I think you're over-reaching when you claim to speak on behalf of the "average person" because the "average person" may not necessarily share your view on what's important to him. Right now it seems the "average person" is richly rewarding Apple with record sales quarter after quarter.
>>Lamo says that Manning thereafter sent him additional emails encrypted to his current PGP key, but that Lamo never bothered to decrypt them. Instead, Lamo claims he turned over all those Manning emails to the FBI without ever reading a single one of them. Thus, the actual initial communications between Manning and Lamo -- what preceded and led to their chat -- are completely unknown.
The only way that the FBI could've read the emails without having Lamo himself first decrypt them, is to allow the FBI access to his secret key and password. You be the judge on the plausibility of that happening.
Knowing how large companies work; Chris is going to get a subpoena to appear in court to provide his self-proclaimed expert testimony and Goatse Security is going to get charged with illegal computer access, which, by their own admission, did occur.
And then everyone is going to forget about this and get right back to watching the World Cup.
>>Finally, a reminder that this documents contains my own opinions, I do not speak for or represent anyone but myself. Didn't see where the Google association was, but judged in isolation it appears to be nothing more than grandstanding since 5 days doesn't seem to be reasonably enough time to respond.
Like Adobe, they got burned when the 64-bit Carbon API was scrapped, and it took more than 2 years. But it's here now.
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So what is your proposed solution? Is there a netbook that weighs less than 1.5 pounds that would not cause your arm to tire after an equivalent length of time?
If you have a problem with WSJ costing more than the print edition, then don't subscribe to it. It is WSJ itself that determines the price, not Apple. The market will find the equilibrium.
As for ad-blocking, there are always proxy servers like Privoxy that can filter out ads.
Doesn't make her points any less valid i.e. none of the external developers had access to the 2.1 SDK prior to the N1's release, that Google is unaccustomed to direct sales etc.
You develop for iPhone OS, you are largely absolved of the burden of having to determine device configuration and specifications. You know the exact target; either an iPhone/iPhone 3G/iPod Touch (no camera or video recording ability) or an iPhone 3GS. Can all Nokia smartphones run the apps on ovi?
Your numbers are way off. Apple had cumulative sales of 50 million iPhone OS devices (iPhones in various versions and iPod Touch) a month or so ago. The general consensus is that about half are iPod Touches, so that leaves about 25 million, and not 10-15 million that you claim.
But handset sales are only one part of the equation. Apple is recognizing revenue through carrier deals and also through the App Store, and iTunes Music Store. Until now there is no credible competitor for the App Store in terms of sales volume, profit or developer mindshare.
In other words, they're being hypocritical. Or the author failed basic high school English composition.
"Open source is high quality code and benefits an open internet, but our lucrative search and ad products are closed, because opening them up would lower its quality." But isn't that the point of "open source" in the first place?
I fail to see why a free software developer wouldn't be insulted by such a condescending position.
Oh, and Google panders to the Chinese censors too. What was that about an "open internet" again?
but Google was a major contributor in getting people comfortable with trading their data for "free" usage.
On the other hand, Apple customers generally do not mind paying for a perceived level of quality. Look at the Mac shareware market, although small in size there are companies that have existed and even prospered in this niche for years.
Essentially the people who actually buy iPhone apps do not mind paying that $1 or however much the developer wants for it, despite the fact that piracy is quite rampant by most measures.
This is not actually an insane proposition when you consider that the iPhone or iPod Touch is also a reasonable alternative to existing handheld game consoles like the DS, PSP etc, especially when you factor the price of the games.
You're replacing others' bias for one of your own. For every "fart app" that is not needed, how many "alternate dialers" or "profile managers" do you think the general public needs, or even cares about? This is classic developer featuritis. I don't need 50 ways to accomplish one thing. I only need one way to do it, but perform it reasonably well/fail gracefully.
While the marketing checklist is targeted at the iPhone (emphasis on running Flash, copy-paste which iPhone did not have until iPhone OS 3.0 etc), what is going to happen is that it is going to fragment the smartphone market even more.
We now have Maemo, Android, webOS, WinMo, Symbian, BlackBerry OS and iPhone OS as the major visible players, with Apple being the only one who has figured out how to incentivize their developers through the App Store, despite all its shortcomings. And Nokia has tried before too, with its N-gage system, and that didn't turn out too well either. So no, I don't think this handset is going to affect iPhone sales very much, if at all.
No significant increase in cylinder wall wear as compared to gasoline, assuming the metallurgy is up to it. Ethanol is slightly corrosive to aluminum alloy, which is what most engine cylinder heads and short blocks are made of these days. Cylinder walls are worn more rapidly due to friction from the piston and oil control rings at high RPMs. Depending on engine design over time the walls may even become significantly distorted and out-of-round (elliptical instead of circular).
This is 1984, all over again. Only this time, the roles are reversed.
This is affirmed by the fact that the 1984 ad that was played during MWSF had an iPod digitally grafted on to the woman throwing the hammer.
Apple is now the dominant manufacturer of portable music playback devices and has assumed the role of IBM. The licensing of the iPod and iTMS is a move straight out of the IBM playbook 20 years ago.
Expect this to be remedied soon. Retail stores are going to be seriously hurt if all the latest songs are going to be available on the AMS right off the bat.
Complaint #2. "You have to change the playlist for every 10 burns. That sucks".
Well, creating a new playlist is as simple as selecting the tracks that you want, dragging it and dropping it on the playlist column to the left. And iTunes is smart enough to organize all the tracks with the same album name, into 1 playlist with the album name filled in. How complicated can that be?
Seriously, stop hating, keep an open mind and you just might see the value in this. Besides, AMS is just another avenue of getting at music, and choice is good.
If I put my PowerBook to sleep under MacOS X 10.1, my battery will be drained by morning. With Linux it sleeps as long as MacOS 9 does.
Dunno about you but on my Pismo 500 with full charge it can sleep for the whole weekend and when it awakes on Monday it's still got half-charge remaining.
Hear me now or hear me later: OS X is *loaded* with local root exploits. Here's one article [stepwise.com].
How is one exploit == loaded? FYI, that one has been fixed. Look for it in Mac OS X10.1.1.
FYI there are lots of other articles explaining how to get OS X running on pre-G3 Macs.
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So how are these Windows PCs going to download the patches if they are banned from connecting in the first place?
You might've missed the recent repeal of section 3.3.1. Apple now no longer requires applications to be written in Objective-C.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/09/09statement.html
USC TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 119 > 2511 Interception and disclosure of wire, oral, or electronic communications prohibited
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00002511----000-.html
Could this be making the iPhone 4 ready for Verizon's network?
Well if the authors actually read the licensing agreement, they can choose to opt out by going to http://oo.apple.com/
And, you can always totally turn off Location Services. It's under Settings>General>Location Services.
I think you're over-reaching when you claim to speak on behalf of the "average person" because the "average person" may not necessarily share your view on what's important to him. Right now it seems the "average person" is richly rewarding Apple with record sales quarter after quarter.
>>Lamo says that Manning thereafter sent him additional emails encrypted to his current PGP key, but that Lamo never bothered to decrypt them. Instead, Lamo claims he turned over all those Manning emails to the FBI without ever reading a single one of them. Thus, the actual initial communications between Manning and Lamo -- what preceded and led to their chat -- are completely unknown.
The only way that the FBI could've read the emails without having Lamo himself first decrypt them, is to allow the FBI access to his secret key and password. You be the judge on the plausibility of that happening.
Knowing how large companies work; Chris is going to get a subpoena to appear in court to provide his self-proclaimed expert testimony and Goatse Security is going to get charged with illegal computer access, which, by their own admission, did occur.
And then everyone is going to forget about this and get right back to watching the World Cup.
>>Finally, a reminder that this documents contains my own opinions, I do not speak for or represent anyone but myself.
Didn't see where the Google association was, but judged in isolation it appears to be nothing more than grandstanding since 5 days doesn't seem to be reasonably enough time to respond.
Definitely; check out the headline: "FBI probing AT&T iPad security breach"
I submit to you something far more complex than Photoshop. Autodesk Maya.
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?siteID=123112&id=13583877
Like Adobe, they got burned when the 64-bit Carbon API was scrapped, and it took more than 2 years. But it's here now.
So what is your proposed solution? Is there a netbook that weighs less than 1.5 pounds that would not cause your arm to tire after an equivalent length of time?
If you have a problem with WSJ costing more than the print edition, then don't subscribe to it. It is WSJ itself that determines the price, not Apple. The market will find the equilibrium.
As for ad-blocking, there are always proxy servers like Privoxy that can filter out ads.
Two words: Google Buzz.
Doesn't make her points any less valid i.e. none of the external developers had access to the 2.1 SDK prior to the N1's release, that Google is unaccustomed to direct sales etc.
But that is the point.
You develop for iPhone OS, you are largely absolved of the burden of having to determine device configuration and specifications. You know the exact target; either an iPhone/iPhone 3G/iPod Touch (no camera or video recording ability) or an iPhone 3GS. Can all Nokia smartphones run the apps on ovi?
Your numbers are way off. Apple had cumulative sales of 50 million iPhone OS devices (iPhones in various versions and iPod Touch) a month or so ago. The general consensus is that about half are iPod Touches, so that leaves about 25 million, and not 10-15 million that you claim.
But handset sales are only one part of the equation. Apple is recognizing revenue through carrier deals and also through the App Store, and iTunes Music Store. Until now there is no credible competitor for the App Store in terms of sales volume, profit or developer mindshare.
In other words, they're being hypocritical. Or the author failed basic high school English composition.
"Open source is high quality code and benefits an open internet, but our lucrative search and ad products are closed, because opening them up would lower its quality." But isn't that the point of "open source" in the first place?
I fail to see why a free software developer wouldn't be insulted by such a condescending position.
Oh, and Google panders to the Chinese censors too. What was that about an "open internet" again?
but Google was a major contributor in getting people comfortable with trading their data for "free" usage.
On the other hand, Apple customers generally do not mind paying for a perceived level of quality. Look at the Mac shareware market, although small in size there are companies that have existed and even prospered in this niche for years.
Essentially the people who actually buy iPhone apps do not mind paying that $1 or however much the developer wants for it, despite the fact that piracy is quite rampant by most measures.
This is not actually an insane proposition when you consider that the iPhone or iPod Touch is also a reasonable alternative to existing handheld game consoles like the DS, PSP etc, especially when you factor the price of the games.
You're replacing others' bias for one of your own. For every "fart app" that is not needed, how many "alternate dialers" or "profile managers" do you think the general public needs, or even cares about? This is classic developer featuritis. I don't need 50 ways to accomplish one thing. I only need one way to do it, but perform it reasonably well/fail gracefully.
While the marketing checklist is targeted at the iPhone (emphasis on running Flash, copy-paste which iPhone did not have until iPhone OS 3.0 etc), what is going to happen is that it is going to fragment the smartphone market even more.
We now have Maemo, Android, webOS, WinMo, Symbian, BlackBerry OS and iPhone OS as the major visible players, with Apple being the only one who has figured out how to incentivize their developers through the App Store, despite all its shortcomings. And Nokia has tried before too, with its N-gage system, and that didn't turn out too well either. So no, I don't think this handset is going to affect iPhone sales very much, if at all.
No significant increase in cylinder wall wear as compared to gasoline, assuming the metallurgy is up to it. Ethanol is slightly corrosive to aluminum alloy, which is what most engine cylinder heads and short blocks are made of these days. Cylinder walls are worn more rapidly due to friction from the piston and oil control rings at high RPMs. Depending on engine design over time the walls may even become significantly distorted and out-of-round (elliptical instead of circular).
This is 1984, all over again. Only this time, the roles are reversed.
This is affirmed by the fact that the 1984 ad that was played during MWSF had an iPod digitally grafted on to the woman throwing the hammer.
Apple is now the dominant manufacturer of portable music playback devices and has assumed the role of IBM. The licensing of the iPod and iTMS is a move straight out of the IBM playbook 20 years ago.
Complaint #1. "Not all songs are available".
Expect this to be remedied soon. Retail stores are going to be seriously hurt if all the latest songs are going to be available on the AMS right off the bat.
Complaint #2. "You have to change the playlist for every 10 burns. That sucks".
Well, creating a new playlist is as simple as selecting the tracks that you want, dragging it and dropping it on the playlist column to the left. And iTunes is smart enough to organize all the tracks with the same album name, into 1 playlist with the album name filled in. How complicated can that be?
Seriously, stop hating, keep an open mind and you just might see the value in this. Besides, AMS is just another avenue of getting at music, and choice is good.
If I put my PowerBook to sleep under MacOS X 10.1, my battery will be drained by morning. With Linux it sleeps as long as MacOS 9 does. Dunno about you but on my Pismo 500 with full charge it can sleep for the whole weekend and when it awakes on Monday it's still got half-charge remaining. Hear me now or hear me later: OS X is *loaded* with local root exploits. Here's one article [stepwise.com]. How is one exploit == loaded? FYI, that one has been fixed. Look for it in Mac OS X10.1.1. FYI there are lots of other articles explaining how to get OS X running on pre-G3 Macs.