But that's the point innit. The app store is full of Fart Apps. When The Cloud makes it trivial for anyone to create a Cloud Service, there will be half a million Fart Services.
You lose money on your Fart App? Great, that's exactly how life should be.
That depends who these free games are targeted at, how much this optional stuff costs, and how essential it is to play the game. Smurf Village (for example) is aimed at 4+ year olds yet allows kids to purchase in game items with real money. Not pocket money either. A "wheelbarrow of smurfberries" costs $60 and can be had with a few taps.
It's not aimed at four year olds, it's rated 4+ because there is no objectionable content. And on every screen where you can purchase it there is a disclaimer, "PLEASE NOTE: Smurfs' Village is free to play, but charges real money for additional in-app content. You may lock out the ability to purchase in-app content by adjusting your device’s settings."
It's not aimed at four year olds, it's rated 4+ because there is no objectionable content. And on every screen where you can purchase it there is a disclaimer, "PLEASE NOTE: Smurfs' Village is free to play, but charges real money for additional in-app content. You may lock out the ability to purchase in-app content by adjusting your device’s settings."
I don't know anyone who uses it except me. I became a stream-only Netflix subscriber when they split their business. I would have to rent about 6 Redbox movies a month to meet Netflix's fee (IIRC). I don't rent 6 movies a month so I'm good. Also our library has a good selection of DVDs.
The entire business model of RedBox is based on giving away free promo codes and then charging fraudulent late fees one or two months later. So if you (or your friends) haven't used one of their free promo codes, just consider yourself and your friends lucky.
"There's nothing special about iPods. They're a digital music player, just like every other digital music player out there..."...except it's the single best selling line of personal music players of all time, having sold more units that all competitors combined.
And it's so sad the haters can't put things into perspective. We're talking 2001, not 2011. At that time it wasn't just like every other digital music player, just like the original iPhone wasn't like the other mobile phones out there. So sad for a tech site.
Siri is a heck of a lot more interesting. Siri is a first grasp at understanding intent. "Is it going to rain tomorrow?" "Text my wife that I'll be there in 5 minutes." "Remind me at 6PM tomorrow to call the doctor." "How do I get home?"
We told SIri, "Eat shit" and she listed local restaurants in order from worst to best.
Because it's a glaring missed opportunity in iOS devices. I don't want to mix my personal and work contacts/calendars/email, but in iOS there is little separating them. Give me a work profile and a personal profile. At least good old Nokia/Symbian was smart enough to have this 5-6 years ago starting with their first generation smartphones, although the data is not partitioned or encrypted. But at least it was easy to keep work stuff separate from personal stuff on the smartphone. Why Apple continues to be blind to this I'll never understand.
There are already iOS / Android apps that separate Exchange accounts from the rest of the phone including the remote wipe. Not the described dual persona nirvana but in most cases I assume should satify the balance between controlled corporate data and your personal phone. Even without the app I disagree that they are not separated. You choose which contacts/calendars/email you want to display if not all of them. Each maintains your own identity, signature, etc. But without the app a remote wipe nails the whole iDevice, just like Android.
beyond mentionning that such a service would be against Apple's TOS.
I would classify this as grandstanding. There are already iOS / Android apps that separate Exchange accounts from the rest of the phone including the remote wipe. Not the described dual persona nirvana but in most cases I assume should satify the balance between controlled corporate data and your personal phone.
We have a policy, a written agreement, and an Exchange policy where all unknown devices are quarantined until we verify their capabilities. Devices that are known to be secure are allowed to bypass the quarantine.
The problem is that people who do enterprise security see the world through blinders that fail to grasp that security is a continuum, and who keep trying to ram sledgehammer/meatcleaver "one dysfunctional size annoys everyone" non-solutions down everyone's throats, oblivious to both the likelihood and consequences of informal civil disobedience and quiet passive-aggressive rebellion.
That's how a remote wipe works. There is an Android / iPhone app that keeps the Exchange account separate and only that application's data (mail / calendar / etc.) are wiped. The Exchange passcode requirement only applies to the app so the phone itself doesn't require one.
Finally someone who "get's it". Their OS was current. iTunes was current. Their iDevices were paired and synced. This is the experience for the majority. It's not a failure to be warned that you have untransferred purchases or you need the current version of iTunes.
Seriously, why on earth would someone design a syncing process that makes it SO EASY to lose all your stuff? Why not a single step?
Let's hope that OTA updates take this nightmarish process away. We'll see.
You have no idea what you're doing and you blame the technology?
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I know, I know, I'm sure the Apple folks will come out of the woodwork to point out all the stupid things I've done here, but I have to laugh at "It just works".
Not an Apple person, but a technical person would point out that you didn't keep your systems up-to-date. And how you got two versions of iTunes installed is I'm sure a fascinating story. And sorry that you were told there were purchases on your iPad at risk and that iTunes recommended to sync before starting an update. The bastards.
And I'm not the only one that it's happened to in the comments to this story. The Apple update process is just completely horrible. If the update servers are down, tell me the fucking update servers are down and don't tell me I corrupted my iTunes installation!
So angry. Time for a deep breath and let go. We got it: You don't know what you did and it's not your fault. If you didn't think there would be problems when a billion people all tried to download a 700 MB file and update on the same day then your judgement is poor. Guess what? If you go to a restaurant at 6 PM it's busy. And faulting their support site? If a car takes out a pole and you lose cable, their support site is still going to tell you to make sure the converter box is plugged in and turned on. Seriously though, if you can't manage the platform you've chosen then it's time to switch.
It used to be in there somewhere, for what to do if a hard reset doesn't work. Which, now that the support site is up again, turns out to be holding both the Wake/Sleep button and the Home button for 10 seconds. That's intuitive.
There's only two buttons. Were you expecting Morse Code? I used to manage mobile devices. Our cheat sheet on how to reboot had a line for each device. If you still aren't clear: Hold one button down to turn it off. Hold both buttons down to force a restart.
they have been convinced that a walled garden is good for them
Wrong... Most people don't care. In fact most people would need you to explain what a walled garden is, and why it is a bad thing. Then they still would not care.
That's the problem with the myth of a walled garden. You are trying to bully someone who is satisfied with their choices into believing they made the wrong one. Everyone has their own version of why a WG bad and 99.9% of them aren't applicable to the current victim of their righteousness. If you believed all the reasons people complain about walled gardens then the only thing you would buy is a Heath Kit and a soldering iron. If I wanted to do anything outside the wall, I wouldn't have climbed in in the first place.
Oh, hey, it hard-crashed my phone. I'll just pop out the battery to reboot it, and... oh, crap. That's right, the Apple official way to restart a crashed iDevice is to let the battery drain.
Not true. I understand your confusion if you're used to a platform that requires disassembly to recover from a problem. I don't know where people come up with this stuff and it's modded up. So sad for a purported technical site. I love religion as much as Flanders but this is just embarassing.
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...the question is why people would still deliberately subject themselves and their mail to Microsoft when they have plenty of options.
Subject my *mail* to Microsoft? I honestly don't think it cares. In fact, the guy in the v1@gra ad seems pretty goddamn giddy about it.
But that's the point innit. The app store is full of Fart Apps. When The Cloud makes it trivial for anyone to create a Cloud Service, there will be half a million Fart Services.
You lose money on your Fart App? Great, that's exactly how life should be.
Or you could receive a windfall.
I forgot to mention that in the app store the graphic is Scaredy Smurf so you are effectively warned twice.
That depends who these free games are targeted at, how much this optional stuff costs, and how essential it is to play the game. Smurf Village (for example) is aimed at 4+ year olds yet allows kids to purchase in game items with real money. Not pocket money either. A "wheelbarrow of smurfberries" costs $60 and can be had with a few taps.
It's not aimed at four year olds, it's rated 4+ because there is no objectionable content. And on every screen where you can purchase it there is a disclaimer, "PLEASE NOTE: Smurfs' Village is free to play, but charges real money for additional in-app content. You may lock out the ability to purchase in-app content by adjusting your device’s settings."
It's not aimed at four year olds, it's rated 4+ because there is no objectionable content. And on every screen where you can purchase it there is a disclaimer, "PLEASE NOTE: Smurfs' Village is free to play, but charges real money for additional in-app content. You may lock out the ability to purchase in-app content by adjusting your device’s settings."
Is anyone else besides me annoyed that Fukushima keeps on overshadowing this incredibly catastrophic tsunami?
You should ask again after the Fulushima disaster ends. If Fukushima was a tsunami the water would still be rising.
I don't know anyone who uses it except me. I became a stream-only Netflix subscriber when they split their business. I would have to rent about 6 Redbox movies a month to meet Netflix's fee (IIRC). I don't rent 6 movies a month so I'm good. Also our library has a good selection of DVDs.
The entire business model of RedBox is based on giving away free promo codes and then charging fraudulent late fees one or two months later. So if you (or your friends) haven't used one of their free promo codes, just consider yourself and your friends lucky.
No.
"There's nothing special about iPods. They're a digital music player, just like every other digital music player out there..." ...except it's the single best selling line of personal music players of all time, having sold more units that all competitors combined.
And it's so sad the haters can't put things into perspective. We're talking 2001, not 2011. At that time it wasn't just like every other digital music player, just like the original iPhone wasn't like the other mobile phones out there. So sad for a tech site.
Siri is a heck of a lot more interesting. Siri is a first grasp at understanding intent. "Is it going to rain tomorrow?" "Text my wife that I'll be there in 5 minutes." "Remind me at 6PM tomorrow to call the doctor." "How do I get home?"
We told SIri, "Eat shit" and she listed local restaurants in order from worst to best.
I take it as a standard, noncommittal lawyer-in-court answer.
Wrong forum: http://forums.macrumors.com/forumdisplay.php?f=134
At Apple, work is play. Play is work. There is no difference.
Are they hiring?
Because it's a glaring missed opportunity in iOS devices. I don't want to mix my personal and work contacts/calendars/email, but in iOS there is little separating them. Give me a work profile and a personal profile. At least good old Nokia/Symbian was smart enough to have this 5-6 years ago starting with their first generation smartphones, although the data is not partitioned or encrypted. But at least it was easy to keep work stuff separate from personal stuff on the smartphone. Why Apple continues to be blind to this I'll never understand.
There are already iOS / Android apps that separate Exchange accounts from the rest of the phone including the remote wipe. Not the described dual persona nirvana but in most cases I assume should satify the balance between controlled corporate data and your personal phone. Even without the app I disagree that they are not separated. You choose which contacts/calendars/email you want to display if not all of them. Each maintains your own identity, signature, etc. But without the app a remote wipe nails the whole iDevice, just like Android.
beyond mentionning that such a service would be against Apple's TOS.
I would classify this as grandstanding. There are already iOS / Android apps that separate Exchange accounts from the rest of the phone including the remote wipe. Not the described dual persona nirvana but in most cases I assume should satify the balance between controlled corporate data and your personal phone.
Considering your comments were moderated as Troll, I'll just mention that your companies perception is more accurate than your rhetoric.
We have a policy, a written agreement, and an Exchange policy where all unknown devices are quarantined until we verify their capabilities. Devices that are known to be secure are allowed to bypass the quarantine.
The problem is that people who do enterprise security see the world through blinders that fail to grasp that security is a continuum, and who keep trying to ram sledgehammer/meatcleaver "one dysfunctional size annoys everyone" non-solutions down everyone's throats, oblivious to both the likelihood and consequences of informal civil disobedience and quiet passive-aggressive rebellion.
Not all of them do and you should get out more.
That's how a remote wipe works. There is an Android / iPhone app that keeps the Exchange account separate and only that application's data (mail / calendar / etc.) are wiped. The Exchange passcode requirement only applies to the app so the phone itself doesn't require one.
Finally someone who "get's it". Their OS was current. iTunes was current. Their iDevices were paired and synced. This is the experience for the majority. It's not a failure to be warned that you have untransferred purchases or you need the current version of iTunes.
Seriously, why on earth would someone design a syncing process that makes it SO EASY to lose all your stuff? Why not a single step?
Let's hope that OTA updates take this nightmarish process away. We'll see.
You have no idea what you're doing and you blame the technology?
I know, I know, I'm sure the Apple folks will come out of the woodwork to point out all the stupid things I've done here, but I have to laugh at "It just works".
Not an Apple person, but a technical person would point out that you didn't keep your systems up-to-date. And how you got two versions of iTunes installed is I'm sure a fascinating story. And sorry that you were told there were purchases on your iPad at risk and that iTunes recommended to sync before starting an update. The bastards.
And I'm not the only one that it's happened to in the comments to this story. The Apple update process is just completely horrible. If the update servers are down, tell me the fucking update servers are down and don't tell me I corrupted my iTunes installation!
So angry. Time for a deep breath and let go. We got it: You don't know what you did and it's not your fault. If you didn't think there would be problems when a billion people all tried to download a 700 MB file and update on the same day then your judgement is poor. Guess what? If you go to a restaurant at 6 PM it's busy. And faulting their support site? If a car takes out a pole and you lose cable, their support site is still going to tell you to make sure the converter box is plugged in and turned on. Seriously though, if you can't manage the platform you've chosen then it's time to switch.
It used to be in there somewhere, for what to do if a hard reset doesn't work. Which, now that the support site is up again, turns out to be holding both the Wake/Sleep button and the Home button for 10 seconds. That's intuitive.
There's only two buttons. Were you expecting Morse Code? I used to manage mobile devices. Our cheat sheet on how to reboot had a line for each device. If you still aren't clear: Hold one button down to turn it off. Hold both buttons down to force a restart.
Wrong... Most people don't care. In fact most people would need you to explain what a walled garden is, and why it is a bad thing. Then they still would not care.
That's the problem with the myth of a walled garden. You are trying to bully someone who is satisfied with their choices into believing they made the wrong one. Everyone has their own version of why a WG bad and 99.9% of them aren't applicable to the current victim of their righteousness. If you believed all the reasons people complain about walled gardens then the only thing you would buy is a Heath Kit and a soldering iron. If I wanted to do anything outside the wall, I wouldn't have climbed in in the first place.
Oh, hey, it hard-crashed my phone. I'll just pop out the battery to reboot it, and ... oh, crap. That's right, the Apple official way to restart a crashed iDevice is to let the battery drain.
Not true. I understand your confusion if you're used to a platform that requires disassembly to recover from a problem. I don't know where people come up with this stuff and it's modded up. So sad for a purported technical site. I love religion as much as Flanders but this is just embarassing.