Sony advertised this as a specific feature of the platform. They then took it away (or took away other abilities if you chose to keep that one). How the hell could the case be dismissed?
With imaginary property, teh government defines both "property holder" and "infringer". Private to private would be content protection measure vs. legal copying once it was broken.
There was an article here a couple of weeks ago about a browser plugin that managed your private keys and worked with webMail. I don't think many people are interested, which is unfortunate.
And I don't know that I have a huge issue with that.
A more accurate statement (I think), would be that you don't have an issue with it yet, because you currently have alternatives. This is the point. At some point of acceptability, your alternatives diminish. Also, it would cost Apple nothing to allow non-app store installs in terms of support, only in dollars and lock-in.
It took a long time for some of those to fall. It takes a long time before things get bad enough to affect the 'average' user, and the walls are much shinier these days.
Apple could have done this with the Mac store, and didn't. They could have allowed non-app store installs like Android, and didn't. The only reason not to do repositories or allow non-walled garden applications is greed. Sounds like Windows 8 is going the walled garden route as well, and this is the problem. It becomes more acceptable, and has to get pretty crippled compared to the competition (AOL) before the general public starts to care.
If they go to usage based billing and I need to make a financial choice between internet and cable, the decision for me is an easy one. I would guess that it's just as easy for a very large percentage of people. They would be wise to keep that in mind.
I really don't understand it either. I think Apple is clearly missing an extremely useful piece of functionality. Doesn't pressing the single button in iOS do different things in some situations, much like the back button in Android? The Home button in Android always does the same thing unless you've explicitly modded your phone to do other wise.
I would have hoped by now that people would realize that tying your communications into a proprietary technology is an exceptionally bad medium to long term decision. At least email is an open standard. If we could get people using open chat protocols that would be fine, but locking ourselves into Facebook, Skype, and MSN is not likely going to end well. I would hope that it ends like AOL did, but people seem to have forgotten about the disadvantages of proprietary walled gardens.
I would have thought Google would be throwing money at him for his Android encryption stuff. It looks very good but is currently only available for a couple of phones. It would have been a fantastic advantage for getting corporate users on Android in a big way.
There does seem to be a pretty large difference in the time between exploit and patch between the two platforms though. You can have Windows exploits go unpatched for months, although occasionally there is a workaround to mitigate the risk.
Right. That's why there's all those HP tablets still lying around. A good percentage of people seem to feel the a tablet is not worth the price Apple is charging. Another fairly large group of people seem to disagree with many of Apple's restrictions. Both of these groups have somewhat limited options, but that is changing. In 5 years the tablet market will match the smartphone market, assuming Apple doesn't cripple all potential competition with lawsuits.
This is something that webmail has need for ages. Encrypted email is relatively easy to implement, and is free, but webmail makes it difficult to do without handing your keys over to a third party (GMail, HotMail, etc). This solves the problem nicely. It would be great to see this, or something similar widely adopted.
I find it a bit hyped. The lag is still quite bad. The XBox's use of it for control is especially bad, using pauses in locations as opposed to a 'push' or some other motion to select something. It's slow and imprecise.
With the bonus being that things are kept up to date. I'm still amazed that the Mac app store doesn't allow third party repositories to be added. Well, not really amazed, I think Apple and I have different goals.
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I'm confused. I keep seeing posts like this modded ''funny".
Don't forget, Sony hasn't done anything that would really piss off the general population
Sad, but true it seems. I think I heard that their sales are up even after their huge leak of credit card information, etc.
Sony advertised this as a specific feature of the platform. They then took it away (or took away other abilities if you chose to keep that one). How the hell could the case be dismissed?
Programming languages don't create programming messes. People do.
... and PHP is one of their tools of choice.
I prefer to think of their weapon as a "douche nozzle".
With imaginary property, teh government defines both "property holder" and "infringer". Private to private would be content protection measure vs. legal copying once it was broken.
There was an article here a couple of weeks ago about a browser plugin that managed your private keys and worked with webMail. I don't think many people are interested, which is unfortunate.
And I don't know that I have a huge issue with that.
A more accurate statement (I think), would be that you don't have an issue with it yet, because you currently have alternatives. This is the point. At some point of acceptability, your alternatives diminish. Also, it would cost Apple nothing to allow non-app store installs in terms of support, only in dollars and lock-in.
I like to refer to them as "paying for your own lube".
Sadly, I don't think it actually matters anymore.
It took a long time for some of those to fall. It takes a long time before things get bad enough to affect the 'average' user, and the walls are much shinier these days.
Apple could have done this with the Mac store, and didn't. They could have allowed non-app store installs like Android, and didn't. The only reason not to do repositories or allow non-walled garden applications is greed. Sounds like Windows 8 is going the walled garden route as well, and this is the problem. It becomes more acceptable, and has to get pretty crippled compared to the competition (AOL) before the general public starts to care.
More mac-like in its behaviour can be both a good and a bad thing of course.
If they go to usage based billing and I need to make a financial choice between internet and cable, the decision for me is an easy one. I would guess that it's just as easy for a very large percentage of people. They would be wise to keep that in mind.
I really don't understand it either. I think Apple is clearly missing an extremely useful piece of functionality. Doesn't pressing the single button in iOS do different things in some situations, much like the back button in Android? The Home button in Android always does the same thing unless you've explicitly modded your phone to do other wise.
His name may make them a little suspicious.
I would have hoped by now that people would realize that tying your communications into a proprietary technology is an exceptionally bad medium to long term decision. At least email is an open standard. If we could get people using open chat protocols that would be fine, but locking ourselves into Facebook, Skype, and MSN is not likely going to end well. I would hope that it ends like AOL did, but people seem to have forgotten about the disadvantages of proprietary walled gardens.
I would have thought Google would be throwing money at him for his Android encryption stuff. It looks very good but is currently only available for a couple of phones. It would have been a fantastic advantage for getting corporate users on Android in a big way.
There does seem to be a pretty large difference in the time between exploit and patch between the two platforms though. You can have Windows exploits go unpatched for months, although occasionally there is a workaround to mitigate the risk.
Have you seen the Faenza icon set?
Right. That's why there's all those HP tablets still lying around. A good percentage of people seem to feel the a tablet is not worth the price Apple is charging. Another fairly large group of people seem to disagree with many of Apple's restrictions. Both of these groups have somewhat limited options, but that is changing. In 5 years the tablet market will match the smartphone market, assuming Apple doesn't cripple all potential competition with lawsuits.
This is something that webmail has need for ages. Encrypted email is relatively easy to implement, and is free, but webmail makes it difficult to do without handing your keys over to a third party (GMail, HotMail, etc). This solves the problem nicely. It would be great to see this, or something similar widely adopted.
It's a great time for criminals. Of course, now we tend to call them 'corporations'.
I find it a bit hyped. The lag is still quite bad. The XBox's use of it for control is especially bad, using pauses in locations as opposed to a 'push' or some other motion to select something. It's slow and imprecise.
With the bonus being that things are kept up to date. I'm still amazed that the Mac app store doesn't allow third party repositories to be added. Well, not really amazed, I think Apple and I have different goals.