Headline: "Powering our facilities with clean, renewable energy."
Strapline: "Weâ(TM)ve dramatically reduced the environmental impact of our corporate facilities and the data centers that provide online services to our customers. And we continue to invest in ways to achieve 100 percent renewable energy and lessen our carbon footprint even more."
Where's the deception? Corporate facilities and data centers. Not "factories of sub-contractors".
What part of "And for all of Apple's corporate facilities worldwide, we're at 75 percent, and we expect that number to grow as the amount of renewable energy available to us increases. We won't stop working until we achieve 100 percent throughout Apple." did you not understand?
The slave labour allegations are bullshit. Ref: The lies of Mike Daisey.
Of course ANY company subcontracting manufacture to China and various other Asian countries is in danger of the subcontracting companies using child labour or sweatshops. And the majority of consumer electronics are manufactured there.
However Apple does more than any of the other companies to ensure this doesn't happen with the companies that they subcontract to.
The continued repeating of these allegations as if Apple were choosing to use child labour is the lowest form of filthy lie, from the dregs of the slashdot membership. To use a serious issue like child labour in order to further their shilling for Android or OSS is the lowest of the low.
"And for all of Appleâ(TM)s corporate facilities worldwide, weâ(TM)re at 75 percent, and we expect that number to grow as the amount of renewable energy available to us increases. We wonâ(TM)t stop working until we achieve 100 percent throughout Apple."
Note there's a difference between Apple lying, and you being too stupid to understand simple English.
There are lots of ways they can clean up their image and in my opinion, they aren't addressing the more serious concerns.
Opposing child labour and sweatshops, and being green are pretty serious concerns in my book. All of them certainly far more serious than how much they are in tune with the demands of the OSS community.
This was back when a webpage could do a jailbreak.
Oh, sure. Back then it was possible. It's certainly possible to trick a proportion of people to click on a link, and if that does a jailbreak then it's done.
Mind you, to actually be worth the criminal's effort, they'd then have to get the user to also install the app. And it's going to be hard when the last link you gave them took them through a worrisome jailbreak procedure.
However, even that faint possibility is in the past. Drive-by jailbreaking has been dead since July 2011.
Well that's the other side of the trade off. And one that lots of people are happy to make. Being safe from malware being more important to them than wardriving tools, and the other things that aren't on the store.
But for sure iOS, and the games consoles, and every other platform that don't allow the user to download from random sites are exceptions that prove "The user is a flaw every OS has" to be wrong.
Of course they can. As can the proprietors of any store.
As for complete power over the content of a computing device, Try developing a game for the Wii that Nintendo finds objectionable. Selling it from ANY store.
Too many people have been blinded by the merchants of "cool" to see the true cost in terms of freedom and privacy which come with drinking the Apple/Google kool-aid.
People prefer concrete benefits like functionality and ease of use, to notional benefits like "open".
Clinton never pulled the nation out of debt. What you refer to as a surplus just means that the government pulled in more revenue than it spent for the year
Well yes. That is the meaning of a "surplus" in the national accounts. And it is indeed analogous to making a profit. So what's your point? What are you complaining about? Tepples can be an annoying git, but on this occasion he was perfectly correct.
Interesting. Is that how apps like AppZapper know what to delete when uninstalling some random app?
I'm not sure how useful it would be for malware though, because when it's run for the first time, it can of course create new copies of files with different names and/or locations.
There's nothing preventing you from convincing users to install a web browser that provides some customization features and displays extra ads in exchange.
Unless the app is up front about this in it's description, then the app will be rejected. If it *is* upfront, and the user chooses to install it anyway, then it's not a problem. The user decided the tradeoff was worth it for the features they are getting.
Well not quite. This is where the curated app store of iOS comes in. The user can only install apps from a store that requires the apps to be prevetted. And the store will remove any malware that manages to sneak past the vetting process, as soon as it becomes known.
This is removing user stupidity as a vector for trojans.
The Android specific section of reddit is hardly all over the internet. It's a group of people that are interested in Android, and are thus rather more likely than average to be positive towards Google.
Google appear to have lost their shine of late. Here's where I think they went wrong. Their famous "20% time", where engineers could take a day a week to work on their own pet projects. And if they looked good enough they were made public as Google products. The problem is that such products bred like bunny rabbits, and Google had to start culling them. Apparently not realising that creating a service and then killing it again upsets all the people that adopted the service.
On top of that they've been increasingly lacking in respect for people's privacy in the past few years.
The way they are going, they are going to be another Microsoft. Hated by many, but still with the dominant market share in their core product - search.
You think women are that easy to gameplay? Think again. I was given all kinds of grief one night because before a party I told her she looked lovely in the dress she was trying on but DIDN'T want to wear.
Hmm. The cols war. Capitalism vs communism. It seemed that capitalism had prevailed. It's going to be quite amusing if communism snatches victory from the jaws of defeat.
When I'm typing on a mobile, you get the capitals auto-correct gives. Life's too short for doing shift on a touch screen. Though if I thought there was any chance he'd be reading, I'd have gone the extra mile out of respect.
I don't think that's true. I'm a mobile developer, and have Been on and off for 15 years. Now on iOS, but originally on Symbian. Apple announced their App Store, a one stop shop, with basically one click to buy, download and install. And there was no doubt in my mind that it was going to be huge.
Why? Because I knew on the one hand what a pain in the ass it was to buy, download and install native apps on other mobile devices. How shit non-native apps were. How sucessful the iphone without apps already was. And how successful apple had already been with the iTunes Store for music and the iPod.
Apple were doing what they do best. Coming to a market that already exists, but has a terrible user experience.
Microsoft's problem is that apple already filled the gap in the market, and android had already come in to serve the lower end. They had the old chicken and egg problem of few developers and few users. With nothing but being a little bit different on the plus side.
I honestly don't see much gamble here. Both these things were predictable, they were't chance.
Slashdot Mirror
Headline: "Powering our facilities with clean, renewable energy."
Strapline: "Weâ(TM)ve dramatically reduced the environmental impact of our corporate facilities and the data centers that provide online services to our customers. And we continue to invest in ways to achieve 100 percent renewable energy and lessen our carbon footprint even more."
Where's the deception? Corporate facilities and data centers. Not "factories of sub-contractors".
What part of "And for all of Apple's corporate facilities worldwide, we're at 75 percent, and we expect that number to grow as the amount of renewable energy available to us increases. We won't stop working until we achieve 100 percent throughout Apple." did you not understand?
The slave labour allegations are bullshit. Ref: The lies of Mike Daisey.
Of course ANY company subcontracting manufacture to China and various other Asian countries is in danger of the subcontracting companies using child labour or sweatshops. And the majority of consumer electronics are manufactured there.
However Apple does more than any of the other companies to ensure this doesn't happen with the companies that they subcontract to.
The continued repeating of these allegations as if Apple were choosing to use child labour is the lowest form of filthy lie, from the dregs of the slashdot membership. To use a serious issue like child labour in order to further their shilling for Android or OSS is the lowest of the low.
What's a lie in the statement:
"And for all of Appleâ(TM)s corporate facilities worldwide, weâ(TM)re at 75 percent, and we expect that number to grow as the amount of renewable energy available to us increases. We wonâ(TM)t stop working until we achieve 100 percent throughout Apple."
Note there's a difference between Apple lying, and you being too stupid to understand simple English.
There are lots of ways they can clean up their image and in my opinion, they aren't addressing the more serious concerns.
Opposing child labour and sweatshops, and being green are pretty serious concerns in my book. All of them certainly far more serious than how much they are in tune with the demands of the OSS community.
This was back when a webpage could do a jailbreak.
Oh, sure. Back then it was possible. It's certainly possible to trick a proportion of people to click on a link, and if that does a jailbreak then it's done.
Mind you, to actually be worth the criminal's effort, they'd then have to get the user to also install the app. And it's going to be hard when the last link you gave them took them through a worrisome jailbreak procedure.
However, even that faint possibility is in the past. Drive-by jailbreaking has been dead since July 2011.
Well that's the other side of the trade off. And one that lots of people are happy to make. Being safe from malware being more important to them than wardriving tools, and the other things that aren't on the store.
But for sure iOS, and the games consoles, and every other platform that don't allow the user to download from random sites are exceptions that prove "The user is a flaw every OS has" to be wrong.
Schmidt is either a liar or or doesn't actually know what's happening in his own company.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57575626-37/apple-google-google-now-not-submitted-to-app-store/
Of course they can. As can the proprietors of any store.
As for complete power over the content of a computing device, Try developing a game for the Wii that Nintendo finds objectionable. Selling it from ANY store.
Wow, you're quite the chihuahua!
Too many people have been blinded by the merchants of "cool" to see the true cost in terms of freedom and privacy which come with drinking the Apple/Google kool-aid.
People prefer concrete benefits like functionality and ease of use, to notional benefits like "open".
Clinton never pulled the nation out of debt. What you refer to as a surplus just means that the government pulled in more revenue than it spent for the year
Well yes. That is the meaning of a "surplus" in the national accounts. And it is indeed analogous to making a profit. So what's your point? What are you complaining about? Tepples can be an annoying git, but on this occasion he was perfectly correct.
Interesting. Is that how apps like AppZapper know what to delete when uninstalling some random app?
I'm not sure how useful it would be for malware though, because when it's run for the first time, it can of course create new copies of files with different names and/or locations.
Jeez, you just reminded me of one of the things that pushed me to switch to OSX. The Realplayer menace - shudder.
There's nothing preventing you from convincing users to install a web browser that provides some customization features and displays extra ads in exchange.
Unless the app is up front about this in it's description, then the app will be rejected. If it *is* upfront, and the user chooses to install it anyway, then it's not a problem. The user decided the tradeoff was worth it for the features they are getting.
Then you tell the user to do a jailbreak.
Get real.
Well not quite. This is where the curated app store of iOS comes in. The user can only install apps from a store that requires the apps to be prevetted. And the store will remove any malware that manages to sneak past the vetting process, as soon as it becomes known.
This is removing user stupidity as a vector for trojans.
The Android specific section of reddit is hardly all over the internet. It's a group of people that are interested in Android, and are thus rather more likely than average to be positive towards Google.
Google appear to have lost their shine of late. Here's where I think they went wrong. Their famous "20% time", where engineers could take a day a week to work on their own pet projects. And if they looked good enough they were made public as Google products. The problem is that such products bred like bunny rabbits, and Google had to start culling them. Apparently not realising that creating a service and then killing it again upsets all the people that adopted the service.
On top of that they've been increasingly lacking in respect for people's privacy in the past few years.
The way they are going, they are going to be another Microsoft. Hated by many, but still with the dominant market share in their core product - search.
Don't worry, I know you're your own individual snowflake. And no generalisations ever apply to you. Certainly not. No way.
And you certainly know, In advance, what your reaction will be to a situation you 've never experienced before.
Happy now?
Bad time of the month?
You think women are that easy to gameplay? Think again. I was given all kinds of grief one night because before a party I told her she looked lovely in the dress she was trying on but DIDN'T want to wear.
Hmm. The cols war. Capitalism vs communism. It seemed that capitalism had prevailed. It's going to be quite amusing if communism snatches victory from the jaws of defeat.
When I'm typing on a mobile, you get the capitals auto-correct gives. Life's too short for doing shift on a touch screen. Though if I thought there was any chance he'd be reading, I'd have gone the extra mile out of respect.
I don't think that's true. I'm a mobile developer, and have Been on and off for 15 years. Now on iOS, but originally on Symbian. Apple announced their App Store, a one stop shop, with basically one click to buy, download and install. And there was no doubt in my mind that it was going to be huge.
Why? Because I knew on the one hand what a pain in the ass it was to buy, download and install native apps on other mobile devices. How shit non-native apps were. How sucessful the iphone without apps already was. And how successful apple had already been with the iTunes Store for music and the iPod.
Apple were doing what they do best. Coming to a market that already exists, but has a terrible user experience.
Microsoft's problem is that apple already filled the gap in the market, and android had already come in to serve the lower end. They had the old chicken and egg problem of few developers and few users. With nothing but being a little bit different on the plus side.
I honestly don't see much gamble here. Both these things were predictable, they were't chance.
It's pining for the fiords.