It is exactly about open standards for the web. What is this HTML5 content tollbooth you're talking about? Open standards give Apple control of the implementation not the content. Apple is perfectly happy to allow any web content on the device as long as they own the rendering engine. They do not want to be at the mercy of a third party - particularly Adobe - for the performance of their mobile devices, and rightly so.
Saw it once in Austin late 2001. It pretty much looked like a contrail made out of fire. It moved slowly, but eventually spanned the entire sky. For a few moments I thought it was a plane bombing (this was right after 9/11). If it passes overhead, you can't miss it.
Maybe you're thinking of a different.com button? The one I use only shows up (along with "." and "/") in URL fields in place of the space bar. So three highly applicable keys replace one completely inapplicable key. I use them almost every time. No joke.
This argument doesn't make sense because the upgrades are optional and cost does not accumulate. In other words, if you don't think the upgrade is worth ~$100, you can skip one or more cycles and still pay ~$100 when you do decide to upgrade.
Your points are valid, but to put your rant in perspective, the iPhone is leading competitors in customer satisfaction by a largemargin. Complain all you want, but the iPhone is a groundbreaking device and the best game in town for most people.
Competing web browsers Firefox and Opera are forbidden
No. The linked article says that "you might be able to have Firefox, but you wouldn't be able to have the plugins, add-ons and other goodness". I'm not sure what "other goodness" the author is referring to, but he later goes on to say that "other developers have argued that since Firefox plugins primarily run JavaScript they may be [accepted]."
Based on this article alone, it is a huge stretch to say that Firefox is forbidden.
It has everything to do with leverage. How do you think your own muscles move your limbs? Through leverage. If your bicept, for example, were to be attached ten times closer to the pivit point of your elbow, your muscle would need to exert ten times the force in order to do the same work. At the same time, it would only contract one tenth as much.
If a sytem such as this ever did thwart an attack, the terrorist might very well resort to smashing the plane into the ground. Maybe the ground itself should be a no-fly zone (with the obvious exception of landing strips). We can also assume there would be a contingency in place for emergency landings.
Not to mention, a number of Windows Server 2000 (and possibly Windows Server 2003) installations have undoubtably converted to Linux during the same time period. Therefore, the 5% measure does not in any way suggest a trend away from Linux. Its entirely possible that the trend is in the other direction.
These links were posted to slashdot recently. My favorite feature is type-ahead links. I find it very useful when I'm browsing news headline links or looking for that damn "TV" link on Yahoo.com. There's another cool feature where you can type something like "dict something" and it looks up something for you in the dictionary.
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I doubt they are jealous of Apple iAnything.
Then I doubt you've seen Apple's profit share of the cellular industry. Last I heard it was 32% for Apple vs 22% for RIM. http://www.ismashphone.com/images/Apple_and_The_Cell_Phone_Industry_Infographic.png
How about requiring the user to depress a preselected sequence of keys with their nose?
Don't think for a minute that all these Flash ads won't be replaced by equivalent HTML5 ads.
It is exactly about open standards for the web. What is this HTML5 content tollbooth you're talking about? Open standards give Apple control of the implementation not the content. Apple is perfectly happy to allow any web content on the device as long as they own the rendering engine. They do not want to be at the mercy of a third party - particularly Adobe - for the performance of their mobile devices, and rightly so.
Saw it once in Austin late 2001. It pretty much looked like a contrail made out of fire. It moved slowly, but eventually spanned the entire sky. For a few moments I thought it was a plane bombing (this was right after 9/11). If it passes overhead, you can't miss it.
Don't think the outrageous pricing will last long; the WSJ app currently has a 1.5 star rating in the app store.
Maybe you're thinking of a different .com button? The one I use only shows up (along with "." and "/") in URL fields in place of the space bar. So three highly applicable keys replace one completely inapplicable key. I use them almost every time. No joke.
This argument doesn't make sense because the upgrades are optional and cost does not accumulate. In other words, if you don't think the upgrade is worth ~$100, you can skip one or more cycles and still pay ~$100 when you do decide to upgrade.
Your points are valid, but to put your rant in perspective, the iPhone is leading competitors in customer satisfaction by a large margin. Complain all you want, but the iPhone is a groundbreaking device and the best game in town for most people.
Competing web browsers Firefox and Opera are forbidden
No. The linked article says that "you might be able to have Firefox, but you wouldn't be able to have the plugins, add-ons and other goodness". I'm not sure what "other goodness" the author is referring to, but he later goes on to say that "other developers have argued that since Firefox plugins primarily run JavaScript they may be [accepted]."
Based on this article alone, it is a huge stretch to say that Firefox is forbidden.
>This has nothing to do with leverage
It has everything to do with leverage. How do you think your own muscles move your limbs? Through leverage. If your bicept, for example, were to be attached ten times closer to the pivit point of your elbow, your muscle would need to exert ten times the force in order to do the same work. At the same time, it would only contract one tenth as much.
Sweet! They hired a hooters girl to throw the hammer.
If a sytem such as this ever did thwart an attack, the terrorist might very well resort to smashing the plane into the ground. Maybe the ground itself should be a no-fly zone (with the obvious exception of landing strips). We can also assume there would be a contingency in place for emergency landings.
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Not to mention, a number of Windows Server 2000 (and possibly Windows Server 2003) installations have undoubtably converted to Linux during the same time period. Therefore, the 5% measure does not in any way suggest a trend away from Linux. Its entirely possible that the trend is in the other direction.
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