I look at all the people coming out of the Apple store when I walk around town during lunch & those people REALLY DON'T CARE, that's for sure, they look like they're in a trance coming out of that store...
Well, if they're anything like me they're probably just contemplating whether or not they can pay off their credit card bill next month after buying a MacBook Pro and AppleCare coverage. "Hmm, if I only make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for the family I might be able to pay for half of the MacBook Pro this month and half next month... Oh shit, I should really just take it back... oh man, but I'd have to pay a $250 restocking fee... shit. I'm just going to go home and play with it and maybe I'll feel better about my purchase even though my 15" Powerbook was working perfectly fine and was only 2 years old."
At least, that was what was going through my head when my eyes were glossed over and I was trudging to the car with my shiny 15" MacBook Pro in my hand. But hey, can I really call myself an American if I don't have several thousand dollars worth of credit card debt spent on totally expendable consumer electronic devices? I don't think so!
I mean, it's practically a freaking computer on its own, and doesn't need to be tethered to yet another device.
The iPhone is a flash-based iPod video with a piss-poor phone and some rudimentary web and e-mail clients. Nothing more, nothing less. People with Blackberries and Palm smartphones are thoroughly unimpressed.... when's the last time you saw a story of a non-Mac-fanboi ditching their Blackberry for an iPhone with nowhere near the capabilities of their old device?
If you don't like the way he's running the project you're free to fork the kernel and assemble your own team. Sound like too much work for too little in return? Welcome to his world.
Black background with bright letters is NOT easier on the eyes.
You're one of those freaks who used to like the xterms with yellow backgrounds and black foreground huh? The first thing I do when I get a new terminal is change all the backgrounds to black and the foreground to light grey or white... it IS easier on my eyes than a dark color on light backgrounds.
But... but... I thought if we hacked FairPlay that they'd throw their hands in the air and just unlock all the protected AAC files they've ever released and only sell non-DRM protected music in the future. Are you saying that isn't true?
All they've got at their disposal are a bunch of iPhones so video is out of the question and a macro mode is non-existent so all you get is blurry close-ups of some kind of yellow-redish color blur. It's a phone, it's a revolutionary communications device, it's a music player... it's not much of a camera.
It's not that we really needed the toilets, it's that we didn't want this advanced Russian toilet technology falling into the hands of the black market, or worse, terrorists. Imagine the kinds of dirty bombs that could be produced by a sufficiently motivated criminal organization using this Russian toilet technology. The chemical and biological implications of such a device falling into evil hands is enough to warrant funneling $19 million per toilet to the cash-strapped Russians.
People are asking for the equivalent to the old G3 and G4 towers that were relatively no thrills, had single optical devices, standard ATA drives, standard PCI slots, standard SDRAM, standard video cards, etc. What we're saying is that Apple is missing a level in their product line. They've got the "mini" for the home theater enthusiast who wants a tiny, quiet computer for their living room, they've got the iMacs for people that don't have nice monitors and don't want to upgrade, and then they've got the "pro" desktops that are overkill for 95% of the home users with their damn dual or quad core Xeon processors. There is no reason they couldn't take a Mac Pro case and just put in a motherboard that holds a single 2.2GHz or 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo "Santa Rosa" processor, 2 gigs of RAM, NVidia 8600 or 8800 series video card and a 200 GB SATA drive and sell it for $1000. Steve Jobs needs to get his head out of his ass, realize the iPhone is a massive iPhailure just like the failed AppleTV and quit throwing any time or money at the thing and get back to doing what Apple does good.. making COMPUTERS. It's Apple Computers remember? Not Apple iPhone, Inc. or Apple Consumer Widgets, Inc. or Apple iPods, Inc. It's APPLE COMPUTER, INC.
/yes, I know it's just Apple, Inc. now, but Steve Jobs is a fucking retard and the iPhailure SUCKS.
That being said, to those who are waking up next to Steve Jobs, you have at least 2 weeks to return your iPhone and get a refund.
Then you get introduced to the other fine-print-fucking you get when reading your receipt from the Apple Store: "10% Restocking fee on opened items". Lamest policy EVAR. How the hell are you going to know if you're satisfied with the iPhone until you open it? Once you open it you're out $60 instantly at BEST. Nice racket they've got going on there Steve. In their defense though, it's clearly stated before you buy the product, it is just a shitty policy. I wonder if AT&T has that restocking fee?
That's a silly argument. You just have to emulate Windows95 on whatever platform you're using 100 years from now, not all the intermediate platforms. For example, high speed computers today can still play old arcade games from 30+ years ago through emulation, but we're not doing it by emulating a Pentium that is emulating an Amiga that is emulating a Commodore 64 that is emulating an arcade machine, we're just emulating the arcade machine. It's not a good solution to file format issues, but virtualization doesn't have to be prohibitively CPU intensive unless you're trying to emulate the latest current-generation alternative architectures like a PowerPC G5 running MacOS X and Virtual PC trying to emulate a Pentium 4 system running Windows XP.
Good point. the only problem then is where do you get an iPhone without actually signing yourself up for the contract.
You walk into any AT&T or Apple Store and buy one. The phones aren't activated in the store, you activate them at home on your computer via iTunes. There are numerous articles about how you can simply use a bad SSN which causes the credit check to fail and iTunes lets you create a prepaid GoPhone month-to-month account instead to use the iPhone. You DON'T need to sign a 2 year contract with AT&T to even use the cell phone functionality of the iPhone, you just have to keep some service with AT&T or likely the next update pushed out via iTunes would deactivate your phone if you don't have service.
Hypocrisy at its finest. I don't have a problem with either, but I'm really tired of being attacked by FOSS zealots because I don't think closed-source is a crime against humanity. Why shouldn't people get to make their own decisions about how public or private they want to make their work?
You're making a jackass argument. NOBODY is forcing you to release your code under the GPL, much less GPL v3. If you really don't care what people do with your code then release it under another open source license like BSD. The problem arises when you're taking other people's code that they have chosen to license under the GPL willingly and modify it to suit your needs only to release it as part of your proprietary package without releasing your changes under the GPL as the license requires. If you don't want to share in the software then DON'T USE GPL'd code in your project! It's as simple as that!
All Apple have done by their move is ensure that anyone buying their phone package is locked into a contract that with the phone costs anywhere upwards of $2000 for two years. That represents absolutely terrible value for money.
I'm really sick of this weak argument against the iPhone when there are SO many valid things it is really lacking compared to "free" cell phones providers are giving away with 2 years of service (speed dial, changing ring tones, Bluetooth object transfer, voice dial, swappable batteries, MMS, Bluetooth tethering, etc.). All the people that are buying an iPhone would've had a wireless plan for the next two years regardless of whether or not the iPhone came out so factoring in the cost of service is ridiculous. The real price is $600 + the contract termination fee of $175 since you can escape your contract at any time for $175.
The BIG problem is that I bet a LOT of those people buying iPhones are going to be extremely disappointed with the basic features missing that they're used to in cheap phones and are going to try to return them only to find they get fucked in the ass with a 10% "restocking" fee... or as I like to call it, Apple's little way of making it too painful to return products you bought on impulse. That's the little hook they get in to you.
Apple apparently wants a lower power chipset so that battery life of the iPhone isn't adversely affected.
So just carry an extra battery with you and disassemble the iPhone and void your warranty whenever you need to swap it out. Shit, I'm amazed MacBooks even have removeable batteries anymore what with Apple's stupid battery policy in iPods and the iPhone. "Oh, your MacBook doesn't hold a charge for more than a half hour anymore? No problem, just throw it out and buy a new one."
It *should* provide the same open standards that iCal and iSync work with, which will mean synchronisation with the Mac desktop and indeed Google Calendar among other things
Google Calendar *sucks*. They deliberately chose not to make it read/write from iCal compatible devices so the only thing you can do is view a read-only calendar. If you want to add a new event you have to go into their web page and edit it.
The only people that really worry about that shit are Paris Hilton and corporate power brokers. I've got about 5 numbers in my address book and I don't even use the calendar/todo thing on my phone because it sucks. If I want to remember something we have a calendar next to the fridge that we note it on.
Companies who've locked themselves in to a proprietary email system can't change when a new proprietary product is available.
iPhone just uses IMAP and POP3 for downloading mail. How on earth would you consider that proprietary. The proprietary mail systems are idiots who use Exchange without IMAP support enabled or use Blackberries.
If cuba is so bad, and Fidel is so evil and they want him dead (isnt that against the law somewhere?)
Cuba is bad because Castro seized American assets during the revolution and pissed off many very powerful influential Americans who put pressure on the American government to take action. To a lesser degree the Cuban government has been bad-mouthed over the years by all the people fleeing the island to the United States on whatever makeshift rafts and boats they can come up with. Generally "good" governments don't hold people inside their borders against their will and allow them to travel to other nations freely without fear of reprisal. I think we still have an embargo against Cuba simply because we've always had an embargo against Cuba as long as most people can remember anymore. To back down now would appear like we're giving up. *We* don't need Cuba or Cuban products so it doesn't really hurt Americans to embargo Cuba. I imagine once Castro is dead we will gradually lift the embargo and re-establish relations with whoever follows him as long as he's not as hard-line as Castro is.
I think it had more to do with Verizon being braindead. THEIR demands were probably that it only supported WMA format for playback and ringtones and you had to buy all the tracks exclusively through their Vcast service. No tethering to laptops or syncing to desktops allowed either.
Personally, I try to limit any phone calls (through my OnStar system) to short/auto-pilot conversations. They rarely get close to the 1 minute mark and require little thought on my end.
99% of the time I'm talking on my hands-free headset it's to my wife and she's droning on and on about something that I'm not even paying attention to anyway. It might as well be a talk show playing in the background, but to her it's quality time I'm spending engaging in conversation with her even though it's just the occasional "uh huh", "sure", "OK", "bye". Though shit, even our dinner table conversation rarely gets more complicated than that so I guess I should eat dinner while driving too.
shiny is a fucked idea for a finish, as shiny finishes are the FIRST to get all scratched up
No kidding. I pulled my brand new 30GB iPod out of the box and my hands were so dry that I fumbled it and it dropped onto the floor under my desk. When I picked it up it had a bunch of scratches on the back just from my dusty chair mat. Why couldn't they use the brushed aluminum finish like the MacBook Pros? The old iPod mini I had used a brushed metal case and it never scratched.
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At least, that was what was going through my head when my eyes were glossed over and I was trudging to the car with my shiny 15" MacBook Pro in my hand. But hey, can I really call myself an American if I don't have several thousand dollars worth of credit card debt spent on totally expendable consumer electronic devices? I don't think so!
If you don't like the way he's running the project you're free to fork the kernel and assemble your own team. Sound like too much work for too little in return? Welcome to his world.
Except that would be more like Cisco changing its name:
Cisco - Expresea! - Cisco
Cisco is one of the most widely known brand names in the computing industry.
But... but... I thought if we hacked FairPlay that they'd throw their hands in the air and just unlock all the protected AAC files they've ever released and only sell non-DRM protected music in the future. Are you saying that isn't true?
That's preposterous. How would I be able to come in and snipe a good deal at the last minute if such a silly model was adopted?
You're really missing his point though. Physical property and intellectual property are two completely separate concepts.
It's not that we really needed the toilets, it's that we didn't want this advanced Russian toilet technology falling into the hands of the black market, or worse, terrorists. Imagine the kinds of dirty bombs that could be produced by a sufficiently motivated criminal organization using this Russian toilet technology. The chemical and biological implications of such a device falling into evil hands is enough to warrant funneling $19 million per toilet to the cash-strapped Russians.
Then you get introduced to the other fine-print-fucking you get when reading your receipt from the Apple Store: "10% Restocking fee on opened items". Lamest policy EVAR. How the hell are you going to know if you're satisfied with the iPhone until you open it? Once you open it you're out $60 instantly at BEST. Nice racket they've got going on there Steve. In their defense though, it's clearly stated before you buy the product, it is just a shitty policy. I wonder if AT&T has that restocking fee?
That's a silly argument. You just have to emulate Windows95 on whatever platform you're using 100 years from now, not all the intermediate platforms. For example, high speed computers today can still play old arcade games from 30+ years ago through emulation, but we're not doing it by emulating a Pentium that is emulating an Amiga that is emulating a Commodore 64 that is emulating an arcade machine, we're just emulating the arcade machine. It's not a good solution to file format issues, but virtualization doesn't have to be prohibitively CPU intensive unless you're trying to emulate the latest current-generation alternative architectures like a PowerPC G5 running MacOS X and Virtual PC trying to emulate a Pentium 4 system running Windows XP.
I'm really sick of this weak argument against the iPhone when there are SO many valid things it is really lacking compared to "free" cell phones providers are giving away with 2 years of service (speed dial, changing ring tones, Bluetooth object transfer, voice dial, swappable batteries, MMS, Bluetooth tethering, etc.). All the people that are buying an iPhone would've had a wireless plan for the next two years regardless of whether or not the iPhone came out so factoring in the cost of service is ridiculous. The real price is $600 + the contract termination fee of $175 since you can escape your contract at any time for $175.
The BIG problem is that I bet a LOT of those people buying iPhones are going to be extremely disappointed with the basic features missing that they're used to in cheap phones and are going to try to return them only to find they get fucked in the ass with a 10% "restocking" fee... or as I like to call it, Apple's little way of making it too painful to return products you bought on impulse. That's the little hook they get in to you.
So just carry an extra battery with you and disassemble the iPhone and void your warranty whenever you need to swap it out. Shit, I'm amazed MacBooks even have removeable batteries anymore what with Apple's stupid battery policy in iPods and the iPhone. "Oh, your MacBook doesn't hold a charge for more than a half hour anymore? No problem, just throw it out and buy a new one."
The only people that really worry about that shit are Paris Hilton and corporate power brokers. I've got about 5 numbers in my address book and I don't even use the calendar/todo thing on my phone because it sucks. If I want to remember something we have a calendar next to the fridge that we note it on.
I think it had more to do with Verizon being braindead. THEIR demands were probably that it only supported WMA format for playback and ringtones and you had to buy all the tracks exclusively through their Vcast service. No tethering to laptops or syncing to desktops allowed either.