Or they're shorting the stock right now, making lots of money as we speak. With this sort of stock manipulation, you can make money coming and going if you play it right and the people who manipulate stocks this blatantly most certainly know how to play it right.
They are not merely exploiting orphan works, but practicing a wholesale kidnapping...
Wow. Hyperbole much?
Seriously, that little tirade is just shy of "won't someone think of the children"...
I have troubles taking any point seriously, regardless of how valid I think it may or may not be, when it's attached to gross, blatant hyperbole of this sort. Make your point in an intelligent manner and people will respond. Make it sound like the sky is falling and doom is eminent and you'll quickly be ignored.
Greenpeace recently (a year-ish ago) admitted that they picked on Apple, despite there being significantly more egregious examples of companies manufacturing products that weren't friendly to the environment because they knew that talking about Apple would get their name mentioned in the news. This guy is doing the same thing - talk about Apple, in any way, and people will see what he has to say, even if he's completely full of it and wrong.
And, in this case, he's wrong. There are very few significant tech companies that push open internet standards as much as Apple does. Apple was the first major tech company to significantly push for DRM-free music purchases. They strongly support open standards in many ways. Are they perfect? No. No company is so why would anyone expect them to be? But, regardless of their imperfections, there are actually few companies of their significance that are as pro-open standards as they are. Claiming that they are the biggest threat to internet freedom is simply an attempt to get people to pay attention to what you have to say, similar to what Greenpeace did.
Ok, seriously, how is this news now? Apple has published their review guidelines and something like this clearly doesn't pass the test so why is this news? Is it news because someone made a mistake and it managed to slip through because it sure as hell isn't news that it was pulled.
Oh. I see. It's news because it's another example of Apple's walled garden keeping apps out of the App Store.
Here's a secret people - that's not news either. We already know that Apple periodically does not allow apps into the App Store. The reasons for this happening are often very obvious because they've published their approval guidelines.
In the end, that sort of empowerment is going to trump any sort of assured device capability or graphical power that Apple can offer me.
In the end, that sort of empowerment is going to take second seat to where the money is. Developers who do it for the passion of doing it will develop for whatever platform they enjoy developing on. The rest, who are trying to keep food on their tables, roofs over their heads, and retirement plans in mind will go where the money is. And, right now, and for the foreseeable future, that's _both_ Android and iOS. The only way that will change in the long term is if and when something unknown enters the market and shakes up the status quo but, at this time, the status quo is there are really only two markets - Android and iOS - and neither is going away, despite what anyone claims via their FUD.
Anil Dash is a developer? Uh, no he's not. From his own website, he's "a blogger, entrepreneur and geek living in NYC." Nothing about being a developer. So, a blogger posted something about Apple that will get the geeks all a-tizzy and it made it to the front page of Slashdot and will drive viewers to his site, generating ad revenue while being based on nothing informative and wiping people into a flamewar frenzy on slashdot. In other words, business as usual.
Please, feel free to discuss this FUD and base your thoughts on this Anil Dash fellow. He is, after all, a blogger "who's written over half a million words" so his opinion must be really important.
Depends on your needs and desires but things like the Marvel app (and the various other comic apps) makes reading comics a pleasure (no, seriously - this is an absolutely fantastic app and I highly recommend it to any comic fan out there) and the various sketching apps makes doing design brainstorming a breeze (and sending those sketches to clients easier than scanning and emailing), to name but two quick things that a laptop fails at. As a media consumption device, laying in bed, it's better than a smart phone for the screen real estate and better than a laptop for it's size and weight. For a pick-up-and-go computing device, it is superior to a laptop, imho. For a _computer_, it is inferior but I didn't buy it to be a computer. I have a desktop for desktop-y work and I have a laptop for laptop-y work. That said, I still regularly use my desktop but, since getting my ipad, I haven't used my laptop at all...
Suffice it to say there are a ton of other uses but I'm at work and don't feel like writing a long post on the subject...:)
I can buy a very capable laptop with 3G capability for less than that and it will be useful for more than just browsing pictures and watching youtube.
It really is laughable that you think an iPad is just for browsing pictures and watching youtube. But, hey, feel free to keep utterly missing the point. If you're happy with your Samsung Epic, all the more power to you but, I assure you, there are millions of people out there who are happy with their iPads and I also assure you that the majority of them use them for a lot more than pictures and youtube. It may not be the right product for you - the Samsung Epic may well be that product - but that doesn't mean it isn't the right product for a lot of other people. Millions and millions of other people, in fact.
Frankly, I agree. The threat of Microsoft pulling Office prompted them to make iWork and, quite frankly, I like the suite a great deal more than Office. If this pushes Apple to do the same for graphics programs, I'll be a very happy camper. Would the creative suite be as polished as Adobe CS right off the bat? Obviously not but Apple does know a thing or two about developing software packages so I'm pretty confident it wouldn't take them too long to get things working at a professional level.
Well, that merger would spell the death of Flash pretty damn quickly. What, you think Microsoft would keep Flash _and_ Silverlight? You think they'd keep Flash _instead_ of Silverlight? Don't kid yourself - they are a corporate culture company with political infighting of the worst degree. The Microsoft team would do everything and then some to ensure that all products that Adobe made that duplicated existing Microsoft products were wiped from the face of computing. If they're willing to nonchallantly stab fellow Microsoft execs in the back to ensure their product gets favoured treatment, just think how ruthless they'll be against non-Microsoft execs...
So, I'll take the karma hit and ask - to all the people that rant and rave about how closed and proprietary Apple is and how wonderful Android is, how does this sit within your vision of things? I thought the entire appeal of Android was that it was your phone and you could put what you wanted on it yet this is far from the first example of another Android manufacturer exerting (rather extreme, in my opinion) control over what you can and cannot put on the device.
To everyone planning on blasting Apple for rejecting the app, please check the submission guidelines they recently published. The reason this app was rejected is spelled out in clear detail there - the developer has nobody to blame but themself for the app's rejection. They knew they were submitting an app that wouldn't be approved because they hid certain functionality, which is precisely the reason the app was going to be rejected.
2.4 Apps that include undocumented or hidden features inconsistent with the description of the app will be rejected.
When you do something against the rules and get caught, don't be surprised that there are consequences. Don't want to play by those rules, then don't. That simple.
2.4 Apps that include undocumented or hidden features inconsistent with the description of the app will be rejected
Actually, there seems to be a pretty good, clear way to know if your app will be rejected. Following the App Store Review Guidelines helps a great deal.
I remember, in a past discussion, someone described the patent situation similar to the cold war but noted that it's likely ending in an explosive way. Previously, companies held patent portfolios to hold other companies at bay in a defensive stance similar to the stockpiles of missiles. Now, however, the portfolios are being used offensively - the missiles are starting to fly. As more and more start to get unleashed, this is only going to get uglier, in my opinion. While I may not like seeing my favourite companies targeted by lawsuits, I'm ok with the cold war ending because, maybe, just maybe, these companies will get fed up with the hundreds of millions that will start flying about as well and start to lobby for patent laws that make more sense because, gawd knows, the current ones are pretty messed up...
If Skype on the iPhone is any indication, yes, it will drain battery life a great deal faster than using the stock phone. And, if you're using it over wifi (which I believe is the only way it's currently available on Android), that will also probably result in your device heating up considerably more than using the phone as well. Again, if my experience using it on my iPhone is any indication (and I see no real reason for the Android version to be significantly different...).
Could we please have a bit more bias in our summaries please. I mean, things like "Apple and Its Army of Fans" and "Microsoft, meanwhile, is languishing in the shadows like Cinderella on the night of the ball." don't quite make it obvious that the story is trying to make a point. Feel free to throw in references to Nazis, if necessary, to make the story bias more obvious.
sigh... I know it's a pipe dream, but I really do enjoy story submissions that just cover the details and let me make up my own mind on how I view the information...
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Or they're shorting the stock right now, making lots of money as we speak. With this sort of stock manipulation, you can make money coming and going if you play it right and the people who manipulate stocks this blatantly most certainly know how to play it right.
They are not merely exploiting orphan works, but practicing a wholesale kidnapping...
Wow. Hyperbole much?
Seriously, that little tirade is just shy of "won't someone think of the children"...
I have troubles taking any point seriously, regardless of how valid I think it may or may not be, when it's attached to gross, blatant hyperbole of this sort. Make your point in an intelligent manner and people will respond. Make it sound like the sky is falling and doom is eminent and you'll quickly be ignored.
And Apple will lose again...
If Apple is losing, please sign me up to be a loser like them...
Hint: "Winning" isn't necessarily measured by market share.
The video appears to no longer be available due to a copyright claim by the Tribune.
Interesting...
My timeframe was off (it was in late 2007), but here's the link: http://apple.slashdot.org/story/07/10/22/2217212/Greenpeace-Admits-Targeting-Apple-Grabs-Headlines
Interesting that you neglected to mention the Apple-haters in your formula for increased sales...
Greenpeace recently (a year-ish ago) admitted that they picked on Apple, despite there being significantly more egregious examples of companies manufacturing products that weren't friendly to the environment because they knew that talking about Apple would get their name mentioned in the news. This guy is doing the same thing - talk about Apple, in any way, and people will see what he has to say, even if he's completely full of it and wrong.
And, in this case, he's wrong. There are very few significant tech companies that push open internet standards as much as Apple does. Apple was the first major tech company to significantly push for DRM-free music purchases. They strongly support open standards in many ways. Are they perfect? No. No company is so why would anyone expect them to be? But, regardless of their imperfections, there are actually few companies of their significance that are as pro-open standards as they are. Claiming that they are the biggest threat to internet freedom is simply an attempt to get people to pay attention to what you have to say, similar to what Greenpeace did.
Ok, seriously, how is this news now? Apple has published their review guidelines and something like this clearly doesn't pass the test so why is this news? Is it news because someone made a mistake and it managed to slip through because it sure as hell isn't news that it was pulled.
Oh. I see. It's news because it's another example of Apple's walled garden keeping apps out of the App Store.
Here's a secret people - that's not news either. We already know that Apple periodically does not allow apps into the App Store. The reasons for this happening are often very obvious because they've published their approval guidelines.
Seriously. Not news.
In the end, that sort of empowerment is going to trump any sort of assured device capability or graphical power that Apple can offer me.
In the end, that sort of empowerment is going to take second seat to where the money is. Developers who do it for the passion of doing it will develop for whatever platform they enjoy developing on. The rest, who are trying to keep food on their tables, roofs over their heads, and retirement plans in mind will go where the money is. And, right now, and for the foreseeable future, that's _both_ Android and iOS. The only way that will change in the long term is if and when something unknown enters the market and shakes up the status quo but, at this time, the status quo is there are really only two markets - Android and iOS - and neither is going away, despite what anyone claims via their FUD.
Anil Dash is a developer? Uh, no he's not. From his own website, he's "a blogger, entrepreneur and geek living in NYC." Nothing about being a developer. So, a blogger posted something about Apple that will get the geeks all a-tizzy and it made it to the front page of Slashdot and will drive viewers to his site, generating ad revenue while being based on nothing informative and wiping people into a flamewar frenzy on slashdot. In other words, business as usual.
Please, feel free to discuss this FUD and base your thoughts on this Anil Dash fellow. He is, after all, a blogger "who's written over half a million words" so his opinion must be really important.
4chan can use their powers for good?
Um... I just don't know how to process that information...
Depends on your needs and desires but things like the Marvel app (and the various other comic apps) makes reading comics a pleasure (no, seriously - this is an absolutely fantastic app and I highly recommend it to any comic fan out there) and the various sketching apps makes doing design brainstorming a breeze (and sending those sketches to clients easier than scanning and emailing), to name but two quick things that a laptop fails at. As a media consumption device, laying in bed, it's better than a smart phone for the screen real estate and better than a laptop for it's size and weight. For a pick-up-and-go computing device, it is superior to a laptop, imho. For a _computer_, it is inferior but I didn't buy it to be a computer. I have a desktop for desktop-y work and I have a laptop for laptop-y work. That said, I still regularly use my desktop but, since getting my ipad, I haven't used my laptop at all...
:)
Suffice it to say there are a ton of other uses but I'm at work and don't feel like writing a long post on the subject...
I can buy a very capable laptop with 3G capability for less than that and it will be useful for more than just browsing pictures and watching youtube.
It really is laughable that you think an iPad is just for browsing pictures and watching youtube. But, hey, feel free to keep utterly missing the point. If you're happy with your Samsung Epic, all the more power to you but, I assure you, there are millions of people out there who are happy with their iPads and I also assure you that the majority of them use them for a lot more than pictures and youtube. It may not be the right product for you - the Samsung Epic may well be that product - but that doesn't mean it isn't the right product for a lot of other people. Millions and millions of other people, in fact.
That just hurt my brain and made sense at the same time...
Is it any wonder that The Big Bang Theory is one of my favourite shows?...
...remember those awful clamshell notebooks...
Yes. I remember them fondly. I still think, to this day, that the graphite notebook is one of the coolest looking laptops I've ever owned.
Frankly, I agree. The threat of Microsoft pulling Office prompted them to make iWork and, quite frankly, I like the suite a great deal more than Office. If this pushes Apple to do the same for graphics programs, I'll be a very happy camper. Would the creative suite be as polished as Adobe CS right off the bat? Obviously not but Apple does know a thing or two about developing software packages so I'm pretty confident it wouldn't take them too long to get things working at a professional level.
Well, that merger would spell the death of Flash pretty damn quickly. What, you think Microsoft would keep Flash _and_ Silverlight? You think they'd keep Flash _instead_ of Silverlight? Don't kid yourself - they are a corporate culture company with political infighting of the worst degree. The Microsoft team would do everything and then some to ensure that all products that Adobe made that duplicated existing Microsoft products were wiped from the face of computing. If they're willing to nonchallantly stab fellow Microsoft execs in the back to ensure their product gets favoured treatment, just think how ruthless they'll be against non-Microsoft execs...
So, I'll take the karma hit and ask - to all the people that rant and rave about how closed and proprietary Apple is and how wonderful Android is, how does this sit within your vision of things? I thought the entire appeal of Android was that it was your phone and you could put what you wanted on it yet this is far from the first example of another Android manufacturer exerting (rather extreme, in my opinion) control over what you can and cannot put on the device.
2.4 Apps that include undocumented or hidden features inconsistent with the description of the app will be rejected.
When you do something against the rules and get caught, don't be surprised that there are consequences. Don't want to play by those rules, then don't. That simple.
2.4 Apps that include undocumented or hidden features inconsistent with the description of the app will be rejected
Actually, there seems to be a pretty good, clear way to know if your app will be rejected. Following the App Store Review Guidelines helps a great deal.
I remember, in a past discussion, someone described the patent situation similar to the cold war but noted that it's likely ending in an explosive way. Previously, companies held patent portfolios to hold other companies at bay in a defensive stance similar to the stockpiles of missiles. Now, however, the portfolios are being used offensively - the missiles are starting to fly. As more and more start to get unleashed, this is only going to get uglier, in my opinion. While I may not like seeing my favourite companies targeted by lawsuits, I'm ok with the cold war ending because, maybe, just maybe, these companies will get fed up with the hundreds of millions that will start flying about as well and start to lobby for patent laws that make more sense because, gawd knows, the current ones are pretty messed up...
Well, one can hope, at least...
If Skype on the iPhone is any indication, yes, it will drain battery life a great deal faster than using the stock phone. And, if you're using it over wifi (which I believe is the only way it's currently available on Android), that will also probably result in your device heating up considerably more than using the phone as well. Again, if my experience using it on my iPhone is any indication (and I see no real reason for the Android version to be significantly different...).
Its one shortcoming for me has been that I can't use it to access media that's NOT on the internet.
That's a rather large shortcoming...
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
I find, as soon as someone pulls out this tired cliche, I completely ignore anything else they have to say....
Could we please have a bit more bias in our summaries please. I mean, things like "Apple and Its Army of Fans" and "Microsoft, meanwhile, is languishing in the shadows like Cinderella on the night of the ball." don't quite make it obvious that the story is trying to make a point. Feel free to throw in references to Nazis, if necessary, to make the story bias more obvious.
sigh... I know it's a pipe dream, but I really do enjoy story submissions that just cover the details and let me make up my own mind on how I view the information...