Except when you sign up as an Apple developer (which you must do to obtain the SDKs) you need to agree to the general terms of use regarding the pruducts you will recieve including agreeing to the licences that come with that software (which you recieve free by the way).
Developers and end users are two different animals. While enforcing an EULA on software which the user has already paid for may be wrong, enforcing a contract regarding the use of internal development tools which are provided free of charge is not wrong. If you can't abide by the terms of use fo rthe development tools, get different ones or write your own.
"Here's a nifty Software Development Kit, but you can't use it to develop software of questionable legality which could open us up to litigation and lawsuits."
You agree to a universal agreement regarding SDKs and such when you sign up to be a developer. Then you have to agree to the specific licence pertaining to that SDK before it will even install. So yes, there is a contract, the developer was aware of it and if he wasn't it's because of his own stupididty.
Not likely since there are many other applications that play MP3s availible for macs. You would have a right to be worried if the next implimentation of MP3 or Oog or whatever contained an unchangeable play count tag, but just because a single program has it means nothing.
Each one can be nicely covered by the don't steal music line because their primary purpose has nothing to do with the copy / "theft" of the music.
However, take a look at iCommune's primary purpose: transfer music files managed by iTunes across the net. That can not be covered by a simple do not steal music clause. Certainly not when they're using Apple's code.
Difference is, if fast-track gets more people copying and distributing software, they don't go out of business. Apple on the otherhand may be a different story.
You missed the point. YOU as a user, can do whatever the fuck you want to your system, Apple doesn't give a shit. It's when you start using their API's to distribute software of questionable legal status that they begin to care. Therefore, if you wanted to propagate the iCommune, it would merely be a matter of stripping the Apple APIs and providing instructions for building the plugin yourself.
Of course, if iCommune became a huge hit, don't be suprised if Apple suddenly had to kill off the plugin APIs because the RIAA came after them for aiding and providing a means of illegaly sharing music.
Apple APIs are developed and controlled by Apple. A person / group/company which uses those APIs and distributes software based off them must agree to their terms of use. If they violate those terms of use, and Apple does nothing, Apple is more or less legaly aproving the new use. By Approving, Apple opens themselves up to litigation.
The point he was makign was that the licence to use the SDKs that Apple provides state what you can and can not do with the APIs. In order to use Apple's APIs you mst abide by that.
Likewise, the GPL states what I can and can not do with GPL software. For example, I can not take GPL code, incorporate it into my software modify it and release my software as entirely closed source and not acknowledge the use of GPL software. How would the FSF or Torvalds or RMS comming after me for doing that be any different thatn what Apple is doing now.
That's 14 hours with an "Enhanced Batery". IIRC those are essentialy bateries, roughly the size (length and width) of the computer that attach to the bottom. They do make similar bateries for the powerbooks (or they used to anyways). Also note that the librito is a sub-notebook, a 10 inch LCD screen draws less power than a 15 inch one. And a 600Mhz processor less power than a 1 Ghz
hmmm, assuming this quote is accurate, it seems pretty cut and dry to me:
Internet distribution of software did not subject someone to California jurisdiction.
In other words, if I distribute something online, I am not subject to the laws of the people who download it from me.
As an example, note that places which distribute child porn from outside the US borders, even across the net, are not prosicuted by US law. Instead they are subject to their host countries laws. The same would / should apply here. Of course, that means there's nothing stopping California from ruling possesion of Kazza illegal, but that's another battle in and of itself.
So you need 2 bateries to get 5 hours out of your Dell. As opposed to the 7 hours I could get out of two bateries for my powerbook.
As for the 0 support for firewire 800, everything has to start somewhere, and since PC people are afraid of change, I guess Apple has to start it.
So you've had 15 and 15 inch screens for a year, I believe Apple had had 15 inch for at least 2 years now. No one was bitching about 15 inches being to big. The only time I remember people bitching about 15 inches being to big was back when laptops were 2 - 3 inches thick, and heavy as a load of bricks.
And in all honesty, I think the 17 inch is too big, but people will buy it, someone always does.
Don't feel so bad, I just recently purchased a powerbook from them (what was the TOL model before), I'm almost half tempted to send it back, pay the restock fee and buy the new one.
So should Apple never have charged for any of the classic OSes till 9.2? Should Sony or whoever you bought your TV from give you a new TV everytime they add a new feature to it? Should Dell give you a new computer everytime a new update comes up?
Seriously, they're still giving you the programs for free with a new computer. They're just charging for updates. I don't particularly like it, but hey, if they realease an update I think is worth paying for I will, otherwise, I'll just wait for one.
Or check out the ambrosia game Avara which still has a large following and online comunity. Actualy, the low level graphics is probably one of the things that keeps it alive becasue anyone can create a new level with just a basic paint program.
For $1000 I can get a $200 Walmart PC that will run circles around an imac performance wise, and a nice 17" Viewsonic monitor. The current rate for a 17" imac is $1999. Does anyone else see the problem for Apple here?
Yeah I see a few problems:
1) You're paying $1,000 for a $200 computer. Would you also like to buy a bridge? I have one in Brooklyn you'd love.
2) While you might like a CRT monitor, I don't have shitloads of space on my desk, and since I don't need highend color matching, an LCD monitor is much better suited to my needs.
3) Did that $200 POS come with firewire? A decent graphics card? Good software packages (iDVD, iTunes, iMovie)? What about gigabit ethernet and auto sensing (both of which are useful to me)? Did that POS even come with a decent processor?
Apple's problem is that consumers have grown up.
Right, because a true sign of having grown up is getting into pissing contests with other people as to who has the fastest processor, or the most ram and not realizing the people have different needs and sometimes don't have the desire to spend hours tinkering with compentents or the need to crunch numbers into oblivion.
Windows is just as easy to use and more reliable (I have had fewer Win2K crashes since 1999 than I have with OS X since 2001.)
Ok, you're definately not using a well configured mac, or possibly you fucked arround with the kernel? Or maybe you're intentionaly trying to crash your computer? The last time I saw OS X crash unintentionaly was when it was in beta. If seen prgrams themselves fail, but nothing that brought down the system. The last time I saw Win2k crash was when I upgraded the video card drivers, which proceeded to lead to a mess of problems and ended up in the install of XP which needs a reboot every week when my router rolls over the IPs.
People know that Apple's 700MHz CPUs are slow compared to the 2+ GHz X86 CPUs, and that Apple is charging twice as much for RAM and old Nvidia/ATI cards than X86 vendors.
Anyone who buys the RAM or Video card update directly from Apple is a moron, just like anyone who did the same from compaq or Dell would be a moron. You can buy macs on the cheap if you know how to shop, the same goes for PCs. But actualy try and price out equvilent computers from vendors and the prices are very close.
Buying my ibook was the worst computer-related decision I have ever made, and after seeing how an Apple system performs for the cost, I will never do it again, nor would I encourage anyone else to.
I am truly curious to know what made buying an iBook the worst computer related purchase you've ever made.
Apple has been riding on waves lately; the Jobs-is-back wave, the visual-aesthetics-are-nice wave, and is now trying to stay on top of the Linux-geeks-really-want-to-watch-a-DVD-with-no-fre e-software-hassles wave. The problem is, none of those waves has done anything to create a solid customer base
Right a loyal base of devoted customers with brandname loyalty, a wilingness to forgive mistakes and reward sucesses, fans willing to suport your product, vouch for it, sell it and contribute to it. People who will walk into stores like CompUSA and help people with information on macs when the incompitent employees falter. Definately not a solid customer base. In a time when vendors are merging and laying off employees to stay alive, Apple is right where it's always been, but that's not a solid customer base.
Apple is falling back into its old habit of hyping gimmicks to the undying cult of Mac Geeks, who cannot keep that company alive.
Apple: Proudly going out of business for more than 20 years.
Your CRT does flicker. Remember the refresh rate setting on your computer? That's the rate at which your monitor is flickering. For some people (espesialy those working under florecent lighting), the flicker is a pain in the ass.
LCDs are not up to par for color matching and grapic design, but for most things, they work just fine.
A lot of people actualy liked the design of the cube, the biggest issues were cost and no port access anywhere but the bottom. If Apple were to reintroduce the cube as a headless iMac I would be willing to bet they'd sell even better than the original iMacs.
Puck mice were a bad design for most people, but they were useable. And they were fixed.
You may not like the new iMac design, but they're selling pretty well.
They're certainly not slow machines either. My new 1Ghz Powerbook is equal on speed for my daily tasks with my 1.7 ghz Athlon. Yes, for raw power and number crunching, the PC edges out, but that's motorolas fault.
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Except when you sign up as an Apple developer (which you must do to obtain the SDKs) you need to agree to the general terms of use regarding the pruducts you will recieve including agreeing to the licences that come with that software (which you recieve free by the way).
Developers and end users are two different animals. While enforcing an EULA on software which the user has already paid for may be wrong, enforcing a contract regarding the use of internal development tools which are provided free of charge is not wrong. If you can't abide by the terms of use fo rthe development tools, get different ones or write your own.
Then try this on for size:
"Here's a nifty Software Development Kit, but you can't use it to develop software of questionable legality which could open us up to litigation and lawsuits."
You agree to a universal agreement regarding SDKs and such when you sign up to be a developer. Then you have to agree to the specific licence pertaining to that SDK before it will even install. So yes, there is a contract, the developer was aware of it and if he wasn't it's because of his own stupididty.
Not likely since there are many other applications that play MP3s availible for macs. You would have a right to be worried if the next implimentation of MP3 or Oog or whatever contained an unchangeable play count tag, but just because a single program has it means nothing.
That lies in the main purpose of the item.
iTunes: Music file organization / playback
iPod: portable music play back
CD/DVD burners: Data backup, storage and tranfer
Each one can be nicely covered by the don't steal music line because their primary purpose has nothing to do with the copy / "theft" of the music.
However, take a look at iCommune's primary purpose: transfer music files managed by iTunes across the net. That can not be covered by a simple do not steal music clause. Certainly not when they're using Apple's code.
Difference is, if fast-track gets more people copying and distributing software, they don't go out of business. Apple on the otherhand may be a different story.
You missed the point. YOU as a user, can do whatever the fuck you want to your system, Apple doesn't give a shit. It's when you start using their API's to distribute software of questionable legal status that they begin to care. Therefore, if you wanted to propagate the iCommune, it would merely be a matter of stripping the Apple APIs and providing instructions for building the plugin yourself.
Of course, if iCommune became a huge hit, don't be suprised if Apple suddenly had to kill off the plugin APIs because the RIAA came after them for aiding and providing a means of illegaly sharing music.
Apple APIs are developed and controlled by Apple. A person / group /company which uses those APIs and distributes software based off them must agree to their terms of use. If they violate those terms of use, and Apple does nothing, Apple is more or less legaly aproving the new use. By Approving, Apple opens themselves up to litigation.
The point he was makign was that the licence to use the SDKs that Apple provides state what you can and can not do with the APIs. In order to use Apple's APIs you mst abide by that.
Likewise, the GPL states what I can and can not do with GPL software. For example, I can not take GPL code, incorporate it into my software modify it and release my software as entirely closed source and not acknowledge the use of GPL software. How would the FSF or Torvalds or RMS comming after me for doing that be any different thatn what Apple is doing now.
That's 14 hours with an "Enhanced Batery". IIRC those are essentialy bateries, roughly the size (length and width) of the computer that attach to the bottom. They do make similar bateries for the powerbooks (or they used to anyways). Also note that the librito is a sub-notebook, a 10 inch LCD screen draws less power than a 15 inch one. And a 600Mhz processor less power than a 1 Ghz
I'll sell you mine (no HDD and dead motherboard) for $300
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Kazza and all the P2P places should move to Sealand http://www.sealandgov.com/
hmmm, assuming this quote is accurate, it seems pretty cut and dry to me:
Internet distribution of software did not subject someone to California jurisdiction.
In other words, if I distribute something online, I am not subject to the laws of the people who download it from me.
As an example, note that places which distribute child porn from outside the US borders, even across the net, are not prosicuted by US law. Instead they are subject to their host countries laws. The same would / should apply here. Of course, that means there's nothing stopping California from ruling possesion of Kazza illegal, but that's another battle in and of itself.
So you need 2 bateries to get 5 hours out of your Dell. As opposed to the 7 hours I could get out of two bateries for my powerbook.
As for the 0 support for firewire 800, everything has to start somewhere, and since PC people are afraid of change, I guess Apple has to start it.
So you've had 15 and 15 inch screens for a year, I believe Apple had had 15 inch for at least 2 years now. No one was bitching about 15 inches being to big. The only time I remember people bitching about 15 inches being to big was back when laptops were 2 - 3 inches thick, and heavy as a load of bricks.
And in all honesty, I think the 17 inch is too big, but people will buy it, someone always does.
Don't feel so bad, I just recently purchased a powerbook from them (what was the TOL model before), I'm almost half tempted to send it back, pay the restock fee and buy the new one.
Surely Apple could produce a kick-ass tablet... but why? There's no market for it right now.
Cause Apple likes to create markets for machines? Remember, there was very little market for USB and firwire products before Apple pushed them.
Apple: Proudly going out of business for over 20 years
So should Apple never have charged for any of the classic OSes till 9.2? Should Sony or whoever you bought your TV from give you a new TV everytime they add a new feature to it? Should Dell give you a new computer everytime a new update comes up?
Seriously, they're still giving you the programs for free with a new computer. They're just charging for updates. I don't particularly like it, but hey, if they realease an update I think is worth paying for I will, otherwise, I'll just wait for one.
Or check out the ambrosia game Avara which still has a large following and online comunity. Actualy, the low level graphics is probably one of the things that keeps it alive becasue anyone can create a new level with just a basic paint program.
For $1000 I can get a $200 Walmart PC that will run circles around an imac performance wise, and a nice 17" Viewsonic monitor. The current rate for a 17" imac is $1999. Does anyone else see the problem for Apple here?
e e-software-hassles wave. The problem is, none of those waves has done anything to create a solid customer base
Yeah I see a few problems:
1) You're paying $1,000 for a $200 computer. Would you also like to buy a bridge? I have one in Brooklyn you'd love.
2) While you might like a CRT monitor, I don't have shitloads of space on my desk, and since I don't need highend color matching, an LCD monitor is much better suited to my needs.
3) Did that $200 POS come with firewire? A decent graphics card? Good software packages (iDVD, iTunes, iMovie)? What about gigabit ethernet and auto sensing (both of which are useful to me)? Did that POS even come with a decent processor?
Apple's problem is that consumers have grown up.
Right, because a true sign of having grown up is getting into pissing contests with other people as to who has the fastest processor, or the most ram and not realizing the people have different needs and sometimes don't have the desire to spend hours tinkering with compentents or the need to crunch numbers into oblivion.
Windows is just as easy to use and more reliable (I have had fewer Win2K crashes since 1999 than I have with OS X since 2001.)
Ok, you're definately not using a well configured mac, or possibly you fucked arround with the kernel? Or maybe you're intentionaly trying to crash your computer? The last time I saw OS X crash unintentionaly was when it was in beta. If seen prgrams themselves fail, but nothing that brought down the system. The last time I saw Win2k crash was when I upgraded the video card drivers, which proceeded to lead to a mess of problems and ended up in the install of XP which needs a reboot every week when my router rolls over the IPs.
People know that Apple's 700MHz CPUs are slow compared to the 2+ GHz X86 CPUs, and that Apple is charging twice as much for RAM and old Nvidia/ATI cards than X86 vendors.
Anyone who buys the RAM or Video card update directly from Apple is a moron, just like anyone who did the same from compaq or Dell would be a moron. You can buy macs on the cheap if you know how to shop, the same goes for PCs. But actualy try and price out equvilent computers from vendors and the prices are very close.
Buying my ibook was the worst computer-related decision I have ever made, and after seeing how an Apple system performs for the cost, I will never do it again, nor would I encourage anyone else to.
I am truly curious to know what made buying an iBook the worst computer related purchase you've ever made.
Apple has been riding on waves lately; the Jobs-is-back wave, the visual-aesthetics-are-nice wave, and is now trying to stay on top of the Linux-geeks-really-want-to-watch-a-DVD-with-no-fr
Right a loyal base of devoted customers with brandname loyalty, a wilingness to forgive mistakes and reward sucesses, fans willing to suport your product, vouch for it, sell it and contribute to it. People who will walk into stores like CompUSA and help people with information on macs when the incompitent employees falter. Definately not a solid customer base. In a time when vendors are merging and laying off employees to stay alive, Apple is right where it's always been, but that's not a solid customer base.
Apple is falling back into its old habit of hyping gimmicks to the undying cult of Mac Geeks, who cannot keep that company alive.
Apple: Proudly going out of business for more than 20 years.
Your CRT does flicker. Remember the refresh rate setting on your computer? That's the rate at which your monitor is flickering. For some people (espesialy those working under florecent lighting), the flicker is a pain in the ass.
LCDs are not up to par for color matching and grapic design, but for most things, they work just fine.
A lot of people actualy liked the design of the cube, the biggest issues were cost and no port access anywhere but the bottom. If Apple were to reintroduce the cube as a headless iMac I would be willing to bet they'd sell even better than the original iMacs.
Puck mice were a bad design for most people, but they were useable. And they were fixed.
You may not like the new iMac design, but they're selling pretty well.
They're certainly not slow machines either. My new 1Ghz Powerbook is equal on speed for my daily tasks with my 1.7 ghz Athlon. Yes, for raw power and number crunching, the PC edges out, but that's motorolas fault.
And with half the battery life!