Since you want to nitpick, NO. You're wrong. It's based on BSD, which is neither Linux or UNIX.
Well since you want to nitpick, no you're wrong. "Unix" is a standard administered by the Open Group. OS X has been certified as a Unix OS by the Open Group. IOS is based on OS X which is Unix, so IOS is based on Unix.
I haven't had to install a printer driver (ie a custom app) for my ios device since AirPrint came out in 2010. The Mac can also work with any AirPrint capable driver. Most wireless printrrs these days support it.
even still, the only time anyone I knew personally printed anything from a mobile device was over 10 years ago and that was in an electronics store, printing goatse over bluetooth to a printer on display.
You've convince me! Your anecdotal experience is enough for me to believe that no one needs to print from mobile devices....
That's a great solution! Why didn't Apple think of doing what Android does. I'm sure they could have just put a 1ghz+ ARM chip and 1GB of RAM in $399 device back in 2001.
I'm sure it would have also been very power efficient and fast to read and index the entire contents of an 80GB spinning hard drive with an 80Mhz processor. On top of that, just think how great it would have been trying to create a complicated playlist using the click wheel on an iPod.
Or were you thinking about using a separate app on your computer to create the playlist, sync the playlist to the MP3 player and then copy the files over using the file system?
I guess CmdrTaco was right, "less space than a Nomad, no wireless lame". It's no wonder that the ipod was such a failure....
Apple finally had to support non DRM industry compatability to stay alive.
Apple supported DRM free music before any of the other stores sold DRM free music from the major labels.
Steve Jobs wrote "Thoughts on Music" where he publicly asked the labels to let Apple and all of the other companies sell DRM free music instead of licensing FairPlay (what the industry wanted) months before music stores start selling DRM free music.
Ever noticed every MP3 player on the market can be plugged into your computer and you can browse the music files as if it were an external hard drive? With the sole exception of the iPod? The idiocy
So how do I have the same song in multiple playlist when the definition of a playlist on other players were "files in a folder"?
You're right, because no computer company has ever turned itself around from almost going bankrupt to being the most valuable company in the US while still remaining public....
No, they didn't plan it optimally. They got broadsided by Android capturing 85+% of the market, a lot of that led by Samsung's charge into phablets.
The reason that Android got 85% of the market is not because of large screens but because they are on average much cheaper. If Apple wanted a large chunk of the Android market they would have been selling low end low margin phones and been as "successful" as all of the floundering Android manufacturers,
You can only argue which has the better model(Short term profits vs Long term Market share), I personally think Androids is better long term.
Right because chasing after market share by selling lots of low profit margin products seems to be working as well for the Android OEMs as it did for PC manufacturers.
Even Samsung is reporting lower revenues and profits and that use to be Android's shining star.
The release date is not relevant. Relevant is the end of production date.
Okay, the 3GS was last sold as new until the 5 came out in September 2012 and got a security update in 2/2014. So even if you bought the lowest end iPhone available you still got 18-24 months of support -- the same as the top of the line flagship Android Nexus. I'm not aware of any security related patches that have come out since then that weren't released for the 3GS.
They'll go back to DRM because they can make it so they have the only music store on many peoples' phones and tablets. No choice in vendor, helping insure they get their music from apple, then no choice in players so they must buy apple devices to listen to iTunes music. It's not a cornered market, but purposeful vendor lock-in isn't exactly unheard of.
1. So are they going to take away support for mp3 and aac files? 2. Are they going to make Spotify, Pandora, Rhapsody, Amazon Music, and Google Music, etc. take their apps of the store? 3. Are they going to remove mp3/aac support from Safari? 4. Are they going to remove all of their API's for streaming music?
Why would Apple -- go back to pushing the full album when they pushed for single song downloads over a decade ago or why would they push for DRM when they encouraged the music industry to get rid of it.
(And before anyone says they were forced to get rid of DRM by the competition, check when Jobs published "Thoughts on Music" and when the other stores started selling DRM free music.)
Google keeps providing security updates for older devices. I'm not sure how far back it goes but Gingerbread still occasionally gets patches, so that's 2010. They are provided via the Play Store app, and can patch OS level issues just like iOS updates.
That only helps for frameworks and API's that are covered by Google Play services. Anything else is up to the vendor/carrier to actually send updates to your phone. How many vendors would send a security update to a phone released in 2009 four years later?
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Since there is shared code between OS X and iOS, all of the cost of developing OS X doesn't come from buying Macs....
Which technology would that be? Definitely not processor technology.
Well since you want to nitpick, no you're wrong. "Unix" is a standard administered by the Open Group. OS X has been certified as a Unix OS by the Open Group. IOS is based on OS X which is Unix, so IOS is based on Unix.
I haven't had to install a printer driver (ie a custom app) for my ios device since AirPrint came out in 2010. The Mac can also work with any AirPrint capable driver. Most wireless printrrs these days support it.
You've convince me! Your anecdotal experience is enough for me to believe that no one needs to print from mobile devices....
Slashdot has a long sordid history with Flash.
Pre-Android: "Flash sucks. It's proprietary"
Post Android when Apple was denying Flash on iOS and Google and Adobe were praising how great Flash was on Android: "Flash is great!"
Adobe dumps support for Flash on Android: "Flash sucks. Its proprietary."
That's a great solution! Why didn't Apple think of doing what Android does. I'm sure they could have just put a 1ghz+ ARM chip and 1GB of RAM in $399 device back in 2001.
I'm sure it would have also been very power efficient and fast to read and index the entire contents of an 80GB spinning hard drive with an 80Mhz processor. On top of that, just think how great it would have been trying to create a complicated playlist using the click wheel on an iPod.
Or were you thinking about using a separate app on your computer to create the playlist, sync the playlist to the MP3 player and then copy the files over using the file system?
I guess CmdrTaco was right, "less space than a Nomad, no wireless lame". It's no wonder that the ipod was such a failure....
MP3.com had deals with the major record labels?
Apple supported DRM free music before any of the other stores sold DRM free music from the major labels.
Steve Jobs wrote "Thoughts on Music" where he publicly asked the labels to let Apple and all of the other companies sell DRM free music instead of licensing FairPlay (what the industry wanted) months before music stores start selling DRM free music.
So how do I have the same song in multiple playlist when the definition of a playlist on other players were "files in a folder"?
How do I create smart playlist?
History shows that Apple likes to own any tech they depend on....
http://9to5mac.com/2014/06/30/...
Whoosh.....
Right because.....
1. Jobs wa never known for engineering products for form over function with disastrous results -- i.e. the Apple ///, the Lisa, the Cube, etc.
2. That must be why Apple's profits, stock price, and volume have been down since Cook took over....
Sure, I use these things call compilers all of the time.....
You're right, because no computer company has ever turned itself around from almost going bankrupt to being the most valuable company in the US while still remaining public....
The reason that Android got 85% of the market is not because of large screens but because they are on average much cheaper. If Apple wanted a large chunk of the Android market they would have been selling low end low margin phones and been as "successful" as all of the floundering Android manufacturers,
Right because chasing after market share by selling lots of low profit margin products seems to be working as well for the Android OEMs as it did for PC manufacturers.
Even Samsung is reporting lower revenues and profits and that use to be Android's shining star.
Well....
1. The only phone that Google sells are Nexus's and they don't really sell in volume.
2. Google has said numerous times (including in front of congress) that they make more of their mobile revenue from iOS devices than Android.
3. Samsung's revenues and profits are declining because more high end buyers are buying iPhones and more low end buyers are buying Chinese phones.
Okay, the 3GS was last sold as new until the 5 came out in September 2012 and got a security update in 2/2014. So even if you bought the lowest end iPhone available you still got 18-24 months of support -- the same as the top of the line flagship Android Nexus. I'm not aware of any security related patches that have come out since then that weren't released for the 3GS.
It's had "real multitasking" since 2007. It's had third party app multitasking since 2010.
18 whole months!
The 3GS was released in 2009 and got a security update 2/2014
The iPhone 4 was released in 6/2010 and had the latest OS until 9/2014.
Every iPhone released since 9/2011 can be upgraded to the latest OS.
1. So are they going to take away support for mp3 and aac files?
2. Are they going to make Spotify, Pandora, Rhapsody, Amazon Music, and Google Music, etc. take their apps of the store?
3. Are they going to remove mp3/aac support from Safari?
4. Are they going to remove all of their API's for streaming music?
What is that suppose to prove?
There was a lawsuit? If Apple was "ordered by the court" to drop FairPlay then how do you explain that it is still used for video, e-books?
Why would Apple -- go back to pushing the full album when they pushed for single song downloads over a decade ago or why would they push for DRM when they encouraged the music industry to get rid of it.
(And before anyone says they were forced to get rid of DRM by the competition, check when Jobs published "Thoughts on Music" and when the other stores started selling DRM free music.)
That only helps for frameworks and API's that are covered by Google Play services. Anything else is up to the vendor/carrier to actually send updates to your phone. How many vendors would send a security update to a phone released in 2009 four years later?