I run a linux VM in VirtualBox for for testing my development on my mac. It's free and it took a whopping 1.5 hours to set up. I'm part of a dev team developing for linux servers, and almost every person uses a mac. This is repeated countless times in my industry. This article is utter nonsense...
Dumb? Open your eyes. There's really no alternative. You either pay for what it costs...or you do without. Americans aren't dumb, they just have no alternative.
By your logic, a North Korean citizen is an idiot simply because their country has an evil totalitarian government.
The stupid thing is the double standard regarding this sort of thing. Books are released all the time that go into detail about how to hack various OSs, systems, platforms, etc, all under the guise of "prevention," and I don't see anyone kicking down the doors of those publishing companies or the book authors...
There is something very wrong with the legal system in this country...
I think the more important question is....what laws did the guy break in the first place? Did he break ANY or is this just another case of the idiotic way americans bow down and worship business?
I think the most important point of the article is that the app cost $30M to develop, and will cost.5M/week to keep running. As I see it, there's pretty much no way an iPad app like this is going to consistently bring in enough money to pay off the initial investment, or even keep up with the weekly costs.
Yeah. Apple has slowly been pushing me away as a consumer with their ridiculous policies. I used to own all apple and only apple products. I've gone from avid keynote follower to keynote "yawner." I've dropped my iPhone for an Android phone, which I didn't like at first, but it really grew on me once I found a decent rom replacement. I'm really not loyal to the iPad at all and have considered dropping it for a real kindle on and off for a while anyway.
Next time I buy myself a new computer I'm heavily considering buying both my wife and I replacement notebooks for our macbook pros with what it would cost for just a single macbook pro. Yeah the Apple product is much much higher quality, but the hardware is half a decade behind the price curve, and I don't need a laptop that can survive a nuclear holocaust....as I replace them every couple years anyway.
Apple needs to introduce consumer opinion back into the products they sell and stop telling us consumers what we're supposed to want. That attitude, along with the marketing they have done over the past 12 months, has really left me, as a consumer, feeling insulted and "talked down to."
Well, then there's always the XBOX 360 or PS3 options.
My samsung TV is pretty new and has the app support as well. There are at LEAST five different apps that you can rent movies directly to the TV through. CinemaNow being my favorite. Of course not everyone has a samsung TV that can do this though.
Most things I rent on apple TV are $2.99 and new releases are $3.99. I don't really rent in HD though. the 5% difference in streaming video quality isn't worth an extra buck, haha.
It's FAR easier and faster currently to rent and stream/download a film than it is to pirate it. I have an Apple TV, a PS3, and an XBOX 360. I can fire any of them up, rent a movie, and be watching almost instantly. At most I wait about 30 seconds for initial buffering. The Apple TV renting experience is particularly, brainlessly smooth.
The problem comes if they try to force amazon to charge the same price in-app as they do in the web store. I doubt amazon will stick around through a decision like that. They still have to make a profit too. If they can't jack their prices up for the in-app store, then their profit margin might shrink to nothing, or put them in the negative.
Currently, the kindle app is one of the the only reasons I ever pick up the iPad anymore. Apple shouldn't mess with it. I have no qualms about ditching the iPad if they do...
No, it doesn't make sense. I read the links, and what you're claiming just isn't true. They're talking about literal app compatibility, not the security settings revolving around where you can install apps from. They're two completely independent issues.
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I run a linux VM in VirtualBox for for testing my development on my mac. It's free and it took a whopping 1.5 hours to set up. I'm part of a dev team developing for linux servers, and almost every person uses a mac. This is repeated countless times in my industry. This article is utter nonsense...
I'm guessing that by "intermediate player," they actually mean "Java Runtime Environment" or something to that effect.
Dumb? Open your eyes. There's really no alternative. You either pay for what it costs...or you do without. Americans aren't dumb, they just have no alternative.
By your logic, a North Korean citizen is an idiot simply because their country has an evil totalitarian government.
Threatening reprisal is unambiguously LEGAL...
If you punch me in the face, I will punch you back. I just threatened reprisal, and I clearly didn't break the law....even in Germany.
Point taken about it being in Deutschland though. Somehow I missed that.
The stupid thing is the double standard regarding this sort of thing. Books are released all the time that go into detail about how to hack various OSs, systems, platforms, etc, all under the guise of "prevention," and I don't see anyone kicking down the doors of those publishing companies or the book authors...
There is something very wrong with the legal system in this country...
I think the more important question is....what laws did the guy break in the first place? Did he break ANY or is this just another case of the idiotic way americans bow down and worship business?
Oh i was just being bitter and sarcastic. It would probably make about 5% I'd guess. But honestly I have no freaking idea.
Hah!
Wouldn't that roughly cut Google's index in half?
...barking at a Nazgul
More like a teacup poodle...
Yeah, i signed up for a cheap hosting account a year ago, with one domain, and they gave me five IP addresses all my own.
Obviously it's not THAT big of a problem.
Newscorp is firmly in bed with Apple. I highly doubt you'll find them porting to Android
I suppose one must take context into account when rtfa.
I think the most important point of the article is that the app cost $30M to develop, and will cost .5M/week to keep running. As I see it, there's pretty much no way an iPad app like this is going to consistently bring in enough money to pay off the initial investment, or even keep up with the weekly costs.
Utterly doomed.
"The rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air..."
I occasionally use it for taking notes in the notes app, but that's about 1% of my usage.
At least wait a few months and see what the iPad 2 is going to offer...
Selling their books with/without DRM probably isn't Amazon's choice...
Yeah. Apple has slowly been pushing me away as a consumer with their ridiculous policies. I used to own all apple and only apple products. I've gone from avid keynote follower to keynote "yawner." I've dropped my iPhone for an Android phone, which I didn't like at first, but it really grew on me once I found a decent rom replacement. I'm really not loyal to the iPad at all and have considered dropping it for a real kindle on and off for a while anyway.
Next time I buy myself a new computer I'm heavily considering buying both my wife and I replacement notebooks for our macbook pros with what it would cost for just a single macbook pro. Yeah the Apple product is much much higher quality, but the hardware is half a decade behind the price curve, and I don't need a laptop that can survive a nuclear holocaust....as I replace them every couple years anyway.
Apple needs to introduce consumer opinion back into the products they sell and stop telling us consumers what we're supposed to want. That attitude, along with the marketing they have done over the past 12 months, has really left me, as a consumer, feeling insulted and "talked down to."
Well, then there's always the XBOX 360 or PS3 options.
My samsung TV is pretty new and has the app support as well. There are at LEAST five different apps that you can rent movies directly to the TV through. CinemaNow being my favorite. Of course not everyone has a samsung TV that can do this though.
Most things I rent on apple TV are $2.99 and new releases are $3.99. I don't really rent in HD though. the 5% difference in streaming video quality isn't worth an extra buck, haha.
It's FAR easier and faster currently to rent and stream/download a film than it is to pirate it. I have an Apple TV, a PS3, and an XBOX 360. I can fire any of them up, rent a movie, and be watching almost instantly. At most I wait about 30 seconds for initial buffering. The Apple TV renting experience is particularly, brainlessly smooth.
The problem comes if they try to force amazon to charge the same price in-app as they do in the web store. I doubt amazon will stick around through a decision like that. They still have to make a profit too. If they can't jack their prices up for the in-app store, then their profit margin might shrink to nothing, or put them in the negative.
Currently, the kindle app is one of the the only reasons I ever pick up the iPad anymore. Apple shouldn't mess with it. I have no qualms about ditching the iPad if they do...
No, it doesn't make sense. I read the links, and what you're claiming just isn't true. They're talking about literal app compatibility, not the security settings revolving around where you can install apps from. They're two completely independent issues.