You're correct ; as far as I know you need to pay a license to Apple, to not get sued.... Except that is the male dock connector. You won't find ANY mobile music player or cell phone with a female dock connector that can plug into a dock.
Correct. Having created their own connector for accessories because nothing else was suitable puts them in the position of having control of it. Why would they do extra work to open it up for competitors to their core products? Companies tend to act in their own financial interest. Even when they use industry standards they do so because they see that as in their best financial interests.
Huh? Using maps from two different systems seems like a bad decision. What happens when they don't agree?
Also, there was a slashdot story about Apple and Tesla meeting last year. So maybe they are going to have iOS for cars on the Model X. Or maybe nothing came of the meeting...
Many EVs essentially work that way. In ordinary driving, releasing the accelerator engages regenerative charging, which slows the car. They do have a brake pedal too, but you only use it for emergency braking or extreme downhill slopes.
With the cost of hardware as it is now, it would be very easy and economical to create a dockable/interchangable infotainment system for cars.
Did you learn nothing from dockable/interchangable car radios/CD players of the past? Widely stolen. The main reason you'd come back to your car to find the window broken.
Model specific, build in HiFi and sat nav systems are not there just because they look good. They also more or less kill the market for criminals.
The only reason they didn't is because they hate Android that much.
Android is a platform to collect user data for Google and advertise to it's users. The same goes for Google Maps.
The reason Apple went to the expense of creating their own Maps app is that in renewing the contract Google were demanding Apple share user data with them. Apple wouldn't do that.
With Google you are the product. With Apple they just want to sell you a device. They defend your privacy.
The only reason they didn't is because they hate Android that much.
Android is a platform to collect user data for Google and advertise to it's users. The same goes for Google Maps.
The reason Apple went to the expense of creating their own Maps app is that in renewing the contract Google were demanding Apple share user data with them. Apple wouldn't do that.
With Google you are the customer. With Apple they just want to sell you a device. They defend your privacy.
They built their own maps system in order to compete with a completely free and very effective one(google)
Google Maps isn't free. With Google maps the user is the product. The reason Apple did it's own maps app is that when it came time to renegotiate the Google Apps license, Google wanted Apple to pass user data on to them. Apple will not do that.
they are the last manufacturer of note clinging to using proprietary cables
Apple use standard connectors when there is one that fulfils their requirements. Otherwise they create a proprietary one that fits their needs. Apple don't let themselves be held back by old or inadequate standards.
jack connectors have been used for about 120 years
And are of course available on iPods and iPhones.
The 30-pin connector wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't patented, with a lawsuit-happy Apple. I have a device with the 30-pin dock, it is useless because making something compatible with it will get you sued. How rude.
Bullshit. Many manufacturers make devices with 30 pin connectors. And Apple resell many of them in the Apple Store.
Looks like some perfectly ordinary photos of some nice college girls to me. No law breaking.
Theres no law in Boston preventing kids drinking alcohol on private premises with their parents consent. The pictures with the can are obviously at a private party. Unless you know for a fact there was no parental consent...
You seem to think there is a third option available to you: keep the project going, but don't fork it. Since you aren't Apple, that option is not available to you.
GPL appears to put some hurdles in front of developers wanting to put stuff on the Apple App Store. The Apache License is far more open and has no such restrictions. There's no problem with using it with Apps on the App Store.
These settlements out of court, with non-disclosure agreements, are bad for society. They happen when an organisation knows it's guilty, and wants it covering up. Which makes them free to commit the same offence over and over again.
The evidence is that it should. Conservatives and libertarians such as you warned that introducing a minimum wage in the UK would lead to mass unemployment, and various industries being decimated. And they were wrong. In the years following the introduction of the minimum wage unemployment fell and no industry was decimated.
I mean, after a year of mom and dad being nervous and stressed about the thing you will - not say a word to your kid? WTF kind of parenting is that?
You say it in a biased way, assuming a level of stress displayed to the child was a necessary part of what happened. But it wasn't necessarily like that.
Good parenting? Good parenting is not sharing your financial affairs good or bad with your children. I never had, and never needed to have any details of my parents financial affairs, even the big ones like house and car buying, whether or not they inherited anything, and whilst I was aware when there were legal issues regarding accidents, I never knew the financial details. It's not information kids need to know, and there's no point having them worried about it.
Likewise any windfalls will only have them expecting their share, just like his kid. For sure it's good to finance their kids trip to Europe. But it's bad to share with them the financial circumstances behind which they will or won't get it.
You say that as if Foxconn wasn't the largest contract manufacturer in the world, manufacturing for all the top brands.
The vast majority of consumer hardware products from every brand are manufacturer under contract in Asia.
Apple has the highest standards in the business, and was the first to use the Fair Labor Association to do independant audits of their suppliers factories.
By that measure, as well as by their green standards, Apple is one of the most moral companies there is.
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You're correct ; as far as I know you need to pay a license to Apple, to not get sued.... Except that is the male dock connector. You won't find ANY mobile music player or cell phone with a female dock connector that can plug into a dock.
Correct. Having created their own connector for accessories because nothing else was suitable puts them in the position of having control of it. Why would they do extra work to open it up for competitors to their core products? Companies tend to act in their own financial interest. Even when they use industry standards they do so because they see that as in their best financial interests.
Huh? Using maps from two different systems seems like a bad decision. What happens when they don't agree?
Also, there was a slashdot story about Apple and Tesla meeting last year. So maybe they are going to have iOS for cars on the Model X. Or maybe nothing came of the meeting...
Many EVs essentially work that way. In ordinary driving, releasing the accelerator engages regenerative charging, which slows the car. They do have a brake pedal too, but you only use it for emergency braking or extreme downhill slopes.
None of which makes any sense. You're not very good at analogy.
Back in the land of reality:
Better: what trend have they ever been ahead of?
- Computers? Yep.
- Phones? Yep.
- Tablets? Yep.
- Media convergence? Yep.
- Navigation? Nope.
Yet their revenue is insane. So it must be something other than timeliness.
In part it's because you are blind to their excellence.
With the cost of hardware as it is now, it would be very easy and economical to create a dockable/interchangable infotainment system for cars.
Did you learn nothing from dockable/interchangable car radios/CD players of the past? Widely stolen. The main reason you'd come back to your car to find the window broken.
Model specific, build in HiFi and sat nav systems are not there just because they look good. They also more or less kill the market for criminals.
The only reason they didn't is because they hate Android that much.
Android is a platform to collect user data for Google and advertise to it's users. The same goes for Google Maps.
The reason Apple went to the expense of creating their own Maps app is that in renewing the contract Google were demanding Apple share user data with them. Apple wouldn't do that.
With Google you are the product. With Apple they just want to sell you a device. They defend your privacy.
The only reason they didn't is because they hate Android that much.
Android is a platform to collect user data for Google and advertise to it's users. The same goes for Google Maps.
The reason Apple went to the expense of creating their own Maps app is that in renewing the contract Google were demanding Apple share user data with them. Apple wouldn't do that.
With Google you are the customer. With Apple they just want to sell you a device. They defend your privacy.
They built their own maps system in order to compete with a completely free and very effective one(google)
Google Maps isn't free. With Google maps the user is the product. The reason Apple did it's own maps app is that when it came time to renegotiate the Google Apps license, Google wanted Apple to pass user data on to them. Apple will not do that.
they are the last manufacturer of note clinging to using proprietary cables
Apple use standard connectors when there is one that fulfils their requirements. Otherwise they create a proprietary one that fits their needs. Apple don't let themselves be held back by old or inadequate standards.
It is notable that you don't mention the model or generation.
Or one of the adapters.
jack connectors have been used for about 120 years
And are of course available on iPods and iPhones.
The 30-pin connector wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't patented, with a lawsuit-happy Apple. I have a device with the 30-pin dock, it is useless because making something compatible with it will get you sued. How rude.
Bullshit. Many manufacturers make devices with 30 pin connectors. And Apple resell many of them in the Apple Store.
Also, if they are really launching "iOS in the car" next week, it seems like a good time to announce an improved Apple Maps app to go with it.
Do you really want to have to manage the music library in your car with iTunes though?
What manage? It'll have the same music collection you have on your other devices. Automatically.
Android + an SD card or cloud storage would be much better
How is sneaker-net better? And in what way is Android cloud better than iTunes and iCloud?
You do talk a lot of shit.
Looks like some perfectly ordinary photos of some nice college girls to me. No law breaking.
Theres no law in Boston preventing kids drinking alcohol on private premises with their parents consent. The pictures with the can are obviously at a private party. Unless you know for a fact there was no parental consent...
Are you STILL doing the fool dance?
Yeah. You still aren't grasping the concept. Apple is no longer maintaining the project.
You're confused. Apple never was maintaining the project. Apple bought Primesense. OpenNI is a consortium of which Primesense was only one member.
There's no need to fork it. It's on GitHub. Contribute to it. 2 developers other than OpenNI already have.
https://github.com/OpenNI/Open...
You seem to think there is a third option available to you: keep the project going, but don't fork it. Since you aren't Apple, that option is not available to you.
You are mistaken.
You put far too much faith in random stuff you read on the internet. OpenNI is NOT Kinect specific. It works with other sensor systems too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...
http://www.openni.org/
Apache License.
GPL appears to put some hurdles in front of developers wanting to put stuff on the Apple App Store. The Apache License is far more open and has no such restrictions. There's no problem with using it with Apps on the App Store.
It sounds like this "little" girl (who might be inferred to be over 18 now, God help us all) is a real piece of work.
Don't be ridiculous. She's a kid who posted on FB like a kid. It gives you no insight into what sort of a person she is.
These settlements out of court, with non-disclosure agreements, are bad for society. They happen when an organisation knows it's guilty, and wants it covering up. Which makes them free to commit the same offence over and over again.
Minimum wage should not exist
The evidence is that it should. Conservatives and libertarians such as you warned that introducing a minimum wage in the UK would lead to mass unemployment, and various industries being decimated. And they were wrong. In the years following the introduction of the minimum wage unemployment fell and no industry was decimated.
Everybody won, employees and employers alike.
I mean, after a year of mom and dad being nervous and stressed about the thing you will - not say a word to your kid? WTF kind of parenting is that?
You say it in a biased way, assuming a level of stress displayed to the child was a necessary part of what happened. But it wasn't necessarily like that.
Good parenting? Good parenting is not sharing your financial affairs good or bad with your children. I never had, and never needed to have any details of my parents financial affairs, even the big ones like house and car buying, whether or not they inherited anything, and whilst I was aware when there were legal issues regarding accidents, I never knew the financial details. It's not information kids need to know, and there's no point having them worried about it.
Likewise any windfalls will only have them expecting their share, just like his kid. For sure it's good to finance their kids trip to Europe. But it's bad to share with them the financial circumstances behind which they will or won't get it.
That is as stupid as saying that cash is regulated by the paper and metal it's made from.
Banks are regulated. Bitcoin wallets and exchanges are not.
You say that as if Foxconn wasn't the largest contract manufacturer in the world, manufacturing for all the top brands.
The vast majority of consumer hardware products from every brand are manufacturer under contract in Asia.
Apple has the highest standards in the business, and was the first to use the Fair Labor Association to do independant audits of their suppliers factories.
By that measure, as well as by their green standards, Apple is one of the most moral companies there is.
http://www.apple.com/uk/suppli...