Really? Amazon is not profiting from the Kindle business or does not expect to be profitable in future? That is probably why they keep expanding it This story is stupid, and these people are just crying because THEY not ANYONE can't compete.
Huh, why not read?
Apple has made it completely impossible for anyone but Apple to make a profit selling contemporary ebooks on any iOS device
That iPad thing may change soon, when the new rules come into effect in June/July, the Kindle app will no longer be allowed to link to the Kindle store for purchases.
iFlow says that five of them spent nearly a year and a half of our lives and over a million dollars in cash and sweat equity developing the iFlowReader app with its unique AutoScrolling approach but all of it now has gone to waste. "We put our faith in Apple and they screwed us. This happened even though we went to great lengths to clear our plans with Apple because we did not want to make this substantial investment of time and money blindly. Apple's response to our detailed inquiries was to tell us that our plans did not infringe their rules in any way, which was true at the time, but there is one little catch. Apple can change the rules at any time and they did. Sadly they must have known full well that they were going to do this. Apple's iBooks was already in development when we talked to them and they certainly must have known that their future plans would doom us to failure no matter how good our product was. We never really had a chance."
I don't see any reason to weep. I doubt if they will be able to successfully sue something called "Amazon SQL Server", although Amazon would probably call it Amazon Database Server.
Please, stop making absurd comparisons. "Windows" doesn't really describe the product itself. If MS trademarked "Operating System" and then sued Red Hat for calling their OS "Red Hat Operating System", then it would a similar comparison. i.e Windows is not a generic term for the product itself, unlike "app store".
Imagine a company selling apples trademarking the term 'apple' and then suing other companies for calling their products apples. That is similar to what is happening here, not using Apple to sell music or computers.
Not erasing the old logs doesn't seem like a bug.. it would've been caught by a single test case. It seems to be a design decision to cache locations to speed up look ups the next time, so would've been considered a feature. Not encrypting the data, on the other hand, seems to be a genuine oversight. But no wonder they want to call everything a bug, what with the government breathing down their neck with Congressional hearings.
First, it seems Android shares a similar problem, though the file containing the location data is "only accessible on devices that have been rooted and opened up to installation of unsigned apps
Doesn't Android just store the past few days information unlike years together like the iPhone?
>Windows developers that were already ignoring WP7
Really? How did you come to know of that? By reading Slashdot?
The developer tools were downloaded over 1.5 million times and there are over 13,000 apps in the WP7 marketplace (faster growth rate than Android and iPhone at that stage).
> All of the information presented on this—so far, anyway—has been anecdotal: nobody has access to anybody else's location database from their iPhone
Huh, what do you mean by anecdotal? The tool is available to be used on anyone's iPhone and if there's no location data, that's easy to prove, you don't have to believe people's anecdotes about finding location data logged on their phone.
>. And, since Android phones do just the same thing, if the guys at Apple "fucked up", the guys at Google did, every bit as badly.
That even happens if you just click on posts. Not to mention that the comment scores are sometimes hidden randomly and you have to do all the clicking till you see them.
Not to mention Apple retires OSes in just a few years after release but there's no outcry on here. This is typical Slashdot anti-MS bitching, nothing else. If one bought XP then, it was an incredible amount of value. Expecting the company to support it for forever doesn't make sense.
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The Apple cut has been pretty well known
No, the Apple cut was initially only for Apps, not for purchases within Apps before Apple changed the rules in February.
Really? Amazon is not profiting from the Kindle business or does not expect to be profitable in future? That is probably why they keep expanding it This story is stupid, and these people are just crying because THEY not ANYONE can't compete.
Huh, why not read?
Apple has made it completely impossible for anyone but Apple to make a profit selling contemporary ebooks on any iOS device
The story is not stupid, you are stupid.
That iPad thing may change soon, when the new rules come into effect in June/July, the Kindle app will no longer be allowed to link to the Kindle store for purchases.
They can't raise prices to compensate, Apple will then demand 30% of the new price as will the publishers.
https://www.iflowreader.com/Closing.aspx
iFlow says that five of them spent nearly a year and a half of our lives and over a million dollars in cash and sweat equity developing the iFlowReader app with its unique AutoScrolling approach but all of it now has gone to waste. "We put our faith in Apple and they screwed us. This happened even though we went to great lengths to clear our plans with Apple because we did not want to make this substantial investment of time and money blindly. Apple's response to our detailed inquiries was to tell us that our plans did not infringe their rules in any way, which was true at the time, but there is one little catch. Apple can change the rules at any time and they did. Sadly they must have known full well that they were going to do this. Apple's iBooks was already in development when we talked to them and they certainly must have known that their future plans would doom us to failure no matter how good our product was. We never really had a chance."
Here it is http://maps.google.com/maps?q=osama+bin+laden+&hl=en&view=map&mcsrc=google_reviews&num=10&ie=UTF8&start=20&cid=11196890339658103699&t=h&ll=34.184471,73.246193&spn=0.010331,0.01929&z=16&iwloc=A
Bin Laden really shouldn't have used his real address on PSN
Are you a deather now?
I don't see any reason to weep. I doubt if they will be able to successfully sue something called "Amazon SQL Server", although Amazon would probably call it Amazon Database Server.
While 'Container Store' was trademarked, I doubt they'd be able successfully sue 'Amazon Container Store' for trademark infringement.
You mean like things like "Windows" right?
Please, stop making absurd comparisons. "Windows" doesn't really describe the product itself. If MS trademarked "Operating System" and then sued Red Hat for calling their OS "Red Hat Operating System", then it would a similar comparison. i.e Windows is not a generic term for the product itself, unlike "app store".
Imagine a company selling apples trademarking the term 'apple' and then suing other companies for calling their products apples. That is similar to what is happening here, not using Apple to sell music or computers.
Amazon's response is new.
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Not erasing the old logs doesn't seem like a bug.. it would've been caught by a single test case. It seems to be a design decision to cache locations to speed up look ups the next time, so would've been considered a feature. Not encrypting the data, on the other hand, seems to be a genuine oversight. But no wonder they want to call everything a bug, what with the government breathing down their neck with Congressional hearings.
First, it seems Android shares a similar problem, though the file containing the location data is "only accessible on devices that have been rooted and opened up to installation of unsigned apps
Doesn't Android just store the past few days information unlike years together like the iPhone?
>Windows developers that were already ignoring WP7
Really? How did you come to know of that? By reading Slashdot?
The developer tools were downloaded over 1.5 million times and there are over 13,000 apps in the WP7 marketplace (faster growth rate than Android and iPhone at that stage).
> All of the information presented on this—so far, anyway—has been anecdotal: nobody has access to anybody else's location database from their iPhone
Huh, what do you mean by anecdotal? The tool is available to be used on anyone's iPhone and if there's no location data, that's easy to prove, you don't have to believe people's anecdotes about finding location data logged on their phone.
>. And, since Android phones do just the same thing, if the guys at Apple "fucked up", the guys at Google did, every bit as badly.
"They did it too" is not a defense.
Yay, cloud. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lel3swo4RMc
N. Va is not really that big. All the article cited talk about VA, not NVA.
But how can this be possible? It's The Cloud . This sort of this simply doesn't happen.
Yay, cloud!
That even happens if you just click on posts. Not to mention that the comment scores are sometimes hidden randomly and you have to do all the clicking till you see them.
Not to mention Apple retires OSes in just a few years after release but there's no outcry on here. This is typical Slashdot anti-MS bitching, nothing else. If one bought XP then, it was an incredible amount of value. Expecting the company to support it for forever doesn't make sense.
Groklaw seems to be too biased against Microsoft and is taking whatever is said by Google at face value. Try this article:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Government-IT/Google-Apps-for-Government-Not-Yet-FISMA-Certified-GSA-495399/
Windows Phone 7 crashes and hangs? Huh?