Lots of people thought that their small businesses would be able to spin off some revenue from the Olympics, seeing how we're all going to pay for the money sink.
Anyone who thought that this was a good deal has now woken up. Unfortunately, it's too late to quit. My estimate - it's going to cost £15 billion in total.
The process to spoof a UAC dialog is roundabout, but doable, said Whitehouse. It would start with a user falling for any one of the current hacker tricks. "The most likely scenario is that a user gets compromised by malicious code, from a Trojan [horse] or a vulnerability in a third-party application like Office or a browser," he said in an interview.
But presumably that also has some sort of UAC when you try and run it?
Who cares about this if you've already compromised the security? anyone else think that Symantec are getting nervous?
"nobody will create without copyright" (that's nonsense) or "copyright is the only option" (that's also nonsense).
People would probably still write songs, if copyright were abolished. What about movies, though? How is someone going to make a $100 million + movie like Spider-Man without copyright? The moment that it's released, someone would copy it and every cinema owner would show the copied version. It doesn't work.
Copyright is the only option (with the option for creators to grant unlimited licenses and so forth). The alternatives are what, exactly? State funding of creators? Who decides who the state should fund?
A particular example: in XP if you select a file and then click again on the name (or hit F2) it selects the filename and lets you edit it. What's slightly irritating is that it selects the file name *and* extension. In Vista it only highlights the name, so when I'm renaming several.doc files it ends up saving a LOT of clicks or keystrokes.
What are you saying? That if you drop the "hide extensions", so it shows "xyz.doc", that clicking on it only allows you to update the "xyz" part?
This is supposed to be a benefit, but in order to get Readyboost, you have to upgrade to Vista, which uses more memory and of course, costs you money.
I'd like to see a comparison of 2 machines. 1 running Vista with a readyboost USB key and 1 running XP. And the XP machine gets an upgrade to memory/hard drive equivalent to the cost of the vista upgrade license.
People who pay would pay $500 for a phone are going to be the people replacing their pocket pc phones that currently run windows mobile 5.0. They are used to paying $5 to $10 per app/game and have a handful of favorites.
More than that, it's about variety. Look for a phone or palm app. They are frequently written by 1/2-man bands who will risk a few hundred bucks to get CodeWarrior and then build something. That means a load of experimentation going on, a wider varieties of applications and more evolution.
No 1/2 man band is going to go through all the overhead of "developer approval". No-one is going to "scratch an itch" with this environment and post a functional, yet ugly and non-robust experimental program that people get and think is cool.
you can, in fact, install third party applications. they will just be acquired through the itunes store instead of downloaded on your own. this doesnt' even mean they won't be free, as the itunes store has plenty of free stuff on it. I know of several places with SDKs for the phone already.
In the meantime, people like Nokia will give away developer tools, creating a broader market for products that will beat the narrow closed system that Apple are trying to produce. No developer outside of the "approved programme" will just tinker around and think of something cool to do with it that they could market. They'll just do it on a Symbian phone.
You'd think that Jobs would have seen the "developers, developers, developers" and understood that.
I suggest Mark Shuttleworth. Here's a guy who's trying to make Ubuntu as good a "real-world" distro as he can. He understands that computing isn't a philosophy to most people, but a tool to get a job done.
I'm sure they will. But there's no market. It will be some rich kid proving he can hack and reverse engineer it for geek points.
In reality, most developers won't be interested. Given a choice between hacking a $600 iPhone in a W. Heath Robinson style to get an application to half run, or getting a Nokia Smartphone and downloading the tools and APIs that are already there, which do you think people are going to do?
I'm half thinking of getting a Mac. I've been using Ubuntu which is great for things like LAMP work, but lacks the niceties of Mac or PC (like DVD playback).
What puts me off is that I really don't know how good the opinions are that I get. Sometimes, people write things that seem reasonable. They talk about beautiful design, robustness etc. On the other hand...
I recently read a post on someone's blog. They were asking about photo management/tweaking software for their PC. There were various suggestions that were free and paid for like Photoshop Album or Picasa. Then someone comes along and says "Get a Mac".
I've seen some Mac fans saying "it just works" or "no viruses" or "no more BSODs" and my replies are "so does Windows XP", "£20 a year" and "none since 2001". Viruses have never been a problem, and switching just to avoid paying a small annual fee for a virus scanner just doesn't add up.
So I wonder - how many of these people have a realistic comparison? Have seen Windows XP for more than a few seconds.
I'm not defending Windows here. Some things about it really annoy me. I just wonder how good these opinions about Macs are.
Even if openmoko doesn't take off, you've already got Symbian and J2ME.
As for the Google Maps stuff, have you seen Steve's bit in the Keynote about it? "Truly Remarkable" he called it. It's so "remarkable" that you have to select a location. Unlike the Nokia N95 with built in GPS, which does all the same things, but knows exactly where you are, and can direct you to the place you want via audible directions.
Companies have tried this before - keep things away from developers so you can make more for yourself from fees for "developer license clubs". Problem is that it doesn't foster a rich community of developers. You're left with established suppliers, and the other guys go to another platform. Which means things like J2ME or Symbian.
People like that wouldn't know how to install a 3rd party app
Do you know how easy it is to install something like a Gmail Mobile client? You go to a site, click a link, it asks you a couple of "would you like to install..." things, and off you go.
The comparisons with the scrap over iPods is just way off the mark. When iPod hit the market, there was almost no established market. Products were sold on features, integration with PC was poor. And functionally, a music player is a music player. Apple got the styling right, the UI right, the integration right.
The phone market is mature. Phones are sold to various different customers. Women often choose something small and stylish. Kids choose something funky. Men go for features. It's researched to the max and at near-saturation levels.
When I first saw the iPhone, I thought "well, there's a market for this" but this 3rd party news makes me think that it's a lot smaller than I first thought.
Although I do have a dollar here that says hackers will figure it out whatever Apple does...
Absolutely. The question is whether you'd want to bother farting around to get Linux onto a $600 phone
Nokia publish their APIs, they publish tools. There's a major community for it now. You can put Python on a series 60, and Nokia helped build it.
A friend of mine once told me that one of the reasons Microsoft beat Apple was because Microsoft went out of their way for developers. It seems to me that with OSX, Apple helped to turn that.
It seems Jobs think his users and followers are idiots...
Don't tempt me...
Seriously, though, I've already seen some people saying "I was looking forward to having custom OSX apps, but then I thought about it again, and I figure that we can just do everything with webapps".
Apple make good products, but some fans are just loonies.
For a lot of people, the 3rd party apps improve the phone experience. I've got 3 apps on my handheld that I'd rather not be without - Yellow Pages, Gmail for Mobile and Opera Mini. I've seen RSS readers, ebook readers, photoblogging applications and so forth.
How many people do these things? How many are also the sort of early adopters who will shell out for an iPhone? I'm not sure.
I also don't think that it will have an iPod level impact. The functional and price differences between an iPod and its competitors were narrow. The iPod also beat the pants off its competitors because of excellent synchronisation (Nokia's contacts and file synchronisation are fine).
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Anyone who thought that this was a good deal has now woken up. Unfortunately, it's too late to quit. My estimate - it's going to cost £15 billion in total.
And the price was much less than McAfee. Oh, and it doesn't get in your way like that crap.
But presumably that also has some sort of UAC when you try and run it?
Who cares about this if you've already compromised the security? anyone else think that Symantec are getting nervous?
People would probably still write songs, if copyright were abolished. What about movies, though? How is someone going to make a $100 million + movie like Spider-Man without copyright? The moment that it's released, someone would copy it and every cinema owner would show the copied version. It doesn't work.
Copyright is the only option (with the option for creators to grant unlimited licenses and so forth). The alternatives are what, exactly? State funding of creators? Who decides who the state should fund?
What are you saying? That if you drop the "hide extensions", so it shows "xyz.doc", that clicking on it only allows you to update the "xyz" part?
This is supposed to be a benefit, but in order to get Readyboost, you have to upgrade to Vista, which uses more memory and of course, costs you money.
I'd like to see a comparison of 2 machines. 1 running Vista with a readyboost USB key and 1 running XP. And the XP machine gets an upgrade to memory/hard drive equivalent to the cost of the vista upgrade license.
Alteratively, leave Vista and spend the money on faster internal memory.
More than that, it's about variety. Look for a phone or palm app. They are frequently written by 1/2-man bands who will risk a few hundred bucks to get CodeWarrior and then build something. That means a load of experimentation going on, a wider varieties of applications and more evolution.
No 1/2 man band is going to go through all the overhead of "developer approval". No-one is going to "scratch an itch" with this environment and post a functional, yet ugly and non-robust experimental program that people get and think is cool.
In the meantime, people like Nokia will give away developer tools, creating a broader market for products that will beat the narrow closed system that Apple are trying to produce. No developer outside of the "approved programme" will just tinker around and think of something cool to do with it that they could market. They'll just do it on a Symbian phone.
You'd think that Jobs would have seen the "developers, developers, developers" and understood that.
I suggest Mark Shuttleworth. Here's a guy who's trying to make Ubuntu as good a "real-world" distro as he can. He understands that computing isn't a philosophy to most people, but a tool to get a job done.
Considering how much COBOL code is still running, this seems quite a relevant project.
The problem with "seal of approval" systems is that they don't create the variety that an open architecture does.
It was popular enough for The Clash to mention it in London Calling.
And no, not kingdoms
Yeah, the EU is a highly reputable organisation and not at all a bunch of crooks.
In reality, most developers won't be interested. Given a choice between hacking a $600 iPhone in a W. Heath Robinson style to get an application to half run, or getting a Nokia Smartphone and downloading the tools and APIs that are already there, which do you think people are going to do?
What puts me off is that I really don't know how good the opinions are that I get. Sometimes, people write things that seem reasonable. They talk about beautiful design, robustness etc. On the other hand...
I recently read a post on someone's blog. They were asking about photo management/tweaking software for their PC. There were various suggestions that were free and paid for like Photoshop Album or Picasa. Then someone comes along and says "Get a Mac".
I've seen some Mac fans saying "it just works" or "no viruses" or "no more BSODs" and my replies are "so does Windows XP", "£20 a year" and "none since 2001". Viruses have never been a problem, and switching just to avoid paying a small annual fee for a virus scanner just doesn't add up.
So I wonder - how many of these people have a realistic comparison? Have seen Windows XP for more than a few seconds.
I'm not defending Windows here. Some things about it really annoy me. I just wonder how good these opinions about Macs are.
I've seen good programmers become terrible programming team leaders and vice versa.
As for the Google Maps stuff, have you seen Steve's bit in the Keynote about it? "Truly Remarkable" he called it. It's so "remarkable" that you have to select a location. Unlike the Nokia N95 with built in GPS, which does all the same things, but knows exactly where you are, and can direct you to the place you want via audible directions.
Yeah, and PCs suck because the one I bought in 1996 for £1300 only came with a 75mhz processor.
Companies have tried this before - keep things away from developers so you can make more for yourself from fees for "developer license clubs". Problem is that it doesn't foster a rich community of developers. You're left with established suppliers, and the other guys go to another platform. Which means things like J2ME or Symbian.
Do you know how easy it is to install something like a Gmail Mobile client? You go to a site, click a link, it asks you a couple of "would you like to install..." things, and off you go.
The comparisons with the scrap over iPods is just way off the mark. When iPod hit the market, there was almost no established market. Products were sold on features, integration with PC was poor. And functionally, a music player is a music player. Apple got the styling right, the UI right, the integration right.
The phone market is mature. Phones are sold to various different customers. Women often choose something small and stylish. Kids choose something funky. Men go for features. It's researched to the max and at near-saturation levels.
When I first saw the iPhone, I thought "well, there's a market for this" but this 3rd party news makes me think that it's a lot smaller than I first thought.
Absolutely. The question is whether you'd want to bother farting around to get Linux onto a $600 phone
Nokia publish their APIs, they publish tools. There's a major community for it now. You can put Python on a series 60, and Nokia helped build it.
A friend of mine once told me that one of the reasons Microsoft beat Apple was because Microsoft went out of their way for developers. It seems to me that with OSX, Apple helped to turn that.
Don't tempt me...
Seriously, though, I've already seen some people saying "I was looking forward to having custom OSX apps, but then I thought about it again, and I figure that we can just do everything with webapps".
Apple make good products, but some fans are just loonies.
For a lot of people, the 3rd party apps improve the phone experience. I've got 3 apps on my handheld that I'd rather not be without - Yellow Pages, Gmail for Mobile and Opera Mini. I've seen RSS readers, ebook readers, photoblogging applications and so forth.
How many people do these things? How many are also the sort of early adopters who will shell out for an iPhone? I'm not sure.
I also don't think that it will have an iPod level impact. The functional and price differences between an iPod and its competitors were narrow. The iPod also beat the pants off its competitors because of excellent synchronisation (Nokia's contacts and file synchronisation are fine).