case, commentary and ZOMG PRISON)
he says that his stuff's closed too but he's not forcing his closed model on other platforms and when it comes to the common denominator, the web, he wants an open model.
iTunes hasn't exposed tens to hundreds of millions of machines to active, in the wild vulnerabilities.
Flash and Acrobat Reader on the other hand...?
The source to OSX's kernel's freely available. The source to the WebKit underpinnings to iPhone Safari is freely available *and* the basis of their three main competitor's browsers(WebOS, Android and soon, BlackBerry) and in one case, the entire presentation layer(WebOS).
Apple's advocating that the W3C standards go in so far as web development. not their own. that's not proprietary, that's *OPEN*.
I know that was the entire basis for one of the Doctor Who specials, but, do we even know how hard it would be to make it potable where it not to be drinkable?
Tesla was predicting super long range wireless. Connecting tiny devices to each other, not an intermediary cellular structure. He had wireless communications all wrong.
Unfortunately, that never panned out. He describes a system similar to the internet and modern cellular infrastructure, but, I'd love to see someone whip out their phone a mile or so off shore and try to get cellular service.
He's part genius, of course, and part crank. Everyone knows his genius. Describing wireless technologies after the wireless telegraph had been invented and then extrapolating out super long range(Like, thousands of miles) communication is the crank part.
He truly is the geeky Nostradamus. Vague enough that if he were wrong, everyone would still call him visionary.
There's a huge difference between a jailbreak or a rooting and installing an official update.
If I had to run something like PurpleRa1n, or redsn0w to install an OS update for my phone that's a little over a year and a half old, I'd junk the phone and just get a phone that didn't require me to do something so ridiculous to get official software.
it's pretty clear HTC is being hideously lazy and not supporting their own hardware in a timely fashion. While the original iPhone isn't supported, if Apple announced that each phone was getting a release "Whenever" I'd ditch the iPhone and find some phone vendor who's wililng to support my phone properly.
Right, but what average user is going to potentially brick their phone for what should be a vendor supplied patch? Rooting/Jailbreaking a device? Sure. A real OS update? No.
You can compare them in terms of how much software support they've received for their duration of existence. Is 1.6 even still getting security updates?
Many Android buyers are stuck with Android 1.5 and 1.6 because that's what not only the phone shipped with, but with what the vendor's willing to support through out the supply chain and if they want the new version OS, they've got to upgrade their entire device.
The strengths of the Android ecosystem are largely the weaknesses of the Android ecosystem as well. You really don't expect an end-user to manually upgrade their device and potentially brick it do you?
Sadly, iPhone OS 4 isn't supporting the 2G EDGE only model.
The fact is though. The HTC Dream/T-Mobile G1 was one of the first mass market Android devices out there, released a few months after the iPhone 3G and it's not getting 2.xx goodness, yet the iPhone 3G is.
Jobs' goal is to stop you from using flash to access boatloads of free apps that don't go through the store, because then he can't even advertise to you.
Excuse me? Flash has been excluded from the iPhone from day 1, long before iAd was a gleam in Steve's eye.
If he was interested in squashing ad competitors he'd have disallowed AdMob and other advertising for mobile firms years ago when 2.0 came out.
Never needed it, never used it. Sucks that it's gone, don't think the lawsuit's going to win, hope it does, but, Super SF IV's out and I'll be damned if I buy an Xbox 360. Even lacking the Other OS feature, it's still a better console than the 360.
In case you haven't figured it out.
I don't give a shit. It's a games console. There are way more important things in life than just what I can jimmy Linux into.
On a side note, you and so many other people are so mistaken about the iPad being only for consumption, or even consumption focused... That is not the end game.
WebMD displays a lot of articles, not just the one about Tuberculosis, and very well on the iPad.
Yeah, Pogo Stylus. Just wish Apple would've thought about it before a 3rd Party did. Still don't have an iPad yet, but once I get one, I'm getting me a pogo.
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This is a huge misunderstanding of what the hell the 24 hour news cycle means.
news organizations really need to fill about 8 to 10 hours of news programming and the rest is taken up by commentary(or in MSNBC's case, commentary and ZOMG PRISON)
you won't have to use either a hammer or a lathe if the square peg or the round hole is properly sized.
Square peg not going in round hole? Cut it up!
I prefer using a lathe.
Then again, not everyone has access to one.
Steve Jobs wasn't being hypocritical.
he says that his stuff's closed too but he's not forcing his closed model on other platforms and when it comes to the common denominator, the web, he wants an open model.
iTunes hasn't exposed tens to hundreds of millions of machines to active, in the wild vulnerabilities.
Flash and Acrobat Reader on the other hand...?
The source to OSX's kernel's freely available. The source to the WebKit underpinnings to iPhone Safari is freely available *and* the basis of their three main competitor's browsers(WebOS, Android and soon, BlackBerry) and in one case, the entire presentation layer(WebOS).
Apple's advocating that the W3C standards go in so far as web development. not their own. that's not proprietary, that's *OPEN*.
Flash sucks, but it's a necessary evil.
Exactly.
I've got one hell of a rash because I emailed steve whether or not I could change my underwear and haven't received a response yet.
Is it potable?
I know that was the entire basis for one of the Doctor Who specials, but, do we even know how hard it would be to make it potable where it not to be drinkable?
Wrong.
Tesla was predicting super long range wireless. Connecting tiny devices to each other, not an intermediary cellular structure. He had wireless communications all wrong.
Unfortunately, that never panned out. He describes a system similar to the internet and modern cellular infrastructure, but, I'd love to see someone whip out their phone a mile or so off shore and try to get cellular service.
He's part genius, of course, and part crank. Everyone knows his genius. Describing wireless technologies after the wireless telegraph had been invented and then extrapolating out super long range(Like, thousands of miles) communication is the crank part.
He truly is the geeky Nostradamus. Vague enough that if he were wrong, everyone would still call him visionary.
There's a huge difference between a jailbreak or a rooting and installing an official update.
If I had to run something like PurpleRa1n, or redsn0w to install an OS update for my phone that's a little over a year and a half old, I'd junk the phone and just get a phone that didn't require me to do something so ridiculous to get official software.
it's pretty clear HTC is being hideously lazy and not supporting their own hardware in a timely fashion. While the original iPhone isn't supported, if Apple announced that each phone was getting a release "Whenever" I'd ditch the iPhone and find some phone vendor who's wililng to support my phone properly.
the funny thing about that ad...
Alan Alda's approach to selling a computer made sense.
The dweeb at the keyboard sounds more like the average slashdotter.
Right, but what average user is going to potentially brick their phone for what should be a vendor supplied patch? Rooting/Jailbreaking a device? Sure. A real OS update? No.
You can compare them in terms of how much software support they've received for their duration of existence. Is 1.6 even still getting security updates?
Many Android buyers are stuck with Android 1.5 and 1.6 because that's what not only the phone shipped with, but with what the vendor's willing to support through out the supply chain and if they want the new version OS, they've got to upgrade their entire device.
The strengths of the Android ecosystem are largely the weaknesses of the Android ecosystem as well. You really don't expect an end-user to manually upgrade their device and potentially brick it do you?
Sadly, iPhone OS 4 isn't supporting the 2G EDGE only model.
The fact is though. The HTC Dream/T-Mobile G1 was one of the first mass market Android devices out there, released a few months after the iPhone 3G and it's not getting 2.xx goodness, yet the iPhone 3G is.
I didn't.
I predicted that Micros~1 would use a far off and weird proprietary codec in a WMV container.
Jobs' goal is to stop you from using flash to access boatloads of free apps that don't go through the store, because then he can't even advertise to you.
Excuse me? Flash has been excluded from the iPhone from day 1, long before iAd was a gleam in Steve's eye.
If he was interested in squashing ad competitors he'd have disallowed AdMob and other advertising for mobile firms years ago when 2.0 came out.
i can type 40 or 50 wpm on a "lousy" on screen keyboard and a pocket, foldable bluetooth keyboard is even faster.
screw graffiti. keyboards are where it's at for mobile text input
Never needed it, never used it. Sucks that it's gone, don't think the lawsuit's going to win, hope it does, but, Super SF IV's out and I'll be damned if I buy an Xbox 360. Even lacking the Other OS feature, it's still a better console than the 360.
In case you haven't figured it out.
I don't give a shit. It's a games console. There are way more important things in life than just what I can jimmy Linux into.
So I'm not the only one waiting for a reboot of the series?
Two years running and I'm still able to play games I bought it for.
The second that stops, I'll break out the pitchforks. Until that day comes...
I don't think anyone thinks I really had a pet Vulcan, Dragon or a Dalek as a kid as my first pet.
Oh wait I need to change a bunch of secret questions now.
When will the studios ever figure out that the DRM isn't stopping piracy at all, and only hurts the honest customers?
it's working for the PS3.
You realize that in Mozilla Browser in 1999 could display GIFs?
Why is h.264 any different?
Mozilla is really dragging their ass for no really good reason.
On a side note, you and so many other people are so mistaken about the iPad being only for consumption, or even consumption focused... That is not the end game.
WebMD displays a lot of articles, not just the one about Tuberculosis, and very well on the iPad.
Yeah, Pogo Stylus. Just wish Apple would've thought about it before a 3rd Party did. Still don't have an iPad yet, but once I get one, I'm getting me a pogo.