Some stuff just can't be repaired by the consumer. For years we had products that said "no user serviceable parts inside."
As electronic devices get thinner, they are pretty much glued together. Is anyone complaining because they can't repair their TV or microwave?
Keep the screw drivers off the market? lol
You can by dozens of them from all over the place. Here's one for $1.90 from Walmart
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Fos...
Yeah, basically IBM paid for Microsoft to develop NT. If you look like MS's history, it's filled with them doing unethical things. IBM should have known better after the whole DOS fiasco.
VirnetX is regularly described as a patent troll, making most of its revenue through licensing the patents that it holds. They also instigated lawsuits against Microsoft and Cisco.
Clearly you don't understand how design patents work. Samsung did, but they admitted to stealing the look of the iPhone. Look at their phones before the iPhone. They copied Blackberry!
But it's OK. Apple make this money back in about an hour.
You pay for Android with allowing Google to data mine your info. This is why they wanted to be on mobile phones in the first place. This is why they offer "free" services like Gmail and photos. Their software reads all your emails. Then they target ads to you. Google Now is another way they can get advertising info from you. That's how Google makes their income, and why they can give Android away for "free" to phone makers. It's not about being open source. It's about advertising revenue.
If you really study macOS, and before that NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP, you will see that it's not entirely BSD, and they didn't steal anything. NeXTSTEP was introduced in 1988s. And if you weren't hiding under a rock (or maybe you weren't born then?), you'd know that the first web browser and app store were created on NeXTSTEP. Plus, if you want to talk about Linux, Apple was a big supporter of Linux, and released MkLinux in 1996. I used to run it on my PowerMac 6100. It was sponsored by Apple Computer and OSF Research Institute.
They took parts of FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Mach/BSD, since it runs on the Mach kernel. Windows NT and SUN Solaris also use BSD code.
The BSD License allows proprietary use and allows the software released under the license to be incorporated into proprietary products. So how did they steal anything? The parts they did use, they released as Darwin, which is open source, and is composed of code developed by Apple, as well as code derived from NeXTSTEP, BSD, and other free software projects.
So where's the problem? They followed the BSD License, and give credit. You can see it when you boot macOS in verbose mode. And they released their modified code as open source. This includes things like WebKit.
How many unsigned apps would you have anyway? I used to keep Gatekeeper disabled, but now I don't. It's not a big deal. I think I had to allow apps like twice.
These aren't iMacs that people check their Facebook and send a few e-mails on, they're Pro machines - designed for a completely different environment and completely different workloads. Given that, why shouldn't they be supported longer too?
Yeah... remember the G5? When I worked at Sony Music they had a pile of them in a storage room. All perfectly capable, but obsolete, nonetheless.
But your MacPro isn't going to stop working. It just can't run macOS Sierra.
I have an Early 2009 24" iMac. It has 64-bit EFI and CPU. No dice. But a late 2009 works. There are ways to install it however. Apple released 4 iMacs in 2009. They must have changed the motherboard a few times.
The 2012 MacPro I use at work can run it. Have to wait to see if the apps I use are compatible. But if not, El Capitan runs great.
Really? Beside texting and reading websites and email (8 different mail accounts), I take and edit photos on my iPhone (and I have the full Adobe suite on my Mac), record music in Garageband, plugging my guitar into AmpliTube via my iRig interface... works great for writing songs while sitting in a park! I listen to music and Podcasts. I have watched Netflix and movies via Plex on my iPhone 6 plus. It's great for when I want to watch something but feel like laying in bed. Holding the screen in front of you is as large as a TV across the room. I never had a problem with the alarm clock using the ring volume. Why would you need it different? I have the phone on Do Not Disturb at night anyway, so the ringer volume doesn't matter. After I wake up I can change it. Oh and of course the Maps apps when I'm going somewhere around NYC.
I actually spent a whole year with only an iPhone and no computer while I was in-between places to live. It's a very capable device.
Most reports say that iOS users buy and use more apps than Android users. I currently have 184 apps on my iPhone. I used to have more. I use most of them.
It's not iOS 10. It's T-Mobile's carrier setting. 25.0 works fine. Just don't install the carrier settings update until they fix it. I've been running iOS 10 for months now.
I'm on T-Mobile, and have been running the iOS 10 betas, as well as the final release. If you are on T-Mobile, don't install the carrier settings update. Stay on 25.0.
Mostly it's that some websites' mobile versions are either lacking, or non existent. And how is an app from a service that also has a web presence closed off from the internet?
As an example, I use the Facebook and Twitter apps on my phone more than on my computer. It's more convenient. But I can also access both from Safari on my iPhone.
Except for some chat apps, I can't think of any that only use an app and aren't also available through a web browser.
So just because they are female they have a husband and kids? Many women don't. When I worked at Sony Music, one of the female executives seemed to live there. I never saw her leave before me, even when I worked second shift.
Also, I was a single parent. So some men do raise kids.
But for equal work, not counting hours, women should be paid the same. Maybe you think you putting in extra hours was a good thing, and maybe you were sucker being taken advantage of. Don't you have a life too?
I prefer my devices allow me to do as I wish with the content I already own. I like Android devices a lot better, and I'm someone who does pay for content and apps. I just refuse to do it multiple times.
What the fuck does a bug that requires social engineering and ignorant users installing sketchy software have to do with apple's alleged superiority? I have an iPad that a RARELY use. It has its place in my studio, but I haven't set that up since moving. For everything else, I prefer either my Samsung tablet with a proper screen ratio for reading comics without scrolling, or any of my other Android devices that don't try to nickle and dime me for every single fucking thing I do.
So much for Apple haters being silent.
Spoken like someone who has never used an iOS device. Why would you pay multiple times? Why pay at all? All my content is on both of my iPhones, iPad, and my Mac. And much of that came from my own CDs and DVDs, etc. I have 37,918 songs in iTunes. Much that is from my CD and even vinyl collection. Some I bought on iTunes, Amazon, BandCamp, etc. Every one of those is available on my iPhone. Also, you do know you can download anything you want to an iOS device? Just get the free Documents app from Readle. That's another dumb argument I hear all the time.
As far as "proper" aspect ratio. For web browsing, the 4:3 aspect ratio works far better than the 16:10. For reading books and magazines, the 4:3 aspect ratio is again better than the 16:10. Magazines fit better on a 4:3 aspect ratio screen than on a 16:10 aspect ratio screen. Maybe you ned a better comic reader. 16:10 and 16:9 is better for watching movies and TV shows.
Maybe Apple haters should learn what they are taking about first.
Besides, what the hell is Twitter good for anyway?
I've found that Twitter is good for answering the following sorts of questions:
Did I just feel an earthquake?
Did anyone else hear that explosion?
Is Netflix really down, or is it just me?
Etc.
RSS is even better for that, and on the plus side stupid people don't even realize it exists.
Not on a mobile device. For example, I get Twitter updates from the NYC subway to let me know if there's a problem with the trains I use everyday to get to work. They happen instantaneously, and you can even reply back for more details. Or report trains where the AC isn't working, etc.
I use RSS at home, but there's no decent mobile clients.
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Some stuff just can't be repaired by the consumer. For years we had products that said "no user serviceable parts inside." As electronic devices get thinner, they are pretty much glued together. Is anyone complaining because they can't repair their TV or microwave?
Keep the screw drivers off the market? lol You can by dozens of them from all over the place. Here's one for $1.90 from Walmart https://www.walmart.com/ip/Fos...
Yeah, basically IBM paid for Microsoft to develop NT. If you look like MS's history, it's filled with them doing unethical things. IBM should have known better after the whole DOS fiasco.
I had an ATM crash on me once when I was trying to get money out of it. It ran OS/2 Warp!
This holding company doesn't make any products. This wasn't even their patents. They are a well known patent troll.
VirnetX is regularly described as a patent troll, making most of its revenue through licensing the patents that it holds. They also instigated lawsuits against Microsoft and Cisco.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
But it's OK. Apple make this money back in about an hour.
2x USB 3.0
4x USB 2.0
You pay for Android with allowing Google to data mine your info. This is why they wanted to be on mobile phones in the first place. This is why they offer "free" services like Gmail and photos. Their software reads all your emails. Then they target ads to you. Google Now is another way they can get advertising info from you. That's how Google makes their income, and why they can give Android away for "free" to phone makers. It's not about being open source. It's about advertising revenue.
It is also probably the reason that Apple didn't even consider Linux for their OS.
They went with NeXTSTEP, which was released three years before there ever was a Linux. And of course NeXT was Steve Job's baby.
They were concerning BeOS, which I always thought was an interesting operating system. A copy of it came with my PowerComputing Mac clone.
They took parts of FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Mach/BSD, since it runs on the Mach kernel. Windows NT and SUN Solaris also use BSD code.
The BSD License allows proprietary use and allows the software released under the license to be incorporated into proprietary products. So how did they steal anything? The parts they did use, they released as Darwin, which is open source, and is composed of code developed by Apple, as well as code derived from NeXTSTEP, BSD, and other free software projects.
So where's the problem? They followed the BSD License, and give credit. You can see it when you boot macOS in verbose mode. And they released their modified code as open source. This includes things like WebKit.
Yes it can.
How many unsigned apps would you have anyway? I used to keep Gatekeeper disabled, but now I don't. It's not a big deal. I think I had to allow apps like twice.
These aren't iMacs that people check their Facebook and send a few e-mails on, they're Pro machines - designed for a completely different environment and completely different workloads. Given that, why shouldn't they be supported longer too?
Yeah... remember the G5? When I worked at Sony Music they had a pile of them in a storage room. All perfectly capable, but obsolete, nonetheless. But your MacPro isn't going to stop working. It just can't run macOS Sierra.
I have an Early 2009 24" iMac. It has 64-bit EFI and CPU. No dice. But a late 2009 works. There are ways to install it however. Apple released 4 iMacs in 2009. They must have changed the motherboard a few times. The 2012 MacPro I use at work can run it. Have to wait to see if the apps I use are compatible. But if not, El Capitan runs great.
The iPhone has a headphone jack. It just doesn't have a 3.5mm phone jack.
They're not like computers where you can edit photos/videos and play (good) games.
Sure they are. I edit photos and audio on my iPhone all the time. And I play games on my phone more than on my computer.
I actually spent a whole year with only an iPhone and no computer while I was in-between places to live. It's a very capable device.
Most reports say that iOS users buy and use more apps than Android users. I currently have 184 apps on my iPhone. I used to have more. I use most of them.
It's not iOS 10. It's T-Mobile's carrier setting. 25.0 works fine. Just don't install the carrier settings update until they fix it. I've been running iOS 10 for months now.
I'm on T-Mobile, and have been running the iOS 10 betas, as well as the final release. If you are on T-Mobile, don't install the carrier settings update. Stay on 25.0.
Mostly it's that some websites' mobile versions are either lacking, or non existent. And how is an app from a service that also has a web presence closed off from the internet? As an example, I use the Facebook and Twitter apps on my phone more than on my computer. It's more convenient. But I can also access both from Safari on my iPhone. Except for some chat apps, I can't think of any that only use an app and aren't also available through a web browser.
So just because they are female they have a husband and kids? Many women don't. When I worked at Sony Music, one of the female executives seemed to live there. I never saw her leave before me, even when I worked second shift. Also, I was a single parent. So some men do raise kids. But for equal work, not counting hours, women should be paid the same. Maybe you think you putting in extra hours was a good thing, and maybe you were sucker being taken advantage of. Don't you have a life too?
NeXTSTEP is now macOS (OS X)
I prefer my devices allow me to do as I wish with the content I already own. I like Android devices a lot better, and I'm someone who does pay for content and apps. I just refuse to do it multiple times.
What the fuck does a bug that requires social engineering and ignorant users installing sketchy software have to do with apple's alleged superiority? I have an iPad that a RARELY use. It has its place in my studio, but I haven't set that up since moving. For everything else, I prefer either my Samsung tablet with a proper screen ratio for reading comics without scrolling, or any of my other Android devices that don't try to nickle and dime me for every single fucking thing I do.
So much for Apple haters being silent.
Spoken like someone who has never used an iOS device. Why would you pay multiple times? Why pay at all? All my content is on both of my iPhones, iPad, and my Mac. And much of that came from my own CDs and DVDs, etc. I have 37,918 songs in iTunes. Much that is from my CD and even vinyl collection. Some I bought on iTunes, Amazon, BandCamp, etc. Every one of those is available on my iPhone. Also, you do know you can download anything you want to an iOS device? Just get the free Documents app from Readle. That's another dumb argument I hear all the time. As far as "proper" aspect ratio. For web browsing, the 4:3 aspect ratio works far better than the 16:10. For reading books and magazines, the 4:3 aspect ratio is again better than the 16:10. Magazines fit better on a 4:3 aspect ratio screen than on a 16:10 aspect ratio screen. Maybe you ned a better comic reader. 16:10 and 16:9 is better for watching movies and TV shows. Maybe Apple haters should learn what they are taking about first.
Besides, what the hell is Twitter good for anyway?
I've found that Twitter is good for answering the following sorts of questions:
Did I just feel an earthquake?
Did anyone else hear that explosion?
Is Netflix really down, or is it just me?
Etc.
RSS is even better for that, and on the plus side stupid people don't even realize it exists.
Not on a mobile device. For example, I get Twitter updates from the NYC subway to let me know if there's a problem with the trains I use everyday to get to work. They happen instantaneously, and you can even reply back for more details. Or report trains where the AC isn't working, etc. I use RSS at home, but there's no decent mobile clients.