If Metro Apps are rendered in a WEB BROWSER, then shouldn't they adhere to WEB STANDARDS and thus be able to be rendered in any other standard compliant browser?
And if there isn't a standard compliant browser present, then what?
For those of us that's seen the Metro UI, which i personally think is gonna bomb HARD as i've shown the screencaps to over 120 customer so far and have YET to get a SINGLE positive comment about Metro, whereas those i showed 7 before it was released all wanted to know about features and what it could do
This is silly. Your personal experience doesn't reflect how everyone is going to react to something. Also, people often mock products that turn out to be successful, such as the iPad.
They're suing to protect their product, because companies like Samsung are clearly ripping them off, and it's obvious to anyone who isn't a raving Apple hater.
Hell, Samsung sells a knock-off MacBook Pro running Windows that has a mock Apple logo in the center of the screen to futher intentionally confuse consumers. They're even outright stealing Apple icons and using them in their store backdrops.
For some reason, Slashdot has completely ignored all these obvious instances of blatant copying and instead obsessed over the fact that Apple is "abusing the patent system," because patent system articles get a ton of page hits around here. But the fact is that Apple really is getting ripped off and is suing to protect its design work.
Can I ask something? Why are there so many anonymous Google supporters who post on Slashdot? Does anyone else find it somewhat suspicious how they appear in every single Google article in which they get criticized?
"You're the product, not the customer." basically says that an ad funded company is expected to act as evilly as possible, just because of the way it's funded.
No, it simply describes a truth about their behavior and their business model. Google's source of revenue is web advertising, and their customers are advertisers. Your identity is their product, which is why Eric Schmidt described Google+ as an identity service rather than a social network.
Cue the Apple haters who can't stand an Apple story on the front page of Slashdot. They've been bitching and moaning all week.
Apple's focus on product was obvious when they introduced the iPod nano to replace the iPod mini at the height of the iPod mini's popularity. Few other companies would have stopped selling one of their most successful products or changed the product's name.
What do you need to tweak? Do you actually need to do the tweaking, or is it the usual obsessive-compulsive neckbeard kind of tweaking that isn't actually necessary but confers a psychological reward? The submitter may be interested in actually getting things done, not configuring things all the time.
Google decided that this was not a vulnerability, but rather a 'strange behavior that [they] should consider changing.'
"It's not a bug, it's a feature!"
It's amusing when Google avoids labeling vulnerabilities. My favorite is when Flash had a vulnerability, and Google denied it should be considered a Chrome vulnerability even though Chrome bundles Flash for some ungodly reason.
Android violates patents. People on Slashdot really need to get over their reactionary fear of the patent system and acknowledge that Google copied other people's ideas in the creation of its advertising platform, er, mobile operating system. You can try to portray it any way you want, but even Google knew Android stepped on several patents, as detailed in internal emails. If Android was truly free, there wouldn't be all these royalties getting paid.
Android is an asshole move anyway--it's Google trying to pump its product into a non-core market by giving it away at a price competitors can't compete with, funded by revenue in another market in which it has a monopoly. Gee, which company has done that before that Slashdotters bash all the time? But it's okay this time because it's Google and Linux. Such a childish double standard.
Expecting the usual downmods for not spouting the conventional opinion around here.
Today is the 10th anniversary of the public introduction of the iPod. Retrospectives would have been posted no matter what.
It's hilarious reading all the bitterness from the Apple-haters today. You guys absolutely can't stand that this company has so much influence on the tech industry. Too bad.
They are still a computer company. They're just smart enough to realize that most people don't care that they're using a computer. Enthusiasts on Slashdot, of course, care a great deal because computers are their hobby. Enthusiasts on Slashdot also claimed the iPod would fail, the iPod mini would fail, and the iPad would fail, so they obviously don't get mainstream society.
You're the third troll to claim there is a whole bunch of Apple stories. Hello? Steve Jobs just died, it's been 10 years since the iPod, and the company has several top-selling devices on the market. I bet you never complain when there are five Google stories on the front page.
Speaking of the front page, there is only one Apple story on it--this one. Where is all the "marketing shit?"
What avalanche? A whopping two out of the last 20 stories have been about Apple--and one of them was really about an Android app mimicking an iPhone feature. The company that Slashdot posts most about is Google.
Since Android came out, Slashdot has become a ridiculously over-the-top haven for emotional Apple-haters. This place has really jumped the shark.
Yes, you are super-awesome and way too independent-minded to like what the sheeple buy from Crapple, right? Please, continue standing cross-armed in the corner, grumbling at everyone else, independent-minded Slashdot poster.
Why has there been so much Apple crap here on Slashdot lately?
You're asking why there is so much news about one of the top tech companies with several of the hottest tech devices on the market? And you even got modded +5 Insightful for it? Slashdot has officially become a haven for Apple-hating idiots.
There's nothing special about iPods. They're a digital music player, just like every other digital music player out there. People have modded them for many years now, and many of these same "hacks" were done using portable CD and tape players well before then. None of this is remotely interesting, even to those of us who enjoy such hacks.
Less space than a Nomad, right? iPods changed digital music and became a staple of pop culture. They helped legitimize online music stores and innovated several interface ideas. The reason this is getting covered today is, not only did Steve Jobs recently die, but today is also the 10th anniversary of the public introduction of the iPod.
Can we please have some interesting content here for once? Something not having to do with Apple or American politics, perhaps? Maybe something involving science or math in some way, or maybe even engineering?
I decided to take a look at the front page and see if it really was filled with "so much Apple crap" as you anonymously (of course) claim:
Hyperion Promises An AmigaOS Netbook NH Supreme Court To Rule On Bigfoot Video Shoot In Public Park A Decade of Apple Oddities Google Not Reciprocating On IFrame Usage? Why Computer Voices Are Mostly Female Ask Slashdot: How To Enter Private Space Industry As an Engineer? UK Government Pushing For 'Trusted Computing' More Interviews With World Solar Challenge Competitors A Silicon Valley School That Doesn't Use Computers Using Fuel Depots Instead of Giant Rockets 3D Printers To Save Hermit Crabs Universal Uses DMCA To Get Bad Lip Reading Parody Taken Down Jumentum Introduces a Single-Chip Linux System Canadian Company Plans Solar-Powered Heavier-Than-Air Airships Hobby Humanoid Robot KHR3HV Rides Bike At 10k/h
One Apple story out of 15 is some great imbalance? What the hell are you talking about?
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And if there isn't a standard compliant browser present, then what?
There is no explanation except that, because it's Microsoft, everything they do must be evil according to many readers of Slashdot.
This is silly. Your personal experience doesn't reflect how everyone is going to react to something. Also, people often mock products that turn out to be successful, such as the iPad.
Google is famous for posting on tech forums like this. Who's to say you and everyone modding you up aren't Google employees?
You thought wrong.
Yes, anything praising the merits of a Google competitor is a conspiracy.
They're suing to protect their product, because companies like Samsung are clearly ripping them off, and it's obvious to anyone who isn't a raving Apple hater.
Hell, Samsung sells a knock-off MacBook Pro running Windows that has a mock Apple logo in the center of the screen to futher intentionally confuse consumers. They're even outright stealing Apple icons and using them in their store backdrops.
For some reason, Slashdot has completely ignored all these obvious instances of blatant copying and instead obsessed over the fact that Apple is "abusing the patent system," because patent system articles get a ton of page hits around here. But the fact is that Apple really is getting ripped off and is suing to protect its design work.
They're suing Samsung because Samsung is ripping them off. That shot isn't from a iPad.
Can I ask something? Why are there so many anonymous Google supporters who post on Slashdot? Does anyone else find it somewhat suspicious how they appear in every single Google article in which they get criticized?
No, it simply describes a truth about their behavior and their business model. Google's source of revenue is web advertising, and their customers are advertisers. Your identity is their product, which is why Eric Schmidt described Google+ as an identity service rather than a social network.
As has been said, you need to stop karma-whoring and RTFA. The use of SSL isn't the issue. It's not even the headline of the submission.
Cue the Apple haters who can't stand an Apple story on the front page of Slashdot. They've been bitching and moaning all week.
Apple's focus on product was obvious when they introduced the iPod nano to replace the iPod mini at the height of the iPod mini's popularity. Few other companies would have stopped selling one of their most successful products or changed the product's name.
That's like dismantling a BMW to install a lawnmower engine.
What do you need to tweak? Do you actually need to do the tweaking, or is it the usual obsessive-compulsive neckbeard kind of tweaking that isn't actually necessary but confers a psychological reward? The submitter may be interested in actually getting things done, not configuring things all the time.
Slashdot commentary is getting so stupid. You can install whatever you want on a Mac. There's even a UNIX ports system.
You want a nerd playground in which things are more difficult to configure in order to justify the psychological reward.
"It's not a bug, it's a feature!"
It's amusing when Google avoids labeling vulnerabilities. My favorite is when Flash had a vulnerability, and Google denied it should be considered a Chrome vulnerability even though Chrome bundles Flash for some ungodly reason.
Android violates patents. People on Slashdot really need to get over their reactionary fear of the patent system and acknowledge that Google copied other people's ideas in the creation of its advertising platform, er, mobile operating system. You can try to portray it any way you want, but even Google knew Android stepped on several patents, as detailed in internal emails. If Android was truly free, there wouldn't be all these royalties getting paid.
Android is an asshole move anyway--it's Google trying to pump its product into a non-core market by giving it away at a price competitors can't compete with, funded by revenue in another market in which it has a monopoly. Gee, which company has done that before that Slashdotters bash all the time? But it's okay this time because it's Google and Linux. Such a childish double standard.
Expecting the usual downmods for not spouting the conventional opinion around here.
Yeah, but Slashdot has decided to hate everything about Apple since they became competitors with Google in the mobile space.
Today is the 10th anniversary of the public introduction of the iPod. Retrospectives would have been posted no matter what.
It's hilarious reading all the bitterness from the Apple-haters today. You guys absolutely can't stand that this company has so much influence on the tech industry. Too bad.
They are still a computer company. They're just smart enough to realize that most people don't care that they're using a computer. Enthusiasts on Slashdot, of course, care a great deal because computers are their hobby. Enthusiasts on Slashdot also claimed the iPod would fail, the iPod mini would fail, and the iPad would fail, so they obviously don't get mainstream society.
You're the third troll to claim there is a whole bunch of Apple stories. Hello? Steve Jobs just died, it's been 10 years since the iPod, and the company has several top-selling devices on the market. I bet you never complain when there are five Google stories on the front page.
Speaking of the front page, there is only one Apple story on it--this one. Where is all the "marketing shit?"
Anyone who thinks buying an MP3 player is going to "destroy your freedom" really needs to go outside for a while and gain some perspective.
What avalanche? A whopping two out of the last 20 stories have been about Apple--and one of them was really about an Android app mimicking an iPhone feature. The company that Slashdot posts most about is Google.
Since Android came out, Slashdot has become a ridiculously over-the-top haven for emotional Apple-haters. This place has really jumped the shark.
Yes, you are super-awesome and way too independent-minded to like what the sheeple buy from Crapple, right? Please, continue standing cross-armed in the corner, grumbling at everyone else, independent-minded Slashdot poster.
You're asking why there is so much news about one of the top tech companies with several of the hottest tech devices on the market? And you even got modded +5 Insightful for it? Slashdot has officially become a haven for Apple-hating idiots.
Less space than a Nomad, right? iPods changed digital music and became a staple of pop culture. They helped legitimize online music stores and innovated several interface ideas. The reason this is getting covered today is, not only did Steve Jobs recently die, but today is also the 10th anniversary of the public introduction of the iPod.
I decided to take a look at the front page and see if it really was filled with "so much Apple crap" as you anonymously (of course) claim:
Hyperion Promises An AmigaOS Netbook
NH Supreme Court To Rule On Bigfoot Video Shoot In Public Park
A Decade of Apple Oddities
Google Not Reciprocating On IFrame Usage?
Why Computer Voices Are Mostly Female
Ask Slashdot: How To Enter Private Space Industry As an Engineer?
UK Government Pushing For 'Trusted Computing'
More Interviews With World Solar Challenge Competitors
A Silicon Valley School That Doesn't Use Computers
Using Fuel Depots Instead of Giant Rockets
3D Printers To Save Hermit Crabs
Universal Uses DMCA To Get Bad Lip Reading Parody Taken Down
Jumentum Introduces a Single-Chip Linux System
Canadian Company Plans Solar-Powered Heavier-Than-Air Airships
Hobby Humanoid Robot KHR3HV Rides Bike At 10k/h
One Apple story out of 15 is some great imbalance? What the hell are you talking about?