No, no doubt Google scans for existing threats when developers upload their apps, but Google makes no such promise about having verified apps on their store. You must be confusing Google with Apple.
1. Google CANNOT be THAT incompetent. They simply aren't "scanning" squat.
2. Apple is smart enough to not GUARANTEE no Malware. But their track record undeniably points out that whatever they are doing as far as App Approval is FAR, FAR, FAR superior to what Google is doing.
Computing is going cloud, and they're barely interested in ramping up their iCloud capabilities.
You've obviously never seen a recent WWDC Keynote, or owned an Apple product made in the past few years.
Not that it would matter, unless Apple found a way to access all that data being collected by Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. . Then they would have to spend lots of money to hire actual geniuses to process and research that data in a way that would allow them to leapfrog current applications of computing.
You think there is only one reason for Cloud Computing. And you're wrong. Apple doesn't need to/want to Datamine their Customer Base to make money. They have awesome products (that happen to include some pretty innovative, secure and frankly quite-handy "Cloud" integration).
hey're not going to maintain their computing environment when no one wants to buy their products to type in queries
Again, you obviously haven't beenkeeping-up. You need to get your Apple news from places other than Slashdot.
when it becomes "unprofitable" to compete with smartphones linked with cloud computing features.
Man, you are so out-of-touch with the direction that Apple is going, it's actually a waste of time typing this "rebuttal".
Microsoft has more of a future in the computing industry than Apple.
That is not what their falling marketshare numbers in both Desktop and Mobile would lead a rational person to believe.
Ah - I tried that one on you and you passed with flying colors.
[macs4all: Takes a grateful bow]
I've remained on iPhoto instead of Photo because Photo seems to really want me to store my photos in the cloud.
I am the same way on my MacBook Pro. I am holding on to iPhoto like it was the last, great hope for Planet Earth. However, on my iPhone (and iPad), even though I actually have iPhoto on them, I have just given up and use Photos on those devices.
HOWEVER, I still don't use any "Photo Stream" stuff with Photos. All local storage on all Apple products. Actually, I believe there is an easy way to keep iOS and OS X/macOS from doing the Cloud-Sync stuff with Photos. Ah, here you go...
And even if you have accidently let iCloud get hold of your Photos/Videos, you can "get them back" (see the last "tip" (regarding local "backups") on this page). I would suggest doing that BEFORE you Disable iCloud Photos!;-)
Fuck Apple. They're not even in the game. Management is so wedded to consumer hardware sales, they don't even realize that everyone will eventually move to cloud, and Apple won't be able to provide the services that Google, Amazon, or Microsoft can.
Brat!, made me look to see if I made an innapropriate typo - then I laughed.
LOL! Even Internet flame wars need some comedy relief!!!;-)
Look, we both know what the deal is: The simple fact is, we're both "right", for differing values of "right".
- Great Bolshy Yarblockos -
Now it was MY turn to laugh!
BTW, for the record, I don't cotton to any of that "Cloud" stuff, either. Even though every single one of my Apple devices sings a siren-song of Cloud integration in numerous well designed, secure and really quite-handy ways. I am not such a Luddite that I don't see the advantages; but I am also wise enough to know that it's a slippery slope kinda thing.
Couldn't be the industrial pollution or smog in yoru area, nope.
Not that an ANONYMOUS COWARD deserves an explanation; but:
There is Not really that much of either smog nor industrial pollution in Indianapolis. And I work in a nonsmoking office Developing software, and have never had an occupation that exposed me to hazardous substances.
So I really don't think so.
But as I said, I don't go around crusading for anti-smoking, and in fact think that the anti-smoking ordinances that we have in our County are ridiculously nanny-state-ish.
There's never been any proof that second hand smoke is even remotely dangerous.
You might not want to smoke, but you have no right to prevent anyone else from doing it.
It amuses me that the way the US is going, it might soon be legal to smoke marijuana but not tobacco.
Then how do you explain the fact that I have COPD with ZERO cigarette smoking "experience"?
I'll tell you how: Six decades of constantly LIVING WITH cigarette smokers.
Second-hand smoke really is no joke. I'm not an anti-smoking crusader (quite the opposite, actually); but I have to pay at least some attention to my personal experience...
Now you are catching on! I don't deal in pedantry, or wishful thinking.
Pederasty has nothing to do with it.
Microsoft lied (again), pure and simple. Some people (stupidly/greedily, IMHO) took them at their word.
So, since "Unlimited" doesn't equal "Unlimited" in your personal "User's Guide To The Real Meanings Of Common Words", what, pray tell, would you put the "limit" of "Unlimited" at? Because the accepted, common-use definition (which is what a Court would use) is (according to Merriam-Webster):
1: lacking any controls : unrestricted
2: boundless, infinite
3: not bounded by exceptions : undefined
Definitions 1 and 2 and 3 seem to apply here. That's not being "pedantic"; it is applying accepted, mainstream common-language meanings to common, mainstream common-language words. Sorry if that doesn't fit with your meaning of how language works; but it's the one that most people would use.
And besides, how is a person to really know when they exceed "your" limit of "Unlimited"?
Reaction from conservatives and Republicans on this will be little to zero excitement.
Pence shriveled up in the face of the challenges in his state when the religious freedom act came under assault, and he really bears no marks of being a person who could be sold as a moderating influence to Trump.
However, I suspect that Trump has left himself with few friends and fewer qualified choices, so this is what the Trumpsters get. Mike the Generic Guy.
Yes! Thanks to Slashdot's egregious editorial incompetence, we can now accuse Mike Pence of basing his entire life off of the evil evil lie that he's from India.
He's an H1-B! Outsourcing our politicians! Who does Trump think he is, Hillary Clinton?
I wish he was an H1-b. That way, we could simply revoke his visa.
I see it as a win-win. Microsoft somehow makes a significant increase in profit from this move, and customers learn what it means to "trust" either Microsoft or Google (or Amazon or IBM, ad nauseum...)
True.
At least Apple is very up-front about what the limits are in iCloud storage (IIRC 5 GB free, pay for more).
Unlimited cloud storage now means you can store stuff until they decide that they are done letting you store any more of your stuff.
So, you think that "Unlimited" means "Unlimited until we say you've reached our limit of Unlimited", right?
So, "Unlimited" for certain values of "Unlimited"?
I certainly agree that storing 75 TB of data in their "Unlimited" storage is supremely asshat-ish; but that doesn't mean that they violated (or even "abused") the limits of "Unlimited".
Microsoft said one thing, and have been lying to so many people for so long, that they apparently never bothered to figure out that some people would actually take them at their "word".
Pretty stupid for a corporation with enough lawyers on staff to form a small Army, and which feels fit to require EULAs for the most trivial of software packages that have more words in them than the AT&T Divestiture Decree.
No, its that you are using a definition of unlimited that is not constrained by physics. Your definition is unlimited means infinite.
"Unlimited" as a marketing term has nothing to do with physical, rational, nor societal constraints.
It merely means that the purveyor will not impose artificial, arbitrary limits upon what each user can "use".
Of course there will still be limits (total drive space MS has dedicated to the task, network speed, etc.); but those are outside of a marketing "promise" of "Unlimited".
When Olive Garden says "Unlimited Breadsticks", it is understood that they will not "artificially" decide when enough is enough. And that's exactly what MS did.
There isn't a screen in my house that is capable of handling 5.1 audio. Stereo from the tv speakers are good enough for everyone in my family. Not everyone cares about big bassey explosions.
What does Shirley Bassey have to do with this? And why would she explode?
fuck that shit. Just drag their families out into the middle of the street and line them up on the median line, then walk along behind them and shoot each one in the head while making the cunt watch.
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No, no doubt Google scans for existing threats when developers upload their apps, but Google makes no such promise about having verified apps on their store. You must be confusing Google with Apple.
1. Google CANNOT be THAT incompetent. They simply aren't "scanning" squat.
2. Apple is smart enough to not GUARANTEE no Malware. But their track record undeniably points out that whatever they are doing as far as App Approval is FAR, FAR, FAR superior to what Google is doing.
Computing is going cloud, and they're barely interested in ramping up their iCloud capabilities.
You've obviously never seen a recent WWDC Keynote, or owned an Apple product made in the past few years.
Not that it would matter, unless Apple found a way to access all that data being collected by Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. . Then they would have to spend lots of money to hire actual geniuses to process and research that data in a way that would allow them to leapfrog current applications of computing.
You think there is only one reason for Cloud Computing. And you're wrong. Apple doesn't need to/want to Datamine their Customer Base to make money. They have awesome products (that happen to include some pretty innovative, secure and frankly quite-handy "Cloud" integration).
hey're not going to maintain their computing environment when no one wants to buy their products to type in queries
Again, you obviously haven't been keeping-up. You need to get your Apple news from places other than Slashdot.
when it becomes "unprofitable" to compete with smartphones linked with cloud computing features.
Man, you are so out-of-touch with the direction that Apple is going, it's actually a waste of time typing this "rebuttal".
Microsoft has more of a future in the computing industry than Apple.
That is not what their falling marketshare numbers in both Desktop and Mobile would lead a rational person to believe.
- Great Bolshy Yarblockos -
Now it was MY turn to laugh!
Ah - I tried that one on you and you passed with flying colors.
[macs4all: Takes a grateful bow]
I've remained on iPhoto instead of Photo because Photo seems to really want me to store my photos in the cloud.
I am the same way on my MacBook Pro. I am holding on to iPhoto like it was the last, great hope for Planet Earth. However, on my iPhone (and iPad), even though I actually have iPhoto on them, I have just given up and use Photos on those devices.
;-)
HOWEVER, I still don't use any "Photo Stream" stuff with Photos. All local storage on all Apple products. Actually, I believe there is an easy way to keep iOS and OS X/macOS from doing the Cloud-Sync stuff with Photos. Ah, here you go...
And even if you have accidently let iCloud get hold of your Photos/Videos, you can "get them back" (see the last "tip" (regarding local "backups") on this page). I would suggest doing that BEFORE you Disable iCloud Photos!
Hope this helps!
There's nothing negative about being anti-gay.
Sez the guy with such a balanced and healthy world-view that even their signature is preachy.
Fuck Apple. They're not even in the game. Management is so wedded to consumer hardware sales, they don't even realize that everyone will eventually move to cloud, and Apple won't be able to provide the services that Google, Amazon, or Microsoft can.
No, of course not. No way they could compete...
Brat!, made me look to see if I made an innapropriate typo - then I laughed.
LOL! Even Internet flame wars need some comedy relief!!! ;-)
Look, we both know what the deal is: The simple fact is, we're both "right", for differing values of "right".
- Great Bolshy Yarblockos -
Now it was MY turn to laugh!
BTW, for the record, I don't cotton to any of that "Cloud" stuff, either. Even though every single one of my Apple devices sings a siren-song of Cloud integration in numerous well designed, secure and really quite-handy ways. I am not such a Luddite that I don't see the advantages; but I am also wise enough to know that it's a slippery slope kinda thing.
Couldn't be the industrial pollution or smog in yoru area, nope.
Not that an ANONYMOUS COWARD deserves an explanation; but:
There is Not really that much of either smog nor industrial pollution in Indianapolis. And I work in a nonsmoking office Developing software, and have never had an occupation that exposed me to hazardous substances.
So I really don't think so.
But as I said, I don't go around crusading for anti-smoking, and in fact think that the anti-smoking ordinances that we have in our County are ridiculously nanny-state-ish.
...the list goes on and on.
Now maybe you see why we in Indiana are extremely happy that he got picked. We get to get rid of him!
Tobacco isn't considered psychoactive.
It most certainly is by the people who smoke it.
There's never been any proof that second hand smoke is even remotely dangerous.
You might not want to smoke, but you have no right to prevent anyone else from doing it.
It amuses me that the way the US is going, it might soon be legal to smoke marijuana but not tobacco.
Then how do you explain the fact that I have COPD with ZERO cigarette smoking "experience"?
I'll tell you how: Six decades of constantly LIVING WITH cigarette smokers.
Second-hand smoke really is no joke. I'm not an anti-smoking crusader (quite the opposite, actually); but I have to pay at least some attention to my personal experience...
Of course not: it will take a large, unwieldy bureaucracy to ship them all to the FEMA camps. Duh.
Well, we've already got a fine one in the Beech Grove suburb of Indianapolis...
Now you are catching on! I don't deal in pedantry, or wishful thinking.
Pederasty has nothing to do with it.
:
Microsoft lied (again), pure and simple. Some people (stupidly/greedily, IMHO) took them at their word.
So, since "Unlimited" doesn't equal "Unlimited" in your personal "User's Guide To The Real Meanings Of Common Words", what, pray tell, would you put the "limit" of "Unlimited" at? Because the accepted, common-use definition (which is what a Court would use) is (according to Merriam-Webster)
1: lacking any controls : unrestricted
2: boundless, infinite
3: not bounded by exceptions : undefined
Definitions 1 and 2 and 3 seem to apply here. That's not being "pedantic"; it is applying accepted, mainstream common-language meanings to common, mainstream common-language words. Sorry if that doesn't fit with your meaning of how language works; but it's the one that most people would use.
And besides, how is a person to really know when they exceed "your" limit of "Unlimited"?
Reaction from conservatives and Republicans on this will be little to zero excitement.
Pence shriveled up in the face of the challenges in his state when the religious freedom act came under assault, and he really bears no marks of being a person who could be sold as a moderating influence to Trump.
However, I suspect that Trump has left himself with few friends and fewer qualified choices, so this is what the Trumpsters get. Mike the Generic Guy.
Oh, he didn't "shrivel up". He outright LIED.
I can't find anything really negative about him,
How's this for a start?
Yes! Thanks to Slashdot's egregious editorial incompetence, we can now accuse Mike Pence of basing his entire life off of the evil evil lie that he's from India.
He's an H1-B! Outsourcing our politicians! Who does Trump think he is, Hillary Clinton?
I wish he was an H1-b. That way, we could simply revoke his visa.
As a native of Indiana, and as a longstanding resident, I couldn't be more pleased with Trumps decision.
Anything that gets him out of this State is good news, indeed!
I see it as a win-win. Microsoft somehow makes a significant increase in profit from this move, and customers learn what it means to "trust" either Microsoft or Google (or Amazon or IBM, ad nauseum...)
True.
At least Apple is very up-front about what the limits are in iCloud storage (IIRC 5 GB free, pay for more).
I'll try to get society to start calling it that, right after I'm done fixing parkway/driveway.
Or "could care less". Or "flammable/inflammable" (to borrow from the late, great George Carlin).
Unlimited cloud storage now means you can store stuff until they decide that they are done letting you store any more of your stuff.
So, you think that "Unlimited" means "Unlimited until we say you've reached our limit of Unlimited", right?
So, "Unlimited" for certain values of "Unlimited"?
I certainly agree that storing 75 TB of data in their "Unlimited" storage is supremely asshat-ish; but that doesn't mean that they violated (or even "abused") the limits of "Unlimited".
Microsoft said one thing, and have been lying to so many people for so long, that they apparently never bothered to figure out that some people would actually take them at their "word".
Pretty stupid for a corporation with enough lawyers on staff to form a small Army, and which feels fit to require EULAs for the most trivial of software packages that have more words in them than the AT&T Divestiture Decree.
Well, clearly they should call that a laptop.
Haha. That's very logical.
No, its that you are using a definition of unlimited that is not constrained by physics. Your definition is unlimited means infinite.
"Unlimited" as a marketing term has nothing to do with physical, rational, nor societal constraints.
It merely means that the purveyor will not impose artificial, arbitrary limits upon what each user can "use".
Of course there will still be limits (total drive space MS has dedicated to the task, network speed, etc.); but those are outside of a marketing "promise" of "Unlimited".
When Olive Garden says "Unlimited Breadsticks", it is understood that they will not "artificially" decide when enough is enough. And that's exactly what MS did.
Then they clearly reneged.
There isn't a screen in my house that is capable of handling 5.1 audio. Stereo from the tv speakers are good enough for everyone in my family. Not everyone cares about big bassey explosions.
What does Shirley Bassey have to do with this? And why would she explode?
fuck that shit. Just drag their families out into the middle of the street and line them up on the median line, then walk along behind them and shoot each one in the head while making the cunt watch.
Shooting in the head is far too humane.
owever, putting them in prison is a waste. Taxpayers get stuck paying for those prisons and it's a drain on society.
You're right.
Medical experimentation would be a much better use for them.
Paging Dr. Mengele...
I think this is primarily a vehicle for getting Developers interested in Swift.
We shall see if I'm right...