Apple doesn't even say it. If you think Apple ever says "everything we ever make is perfect, including all new products and future concepts we haven't thought of yet and never fails", you are an idiot.
They probably did just that. They didn't just design the 3G iPhone, send it to the factories and hope it all worked out. The original phone was in development for years, so why wouldn't this be true about the 3G phone? They were basically waiting for lower power 3G chips so they could ship it.
If you were trying to get a job and someone did a preliminary background check on you with Google, turned up some old court documents stating you got arrested for being in a bar fight or something of that nature, would you now be OK if you can no longer even get an interview because no one wants to talk to you?
Many large companies do background checks already but by this point you are usually about to be hired and you can actually tell them ahead of time why you got arrested.
If you want to make any money then you have to play within the rules of the phone's SDK. Look at the iPhone apps that are only for jailbroken phones. No company is going to put their development behind and try and sell a jail broken app only.
If you want more evidence that it's the carriers and not Apple, just look at the 3G iPhone. You can't buy it without signing a contract in the USA and then you're locked to AT&T.
"I mean, people have been unlocking the iPhone and using it on other carriers. The carriers didn't complain, Apple did."
I certainly didn't hear Apple complaining about millions of iPhones going overseas and out of the USA at $400 a pop. They got my $400 before it was even available here in Canada. Steve Jobs was asked about what he though of the unlocking and jailbreaking and like he usually replies, he said with a casual voice, "it's a cat and mouse game". He doesn't really care as much as you think he does.
BB had the market all to themselves for a long time. There's nothing really made that was just for push email like the BB. I have one and it's such a hunk of shiat and controlling it all through a scroll wheel & click button is ancient.
It would surprise me that they would go so far as to look at all the encoders included in whatever tool they are using to encode the AAC. They probably don't even know.
That has to be proven in court that the EULA is invalid which is has not been yet. As I said, Pro Tools sells the software and hardware separately but you must buy their hardware cards for sound input to work with their software(beyond the basic configuration).
Uh, I already said "Obviously this will take a while to phase in", no shit. This would be a transition period since Apple won't want to be just a software company. It's probably a safe bet they're doing this type of stuff in the lab. I would guess that if they are going to go this route, it will be supported but not required in 10.6. 10.7 would drop support for all hardware without this chip because that will be quite some time from now.
As for hardware tie in to software, you must not be at all familiar with Pro Tools. Pro Tools requires you to buy their special interface cards which cost more than a Mac Pro and you actually get less inputs for the money than if you went with a cheaper software package such as Qbase. Pro Tools has the lock in with audio engineering firms and schools and likes to keep it that way. No one has ever said this is illegal and this still goes on today. Also, various hardware dongles are required for many high end professional programs and those are not illegal.
If Apple loses this is just going to cause them to start implementing tighter hardware restrictions. Think TPM this time for real, or some other custom chip that does something that no one else can do without it.. Macs don't have it now but they could in the future. Obviously this will take a while to phase in but Apple is not going to transition to selling software only.
Then there's those whackos that make the maggot cheese that they made people eat on Fear Factor. Yes it was an actual food with real maggots and people eat it.
The difference is that Apple lists all the apps where you can easily find them. Top free apps is always changing and any new application quickly moves pretty high in the list. This means that it's more likely that people will install it compared to somehow finding some malware app to run on their Mac. I don't know about you but I don't continuously check macupdate or versiontracker for new apps but I do often check what's new on the App Store for the iPhone. I'm much more likely to install some new application on the phone wheras with the computer I usually just seek out applications if I need to.
I've already read that 2 days ago. If you read the article link:
"Boom! That iPhone kill switch which could delete software from your iPhone? Itâ(TM)s real â" Jobs confirmed to the WSJ that âoesuch a capability existsâ in case Apple âoeinadvertently allows a malicious programâ to be distributed through the App Store.
Jobs is quoted saying: "Hopefully we never have to pull that lever, but we would be irresponsible not to have a lever like that to pull.â
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Apple doesn't even say it. If you think Apple ever says "everything we ever make is perfect, including all new products and future concepts we haven't thought of yet and never fails", you are an idiot.
They probably did just that. They didn't just design the 3G iPhone, send it to the factories and hope it all worked out. The original phone was in development for years, so why wouldn't this be true about the 3G phone? They were basically waiting for lower power 3G chips so they could ship it.
If you were trying to get a job and someone did a preliminary background check on you with Google, turned up some old court documents stating you got arrested for being in a bar fight or something of that nature, would you now be OK if you can no longer even get an interview because no one wants to talk to you?
Many large companies do background checks already but by this point you are usually about to be hired and you can actually tell them ahead of time why you got arrested.
I said Mac user you tool. Apple marketing is marketing.
The hardware is mostly the same as the first phone. They added a GPS chip and 3G chip. This is their first experience with 3G hardware.
No Mac/Apple user ever says that. The only idiots that ever say that are the trolls.
If you want to make any money then you have to play within the rules of the phone's SDK. Look at the iPhone apps that are only for jailbroken phones. No company is going to put their development behind and try and sell a jail broken app only.
If you want more evidence that it's the carriers and not Apple, just look at the 3G iPhone. You can't buy it without signing a contract in the USA and then you're locked to AT&T.
"I mean, people have been unlocking the iPhone and using it on other carriers. The carriers didn't complain, Apple did."
I certainly didn't hear Apple complaining about millions of iPhones going overseas and out of the USA at $400 a pop. They got my $400 before it was even available here in Canada. Steve Jobs was asked about what he though of the unlocking and jailbreaking and like he usually replies, he said with a casual voice, "it's a cat and mouse game". He doesn't really care as much as you think he does.
BB had the market all to themselves for a long time. There's nothing really made that was just for push email like the BB. I have one and it's such a hunk of shiat and controlling it all through a scroll wheel & click button is ancient.
You can install WIndows, or Linux on Macs. Linux for PPC Macs has been around for 10+ years. This is hardly vendor locked.
You can register as an individual, you don't need to be a company. Although you could just make up a company name if you wanted to.
That doesn't matter as you're not going to your own domain for webmail. You use http://mail.google.com/a/yourdomain.com to access it.
Yeah I'm sure that's it and not that it is hard on their developing body due to the intense training involved.
It would surprise me that they would go so far as to look at all the encoders included in whatever tool they are using to encode the AAC. They probably don't even know.
That has to be proven in court that the EULA is invalid which is has not been yet. As I said, Pro Tools sells the software and hardware separately but you must buy their hardware cards for sound input to work with their software(beyond the basic configuration).
Uh, I already said "Obviously this will take a while to phase in", no shit. This would be a transition period since Apple won't want to be just a software company. It's probably a safe bet they're doing this type of stuff in the lab. I would guess that if they are going to go this route, it will be supported but not required in 10.6. 10.7 would drop support for all hardware without this chip because that will be quite some time from now.
As for hardware tie in to software, you must not be at all familiar with Pro Tools. Pro Tools requires you to buy their special interface cards which cost more than a Mac Pro and you actually get less inputs for the money than if you went with a cheaper software package such as Qbase. Pro Tools has the lock in with audio engineering firms and schools and likes to keep it that way. No one has ever said this is illegal and this still goes on today. Also, various hardware dongles are required for many high end professional programs and those are not illegal.
If Apple loses this is just going to cause them to start implementing tighter hardware restrictions. Think TPM this time for real, or some other custom chip that does something that no one else can do without it.. Macs don't have it now but they could in the future. Obviously this will take a while to phase in but Apple is not going to transition to selling software only.
And you're a chicken shit who can't post under their own account for fear of retaliation.
Then there's those whackos that make the maggot cheese that they made people eat on Fear Factor. Yes it was an actual food with real maggots and people eat it.
Well they don't, I can guarantee you.
The difference is that Apple lists all the apps where you can easily find them. Top free apps is always changing and any new application quickly moves pretty high in the list. This means that it's more likely that people will install it compared to somehow finding some malware app to run on their Mac. I don't know about you but I don't continuously check macupdate or versiontracker for new apps but I do often check what's new on the App Store for the iPhone. I'm much more likely to install some new application on the phone wheras with the computer I usually just seek out applications if I need to.
I've already read that 2 days ago. If you read the article link:
"Boom! That iPhone kill switch which could delete software from your iPhone? Itâ(TM)s real â" Jobs confirmed to the WSJ that âoesuch a capability existsâ in case Apple âoeinadvertently allows a malicious programâ to be distributed through the App Store. Jobs is quoted saying: "Hopefully we never have to pull that lever, but we would be irresponsible not to have a lever like that to pull.â
Yes there IS a kill switch in the software.
You're right. Maybe they should just have let the possibility for every phone to get infected and the only recourse would be to wipe the phone.
" What if you release an app that is infected with malware, the app is still legit whereas the malware part of the code is not"
Uhh, good on Apple if they caught it and removed it from all applications. Why the hell would you want it to remain on every phone if it's infected?