The sysadmins I know who administer cisco shops hate 'em because of limited to no technical/administrative documentation for the OS. This makes it difficult to integrate them into enterprise environments. This comes from apple's walled garden ignorance standpoint, where the answer is to buy into more of their ecosystem so it 'just works.' Corporates are not going to do this.
Obviously an anecdote, as I assume your statement is.
And having tried to find (most times without success) ANY information in the morass that is Microsoft's "technical documentation", and the NON-EXISTENT Linux Technical Documentation (man pages don't count, and BTW, OS X has them, too), I MUCH prefer Apple's "Library-like" approach. Most of the time, I can find the answer to a technical question about OS X or iOS within about 5 minutes or less. Sure, there are exceptions where I have to cast out to the interwebs; but as I said, most of the time I can go to either support.apple.com or developer.apple.com and get a clear, cogent and on-point answer within a few minutes.
In stark contrast to Apple, in the Microsoft world (where I have to work as an a Windows Application Developer), I dread it every single time I have to TRY to find something in their shitty excuse for documentation. Most of the time, all you get is articles that refer to other articles that refer to other articles that end up in a dead fucking link! I can count on one hand the number of times in over 30 years that I have encountered a dead link on Apple's support site (even when they switched over from the old tn-based support system a number of years ago).
Listen, obviously you have been able to make it work for yourself and you are happy fiddling with the various combinations of using apps and cloud services to accomplish your goal. I just don't want to do that, because that wheel has already been invented a long time ago. I still don't understand how you are approaching the simplicity of plugging in a usb cable and copying a file. All the apps force you to use some sort of protocol for file access which have their own limitations. I just don't want to fight with limitations.
You realize, of course, that every OS has limitations. You've just been dealing with a certain set of limitations long enough that you don't see them as such. But they are there, I assure you.
And quite frankly, I have only used something like GoodReader very occasionally, because a lot of Apps (e.g. "DAW") have their own web-based http file transfer system built in. And when they don't, I usually just use the tried and true method (in common use LONG before there were smartphones!) of emailing myself the file in question. Every App on iOS supports a "Share" menu, supporting several methods of getting a file out of the mobile device. And I believe that certain Apps, e.g. "Pages", have the equivalent for GETTING files, too.
And all of this can happen over ad hoc peer-to-peer WiFi, even if I'm nowhere near a WiFi network. No need to dig up a stupid USB cable, nor to bring the mobile device within the cable's typically 3 foot reach. Heck, I can even run MIDI sessions over WiFi. Try THAT on Android.
It all just seems like shoving a square peg in a round hole. Too much messing around making apps do what a filesystem is supposed to do.
No, you're just moving the goalposts. If I showed you the Finder ported to iOS, you'd bitch that the Finder is just another App (which, BTW, it is, just like Windows Explorer), so it didn't count. Grow up.
Besides, I don't know of a filesystem that has intrinsic capabilities for file-transfer from/to other systems. Use the right terms or GTFO. Operating Systems might have those capabilities, or more often, they accomplish the "magic" (subterfuge) of those capabilities with an "always running" App like Finder or Explorer; but not filesystems. Since there is pretty-much never a network of iOS Devices. just like there is pretty-much never a network of Android Devices, where having constant access to other assets on the network is a necessity for most, if not all, Users, it doesn't make sense to build a whole networking stack into a mobile OS.
And besides, for those who find that working between their mobile iOS device and their OS X or Windows computers is something they find themselves doing often, Apple offers iCloud Storage and even Air Drop peer-to-peer file-transfer to provide essentially the same access. And with the "Convergence" feature built into recent versions of OS X and iOS, the file-transfer is automagic. Start an email on your computer, finish it on your phone. Start a Pages Document on your Tablet, work on it on your phone, finish it on your laptop. All seamlessly. How's that? No file-browser needed.
There's really no difference in the iOS Filesystem, per se; it is still a classic hierarchical file system with nested folders and files. The only difference is that instead of having an overarching file-browser, like OS X's Finder or Windows' Explorer, each App is responsible for managing its own files transparently to the User.
It's just taking the concept of Sandboxing to the next level. And the ONLY difference between something like GoodReader and Finder/Explorer is that one App runs all the time and provides a "Desktop" metaphor, and the other launches on a single tap. So, for all your whining, there really is nothing to bitch about here; so move along.
All of those solutions lock the transferred file in the app itself, so you can only manipulate the file in the way that the app allows. Do any of them allow you to execute a windows exe off the device? I find it handy to have portable apps on my phone. Plug in a USB cable and they're all available.
No, once you have transferred the file, you can open the file in any App that understands the file type. iOS has a similar file type association scheme to any other OS. So, unless you get off doing stuff like manipulating JPEGs in a text editor on your phone, I'm not sure what you are getting at.
Use any of the several VNC/RDP clients (I routinely use "Jump" to access my work's Windows servers from home over our VPN) and run your Windows environment. Which I would imagine is exactly how you would do it on Android.
Or you can use one of the remote keyboard/mouse Apps to run a computer within eyeshot. Some work with Bluetooth, most over WiFi. There might even be one or two that work over USB, I honestly don't know.
People end up jailbreaking because they expect certain features that, after purchase, they discover aren't available. Further, things like "the ability to copy a file to and from the phone" aren't going to hurt the "experience" as users who don't need that feature aren't encumbered by it in any way.
There are about two dozen (or more) File-Transfer Apps for iOS. Most just start up a little web server, and tell you where to point your browser to copy files to/from. Next!
What does hurt users, of course, are the missing basic features.
What "basic features" is iOS missing? Seriously, I really can't think of any "basic" features that iOS is missing, and although you keep trumpeting that phrase over and over, you have yet to come up with a list, and your "file copy" example is addressed in many ways. Fuck, GoodReader alone can talk to ftp, SFTP, afp, WebDAV, SMB, DropBox, SkyDrive, Google Drive, IMAP, POP3, SugarSync (whatever THAT is), box.net, and probably others by now, since I haven't updated the App in awhile. So, I'm not at ALL sure what you are talking about. And that's just ONE "File Transfer" App.
Which is most common? I figure pirating might be kind of popular, but a lot of useful software is pretty inexpensive to begin with and how many people want a hacked candy crush that has free powerups?
Because a certain segment of the Chinese public seems to think that paying for ANY software is a sign of stupidity; and so they will go to almost any lengths to rip off even the most inexpensive of Apps.
Sorry, but these people are getting EXACTLY what they deserve.
Less people would feel the need to jailbreak them thus making them totally vulnerable. Let's keep in mind that most of the Apple walled garden is to force people to use Apple services and pay for Apple products and nothing to do with security.
Headline leaves out the fact that this isn't just any old iOS malware. It affects only *jailbroken* devices.
That's a pretty important distinction.
Jailbreaking a device is in effect the same as installing a rootkit, so already at the first step here iOS has been severely compromised in a way it shouldn't have allowed. Yes, the user did install the rootkit (at least now, earlier there were drive-by iOS jailbreaks/rootkits) -- same way rootkits for Windows usually gets installed -- but for the OS to allow to be compromised this way is a security failing.
Boy, talk about damned if you do, and damned if you don't!
So, if Apple battens down iOS such that NO ONE can jailbreak, then the slashdot crowd whines that Apple is Teh Evilz, and if Apple looks the other way when someone jailbreaks, then they are lax on their security.
Why do so many people install Cyn on their androids? Or OpenWRT on routers? Because they want features not offered. Same shit different toilet my friend.
You're really upset about this. I can only guess as to why. Relax, Apple doesn't need you to help them. They'll be fine.
Why not direct some of that energy at trying to figure out why so many users want to jailbreak their phones? Why aren't they satisfied with the 'experience' Apple provided? What could they do differently so as to make jailbreaking less attractive?
I'm "really upset" at the idiot (drinkypoo) that keeps posting stuff like it is somehow Apple's responsibility, or even its power, to control the behavior of modified devices.
You will notice that it is primarily Chinese users; who have a culture of wanting to rip off basically every bit of software they run on any Device. So, rather than pay the princely sum of 99 cents (equiv.) to get some stupid little App, they would rather go to some grey-market site and download a malware-infested knockoff.
Then, they have the temerity to complain when that App steals their info, breaks their device, etc.
I expect to be able to go in and out of my door. That's what doors are for. Apple doesn't even give you a door. You have to break your way through the wall. Then there's a hole there. That's why Apple products are only sufficient for sheep. They don't break down walls, they just wander through holes.
So, you're only safe with Apple so long as you do exactly what they tell you, and no more. As long as you are a shiny cog, you can have the shiny shiny. Step off the reservation, and you get shot in the face.
That's an entirely unnecessary spin on the real situation, which is:
Once you have modified the firmware in a device, the original manufacturer has no way of controlling nor safeguarding the devices behavior.
Or in other words, are you saying that Samsung, HTC, LG, etc. should be responsible if bad stuff happens when you install a "Custom ROM"?
Anyone who jail breaks is aware of the risk they are taking.
I think they just heard me laugh all the way to China. Seriously, most people can't even grasp the concept of risk when think of software and operating systems. How in the world do you expect them to understand those risk?
No. Contrary to some believes, most (as in almost) all jailbrokers have no clue what they do and have no idea of what are the risks involved and how important (or not) they are.
Then this is a way to get Experience; because, as everybody knows: "Experience is what you get, when you don't get what you want."
That data is very valuable which is why Microsoft is going through so much trouble to get it. It's worth way more than the $100-200 asking price for a retail copy of Windows. In an equitable universe, Microsoft would be paying people to use Windows 10.
Which is why it is such a bad joke that Windows 10 in "free" (as in beer).
Microsoft was forced by Apple and Linux to reduce the cost of Windows "Client" to "free"; but they can't run a Company the size of Microsoft on the sales of Microsoft Office alone (yes, I know they have other products; but none of them besides Office and Windows make enough to run a Company a 100th the size of Microsoft); so guess how they are replacing that revenue?
The same is true of your social security number. The IRS has it, as does your phone company, and your employer, and your school, and several other businesses. Again, the only reason you think this is private is because you are clueless.
And yet, you won't type it here. Why? You think it hasn't been transmitted over an unsecure internet connection at some point? NOW who's clueless?
Right, because keeping your browsing and application-utilization habits a secret is SO important.
OMG somebody might know you look at porn! Or that you play video games! Or that you are shopping online for a new printer!!!
The horror!
Sometimes it's not the Act; it's the Principle.
Or do you go around writing your name, date of birth and social security number (or equivalent if in a non-U.S. country) on public walls? And if not, why not? After all, who needs Privacy; it's just so, so, Twentieth Century!
Not sure this is a right comment, but with all the hype over open source exploits, people still are convinced Windows and Apple are "secure" and yet they pretty much monitor every thing you do, and store that information.
Windows, yes. Apple, no.
Unlike Microsoft, Apple makes its money off hardware, and thus has absolutely no incentive to sell your soul to The Man.
Apple has also figured out that some Users care about Privacy, and that that may eventually lead to more sales of their Hardware; so, in essence, Apple has discovered that it can actually Market PRIVACY, and so it does. A little too quietly for my taste; but the signs are there, spelled out in explicit detail if you know where to look And you will notice a refreshing lack of "weasel words", such as "for various purposes"...
Also, despite the noise propagated here, Apple actually has a very longstanding distaste for government in general, and I have been watching and using Apple for more than enough decades to know that cooperating with the Gummint would be corporate anathema to them.
And even when Apple does design something like "Spotlight Suggestions" that sends your Spotlight Searches to Apple, so that they can provide internet-based search results alongside local search results, they provide a clear, GUI-available method to completely disable the feature.
The proof in the pudding comes from the fact that you don't see any long lists for OS X of hard-coded IP destinations being published in similar articles to this one, or anyone reporting that, despite turning off everything that can be turned-off, OS X acts like a data-thief, like Windows has obviously turned into.
So, in other words, please don't simply lump Apple and Microsoft together as "Teh Evilz"; because that simply isn't the case.
Thanks. These ACs are a perfect example of why they are afraid to take the challenge, because they will find out the truth which is update a Mac? Everything WORKS, update Windows? Everything WORKS, update Linux? Uh ohh their OS made a stinky.
The sad truth is the last version of Windows Linux could compete with? Windows ME, as every version since could update without crapping itself. I have heard they same is true of Apple since OSX, updates just work, Linux? Has a driver model older than Win9x and the challenge just shows without any BS or trickery that Linux cannot even update itself without breaking which is honestly a worse indictment of their OS than anything I could ever say.
No problem, my friend! I know you and I have gone toe-to-toe on many issues in the past; but the trufe is da trufe! And besides, we bass-players have to stick together!
For all the braying that the Linux Police do about "Open Sores is Teh Only Way!", the reality is that in the vast majority of the cases, it is really only the Open Source Projects that have been "adopted" by companies such as Apple that seem to be moving forward in significant measure. Not to say that, for example, the Libre Office team hasn't done a pretty good job; because actually, they have. But for the most part, the vast majority of the Open Source Projects that are not part of something "commercial" like OS X are in a quiet state of perpetual ignorage by their "Maintainers".
And as far as Linux itself goes, as long as the Linux "community" continues to want to have a Googleplex of Distros for absolutely no apparent reason, there will never be enough development effort overall to whip Linux into the Windows-Killer Desktop OS it so wants to be, instead of the tinker-toy erector-set approach to a unified, and deployable-by-the-average-person environment, and thus, it will (rightly) continue to get the big middle finger by most of the mainstream application and peripheral development community, as well as the vast majority of the computer-buying public.
Linux aficionados talk about Apple users being "religious" about their platform-choice; but there ain't nothin' more akin to a religious zealot than themselves.
The stylus is simply an option for when you need more precision.
(To draw more precisely sketches, or operate smaller parts of UI [emphasis added]).
Or, IOW, the stylus is needed.
As for capacitive touch-screens being "more coarse" than resistive, I am not at all sure that is universally-true, and is belied by the fact that you can use a stylus on an iOS device for drawing, if desired. Yes, I realize that that supports your argument that stylii are more "precise" than fingers; but that wasn't actually my point, nor would I really argue that point.
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The sysadmins I know who administer cisco shops hate 'em because of limited to no technical/administrative documentation for the OS. This makes it difficult to integrate them into enterprise environments. This comes from apple's walled garden ignorance standpoint, where the answer is to buy into more of their ecosystem so it 'just works.' Corporates are not going to do this.
Obviously an anecdote, as I assume your statement is.
Your "sysadmins" need to learn to read. I found this "front door" Business/Educational Deployment Support page in two minutes of searching on Apple's website, with no idea where to start looking.
And having tried to find (most times without success) ANY information in the morass that is Microsoft's "technical documentation", and the NON-EXISTENT Linux Technical Documentation (man pages don't count, and BTW, OS X has them, too), I MUCH prefer Apple's "Library-like" approach. Most of the time, I can find the answer to a technical question about OS X or iOS within about 5 minutes or less. Sure, there are exceptions where I have to cast out to the interwebs; but as I said, most of the time I can go to either support.apple.com or developer.apple.com and get a clear, cogent and on-point answer within a few minutes.
In stark contrast to Apple, in the Microsoft world (where I have to work as an a Windows Application Developer), I dread it every single time I have to TRY to find something in their shitty excuse for documentation. Most of the time, all you get is articles that refer to other articles that refer to other articles that end up in a dead fucking link! I can count on one hand the number of times in over 30 years that I have encountered a dead link on Apple's support site (even when they switched over from the old tn-based support system a number of years ago).
Listen, obviously you have been able to make it work for yourself and you are happy fiddling with the various combinations of using apps and cloud services to accomplish your goal. I just don't want to do that, because that wheel has already been invented a long time ago. I still don't understand how you are approaching the simplicity of plugging in a usb cable and copying a file. All the apps force you to use some sort of protocol for file access which have their own limitations. I just don't want to fight with limitations.
You realize, of course, that every OS has limitations. You've just been dealing with a certain set of limitations long enough that you don't see them as such. But they are there, I assure you.
And quite frankly, I have only used something like GoodReader very occasionally, because a lot of Apps (e.g. "DAW") have their own web-based http file transfer system built in. And when they don't, I usually just use the tried and true method (in common use LONG before there were smartphones!) of emailing myself the file in question. Every App on iOS supports a "Share" menu, supporting several methods of getting a file out of the mobile device. And I believe that certain Apps, e.g. "Pages", have the equivalent for GETTING files, too.
And all of this can happen over ad hoc peer-to-peer WiFi, even if I'm nowhere near a WiFi network. No need to dig up a stupid USB cable, nor to bring the mobile device within the cable's typically 3 foot reach. Heck, I can even run MIDI sessions over WiFi. Try THAT on Android.
It all just seems like shoving a square peg in a round hole. Too much messing around making apps do what a filesystem is supposed to do.
No, you're just moving the goalposts. If I showed you the Finder ported to iOS, you'd bitch that the Finder is just another App (which, BTW, it is, just like Windows Explorer), so it didn't count. Grow up.
Besides, I don't know of a filesystem that has intrinsic capabilities for file-transfer from/to other systems. Use the right terms or GTFO. Operating Systems might have those capabilities, or more often, they accomplish the "magic" (subterfuge) of those capabilities with an "always running" App like Finder or Explorer; but not filesystems. Since there is pretty-much never a network of iOS Devices. just like there is pretty-much never a network of Android Devices, where having constant access to other assets on the network is a necessity for most, if not all, Users, it doesn't make sense to build a whole networking stack into a mobile OS.
And besides, for those who find that working between their mobile iOS device and their OS X or Windows computers is something they find themselves doing often, Apple offers iCloud Storage and even Air Drop peer-to-peer file-transfer to provide essentially the same access. And with the "Convergence" feature built into recent versions of OS X and iOS, the file-transfer is automagic. Start an email on your computer, finish it on your phone. Start a Pages Document on your Tablet, work on it on your phone, finish it on your laptop. All seamlessly. How's that? No file-browser needed.
There's really no difference in the iOS Filesystem, per se; it is still a classic hierarchical file system with nested folders and files. The only difference is that instead of having an overarching file-browser, like OS X's Finder or Windows' Explorer, each App is responsible for managing its own files transparently to the User.
It's just taking the concept of Sandboxing to the next level. And the ONLY difference between something like GoodReader and Finder/Explorer is that one App runs all the time and provides a "Desktop" metaphor, and the other launches on a single tap. So, for all your whining, there really is nothing to bitch about here; so move along.
People who say this most likely have never even seen Apple products up close.
You're right about that.
I think a lot of it demonstrates the sheeple-like mentality of many in the F/OSS "community". Talk about a "religion"...
It's well known that apple designs the garden to keep people in their products.
Well known by whom? Slashtards?
All of those solutions lock the transferred file in the app itself, so you can only manipulate the file in the way that the app allows. Do any of them allow you to execute a windows exe off the device? I find it handy to have portable apps on my phone. Plug in a USB cable and they're all available.
No, once you have transferred the file, you can open the file in any App that understands the file type. iOS has a similar file type association scheme to any other OS. So, unless you get off doing stuff like manipulating JPEGs in a text editor on your phone, I'm not sure what you are getting at. Use any of the several VNC/RDP clients (I routinely use "Jump" to access my work's Windows servers from home over our VPN) and run your Windows environment. Which I would imagine is exactly how you would do it on Android.
Or you can use one of the remote keyboard/mouse Apps to run a computer within eyeshot. Some work with Bluetooth, most over WiFi. There might even be one or two that work over USB, I honestly don't know.
Even non-Valve games franchises such as Borderlands are starting to support Linux.
Pretty cool after only 24 years. I'm impressed!
gamers. hahahahaha!
Fixed that for you. Enjoy your corporate entertainment while we Linux guys work on creating something new.
Hey, howabout getting the something OLD working first?
And people say that Microsoft has the corporate attention span of a gnat. Sheesh!
People end up jailbreaking because they expect certain features that, after purchase, they discover aren't available. Further, things like "the ability to copy a file to and from the phone" aren't going to hurt the "experience" as users who don't need that feature aren't encumbered by it in any way.
There are about two dozen (or more) File-Transfer Apps for iOS. Most just start up a little web server, and tell you where to point your browser to copy files to/from. Next!
What does hurt users, of course, are the missing basic features.
What "basic features" is iOS missing? Seriously, I really can't think of any "basic" features that iOS is missing, and although you keep trumpeting that phrase over and over, you have yet to come up with a list, and your "file copy" example is addressed in many ways. Fuck, GoodReader alone can talk to ftp, SFTP, afp, WebDAV, SMB, DropBox, SkyDrive, Google Drive, IMAP, POP3, SugarSync (whatever THAT is), box.net, and probably others by now, since I haven't updated the App in awhile. So, I'm not at ALL sure what you are talking about. And that's just ONE "File Transfer" App.
Which is most common? I figure pirating might be kind of popular, but a lot of useful software is pretty inexpensive to begin with and how many people want a hacked candy crush that has free powerups?
Because a certain segment of the Chinese public seems to think that paying for ANY software is a sign of stupidity; and so they will go to almost any lengths to rip off even the most inexpensive of Apps.
Sorry, but these people are getting EXACTLY what they deserve.
Less people would feel the need to jailbreak them thus making them totally vulnerable. Let's keep in mind that most of the Apple walled garden is to force people to use Apple services and pay for Apple products and nothing to do with security.
Even YOU don't really believe that; do you?
Headline leaves out the fact that this isn't just any old iOS malware. It affects only *jailbroken* devices.
That's a pretty important distinction.
Jailbreaking a device is in effect the same as installing a rootkit, so already at the first step here iOS has been severely compromised in a way it shouldn't have allowed. Yes, the user did install the rootkit (at least now, earlier there were drive-by iOS jailbreaks/rootkits) -- same way rootkits for Windows usually gets installed -- but for the OS to allow to be compromised this way is a security failing.
Boy, talk about damned if you do, and damned if you don't!
So, if Apple battens down iOS such that NO ONE can jailbreak, then the slashdot crowd whines that Apple is Teh Evilz, and if Apple looks the other way when someone jailbreaks, then they are lax on their security.
Which way do you guys want it, anyway???
Why do so many people install Cyn on their androids? Or OpenWRT on routers? Because they want features not offered. Same shit different toilet my friend.
That too.
You're really upset about this. I can only guess as to why. Relax, Apple doesn't need you to help them. They'll be fine.
Why not direct some of that energy at trying to figure out why so many users want to jailbreak their phones? Why aren't they satisfied with the 'experience' Apple provided? What could they do differently so as to make jailbreaking less attractive?
I'm "really upset" at the idiot (drinkypoo) that keeps posting stuff like it is somehow Apple's responsibility, or even its power, to control the behavior of modified devices.
You will notice that it is primarily Chinese users; who have a culture of wanting to rip off basically every bit of software they run on any Device. So, rather than pay the princely sum of 99 cents (equiv.) to get some stupid little App, they would rather go to some grey-market site and download a malware-infested knockoff.
Then, they have the temerity to complain when that App steals their info, breaks their device, etc.
I know it's a security feature. Problem is, it's for Apple's security first, and yours second.
Prove it.
I expect to be able to go in and out of my door. That's what doors are for. Apple doesn't even give you a door. You have to break your way through the wall. Then there's a hole there. That's why Apple products are only sufficient for sheep. They don't break down walls, they just wander through holes.
Oh, PUH-LEASE!!!
So, you're only safe with Apple so long as you do exactly what they tell you, and no more. As long as you are a shiny cog, you can have the shiny shiny. Step off the reservation, and you get shot in the face.
That's an entirely unnecessary spin on the real situation, which is: Once you have modified the firmware in a device, the original manufacturer has no way of controlling nor safeguarding the devices behavior.
Or in other words, are you saying that Samsung, HTC, LG, etc. should be responsible if bad stuff happens when you install a "Custom ROM"?
The situation is ENTIRELY analogous.
Correct question is "why do they jailbreak?".
Because they THINK they need to for some stupid reason.
Anyone who jail breaks is aware of the risk they are taking.
I think they just heard me laugh all the way to China. Seriously, most people can't even grasp the concept of risk when think of software and operating systems. How in the world do you expect them to understand those risk?
No. Contrary to some believes, most (as in almost) all jailbrokers have no clue what they do and have no idea of what are the risks involved and how important (or not) they are.
Then this is a way to get Experience; because, as everybody knows: "Experience is what you get, when you don't get what you want."
That data is very valuable which is why Microsoft is going through so much trouble to get it. It's worth way more than the $100-200 asking price for a retail copy of Windows. In an equitable universe, Microsoft would be paying people to use Windows 10.
Which is why it is such a bad joke that Windows 10 in "free" (as in beer).
Microsoft was forced by Apple and Linux to reduce the cost of Windows "Client" to "free"; but they can't run a Company the size of Microsoft on the sales of Microsoft Office alone (yes, I know they have other products; but none of them besides Office and Windows make enough to run a Company a 100th the size of Microsoft); so guess how they are replacing that revenue?
The same is true of your social security number. The IRS has it, as does your phone company, and your employer, and your school, and several other businesses. Again, the only reason you think this is private is because you are clueless.
And yet, you won't type it here. Why? You think it hasn't been transmitted over an unsecure internet connection at some point? NOW who's clueless?
Hypocrite.
Right, because keeping your browsing and application-utilization habits a secret is SO important.
OMG somebody might know you look at porn! Or that you play video games! Or that you are shopping online for a new printer!!!
The horror!
Sometimes it's not the Act; it's the Principle.
Or do you go around writing your name, date of birth and social security number (or equivalent if in a non-U.S. country) on public walls? And if not, why not? After all, who needs Privacy; it's just so, so, Twentieth Century!
Not sure this is a right comment, but with all the hype over open source exploits, people still are convinced Windows and Apple are "secure" and yet they pretty much monitor every thing you do, and store that information.
Windows, yes. Apple, no.
Unlike Microsoft, Apple makes its money off hardware, and thus has absolutely no incentive to sell your soul to The Man.
Apple has also figured out that some Users care about Privacy, and that that may eventually lead to more sales of their Hardware; so, in essence, Apple has discovered that it can actually Market PRIVACY, and so it does. A little too quietly for my taste; but the signs are there, spelled out in explicit detail if you know where to look And you will notice a refreshing lack of "weasel words", such as "for various purposes"...
Also, despite the noise propagated here, Apple actually has a very longstanding distaste for government in general, and I have been watching and using Apple for more than enough decades to know that cooperating with the Gummint would be corporate anathema to them.
And even when Apple does design something like "Spotlight Suggestions" that sends your Spotlight Searches to Apple, so that they can provide internet-based search results alongside local search results, they provide a clear, GUI-available method to completely disable the feature.
The proof in the pudding comes from the fact that you don't see any long lists for OS X of hard-coded IP destinations being published in similar articles to this one, or anyone reporting that, despite turning off everything that can be turned-off, OS X acts like a data-thief, like Windows has obviously turned into. So, in other words, please don't simply lump Apple and Microsoft together as "Teh Evilz"; because that simply isn't the case.
Thanks. These ACs are a perfect example of why they are afraid to take the challenge, because they will find out the truth which is update a Mac? Everything WORKS, update Windows? Everything WORKS, update Linux? Uh ohh their OS made a stinky.
The sad truth is the last version of Windows Linux could compete with? Windows ME, as every version since could update without crapping itself. I have heard they same is true of Apple since OSX, updates just work, Linux? Has a driver model older than Win9x and the challenge just shows without any BS or trickery that Linux cannot even update itself without breaking which is honestly a worse indictment of their OS than anything I could ever say.
No problem, my friend! I know you and I have gone toe-to-toe on many issues in the past; but the trufe is da trufe! And besides, we bass-players have to stick together!
For all the braying that the Linux Police do about "Open Sores is Teh Only Way!", the reality is that in the vast majority of the cases, it is really only the Open Source Projects that have been "adopted" by companies such as Apple that seem to be moving forward in significant measure. Not to say that, for example, the Libre Office team hasn't done a pretty good job; because actually, they have. But for the most part, the vast majority of the Open Source Projects that are not part of something "commercial" like OS X are in a quiet state of perpetual ignorage by their "Maintainers".
And as far as Linux itself goes, as long as the Linux "community" continues to want to have a Googleplex of Distros for absolutely no apparent reason, there will never be enough development effort overall to whip Linux into the Windows-Killer Desktop OS it so wants to be, instead of the tinker-toy erector-set approach to a unified, and deployable-by-the-average-person environment, and thus, it will (rightly) continue to get the big middle finger by most of the mainstream application and peripheral development community, as well as the vast majority of the computer-buying public.
Linux aficionados talk about Apple users being "religious" about their platform-choice; but there ain't nothin' more akin to a religious zealot than themselves.
The stylus is simply an option for when you need more precision. (To draw more precisely sketches, or operate smaller parts of UI [emphasis added]).
Or, IOW, the stylus is needed.
As for capacitive touch-screens being "more coarse" than resistive, I am not at all sure that is universally-true, and is belied by the fact that you can use a stylus on an iOS device for drawing, if desired. Yes, I realize that that supports your argument that stylii are more "precise" than fingers; but that wasn't actually my point, nor would I really argue that point.