It works perfectly for users. Apple doesn't care about the developers. It never has.
Users have a simple App to access the store. All the apps are tested for compatibility, and the store won't let or will warn if you try to purchase an app that is not compatible with your device. The apps are tested to ensure they follow basic UI guidelines and that they fail gracefully when connectivity is limited or unavailable. Purely as a user, what's not to like?
Apple could have come out with a phone that could not have any apps added to it at all. This would have been perfectly legal. Silly, perhaps, but legal.
Taking this same phone that can't have apps added to it and allowing apps to be added from Apple's site is no more illegal than the previous situation.
No organization of any kind should be permitted to make campaign contributions. If a number of like-minded individuals wish to support a campaign, they can all make individual contributions.
I don't care if Bill Ford donates a few million in order to elect someone who will retard updates to CAFE standards. I have a huge issue with Ford Motor doing the same thing.
The Constitution should defend and protect people and their interests. Corporations and groups of any kind may exist, but they should not have a financial voice in Government.
My aversion, in general, is that "software" patents are usually algorithm patents, and as such, are too general. They protect the idea of the feature instead of the implementation.
It's even worse than what you wrote. There is ZERO benefit to blind people when sighted people are given Kindles. This is all about hurting the majority to make the minority feel better.
I don't care about the Chinese government much one way or the other. However, if the Chinese are going to create products with poison in them, it is better for the entire world if they are domestic products.
It would also be good for Walmart executives to be forced to use these products exclusively.
I have no numbers on the amount of goods shipped into the US on a daily basis, but I suspect that it would take a large percentage of the population to check it all in a timely manner.
It would be better to simply fine Walmart several hundred billion dollars for poisoning US citizens. Walmart forces suppliers to lower prices, and this is exactly what we get. It is Walmart's fault.
The first browser I used that had tabs was on Windows 3.1. It was from a company called GNN, that AOL had bought before becoming an ISP in their own right.
Opera and FF were both VERY late to the table with tabs.
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But I would consider as evidence the fact that Humans are still around and that there are now over 6 billion of us.
You are approximately 5 trillion orders of magnitude beyond stupid.
The app is in the approval phase. Apple didn't have to go digging for it because the developer explicitly ASKED APPLE TO LOOK AT IT.
Idiot.
It works perfectly for users. Apple doesn't care about the developers. It never has.
Users have a simple App to access the store. All the apps are tested for compatibility, and the store won't let or will warn if you try to purchase an app that is not compatible with your device. The apps are tested to ensure they follow basic UI guidelines and that they fail gracefully when connectivity is limited or unavailable. Purely as a user, what's not to like?
The latter, of course.
Apple could have come out with a phone that could not have any apps added to it at all. This would have been perfectly legal. Silly, perhaps, but legal.
Taking this same phone that can't have apps added to it and allowing apps to be added from Apple's site is no more illegal than the previous situation.
IOW, you are an idiot.
Please. You expect way too much sense from an Apple hater.
A tip to the GP: Displaying your ignorance and stupidity to the world does not actually reflect poorly on Apple.
Where have you been for the last 10 years? Stuck in 1987?
You are stupid. Not incredibly so, as I am definitely not new here. I see a great deal of stupidity like yours every day.
The iPhone OS does multitasking and multithreading. It's not just capable of it -- it does it every day for millions of users.
No organization of any kind should be permitted to make campaign contributions. If a number of like-minded individuals wish to support a campaign, they can all make individual contributions.
I don't care if Bill Ford donates a few million in order to elect someone who will retard updates to CAFE standards. I have a huge issue with Ford Motor doing the same thing.
The Constitution should defend and protect people and their interests. Corporations and groups of any kind may exist, but they should not have a financial voice in Government.
Then why are they weighing in with an opinion?
And you probably think Opera invented tabs in a browser. Your knowledge is no better.
This is the same fallacy as the idea that if copyrighted materials could not be distributed illegally that all those people would buy it.
People who work on pet projects would not work on the more mainstream projects. This is easily demonstrated by the fact that they don't.
Does your mom also have trouble understanding how two vehicles can use the same road?
It's a good thing there are several thousand "smart" applications that are genuinely useful or entertaining.
You are an asshole. And stupid.
My aversion, in general, is that "software" patents are usually algorithm patents, and as such, are too general. They protect the idea of the feature instead of the implementation.
Are you really that stupid? What a sobering thought.
It's even worse than what you wrote. There is ZERO benefit to blind people when sighted people are given Kindles. This is all about hurting the majority to make the minority feel better.
The DOJ in the classroom hurts everyone.
I don't care about the Chinese government much one way or the other. However, if the Chinese are going to create products with poison in them, it is better for the entire world if they are domestic products.
It would also be good for Walmart executives to be forced to use these products exclusively.
Except, of course, that even our oldest nuclear plants are orders of magnitude more safe than any coal plant.
I have no numbers on the amount of goods shipped into the US on a daily basis, but I suspect that it would take a large percentage of the population to check it all in a timely manner.
It would be better to simply fine Walmart several hundred billion dollars for poisoning US citizens. Walmart forces suppliers to lower prices, and this is exactly what we get. It is Walmart's fault.
I'm glad they are using it domestically. I hope they continue to poison their own population for decades to come.
The first browser I used that had tabs was on Windows 3.1. It was from a company called GNN, that AOL had bought before becoming an ISP in their own right.
Opera and FF were both VERY late to the table with tabs.
Not every phone has WiFi.
The idea is that you don't pay someone to get rid of it. You find someone who needs it and sell it to them.
Just like the iPhone and iPod Touch flopped?
Apple haters eschew logic.