And it missed a line: "Disclaimer: Marco Arment, the creator of Instapaper, is likely more than a bit disgruntled with Apple, now that the functionality of Instapaper has been rolled into Safari."
Apple has a history of driving away developers by incorporating their ideas into the bundled apps. Not many developers though... only those of really well thought out OS enhancements.
What you really mean is that Apple has a history of outlawing functionality of a popular app, then promptly rolling the feature they outlawed into their own software. They make Microsoft's history of steamrolling ISVs look positively friendly. In fact, Apple does exactly what everyone here complains about Microsoft doing - except they do it much more frequently.
Actually, an app being pulled from the store does prevent the developer being able to provide updates unless the developer can make it comply with the requirements. But... newsflash... for some apps it is literally impossible to make the app comply with the new guidelines, for example an app that did bulk file renaming cannot be sandboxed, because it needs permission to modify all files in a folder tree. Which it can't do by the way, because the only way to get permission to modify a file is to pop up an open dialog and get the user to browse to it. The developers only option in this case would be to drop the app store like a hot potato, and everyone who bought off the app store is screwed because the developer cannot validate that the user has actually bought it before to offer them a free crossgrade or whatever.
Bollocks. All kinds of apps are simply impossible to produce within the constraints imposed by the App Store. Like menubar icons that let you plug into iTunes for example (and before you point out that tools like these already exist, I will point out that those are all using temporary entitlements.
I strongly suspect cool apps like TotalFinder also violate no end of App Store policies as well.
Or how about an app that simply goes through a folder and renames/deletes some files according to user parameters (like A Better Finder Rename for example)? Impossible - permission must be obtained by means of a file open dialog for every single file the app wants to manipulate.
Sandboxing is bullshit. Or rather, Apple's implementation of it is bullshit.
Probably not, actually. To fight a case to all the way to the supreme court. he'd actually have to go to the US. At which point they'll just arrest him and seize all his assets directly (no harassing foreign governments to do it!)
It interests me that everyone here speaks of the US Military the same way they speak of corporations - as one giant hive mind with no dissent within the ranks. News flash: the military, like a corporation, is comprised of people who don't all think the same. In the event of the military being directed to take arms against civilians - of the same country no less - it is quite likely there will be increased instances of mutiny. The results would be... cataclysmic.
Except that most of said assets are outside the US, and the target of the investigation is also outside the US. The US Government had no jurisdiction to seize the assets in the first place. They also have no jurisdiction to hold onto the assets if the case is dismissed. In fact, they have no jurisdiction to prosecute either.
Because if they're going to extend their laws to cover the rest of the planet, they better damn well be prepared to extend their constitutional protections to the rest of the planet too.
Personally, I'm waiting for the US government to invite me to vote in federal elections. Congress apparently has authority here (and everywhere else - or at least it thinks so), so where's my damn representation?
You've actually met people who sympathise with Anonymous? Wow, everyone I know of who's heard of them recognises them for the criminals they are. Not one single sympathiser.
It's really funny, because their ad is apparently claiming that I can take a massive pay cut in order to earn as little as Kelly Richards, who is some magic quantum lady who is in every city at once - and yet hasn't used this quantum power to rob a fucking bank yet.
Try that when you're offline sometime. If Steam cannot connect to Valve when it starts, it will display "Would you like to start in Offline mode?" then immediately error with "Could not connect to the Steam network" and exits.
Yup, every fucking logoff for me. Windows is sitting there with the "Waiting for programs to exit..." message, and the one blocking it is always "Steam - Servers..." with the subtext "This program is preventing Windows from logging off."
On the other hand, I'm sure there's no possible way this wild speculation could just be wild speculation. Never!
Face it, unless you're fucking psychic you don't know the real reason they did it.
Also, as a side note, you failed to address the fact that the migration to using centralised data centres was initiated by Skype Communications S.a.r.l, not Microsoft.
No, not at all. The thing that made it successful was Adobe getting it supported by as many printers as possible - the only thing Apple can lay claim to is convincing Adobe to actually implement it as a general purpose printer language.
Then you have to contend with people for whom Amazon would become ridiculously expensive if they upped the prices any more. We already pay $13USD shipping on a fucking book thank-you-very-much, no they damn well may not raise prices.
Or you just set the password as ridiculously difficult to remember as you can, and resort to only using the mobile apps to do banking because unlike the web banking site they require strong passwords (including symbols and crap)
The only thing worse than Google's OpenID implementation is Valve's. A SteamPowered OpenID is effectively useless everywhere except sites with Valve-specific hacks implemented.
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And it missed a line:
"Disclaimer: Marco Arment, the creator of Instapaper, is likely more than a bit disgruntled with Apple, now that the functionality of Instapaper has been rolled into Safari."
Apple has a history of driving away developers by incorporating their ideas into the bundled apps. Not many developers though... only those of really well thought out OS enhancements.
What you really mean is that Apple has a history of outlawing functionality of a popular app, then promptly rolling the feature they outlawed into their own software. They make Microsoft's history of steamrolling ISVs look positively friendly. In fact, Apple does exactly what everyone here complains about Microsoft doing - except they do it much more frequently.
There isn't. That guy is talking bollocks.
Actually, an app being pulled from the store does prevent the developer being able to provide updates unless the developer can make it comply with the requirements. But... newsflash... for some apps it is literally impossible to make the app comply with the new guidelines, for example an app that did bulk file renaming cannot be sandboxed, because it needs permission to modify all files in a folder tree. Which it can't do by the way, because the only way to get permission to modify a file is to pop up an open dialog and get the user to browse to it. The developers only option in this case would be to drop the app store like a hot potato, and everyone who bought off the app store is screwed because the developer cannot validate that the user has actually bought it before to offer them a free crossgrade or whatever.
Xgrid? You mean that feature they removed from Mountain Lion. Yeah.
Everything you knew about OSX Cluster Computing is now worthless.
Bollocks. All kinds of apps are simply impossible to produce within the constraints imposed by the App Store. Like menubar icons that let you plug into iTunes for example (and before you point out that tools like these already exist, I will point out that those are all using temporary entitlements.
I strongly suspect cool apps like TotalFinder also violate no end of App Store policies as well.
Or how about an app that simply goes through a folder and renames/deletes some files according to user parameters (like A Better Finder Rename for example)? Impossible - permission must be obtained by means of a file open dialog for every single file the app wants to manipulate.
Sandboxing is bullshit. Or rather, Apple's implementation of it is bullshit.
And this is why no-one likes Americans. America, keep your crazies locked up please.
Yes they were. New Zealand is on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.
Probably not, actually. To fight a case to all the way to the supreme court. he'd actually have to go to the US. At which point they'll just arrest him and seize all his assets directly (no harassing foreign governments to do it!)
It interests me that everyone here speaks of the US Military the same way they speak of corporations - as one giant hive mind with no dissent within the ranks. News flash: the military, like a corporation, is comprised of people who don't all think the same. In the event of the military being directed to take arms against civilians - of the same country no less - it is quite likely there will be increased instances of mutiny. The results would be ... cataclysmic.
Except that most of said assets are outside the US, and the target of the investigation is also outside the US. The US Government had no jurisdiction to seize the assets in the first place. They also have no jurisdiction to hold onto the assets if the case is dismissed. In fact, they have no jurisdiction to prosecute either.
Because if they're going to extend their laws to cover the rest of the planet, they better damn well be prepared to extend their constitutional protections to the rest of the planet too.
Personally, I'm waiting for the US government to invite me to vote in federal elections. Congress apparently has authority here (and everywhere else - or at least it thinks so), so where's my damn representation?
You've actually met people who sympathise with Anonymous? Wow, everyone I know of who's heard of them recognises them for the criminals they are. Not one single sympathiser.
It's really funny, because their ad is apparently claiming that I can take a massive pay cut in order to earn as little as Kelly Richards, who is some magic quantum lady who is in every city at once - and yet hasn't used this quantum power to rob a fucking bank yet.
No, the internal browser does have a cache. It's just that shit.
Try that when you're offline sometime. If Steam cannot connect to Valve when it starts, it will display "Would you like to start in Offline mode?" then immediately error with "Could not connect to the Steam network" and exits.
Yup, every fucking logoff for me. Windows is sitting there with the "Waiting for programs to exit..." message, and the one blocking it is always "Steam - Servers..." with the subtext "This program is preventing Windows from logging off."
On the other hand, I'm sure there's no possible way this wild speculation could just be wild speculation. Never!
Face it, unless you're fucking psychic you don't know the real reason they did it.
Also, as a side note, you failed to address the fact that the migration to using centralised data centres was initiated by Skype Communications S.a.r.l, not Microsoft.
Your government already thinks constitutional rights don't apply when the target is not a US citizen (bonus points if they aren't even in the US)
So you're saying it wouldn't have existed in its present form without Apple...
No, not at all. Adobe invented it. Adobe implemented it as a printer language. Without Apple, we'd still have Postscript.
Why is it so fucking hard for you fanboys to accept that Apple wasn't responsible for every innovation in computing ever?
There are no cheaper shipping options.
No, not at all. The thing that made it successful was Adobe getting it supported by as many printers as possible - the only thing Apple can lay claim to is convincing Adobe to actually implement it as a general purpose printer language.
Then you have to contend with people for whom Amazon would become ridiculously expensive if they upped the prices any more. We already pay $13USD shipping on a fucking book thank-you-very-much, no they damn well may not raise prices.
If the bus is capable of supplying it. I.e. if you're implementing the battery charging spec on your bus (which it seems the MacBook does).
Or you just set the password as ridiculously difficult to remember as you can, and resort to only using the mobile apps to do banking because unlike the web banking site they require strong passwords (including symbols and crap)
The only thing worse than Google's OpenID implementation is Valve's. A SteamPowered OpenID is effectively useless everywhere except sites with Valve-specific hacks implemented.