He left it out because ATT told him to. That information is confidential to ATT, so how can you blame Steve for not telling you? (You're good at your game too.)
Someone want to point me to a list of iPhone/iPad exploits out in the wild?
Yeah. Didn't think so.
A lot of you guys have iPhone envy that's just oozing from your orifices. Really, it's OK that you choose to use a phone that you can tinker the hell out of and futz around with all day. A lot of other people are just fine with a phone (iPhone) that they can actually use with very little effort. Even with 65 vulnerabilities.
Yet another new threat of new battery technology that may reach us some day. Been hearing this for so long that I've come to believe that the batteries we have today is all that will ever be.
I should post a link to back up what I'm saying, if that makes any difference. It usually doesn't with people who have already made up their minds what they want to believe. But anyway...
And in case you don't feel like reading the entire article, the important line is:
"Apple, which ended its third quarter with $1.2 billion in cash, will use the additional $150 million to invest in its core markets of education and creative content, Anderson said."
"People seem to forget that Bill Gates saved Apple (made a substantial investment) or they *would* have gone bankrupt."
Oh God, not THAT myth again. How can people seem to forget something that never happened???
I wonder who first re-wrote that tidbit of history. It was certainly a re-write, because the fact of the matter is that Apple had well over a BILLION dollars in cash when MS bought 150 Million in non-voting shares. The essential part of that deal was that MS would continue supplying Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, and development tools for the Macintosh, in exchange for Apple to drop its Look & Feel lawsuit against MS. MS was also hoping the deal would help keep the anti-trust headhunters at bay for a while. The money was just a little icing on the cake, and was certainly not needed to keep Apple going.
The people who believe the opposite are the people who see anti-Apple headlines and see no more. They seem to be the same ones who choose to help propagate the myth.
This situation is only going to get worse. And worse. And worse. I can see it coming. Eventually, when thousands upon thousands of people who depend on the Gulf for their livelihood are put out of business, who is going to pay? Exxon didn't pay (in full), so I expect BP won't be paying up either. Oh they'll pay some, and put up a good effort to clean up the mess, but the damage will become so widespread that most of their efforts will be in vain. And all those people who depend on the Gulf will be out of work and will essentially lose everything.
Who Pays?
BP should pay. Even if it means the company goes out of business entirely. Sell off all their assets if necessary to pay the people who no longer can support themselves. Stockholders, you lose. You are in fact the owners of the company, and your company is responsible for the damages (federal 75 million liability cap be damned). Why should a Gulf worker lose everything and you keep on truckin with your BP stock?
"The biggest one being that rather than being an icon on the "home" screen, you're a bookmark in the web browser. Users first have to open Safari, and then have to open your webapp, which is tedious and annoying."
Then what are these icons on my iPhone home screen that open bookmarks with just a touch?
You can make any website or URL a home screen icon by pressing the "+" button while viewing the page.
One day when all your misconceptions have been cleared away, I'm sure your light will come on. br?
Step one: The iPad's 3G connection is not for voice. It's data. Only data.
I know what it says. I was responding to the post by NatasRevol where he said the malware tries to identify info sent to an iPad. It doesn't say that in BitDefender's blog post.
I read the original blog from the original author, and he said, "Backdoor.Bifrose.AADYattempts to read the keys and serial numbers of the various software installed on the affected computer, while also logging the passwords to the victim's ICQ, Messenger, POP3 mail accounts, and protected storage."
Nowhere does it imply that any information being sent from the windows machine to the iPad is being read or intercepted. It's just your typically hosed Windows box.
Right you are. It does require that GPS be on. But not all the time. The FindMyPhone feature momentarily turns on GPS only when it receives the request (via SMS or similar). And don't worry, only the account holder can do this.
If Apple (or someone employed by Apple) actually lost their prototype iPhone, why didn't they use the FindMyPhone feature to locate it and go get it back?
Except when it's artificial the company doesn't give you actual numbers. Apple did, so you can decide for yourself if the product is in high demand or not. Compared to many other products on opening weekend the iPad is doing very well indeed.
I don't agree with that. Apple is still very much in the game with "knowledge workers" as you put it, seeing as how what "mom and dad" are using is an industrial strength Unix under the hood, in the case of their computers. For their phones, being intuitive, well built and easy to use is a plus for a knowledge worker (I'm still not too sure what that is). And just because it has a shiny paint job doesn't mean there is nothing substantial underneath. I consider myself a "nerd", being an embedded systems designer since way before the phrase was coined. And Apple makes stuff for ME. I don't have the time, nor the inclination to tweak & tinker. I desire Apple's wares for what they give me, and their advertising is simply telling the rest of the world what they've got. I'm not swayed by it since I usually already have my mind made up to buy or not buy the newest widget (or an upgrade) long before there is an ad for it.
What's best for me is something that does a few things very well rather than something that tries to do all things and does none very well. I'll pay a higher price for that too.
I agree with you. He doesn't know (or care) what's best for you. But it does seem he knows what's best for the average consumer. Check the sales figures.
I don't know what they did their testing on but their report of frame rates for Safari is way way off. I'm running Safari 4.0.5 and MacOS 10.6.3 and I can get 50 fps with 256 images smoothly and rapidly rotating. It uses 88% of one core (2.8GHz) to do so, but I have no idea how much (if any) GPU usage it has. Why do you suppose they claim Safari gets only 5.2 fps?
causality said: "When the man running the company personally inspired the term "reality distortion field" because of his salesmanship, it's easy to come up with an alternative explanation."
Actually, that's not the origin of the term. It came from meetings with engineers during a product's development cycle, where they would tell Jobs that such-n-such feature can't be done, and by the end of the meeting they would leave not only convinced that it can but chomping at the bit to get it done. That's where the term originated and it migrated to Jobs' ability to sell the company's products to you and me... which I guess is more or less what he was doing to his engineers.
Well, not to nit-pick or anything but if an earbud can produce good bass and good midrange at short distances then why would the bass be attenuated more at some distance? Bose seems to do quite well with bass with fairly small speakers, so why can't Apple do similar?
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He left it out because ATT told him to. That information is confidential to ATT, so how can you blame Steve for not telling you? (You're good at your game too.)
Modded down to a Troll???? LOL! The iPhone envy is gushing, not oozing.
Someone want to point me to a list of iPhone/iPad exploits out in the wild?
Yeah. Didn't think so.
A lot of you guys have iPhone envy that's just oozing from your orifices. Really, it's OK that you choose to use a phone that you can tinker the hell out of and futz around with all day. A lot of other people are just fine with a phone (iPhone) that they can actually use with very little effort. Even with 65 vulnerabilities.
Yet another new threat of new battery technology that may reach us some day. Been hearing this for so long that I've come to believe that the batteries we have today is all that will ever be.
Did you read the part where the current prototypes have a dead battery by 2PM?
Uh-oh
Wonder why this wasn't modded Funny. The guy IS joking, right?
I should post a link to back up what I'm saying, if that makes any difference. It usually doesn't with people who have already made up their minds what they want to believe. But anyway...
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-202143.html
And in case you don't feel like reading the entire article, the important line is: "Apple, which ended its third quarter with $1.2 billion in cash, will use the additional $150 million to invest in its core markets of education and creative content, Anderson said."
"People seem to forget that Bill Gates saved Apple (made a substantial investment) or they *would* have gone bankrupt."
Oh God, not THAT myth again. How can people seem to forget something that never happened???
I wonder who first re-wrote that tidbit of history. It was certainly a re-write, because the fact of the matter is that Apple had well over a BILLION dollars in cash when MS bought 150 Million in non-voting shares. The essential part of that deal was that MS would continue supplying Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, and development tools for the Macintosh, in exchange for Apple to drop its Look & Feel lawsuit against MS. MS was also hoping the deal would help keep the anti-trust headhunters at bay for a while. The money was just a little icing on the cake, and was certainly not needed to keep Apple going.
The people who believe the opposite are the people who see anti-Apple headlines and see no more. They seem to be the same ones who choose to help propagate the myth.
This situation is only going to get worse. And worse. And worse. I can see it coming. Eventually, when thousands upon thousands of people who depend on the Gulf for their livelihood are put out of business, who is going to pay? Exxon didn't pay (in full), so I expect BP won't be paying up either. Oh they'll pay some, and put up a good effort to clean up the mess, but the damage will become so widespread that most of their efforts will be in vain. And all those people who depend on the Gulf will be out of work and will essentially lose everything.
Who Pays?
BP should pay. Even if it means the company goes out of business entirely. Sell off all their assets if necessary to pay the people who no longer can support themselves. Stockholders, you lose. You are in fact the owners of the company, and your company is responsible for the damages (federal 75 million liability cap be damned). Why should a Gulf worker lose everything and you keep on truckin with your BP stock?
"They tried to do it with ActiveX"
... if they had succeeded there would have been how many thousands of viruses NOT unleashed upon the world?
Just think
"The biggest one being that rather than being an icon on the "home" screen, you're a bookmark in the web browser. Users first have to open Safari, and then have to open your webapp, which is tedious and annoying."
Then what are these icons on my iPhone home screen that open bookmarks with just a touch?
You can make any website or URL a home screen icon by pressing the "+" button while viewing the page.
One day when all your misconceptions have been cleared away, I'm sure your light will come on.
br? Step one: The iPad's 3G connection is not for voice. It's data. Only data.
No, it's not. You're remedial reading classes start at 7pm tonight. Don't be late.
I know what it says. I was responding to the post by NatasRevol where he said the malware tries to identify info sent to an iPad. It doesn't say that in BitDefender's blog post.
http://www.malwarecity.com/blog/ipad-users-targeted-by-backdoor-dissembled-as-itunes-update-803.html
I read the original blog from the original author, and he said, "Backdoor.Bifrose.AADYattempts to read the keys and serial numbers of the various software installed on the affected computer, while also logging the passwords to the victim's ICQ, Messenger, POP3 mail accounts, and protected storage."
Nowhere does it imply that any information being sent from the windows machine to the iPad is being read or intercepted. It's just your typically hosed Windows box.
Right you are. It does require that GPS be on. But not all the time. The FindMyPhone feature momentarily turns on GPS only when it receives the request (via SMS or similar). And don't worry, only the account holder can do this.
If Apple (or someone employed by Apple) actually lost their prototype iPhone, why didn't they use the FindMyPhone feature to locate it and go get it back?
Except when it's artificial the company doesn't give you actual numbers. Apple did, so you can decide for yourself if the product is in high demand or not. Compared to many other products on opening weekend the iPad is doing very well indeed.
I don't agree with that. Apple is still very much in the game with "knowledge workers" as you put it, seeing as how what "mom and dad" are using is an industrial strength Unix under the hood, in the case of their computers. For their phones, being intuitive, well built and easy to use is a plus for a knowledge worker (I'm still not too sure what that is). And just because it has a shiny paint job doesn't mean there is nothing substantial underneath. I consider myself a "nerd", being an embedded systems designer since way before the phrase was coined. And Apple makes stuff for ME. I don't have the time, nor the inclination to tweak & tinker. I desire Apple's wares for what they give me, and their advertising is simply telling the rest of the world what they've got. I'm not swayed by it since I usually already have my mind made up to buy or not buy the newest widget (or an upgrade) long before there is an ad for it.
What's best for me is something that does a few things very well rather than something that tries to do all things and does none very well. I'll pay a higher price for that too.
I agree with you. He doesn't know (or care) what's best for you. But it does seem he knows what's best for the average consumer. Check the sales figures.
From what I saw of the demo, if you don't want to watch the ad, don't tap the icon.
I don't know what they did their testing on but their report of frame rates for Safari is way way off. I'm running Safari 4.0.5 and MacOS 10.6.3 and I can get 50 fps with 256 images smoothly and rapidly rotating. It uses 88% of one core (2.8GHz) to do so, but I have no idea how much (if any) GPU usage it has. Why do you suppose they claim Safari gets only 5.2 fps?
causality said: "When the man running the company personally inspired the term "reality distortion field" because of his salesmanship, it's easy to come up with an alternative explanation."
... which I guess is more or less what he was doing to his engineers.
Actually, that's not the origin of the term. It came from meetings with engineers during a product's development cycle, where they would tell Jobs that such-n-such feature can't be done, and by the end of the meeting they would leave not only convinced that it can but chomping at the bit to get it done. That's where the term originated and it migrated to Jobs' ability to sell the company's products to you and me
Well, not to nit-pick or anything but if an earbud can produce good bass and good midrange at short distances then why would the bass be attenuated more at some distance? Bose seems to do quite well with bass with fairly small speakers, so why can't Apple do similar?
So why do my itty-bitty earbuds have such great bass response?