First one to sell an app through the store that is just a shim interface to iCloud wins. Think that would be allowed in the market? Is it anti-competitive to block it?
The large-scale acceptance of iOS's market-only software install was the beginning. This is just the inevitable progression of something that turned out to be very profitable.
You can't say you didn't see this coming. This has Job's fingerprints all over it and has probably been planned for quite some time. I think fans have been saying this sort of change wouldn't happen on OS X just because of denial. Yes, for now it's still better than iOS in that you can still install stuff from outside the garden, but with the direction things are heading, even that may go in the future.
If the movie companies have enough money to bribe the number of governments that they seem to, people are not illegally downloading nearly enough movies.
This is possible on Android because you can install software from anywhere, including Google's Play marketplace, Amazon and other places, or just side-loading apk files. Google's market is affectively malware-free, although the occasional software may pop up again in the future there because they don't have an extremely intrusive evaluation process. Maybe they, or someone else should create one. This is the price you pay for freedom... you're not trading for security. This is not an anti-Google story.
That said, yes, there are a lot of anti-Google stories, far more than there are for those that are the most likely for funding them (FaceBook was caught before, but I think there are others as well). They will eventually be caught, and the vast majority of the population will ignore the news, just like the vast majority ignore the anti-Google stories and continue to fund pooly behaved companies based on trends, fashion, and advertising.
Likewise for me, and I ran into exactly the same problem Wil is complaining about. I'm on Rogers, and apparently they're rolling out their elimination of throttling 'in stages' after being told to get rid of it. Seems to me they should be turning it off right away for all. Coincidentally, my NetFlix connectivity has been questionable lately as well. It is a huge conflict of interest to have a media distribution company in charge of the data pipe.
Most of it seems to be not necessarily pro-FaceBook or Microsoft, etc, but anti-Google. Almost as if at least one of those companies were taking another run at spreading bad stories about Google.
That's the RDF at work. The problem is, that these posts, misleading headlines, etc, grab attention and direct people away from the fact that it does seem to be only Apple that does this, although I think Microsoft has been caught doing it before as well.
Contrary to the current twisted MBA view of things. "making money" does not necessarily only mean "in this quarter". It is precisely that attitude that has off-shored the western nations lead in technology.
I should add, that the only problem I ever had was when one of the repos I needed was off-line during the upgrade, and instead of waiting I told it to continue anyway. It was a mistake.
I figure, worst case, try the upgrade and if there are problems, do a fresh install then re-install all pps based applications from a backup of the list.
That statement of course also applies to Yahoo, Sympatico, and pretty much everyone else, including your ISP. It's damn near impossible to stay completely anonymous and still communicate with others.
Stories generated by software (especially open source software) from large databases of facts would have the advantage that it would be more likely to be free of bias. I think this sort of story would be still leave room for editorials, opinion pieces, commentaries, suggestions for what went wrong and how to improve things, interviews, and research, so journalists have nothing to worry about. The flavour of some of the major news outfits would have a decidedly different flavour though.
I've spent all afternoon fighting the urge to make a joke about Apple forcing the use of a language that was written by Love/Cox. I think I've done surprisingly well.
I generally keep repairing the older stuff as it's sturdier, but I find there comes a point with many electronic or electrical items where the power consumption is far higher that newer models, and at that point I will break down and replace it. Part of my reasoning for repairing things is that it's cost effective, and sometimes I take things a little far. I re-sharpen disposable utility knife blades.
Things are generally made extremely cheaply these days, and are not designed for repair, so it does make things a bit more difficult than it used to be. In many cases there are tear-down videos and instructions for things available on the internet, so I think this balances out nicely. It's a great chance to learn how things work and teach other as well. I'd really like to see this done in North America, perhaps as a school fund-raising project or something.
Yes, the original Castle Wolfenstein was an Apple }{ game. It was a top down monochrome shooter, with some nifty speaker tricks to emulate speech. Very cool game for the time (1982?)
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OS X being based on Unix is to help them (not as much development required) not you.
First one to sell an app through the store that is just a shim interface to iCloud wins. Think that would be allowed in the market? Is it anti-competitive to block it?
The large-scale acceptance of iOS's market-only software install was the beginning. This is just the inevitable progression of something that turned out to be very profitable.
You can't say you didn't see this coming. This has Job's fingerprints all over it and has probably been planned for quite some time. I think fans have been saying this sort of change wouldn't happen on OS X just because of denial. Yes, for now it's still better than iOS in that you can still install stuff from outside the garden, but with the direction things are heading, even that may go in the future.
If the movie companies have enough money to bribe the number of governments that they seem to, people are not illegally downloading nearly enough movies.
This is possible on Android because you can install software from anywhere, including Google's Play marketplace, Amazon and other places, or just side-loading apk files. Google's market is affectively malware-free, although the occasional software may pop up again in the future there because they don't have an extremely intrusive evaluation process. Maybe they, or someone else should create one. This is the price you pay for freedom ... you're not trading for security. This is not an anti-Google story.
That said, yes, there are a lot of anti-Google stories, far more than there are for those that are the most likely for funding them (FaceBook was caught before, but I think there are others as well). They will eventually be caught, and the vast majority of the population will ignore the news, just like the vast majority ignore the anti-Google stories and continue to fund pooly behaved companies based on trends, fashion, and advertising.
Likewise for me, and I ran into exactly the same problem Wil is complaining about. I'm on Rogers, and apparently they're rolling out their elimination of throttling 'in stages' after being told to get rid of it. Seems to me they should be turning it off right away for all. Coincidentally, my NetFlix connectivity has been questionable lately as well. It is a huge conflict of interest to have a media distribution company in charge of the data pipe.
Most of it seems to be not necessarily pro-FaceBook or Microsoft, etc, but anti-Google. Almost as if at least one of those companies were taking another run at spreading bad stories about Google.
After all the other nasty crap they've done, you think *this* is going to get them into legal trouble on the grounds of anti-competitiveness?
Now if only they'd design a phone the same way.
That's the RDF at work. The problem is, that these posts, misleading headlines, etc, grab attention and direct people away from the fact that it does seem to be only Apple that does this, although I think Microsoft has been caught doing it before as well.
If you sold the Mac with Linux only on it, it certainly should be legal.
Contrary to the current twisted MBA view of things. "making money" does not necessarily only mean "in this quarter". It is precisely that attitude that has off-shored the western nations lead in technology.
I should add, that the only problem I ever had was when one of the repos I needed was off-line during the upgrade, and instead of waiting I told it to continue anyway. It was a mistake.
I figure, worst case, try the upgrade and if there are problems, do a fresh install then re-install all pps based applications from a backup of the list.
No, but it balances quite nicely with a background in software. You can be both part of the solution and the problem.
I've been running the Ubuntu upgrades for the past five or six year and for the most part and have very very few problems.
That statement of course also applies to Yahoo, Sympatico, and pretty much everyone else, including your ISP. It's damn near impossible to stay completely anonymous and still communicate with others.
The product is called "The Who".
Stories generated by software (especially open source software) from large databases of facts would have the advantage that it would be more likely to be free of bias. I think this sort of story would be still leave room for editorials, opinion pieces, commentaries, suggestions for what went wrong and how to improve things, interviews, and research, so journalists have nothing to worry about. The flavour of some of the major news outfits would have a decidedly different flavour though.
I've spent all afternoon fighting the urge to make a joke about Apple forcing the use of a language that was written by Love/Cox. I think I've done surprisingly well.
I generally keep repairing the older stuff as it's sturdier, but I find there comes a point with many electronic or electrical items where the power consumption is far higher that newer models, and at that point I will break down and replace it. Part of my reasoning for repairing things is that it's cost effective, and sometimes I take things a little far. I re-sharpen disposable utility knife blades.
Things are generally made extremely cheaply these days, and are not designed for repair, so it does make things a bit more difficult than it used to be. In many cases there are tear-down videos and instructions for things available on the internet, so I think this balances out nicely. It's a great chance to learn how things work and teach other as well. I'd really like to see this done in North America, perhaps as a school fund-raising project or something.
Sorry, it was 1981, and apparently it had colour, although I only played it monochrome. Also, obviously that should have been "Apple ][".
Yes, the original Castle Wolfenstein was an Apple }{ game. It was a top down monochrome shooter, with some nifty speaker tricks to emulate speech. Very cool game for the time (1982?)