Dude, I can get about 45mpg and the motor/freeway from my Mini Cooper S sat in 6th gear, I find comments about 50mpg from Hybrids to be kinda shocking to be honest.
Since you seem to suffer from reading incomprehension, let me explain it to you. The OP was making a case for adding third party repositories to the standard Apple package manager so that less tech savvy Apple users don't only have the Apple Store to download from. I am making the point that Apple doesn't want that because it would cut into profits. Understand?
I stopped reading at this point, I'm sure you go on to rant about Jobs or something wonderfully fascinating. The OP said he's amazed Apple don't allow third party repositories, I followed that up with a comment that it would totally defeat the whole point of the App Store to do that, with the sandbox and security requirements. The WHOLE point of the App Store is so that, in your words "less tech savvy Apple users" don't have to worry about where their software comes from and is protected by sandboxing. Adding more repositories totally breaks the point of the App Store when there is a huge amount of free and open source software on the App Store and countless other places for more experienced OSX users to install software. Apple making money from that changes nothing.
So your point is, Apple is making money for offering a service (the bastards, how dare a business make money off a service they provide while allowing users to continue installing software any other way they choose from other sources outside of their store) and just HAD to add that in there with a rude comment which didn't actually change the point, i.e. "I'm amazed Apple don't allow third party repositories", "that would go against what Apple are trying to do with the App Store". Wonderful, thanks for your completely pointless contribution. You're an idiot.
Enjoy your follow up rant, I'm sure it will be wonderful and still won't change that one single point.
WTF are you talking about? Paid programs on the app store are nearly always cheeper, often by a large amount, than from other sources and can be installed legally on five computers instead of just the usual one. The App Store is a safe way to find software with a push towards finding software that uses sandboxing and there is plenty of free and open source software, to include other repositories would break the whole point of the place and it's clearly having no ill effect on a large number of OSX users using open source software, even if Apple's entire idea is to drain users of their money that doesn't change the point that was made.
OOH wait I get it, you wanted your little podium moment to let everyone know you don't like Apple, while making no actual point. This is a safe place, this is Slashdot, you're safe here.
I agree, I've moved from Linux to some Apple stuff and it's wonderful to use. My laptop is an 11" Air and I use a Mac Mini as a home desktop for all the reasons you've listed and more, I honestly couldn't go back to a Linux GUI, any of them. It still has its home on my servers though.
The problem with a large number of you Americans (and I say this as someone that, for the most part, likes visiting and likes the American people, it's hard to not like you when you grew up watching Back to the Future in the 80's) is that you've forgotten the lessons of your forefathers, it is the responsibility of a proud and patriotic citizen to question, criticise and shout at their governments. Crying out that if you don't all get in line then "the terrorists win" and swallowing everything your government tells you is something a stupid man does.
You silly person. The only way to fix this is to tax the rich. Cutting spending, and spending wisely are obviously racist conspiracies.
Damn right, the poor should pay for the mistakes of the rich, right? Is that what David Cameron means when he tells the British public that "we're all in this together"? Translation, "let the poor pay the lions share."
You two idiots did actually read the article right? Apple didn't file this complaint. Of course you didn't, this is Slashdot and at Slashdot if the title has Apple in it then it's bad and if it has Google in the title then it's good.
...you know you're wrong right? You're just trying to get people who don't know better to just follow along with your anti-Apple crap. I swear people like you just make me wanna go out and give Apple some money just to piss you off.
God you some of you love to play smart but can be so dumb, you really don't do your Apple hatting any justice (which can be valid) when you don't know what you're talking about.
Yeah, Apple one of the riches companies in the world, must be quaking in the boots it walks to the bank in, as it deposits 70%+ of its overall profits that come entirely from iOS.
Well that's a load of crap, I couldn't even count how many MacBooks from 2006 we have at work and not one has ever broken or needed much maintenance. I can't say the same for our HP laptops. I could probably find a few iBooks if I dug deep enough.
It's a pretty clear statement, "not actually true at all". You thinking I'm trying to "look bright" doesn't change or alter reality, Apple didn't steal anything from Xerox.
No no, I mean "not actually true at all", you see it's called reality and whether the words come from my ass, from my mouth or tapped by fingers on a keyboard doesn't change that. Some of us happened to be alive and working in the emerging computer industry when these things happened, all the internet hating in the world doesn't suddenly reality, Apple did not steal anything from Xerox.
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...has a load of open source software.
Dude, I can get about 45mpg and the motor/freeway from my Mini Cooper S sat in 6th gear, I find comments about 50mpg from Hybrids to be kinda shocking to be honest.
Since you seem to suffer from reading incomprehension, let me explain it to you. The OP was making a case for adding third party repositories to the standard Apple package manager so that less tech savvy Apple users don't only have the Apple Store to download from. I am making the point that Apple doesn't want that because it would cut into profits. Understand?
I stopped reading at this point, I'm sure you go on to rant about Jobs or something wonderfully fascinating. The OP said he's amazed Apple don't allow third party repositories, I followed that up with a comment that it would totally defeat the whole point of the App Store to do that, with the sandbox and security requirements. The WHOLE point of the App Store is so that, in your words "less tech savvy Apple users" don't have to worry about where their software comes from and is protected by sandboxing. Adding more repositories totally breaks the point of the App Store when there is a huge amount of free and open source software on the App Store and countless other places for more experienced OSX users to install software. Apple making money from that changes nothing.
So your point is, Apple is making money for offering a service (the bastards, how dare a business make money off a service they provide while allowing users to continue installing software any other way they choose from other sources outside of their store) and just HAD to add that in there with a rude comment which didn't actually change the point, i.e. "I'm amazed Apple don't allow third party repositories", "that would go against what Apple are trying to do with the App Store". Wonderful, thanks for your completely pointless contribution. You're an idiot.
Enjoy your follow up rant, I'm sure it will be wonderful and still won't change that one single point.
WTF are you talking about? Paid programs on the app store are nearly always cheeper, often by a large amount, than from other sources and can be installed legally on five computers instead of just the usual one. The App Store is a safe way to find software with a push towards finding software that uses sandboxing and there is plenty of free and open source software, to include other repositories would break the whole point of the place and it's clearly having no ill effect on a large number of OSX users using open source software, even if Apple's entire idea is to drain users of their money that doesn't change the point that was made.
OOH wait I get it, you wanted your little podium moment to let everyone know you don't like Apple, while making no actual point. This is a safe place, this is Slashdot, you're safe here.
Maybe it's different in the US, but virtually every HDTV sold over here already has at least one USB port.
No idea how you got voted informative because that's just basically wrong. And this really wouldn't be anything like plugging a computer into your TV.
I agree, I've moved from Linux to some Apple stuff and it's wonderful to use. My laptop is an 11" Air and I use a Mac Mini as a home desktop for all the reasons you've listed and more, I honestly couldn't go back to a Linux GUI, any of them. It still has its home on my servers though.
How would that make any sense to what the Apple App store is meant to be doing for users?
The problem with a large number of you Americans (and I say this as someone that, for the most part, likes visiting and likes the American people, it's hard to not like you when you grew up watching Back to the Future in the 80's) is that you've forgotten the lessons of your forefathers, it is the responsibility of a proud and patriotic citizen to question, criticise and shout at their governments. Crying out that if you don't all get in line then "the terrorists win" and swallowing everything your government tells you is something a stupid man does.
You silly person. The only way to fix this is to tax the rich. Cutting spending, and spending wisely are obviously racist conspiracies.
Damn right, the poor should pay for the mistakes of the rich, right? Is that what David Cameron means when he tells the British public that "we're all in this together"? Translation, "let the poor pay the lions share."
Oh please, Microsoft is every bit a patent troll as Apple is.
I don't think Slashdot posters these days actually know what this term means, please stop saying things when you don't know what they mean.
And the last time I edited some video, I did it from the command line.
OMG you're so much more hardcore than anyone else. If you think he's correct then wow, he just must be.
Heh, then why don't car companies design cars for little old ladies from Pasadena
...er, because little old ladies from Pasadena aren't the majority of car users.
Apple. Honestly wouldn't shock me if they did.
You two idiots did actually read the article right? Apple didn't file this complaint. Of course you didn't, this is Slashdot and at Slashdot if the title has Apple in it then it's bad and if it has Google in the title then it's good.
The whole ecosystem is flawed
ffs Slashdot is becoming intolerable lately.
That's because the type of crap Microsoft let walk all over it's operating systems in the 90's was just that, viruses.
...you know you're wrong right? You're just trying to get people who don't know better to just follow along with your anti-Apple crap. I swear people like you just make me wanna go out and give Apple some money just to piss you off.
God you some of you love to play smart but can be so dumb, you really don't do your Apple hatting any justice (which can be valid) when you don't know what you're talking about.
So true, I've often considered that they must be too young to have dealt with Microsoft in the 80s.
No you're not, iOS5 is totally freed from being wired to iTunes. All the set up is now done directly on the iPad or iPhone.
Yeah, Apple one of the riches companies in the world, must be quaking in the boots it walks to the bank in, as it deposits 70%+ of its overall profits that come entirely from iOS.
Well that's a load of crap, I couldn't even count how many MacBooks from 2006 we have at work and not one has ever broken or needed much maintenance. I can't say the same for our HP laptops. I could probably find a few iBooks if I dug deep enough.
Oh, oh! I see what you did, I see it! You think that because Apple didn't steal from Xerox then I must be a fanboy because that's how it works.
It's a pretty clear statement, "not actually true at all". You thinking I'm trying to "look bright" doesn't change or alter reality, Apple didn't steal anything from Xerox.
No no, I mean "not actually true at all", you see it's called reality and whether the words come from my ass, from my mouth or tapped by fingers on a keyboard doesn't change that. Some of us happened to be alive and working in the emerging computer industry when these things happened, all the internet hating in the world doesn't suddenly reality, Apple did not steal anything from Xerox.