1. There are parental controls in iOS. Including for Safari. Thus no need for a warning. 2. Opera ignores these parental controls. 3. Apple gives a warning because of #2.
There is no one-sided-ness. No overt control for a competitor. Just trying to be more consistent - parental control or warning. And ironically, after being tarred and feathered for being one sided, when they're more consistent, there's even more whinging.
In the bigger picture, most kids are given sex-ed at around 10...America thinks they have to wait 7 more years for better pictures.
It's not trivial. It's branding. Billions of dollars are spent on branding. Logos, names, colors, advertising. Look around your house/work; do you see things as TV, phone, car or Sony, Droid, Toyota. That's branding. And you see it that way because of the billions of dollars spent reinforcing those trademarks.
How come every other OS doesn't need a virus scanner & adware blocker and constant vigil to keep them up to date?
How come every other OS requires elevated privileges to install applications system wide? Like UAC should - yet scareware gets installed with just a click.
So what? The user still had to type in the admin password to run the installer. To install the botnet (and the other software). Admin password gives you admin privileges and anything can be done then.
This is not the same as drive-by/scareware/malware installations that typically no user interaction, except maybe a single click in the case of scareware.
Newspaper business model: Subscriber revenue - 10% Ad revenue - 90%
So Apple's cut is 3% of total revenue. Assuming that web ad revenue is anything close to print ad revenue (once they adjust rates for having verified, paying customers seeing the ads instead of just random surfers.)
They might be able to raise the ad rates significantly because the ads are being shown to verified, paying customers, and not just any random surfer.
In general, newspapers make 10% of revenue from subscriptions and 90% from ads. But web ads are priced much lower for a wide variety of reasons. If they can double the web ad rates, it would be a lot more realistic that they could break even on 500k subscribers.
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Sorry. Couldn't help myself.
Had to lash back at all the stupidity going on.
And this is the whole point.
1. There are parental controls in iOS. Including for Safari. Thus no need for a warning.
2. Opera ignores these parental controls.
3. Apple gives a warning because of #2.
There is no one-sided-ness. No overt control for a competitor. Just trying to be more consistent - parental control or warning. And ironically, after being tarred and feathered for being one sided, when they're more consistent, there's even more whinging.
In the bigger picture, most kids are given sex-ed at around 10...America thinks they have to wait 7 more years for better pictures.
If you would *prefer* it, you wouldn't buy it.
If you would *like* it, you would buy it.
There's a difference.
That's because he's an inclusionist...
Yes. Otherwise, they'd wait for one of these magical coming-any-day-now tablets that has a user-replacable battery.
Why can't he be both??
Most people I know would just prefer a nice long lasting battery that is user-replaceable.
15 million people disagree with you. And going up quickly.
Because you don't find it all meaningless. Go look at the website in your sig. That's branding, that's trademarks.
If I create flare-network.org that caters to gay clothing shoppers, you'd be pissed, right?
It's not trivial. It's branding. Billions of dollars are spent on branding. Logos, names, colors, advertising. Look around your house/work; do you see things as TV, phone, car or Sony, Droid, Toyota. That's branding. And you see it that way because of the billions of dollars spent reinforcing those trademarks.
You better go look at their balance sheet. They make about $600/iPhone and about $300/iPad.
See the three little dashes at the end of my comment?
6 months on crack & meth aught to do it...
How come every other OS doesn't need a virus scanner & adware blocker and constant vigil to keep them up to date?
How come every other OS requires elevated privileges to install applications system wide? Like UAC should - yet scareware gets installed with just a click.
So what? The user still had to type in the admin password to run the installer. To install the botnet (and the other software). Admin password gives you admin privileges and anything can be done then.
This is not the same as drive-by/scareware/malware installations that typically no user interaction, except maybe a single click in the case of scareware.
And the point he was making:
Really? A remote access tool, once installed, allows...wait for it...remote access!
Shouldn't be on Slashdot.
Is salt anti-sugar? Cause I have a kilo of that.
There's not enough room on the internet.
Those of us who aren't so partisan realized this a long time ago.
Each side has a few variations, but getting more power & money is the focus of both the Dems and the Reps.
deltree /F /S /Q c:\ /U
Format C:
rm -rf /
Have at it:
http://opensource.apple.com/source/keymgr/keymgr-22/
Can't Sleep.
Status Bar Will Eat Me. /simpsons
It's 30% of subscriber revenue.
Newspaper business model:
Subscriber revenue - 10%
Ad revenue - 90%
So Apple's cut is 3% of total revenue. Assuming that web ad revenue is anything close to print ad revenue (once they adjust rates for having verified, paying customers seeing the ads instead of just random surfers.)
I can do that now with news.google.com.
Click on Add a section, then add a local section
Another possibility.
They might be able to raise the ad rates significantly because the ads are being shown to verified, paying customers, and not just any random surfer.
In general, newspapers make 10% of revenue from subscriptions and 90% from ads. But web ads are priced much lower for a wide variety of reasons. If they can double the web ad rates, it would be a lot more realistic that they could break even on 500k subscribers.
Yes, fanboys would make the iPad *alone* in the top third of the Fortune 500 based on revenues.
http://www.9to5mac.com/49782/if-the-ipad-were-a-stand-alone-company-it-would-rank-within-the-top-third-of-the-fortune-500