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  1. Moot Point Now on FBI: Just Don't Call Them Backdoors (networkworld.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Groups like ISIS are now using their own encryption apps so there is nothing that can be done by any US tech companies prevent that. What would the point of making everything less secure be.

  2. Re:Pretty quickly on Objective-C Use Falls Hard, Apple's Swift On the Rise (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    That makes more sense, but is still wrong since there are already Swift implementations on other platforms. It is not as ubiquitous as Objective C, but it has not been around too long..

  3. Re:Pretty quickly on Objective-C Use Falls Hard, Apple's Swift On the Rise (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think you can name a desktop or server system objective-c is not available for, so your point is what exactly? You seem to think Xcode is the only OBJ-C compiler. You would be wrong...

  4. Guessing this will be a very small issue for Porsche...

  5. Re:It's not what Google wants.... on Porsche Chooses Apple Over Google Because Google Wants Too Much Data · · Score: 1

    Well the location log never actually left your phone, so I guess that is not really a thing.

  6. Re:Not surprising on Porsche Chooses Apple Over Google Because Google Wants Too Much Data · · Score: 1

    You won't get any.

  7. Re:Why do they need ANY info? on Porsche Chooses Apple Over Google Because Google Wants Too Much Data · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure there is a reason you are driving the Integra and the other guy is driving the Jaguar (although Jaguar is a bad example since they are overpriced crap, but nevertheless). You are gaining nothing by pumping 6 extra octane into your integral. I know there is where you try and defend this absurd 40 cent a gallon decision, but your really not.

  8. Re: Why do they need ANY info? on Porsche Chooses Apple Over Google Because Google Wants Too Much Data · · Score: 1

    Google's only customers are the advertisers. What they want from you is your location and engine performance so they can sell extremely targeted ads to mechanics. People really don't understand Google at all.

  9. Re:Why do they need ANY info? on Porsche Chooses Apple Over Google Because Google Wants Too Much Data · · Score: 4, Informative

    Google absolutely did want all the data set back to their data center. Porsche clearly states this.

  10. Re:Dear Amazon on Amazon To Cease Sale of Apple TV and Chromecast · · Score: 1

    Amazon already has a great video app for iOS and they update it frequently. They recently updated it to support downloading and offline viewing of Prime content. Their stance on selling the AppleTV makes no sense. It would be absurd fr them not to make an app for the new AppleTV and the even with current models, airplay works great.

    It also goes against a core cultural direction the Bezos described years ago. Amazon keeps retail, content and hardware businesses all separate. It is why kindle books are available on every platform you can think of. It is why Amazon video is also available on all those platforms. This decision makes no sense and probably won't last long.

  11. Re:Inappropriate Removal from the App store on Apple Bans iFixit Repair App From App Store After Apple TV Teardown · · Score: 1

    It wasn't arbitrary at all. The recourse under the NDA was removal from the program. That is what Apple did.

  12. Re:It's MY TV, I'll tear it down if I please on Apple Bans iFixit Repair App From App Store After Apple TV Teardown · · Score: 1

    You of course are correct. Unfortunately for iFixit and you, they did not buy a unit.

  13. Re:That's the downside of the iEcosystem on Apple Bans iFixit Repair App From App Store After Apple TV Teardown · · Score: 1

    They don't. iFixit buys things and takes them apart all the time and Apple has never complained. In this case, Apple gave the a unit after they agreed to an NDA and iFixit violated the NDA. Why is this so hard to grasp.

  14. Re:Monopoly on Apple Bans iFixit Repair App From App Store After Apple TV Teardown · · Score: 1

    What is it that you think Apple has done here? They sent a free developer unit to a company. The company agreed to an NDA as a condition of receiving the unit. The company disassembled the free unit and posted pictures of it on the Internet. Apple enforced the contract the company agreed to.

    What part of that is gold for an anti-trust case?

  15. Re:Unauthorized? on Apple Bans iFixit Repair App From App Store After Apple TV Teardown · · Score: 1

    Of course they didn't actually buy the unit so your argument makes little sense.

  16. Re:Unauthorized Teardown on Apple Bans iFixit Repair App From App Store After Apple TV Teardown · · Score: 1

    It was not iFixit's property so you wrote a lot of words that are irrelevant. Might have saved some time by reading...

  17. Re:Unauthorized Teardown on Apple Bans iFixit Repair App From App Store After Apple TV Teardown · · Score: 1

    You are an odd bird. He is not corporate boot licking. He is pointing out facts you are too lazy to scroll up and read up for yourself.

  18. Re:Unauthorized Teardown on Apple Bans iFixit Repair App From App Store After Apple TV Teardown · · Score: 1

    When they give it to you after you agree to a contract saying what you will and won't do? How hard is this and how fucking lazy are all you people incapable of reading 1 damn paragraph.

  19. Re:Unauthorized teardown on Apple Bans iFixit Repair App From App Store After Apple TV Teardown · · Score: 1

    They didn't but the unit, Apple gave it to them. It is not for sale yet. When iFixit entered the lottery to get a unit, they agreed to a very explicit NDA. Apple is clearly in the right here. It is bizarre that there a some people so damn lazy they can't read the summary and understand what it is they are responding to.

  20. Re:Fools Tread. on Apple Bans iFixit Repair App From App Store After Apple TV Teardown · · Score: 1

    These were developer units given to developers under the terms of a very explicit NDA.

  21. Re: Or they could on Apple Admits iCloud Problem Has Killed iOS 9 'App Slicing' · · Score: 1

    So you believe downloading application resources you will never need is a good idea. Got it.

  22. Re:iOS is toys, OS X is Unix. Learn the difference on How Apple Music Can Disrupt Users' iTunes Libraries · · Score: 1

    Command-N

    Boy that that was tough...

  23. Re:iOS is toys, OS X is Unix. Learn the difference on How Apple Music Can Disrupt Users' iTunes Libraries · · Score: 1

    I realize you are an AC troll. If you were actually serious we would have a new picture to put in the dictionary next to patheti-sad

  24. Re:Apple picks up the costs on Apple To Pay Musicians For Free Streams, After All · · Score: 1

    In this case the product isn't actually consumed and you can reasonable expect the same consumers to come back after the trial and consume the same content again. If you can give me another industry that actually works like that, I will show you one where the trial would be fine.

  25. Re: One more in a crowded field on Swift: Apple's Biggest Achievement For Coders · · Score: 1

    I wish i had notice I was responding to an AC before I did. I will contemplate which to believe with you.