I pay more than $1.60 for apps. The only apps I think are worth buying are usually over $5. You get what you pay for. I'm not interested in filling my iPhone with tons of crap apps. Averages and top 10 charts don't tell you everything.
How likely do you think it is that if she were really depressed, her doctor would've long ago found something, some drug or combination of drugs, or some other form of treatment, that could at very least enable her to go back to work, even if she's still got depression?
Take it you've never done research on this subject?
My Macbook came a with a handy guide in how to upgrade the HDD and RAM. Maybe your model is a different story, or perhaps the guy didn't know what he was talking about.
Lets keep in mind that it did ship eventually. It certainly can be annoying, but I'm sure Apple will work out most of the problems with the approval process. I think some people are making this a bigger deal than it really is. Come on, the iPhone is only a few years old, yet Apple has managed to put together a very good package in that time -- is it any surprise the platform isn't perfect to development for at the moment?
Yes, it sure is horrible when the users have some say over how content is presented to them. Those damn users should just sit down, shut up, and consume like good little drones!
How is a limited range of fonts and formatting tools letting the user have a say? Besides, the user does still have the final say, unless their browser has poor CSS support and functionality.
Apple has a good marketing department that has a plan before they enter a new business and changes it if things go badly like they did with the iphone at first.
You honestly believe that Apple hadn't planned to roll out the iPhone the way they did right from the start? Or are you talking about something else?
You can't be serious. When Apple bought SoundJam, it was missing many of the things that are in the current version of iTunes -- the store for one thing. Apple have invested a lot of time in developing iTunes, it wasn't just a lucky business purchase on their part.
There are no Apple stores here in New Zealand, but there have been Apple re-sellers for longer than I can remember. And in the past few years, big chain stores have been selling Apple products.
But it is you who has created these completely separate theoretical markets. They aren't necessarily as separate as you assume them to be because the real world is a more complicated than that. I'm sure you know that, so I'm not sure what your point really is.
Wait, how does comparing a music player to a cell phone (and the very different consumers of each) actually help here?
Are you saying people don't want music on their cellphones? If so, perhaps that's because many of the manufacturers have done a poor job at integrating the two, unlike Apple.
Apart from all the smartphones that came before it, from 2002 there have been "smartphones" that could compete with laptop functionality and by 2007 most had 3rd party apps, 3G and bluetooth. The iPhone is good but it wasn't the first at anything.
It was the first to make browsing the web usable. I could browse the web on my Treo 600, but it was a joke, so I never used it. It was the same story for all of them. Having the technical functionality is just part of the story.
I've only heard of it as a general principle, not something specific to the US. E.G. people in New Zealand moving to Australia. If people in your country are leaving to go overseas, that sounds like a brain drain to me. A reverse brain drain would be people moving back to your country.
But user agent spoofing has be around for a while and at the time would have been the only way around the problem. That is not the case here. AFAIK, Palm are the first big company to spoof USB IDs in this way and they did it even though there was a solution that didn't involve breaking standards. That is why I don't think you can compare the situation.
But Apple does not make good mp3 players. They make some aesthetically pleasing, but very expensive ones and that's just about the nicest thing you can say about them.
I've yet to find another music player that is a good as the iPhone. It might not play FM or support OOG, but I don't care about that. Why don't you list a couple of non-iPod devices and explain exactly why they are so much better?
1. User agent strings are not USB IDs. They are different specs for different technologies and have different rules. 2. It is not comparable because there is already a workaround for the Pre -- they didn't need to fake the USB ID.
Saying that you don't support something doesn't mean that people will stop expecting you to support it. Why should Apple have to take the flak for a product that isn't theirs? Why should they be put in the position of deciding whether to support the hack or annoying many people if they decide not to?
Palm knew what they were doing and knew this could happen. They should never have advertised the feature until they had a proper, reliable solution in place.
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I pay more than $1.60 for apps. The only apps I think are worth buying are usually over $5. You get what you pay for. I'm not interested in filling my iPhone with tons of crap apps. Averages and top 10 charts don't tell you everything.
I guess if you don't think usability can be innovative.
How likely do you think it is that if she were really depressed, her doctor would've long ago found something, some drug or combination of drugs, or some other form of treatment, that could at very least enable her to go back to work, even if she's still got depression?
Take it you've never done research on this subject?
My Macbook came a with a handy guide in how to upgrade the HDD and RAM. Maybe your model is a different story, or perhaps the guy didn't know what he was talking about.
That's what 3rd party review sites are for. The iPhone app store may be handy, but it's not how I look for apps most of the time.
Lets keep in mind that it did ship eventually. It certainly can be annoying, but I'm sure Apple will work out most of the problems with the approval process. I think some people are making this a bigger deal than it really is. Come on, the iPhone is only a few years old, yet Apple has managed to put together a very good package in that time -- is it any surprise the platform isn't perfect to development for at the moment?
When one platform is highly restricted and another is wide open, useful apps will tend to be ported TO the open platform and not away from it.
Well, as Apple has clearly shown, it's not as simple as that. Or do you think the iPhone's popularity is going to suddenly die down sometime soon?
There's also a market for cheap USB drives that look like pieces of sushi.
Yes, it sure is horrible when the users have some say over how content is presented to them. Those damn users should just sit down, shut up, and consume like good little drones!
How is a limited range of fonts and formatting tools letting the user have a say? Besides, the user does still have the final say, unless their browser has poor CSS support and functionality.
Apple has a good marketing department that has a plan before they enter a new business and changes it if things go badly like they did with the iphone at first.
You honestly believe that Apple hadn't planned to roll out the iPhone the way they did right from the start? Or are you talking about something else?
You can't be serious. When Apple bought SoundJam, it was missing many of the things that are in the current version of iTunes -- the store for one thing. Apple have invested a lot of time in developing iTunes, it wasn't just a lucky business purchase on their part.
There are no Apple stores here in New Zealand, but there have been Apple re-sellers for longer than I can remember. And in the past few years, big chain stores have been selling Apple products.
But it is you who has created these completely separate theoretical markets. They aren't necessarily as separate as you assume them to be because the real world is a more complicated than that. I'm sure you know that, so I'm not sure what your point really is.
Wait, how does comparing a music player to a cell phone (and the very different consumers of each) actually help here?
Are you saying people don't want music on their cellphones? If so, perhaps that's because many of the manufacturers have done a poor job at integrating the two, unlike Apple.
Apart from all the smartphones that came before it, from 2002 there have been "smartphones" that could compete with laptop functionality and by 2007 most had 3rd party apps, 3G and bluetooth. The iPhone is good but it wasn't the first at anything.
It was the first to make browsing the web usable. I could browse the web on my Treo 600, but it was a joke, so I never used it. It was the same story for all of them. Having the technical functionality is just part of the story.
If you want a decent flash, and not just some ultra bright LED, you need a big capacitor and flash bulb.
I've only heard of it as a general principle, not something specific to the US. E.G. people in New Zealand moving to Australia. If people in your country are leaving to go overseas, that sounds like a brain drain to me. A reverse brain drain would be people moving back to your country.
I don't understand how you could possibly tell. Or do people simply not carry backpacks etc. into theaters?
When will software/computer/IT companies be held to the same standards that other engineers (Civil, Electrical, Mechanical) are?
When you start paying $100,000 for an operating system?
But user agent spoofing has be around for a while and at the time would have been the only way around the problem. That is not the case here. AFAIK, Palm are the first big company to spoof USB IDs in this way and they did it even though there was a solution that didn't involve breaking standards. That is why I don't think you can compare the situation.
I doubt it's illegal. What do you think software license agreements are for?
But Apple does not make good mp3 players. They make some aesthetically pleasing, but very expensive ones and that's just about the nicest thing you can say about them.
I've yet to find another music player that is a good as the iPhone. It might not play FM or support OOG, but I don't care about that. Why don't you list a couple of non-iPod devices and explain exactly why they are so much better?
1. User agent strings are not USB IDs. They are different specs for different technologies and have different rules.
2. It is not comparable because there is already a workaround for the Pre -- they didn't need to fake the USB ID.
Saying that you don't support something doesn't mean that people will stop expecting you to support it. Why should Apple have to take the flak for a product that isn't theirs? Why should they be put in the position of deciding whether to support the hack or annoying many people if they decide not to?
Palm knew what they were doing and knew this could happen. They should never have advertised the feature until they had a proper, reliable solution in place.
And since when have browser User-Agent strings and USB vendor IDs been the same thing?