I'd like to get all hot and bothered, but I just can't. I have a legal data bundle with tethering included for which I have paid. Apple is not calling all the shots in this game, they have to at least pay lip service to providers wishes. If that means people not on explicit data plans with tethering get shafted, it's a hiccup. I'm sure it will get fixed.
But don't let that stop anyone from going all fscking crazy about the imaginary freedoms they never had on other platforms until Apple changed the smart phone game.
The SMS hack affects many phones and many systems. Nothing in the wild, no plague of users infected or crashed or harmed.
But let's run it as if the iPhone is the only one infected, and Apple somehow is a laggard for not releasing a patch. Then later, we'll talk about whether the problem is universal.
So, is the iPhone the only phone that matters, or is it just too hard for submitter NOT to use Apple and the iPhone to get attention?
How quick to bleat about the evil Apple when in fact AT&T are the bad guys. Imagine the ISP not wanting an App on a phone it sells to circumvent the charging of features on AT&Ts network, and since they had the power they got it pulled. But that didn't stop the usual Apple Bashers from running their mouths off with certainty concerning a topic they actually knew nothing about.
What's left to say? Isn't this just a matter for psychiatrists and sociologists now? Engaging these idiots in discussions would just make your own IQ drop without affecting their worldview in the slightest.
So you come here with your vicious stupidity but it's "Apple fanboys" who are rabid? Apple bashers seemingly have one thing in common: they are inordinately smug c***suckers routinely calling the kettle black.
Glad to see that in 2009 USAnians are still defending the pile of shit that is the Imperial System. Fine, the booster math has no cheaper solution than sticking with Imperial for the current systems. But none of this would be necessary in the first place if people weren't so hung up on the doing what's familiar than what's easy and better. And democracies are unfortunately super great for perpetuating stupidities people are comfortable with...
Who is reading Slashdot these days? More than the required amount of mouth breathers? Apple is the most effective and popular online retailer of music, and has 30000+ apps in the App Store for it's iPhone and it's not obvious what an Apple datacenter would be used for? Give your heads a shake.
There is nothing lucrative about a razor thin margin sub notebook where the most expensive component is the hobbled Windows dreck staining it's hard drive.
Those looking forward to "gorilla arm" computing can rejoice. Unless multitouch gestures are supported on the trackpads of laptop mice, touchscreens on desktops is just a curiosity for kiosks and schoolkids.
I'll tell you right now. Three years from now, the iTunes App store will still be the one to beat, and everything else will be an exercise in trying to relive Play For Sures smashing success.
Lets start a pool on which of these technologies will be cooler than the SPOT watch. Provided any ever see the light of day as an honest to god product. Or will we just keep hearing about how cool they will be Any Day Now, like a certain table-with-a-projector-and-a-PC-in-it?
I love how optimistic these stories always are... Such a romantic bunch, thinking everything that comes down the pike is going to knock Apple off of it's current perch.
Fair competition in the marketplace? Fair for whom? Apple, which would be made to support their OS on unsupported hardware, or cheapskates who want a Mac without the premium hardware? Apple is under no obligation to sell their products the way everyone else does, and is in the fact the only reason they are a bright spot in the disaster that is currently tech company value, because they haven't embraced the lie of high volume low margin "success".
Re: Software. As much I do not like WMP and never use it, it the the de facto Windows branded media "center" for the average PC. The Zune should have come with a plug in or an updated WMP version that allowed iTunes-like functionality. Instead they released completely separate piece of not-ready-for-prime-time software to run the Zune. People wank on about the iPod only selling because it's "cool", but that cool factor comes about because Apple's products "just work". Microsoft's, OTOH, are designed to make you *do* work.
Simply, I think, because they aren't used to thinking of Apple as "evil."
Simply Wrong.
Apple's DRM is a non-issue because once it is setup it is utterly transparent to the user. One account. 5 computers. Unlimited number of ipods connected to those computers. Burn tracks to a CD (10 times in the same playlist)and rip them on another machine and the DRM is gone. And now, the DRM is gone altogether!
The information is everywhere. Why is it so damn hard for people to read and understand why Apple's DRM isn't an issue? The facts speak for themselves.
In what Universe is this considered to be a surprise move? It's Microsoft for Odin's sake. You honestly believe they've learned lessons from the the marketplace that weren't extracted at the barrel of their monopoly cannon?
I agree 100% with your assesment. I had thought about it that way before. Everyone I know running the Vista Rebrand OS are running it on hardware they didn't have two years ago. A friend of mine loaded the Beta on his Macbook. What I noticed was no installed apps. Where they hidden? I guess my point is if MS stripped out a load of default loaded apps because it's a "Beta" then the speed and loading increase are an illusion.
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For 20 years Apple Mac users had to hear about how retarded they were, from Windows drones, for going against the herd. Now that Apple is on top of the world, the poor Windows Wankers, annoyed at Apple's success, are pretending that Microsoft and and it's 3rd rate products are somehow under appreciated and are the "underdog".
So The "new' Windows OS finally cleaned up it's 32 bit act in time to be obsolete. It's easy to accomplish tasks when you set a low standard and fail to maintain it.
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They probably produced a paper about how everyone was going to own a SPOT watch as well...
A whiny pointless dismissal of an Apple product by someone who doesn't understand the appeal! Stop the presses!
I wish anything Microsoft does would still surprise me...
I'd like to get all hot and bothered, but I just can't. I have a legal data bundle with tethering included for which I have paid. Apple is not calling all the shots in this game, they have to at least pay lip service to providers wishes. If that means people not on explicit data plans with tethering get shafted, it's a hiccup. I'm sure it will get fixed. But don't let that stop anyone from going all fscking crazy about the imaginary freedoms they never had on other platforms until Apple changed the smart phone game.
So, is the iPhone the only phone that matters, or is it just too hard for submitter NOT to use Apple and the iPhone to get attention?
How quick to bleat about the evil Apple when in fact AT&T are the bad guys. Imagine the ISP not wanting an App on a phone it sells to circumvent the charging of features on AT&Ts network, and since they had the power they got it pulled. But that didn't stop the usual Apple Bashers from running their mouths off with certainty concerning a topic they actually knew nothing about.
What's left to say? Isn't this just a matter for psychiatrists and sociologists now? Engaging these idiots in discussions would just make your own IQ drop without affecting their worldview in the slightest.
So you come here with your vicious stupidity but it's "Apple fanboys" who are rabid? Apple bashers seemingly have one thing in common: they are inordinately smug c***suckers routinely calling the kettle black.
Glad to see that in 2009 USAnians are still defending the pile of shit that is the Imperial System. Fine, the booster math has no cheaper solution than sticking with Imperial for the current systems. But none of this would be necessary in the first place if people weren't so hung up on the doing what's familiar than what's easy and better. And democracies are unfortunately super great for perpetuating stupidities people are comfortable with...
Google is running scared from a rebranded failure. Just like Apple is quaking in it's boots over the Zune.
Two thousand and seven called: they want their aging hipster snotty dismissal whine back.
Who is reading Slashdot these days? More than the required amount of mouth breathers? Apple is the most effective and popular online retailer of music, and has 30000+ apps in the App Store for it's iPhone and it's not obvious what an Apple datacenter would be used for? Give your heads a shake.
There is nothing lucrative about a razor thin margin sub notebook where the most expensive component is the hobbled Windows dreck staining it's hard drive.
Those looking forward to "gorilla arm" computing can rejoice. Unless multitouch gestures are supported on the trackpads of laptop mice, touchscreens on desktops is just a curiosity for kiosks and schoolkids.
I'll tell you right now. Three years from now, the iTunes App store will still be the one to beat, and everything else will be an exercise in trying to relive Play For Sures smashing success.
Lets start a pool on which of these technologies will be cooler than the SPOT watch. Provided any ever see the light of day as an honest to god product. Or will we just keep hearing about how cool they will be Any Day Now, like a certain table-with-a-projector-and-a-PC-in-it?
I love how optimistic these stories always are... Such a romantic bunch, thinking everything that comes down the pike is going to knock Apple off of it's current perch.
Fair competition in the marketplace? Fair for whom? Apple, which would be made to support their OS on unsupported hardware, or cheapskates who want a Mac without the premium hardware? Apple is under no obligation to sell their products the way everyone else does, and is in the fact the only reason they are a bright spot in the disaster that is currently tech company value, because they haven't embraced the lie of high volume low margin "success".
Re: Software. As much I do not like WMP and never use it, it the the de facto Windows branded media "center" for the average PC. The Zune should have come with a plug in or an updated WMP version that allowed iTunes-like functionality. Instead they released completely separate piece of not-ready-for-prime-time software to run the Zune. People wank on about the iPod only selling because it's "cool", but that cool factor comes about because Apple's products "just work". Microsoft's, OTOH, are designed to make you *do* work.
Simply Wrong.
Apple's DRM is a non-issue because once it is setup it is utterly transparent to the user. One account. 5 computers. Unlimited number of ipods connected to those computers. Burn tracks to a CD (10 times in the same playlist)and rip them on another machine and the DRM is gone. And now, the DRM is gone altogether!
The information is everywhere. Why is it so damn hard for people to read and understand why Apple's DRM isn't an issue? The facts speak for themselves.
Because iTunes works.
In what Universe is this considered to be a surprise move? It's Microsoft for Odin's sake. You honestly believe they've learned lessons from the the marketplace that weren't extracted at the barrel of their monopoly cannon?
I agree 100% with your assesment. I had thought about it that way before. Everyone I know running the Vista Rebrand OS are running it on hardware they didn't have two years ago. A friend of mine loaded the Beta on his Macbook. What I noticed was no installed apps. Where they hidden? I guess my point is if MS stripped out a load of default loaded apps because it's a "Beta" then the speed and loading increase are an illusion.
For 20 years Apple Mac users had to hear about how retarded they were, from Windows drones, for going against the herd. Now that Apple is on top of the world, the poor Windows Wankers, annoyed at Apple's success, are pretending that Microsoft and and it's 3rd rate products are somehow under appreciated and are the "underdog".
Move on, already.
So The "new' Windows OS finally cleaned up it's 32 bit act in time to be obsolete. It's easy to accomplish tasks when you set a low standard and fail to maintain it.