This isn't surprising. In a way advertisers and malware authors have a lot in common. They both want to have their ware's in places with the highest visibility, and they both want you to get something you may not want or need... As much as we all love to joke about how much porn there is on the internet I think we all realize there's more to it than just that.
You know 5 years ago I would have agreed with you... The problem is that the price we're paying for games is essentially the same that we were paying 10 years ago. The same price when you could develop a blockbuster title with 20 people. Nowadays triple-A titles require staffs at least 4-5 times larger than that. Production costs are exploding while the products finished price remains fairly fixed
Now I know, yes, more people are playing games today than there were 10 years ago, but it's not enough to offset increased production costs especially on the PC market. So either your choices these days are try to sell enough copies to make a profit (which is hard to do on the PC platform especially with a new IP and unproven game genre), or try to sell enough and subtly incorporate in game advertisement to shore up the shortfall.
You gotta remember, developers are people too. In most cases, they like putting adds in their creations as much as you like paying to see them.
Yet another example showing that the Islamic world is still in the Dark Ages that some of the rest of the world emerged from sometime in the 13th century.
Apple's terms do not exclude 3rd party ad networks, including AdMob:... This specifically covers advertising analytics, and prevents disclosure of advertising analytics to 3rd parties by independent ad providers; and if you're an ad provider owned by a mobile phone manufacturer or mobile OS provider, you are not considered independent.
Google's perfectly free to provide ads on iOS. They just can't collect extensive information about how the users interact with the advertisements.
Without being able to track analytics, AdMob wouldn't be able to give away advertisement let alone charge for it. It's essentially a ban on Admob in everything but name.
And then there's the competitive aspect. Why should Apple allow Google to use their platform to collect information that will allow them to improve the integration of advertising into a competing platform, Android?
When Apple couldn't get admob they picked up another mobile advertising firm. There's nothing to stop from them advertising on Android. Google already has a a successful mobile platform. They already get data on how users interact with advertisements on a smart phone platform. The only research benefit they would get from Apple Iphone analytics would be a larger data set. There's nothing stopping apple from obtaining the same data from Android that Apple is prohibiting Google to obtain from apple. In my honest opinion the data that Apple could obtain from analyzing Android adds would be MORE valuable since it would provide data from users across different networks using different ui's.
I do believe that this move by Apple is in fact anti-competitive and will provide Apple with an unfair advantage if Google doesn't follow Apple's example. Which I would believe is very unlikely.
I've got to wonder, if this does work is BP going to go ahead with their "relief well".
Of course they are... You honestly expect them to pay for the cleenup and pay the politicians to get them out of this out of their pockets? Perhaps you misunderstood their meaning of 'relief'
I'm really looking forward to the comments. When BP lets the oil spill continue day after day, the/. crowd goes asking why we let them handle it at all, after all they're the ones responsible for the mess.
Now Google has a mess, and is doing an internal audit. I'm curious if we will apply the same reasoning, or a different standard. And what justifications we'll see for it.
One is a ongoing disaster of epic proportions that could and probably will devastate the local ecosystem, ruin the livelihood of thousands upon thousands of people, have a final price tag for cleanup that will end up in the billions, and have lasting economic and ecological that we'll feel for decades to come... The other a company was suspected of wrongdoing, admitted it, ceased doing it, and is setting up an audit to determine it's extent At worst the company may have gleaned a few scraps of useful and possibly damaging information from a couple thousand people worldwide that didn't have the sense to properly secure their own data...
A truly excellent comparison if I do say so [/sarcasm]
My understanding is that the accepted "proper" way to do it is to have all the user-relevant data on the phone stored in encrypted form, with a stored key making it transparently accessible. That way, when the "wipe" command comes, you just have to nuke the key, which takes mere moments...
This is how the 3GS does it, and it takes under 2 minutes. Older model iPhones do it by actually nuking the data which can take hours. Once the wipe is initiated on the older models, though, it can't be stopped outside of putting the iPhone into recovery mode. Also, the remote wipe option on iPhone also requires having a MobleMe account enabled on your iPhone beforehand.... Yay for lockin....
Actually, i find it's the other way around. Nobody blinks an eye when Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo brings out a new line of consoles, vendor locked-in to the max, only running apps that require their approval and signature, a process which costs tens of thousands $$. But if Apple does it for their iPhone, bring out the tar and feathers!
Yeah, tell me about it!!! And just like Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo I can't use cross-platform development to.... oh wait...
That's a common misconception. While there isn't much direct money involved in a cure, the drug companies still come out way ahead. If people don't die (and aren't even sick really) from cancer, they are more likely to buy other products, such as Viagra, that the drug companies are pushing.
Or they could just come up with a treatment, make sure it doesn't interfere with Viagra and then charge you double for the rest of your life...
One tweet to rule them all... One tweet to find them... One tweet follow them all... and in the darkness... pitch them your script for your Lord of the rings spin-offs.
Advice from someone who requires horizontal scrolling to read the text they're quoting? I don't think so.
Advice from someone who values substance over presentation. If your going to try and dismiss someones point of view, point out the flaws in his arguments, not the way he presents them. Otherwise, you should expect people to take you far less seriously. How this got modded 'Insightful' is beyond me... Then again this is/.
If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy - James Madison
A better quote would be Franklin imho, and I'm paraphrasing here, "People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both." - Benjamin Franklin
You know I hear this all the time the old "if they were big on the 'do no evil' why did they ever agree to censor in the first place" argument. So by that reasoning they should have stayed out of China for what? So they could take the moral high ground? So they could maybe make the Chinese people wish/demand a service they didn't know they were missing out on? Did you ever consider that Google knew that there is nothing that they could ever do to end censorship in China. That they could censor themselves and provide the Chinese people a method of communication (gmail, buzz, etc...)safe from the prying eyes of the government. Wouldn't they be pissed if it came to pass that the government possibly hacked them after they followed all of THEIR rules. In order to get access to this free and private communication that Google hoped to provide.
Now I'm no Google insider. I'm only playing the 'google's advocate' to turn a phrase. I can only speculate as to their intentions. Given Google's past and philosophy, this is the only scenario that makes sense to me.
Columbia University Business school finds "people in power makes better liars." The report goes on to state, "it's 'bitchin' cold in Antartica" and "people who cut me off in traffic are total 'dick's." Full story at 11.
How about we change things in Windows so it actually prevents infection in the first place?
1. Educate users. Microsoft does a piss-poor job of this...
OK, if you can do the first step to a satisfactory degree with 90% of all windows users without blowing your or some idiots brains out. I'll see to the other 3 steps personally.
Judging from the successful product that Sony's 'Move' will surely be. Sony's next move will be to introduce the 'new' and 'innovative' Sony 'Step.' A new and innovative platform that you can sit and stand on and by balancing on this boar.. I mean platform one can control in-game actions [/sarcasm]
honestly this doesn't sound like a question of the child mistaking the gun for a Wii controller at all. This sounds like the father left the gun out unsafe and unsecured where they're young child who didn't know any better could reach and play with.
It sounds like they are just looking for a reason/excuse to blame someone else for what is CLEARLY and SOLELY THEIR FAULT.
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This isn't surprising. In a way advertisers and malware authors have a lot in common. They both want to have their ware's in places with the highest visibility, and they both want you to get something you may not want or need... As much as we all love to joke about how much porn there is on the internet I think we all realize there's more to it than just that.
Easy... You get the icon to always display 3-5 bars. Then everyone can go back to blaming AT&T's network for dropped calls, as usual...
You know 5 years ago I would have agreed with you... The problem is that the price we're paying for games is essentially the same that we were paying 10 years ago. The same price when you could develop a blockbuster title with 20 people. Nowadays triple-A titles require staffs at least 4-5 times larger than that. Production costs are exploding while the products finished price remains fairly fixed
Now I know, yes, more people are playing games today than there were 10 years ago, but it's not enough to offset increased production costs especially on the PC market. So either your choices these days are try to sell enough copies to make a profit (which is hard to do on the PC platform especially with a new IP and unproven game genre), or try to sell enough and subtly incorporate in game advertisement to shore up the shortfall.
You gotta remember, developers are people too. In most cases, they like putting adds in their creations as much as you like paying to see them.
Yet another example showing that the Islamic world is still in the Dark Ages that some of the rest of the world emerged from sometime in the 13th century.
There fixed that for you.
Apple's terms do not exclude 3rd party ad networks, including AdMob: ... This specifically covers advertising analytics, and prevents disclosure of advertising analytics to 3rd parties by independent ad providers; and if you're an ad provider owned by a mobile phone manufacturer or mobile OS provider, you are not considered independent.
Google's perfectly free to provide ads on iOS. They just can't collect extensive information about how the users interact with the advertisements.
Without being able to track analytics, AdMob wouldn't be able to give away advertisement let alone charge for it. It's essentially a ban on Admob in everything but name.
And then there's the competitive aspect. Why should Apple allow Google to use their platform to collect information that will allow them to improve the integration of advertising into a competing platform, Android?
When Apple couldn't get admob they picked up another mobile advertising firm. There's nothing to stop from them advertising on Android. Google already has a a successful mobile platform. They already get data on how users interact with advertisements on a smart phone platform. The only research benefit they would get from Apple Iphone analytics would be a larger data set. There's nothing stopping apple from obtaining the same data from Android that Apple is prohibiting Google to obtain from apple. In my honest opinion the data that Apple could obtain from analyzing Android adds would be MORE valuable since it would provide data from users across different networks using different ui's.
I do believe that this move by Apple is in fact anti-competitive and will provide Apple with an unfair advantage if Google doesn't follow Apple's example. Which I would believe is very unlikely.
I may be a gamer, but my right hand has the stamina of an 18 year old!
uhhh you sure that's solely thanks to videogames?
I've got to wonder, if this does work is BP going to go ahead with their "relief well".
Of course they are... You honestly expect them to pay for the cleenup and pay the politicians to get them out of this out of their pockets? Perhaps you misunderstood their meaning of 'relief'
I'm really looking forward to the comments. When BP lets the oil spill continue day after day, the /. crowd goes asking why we let them handle it at all, after all they're the ones responsible for the mess.
Now Google has a mess, and is doing an internal audit. I'm curious if we will apply the same reasoning, or a different standard. And what justifications we'll see for it.
One is a ongoing disaster of epic proportions that could and probably will devastate the local ecosystem, ruin the livelihood of thousands upon thousands of people, have a final price tag for cleanup that will end up in the billions, and have lasting economic and ecological that we'll feel for decades to come... The other a company was suspected of wrongdoing, admitted it, ceased doing it, and is setting up an audit to determine it's extent At worst the company may have gleaned a few scraps of useful and possibly damaging information from a couple thousand people worldwide that didn't have the sense to properly secure their own data...
A truly excellent comparison if I do say so [/sarcasm]
My understanding is that the accepted "proper" way to do it is to have all the user-relevant data on the phone stored in encrypted form, with a stored key making it transparently accessible. That way, when the "wipe" command comes, you just have to nuke the key, which takes mere moments...
This is how the 3GS does it, and it takes under 2 minutes. Older model iPhones do it by actually nuking the data which can take hours. Once the wipe is initiated on the older models, though, it can't be stopped outside of putting the iPhone into recovery mode. Also, the remote wipe option on iPhone also requires having a MobleMe account enabled on your iPhone beforehand.... Yay for lockin....
Actually, i find it's the other way around. Nobody blinks an eye when Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo brings out a new line of consoles, vendor locked-in to the max, only running apps that require their approval and signature, a process which costs tens of thousands $$. But if Apple does it for their iPhone, bring out the tar and feathers!
Yeah, tell me about it!!! And just like Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo I can't use cross-platform development to.... oh wait...
There is no money in a cure....
That's a common misconception. While there isn't much direct money involved in a cure, the drug companies still come out way ahead. If people don't die (and aren't even sick really) from cancer, they are more likely to buy other products, such as Viagra, that the drug companies are pushing.
Or they could just come up with a treatment, make sure it doesn't interfere with Viagra and then charge you double for the rest of your life...
One tweet to rule them all... One tweet to find them... One tweet follow them all... and in the darkness... pitch them your script for your Lord of the rings spin-offs.
It sounds like Roberto from Futurama! I'm happy to see he finally found another job.
Well they did promise if he was good they'd give him back his stabbing knife...
Advice from someone who requires horizontal scrolling to read the text they're quoting? I don't think so.
Advice from someone who values substance over presentation. If your going to try and dismiss someones point of view, point out the flaws in his arguments, not the way he presents them. Otherwise, you should expect people to take you far less seriously. How this got modded 'Insightful' is beyond me... Then again this is /.
With a name like that they are just begging people to condecingly dissmissing their reserch. Also, obligitory xkcd reference met...
I guess you could say, "hacking Blackboard..." *sunglasses* "is child's play..." YEEeeEeEAAAaAaAAaaaAAhhhhh!!!
Off your spell checker, you must turn, and on your "Yoda Translator Module" must be
That fixed for you I have.
If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy - James Madison
A better quote would be Franklin imho, and I'm paraphrasing here, "People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both." - Benjamin Franklin
You know I hear this all the time the old "if they were big on the 'do no evil' why did they ever agree to censor in the first place" argument. So by that reasoning they should have stayed out of China for what? So they could take the moral high ground? So they could maybe make the Chinese people wish/demand a service they didn't know they were missing out on? Did you ever consider that Google knew that there is nothing that they could ever do to end censorship in China. That they could censor themselves and provide the Chinese people a method of communication (gmail, buzz, etc...)safe from the prying eyes of the government. Wouldn't they be pissed if it came to pass that the government possibly hacked them after they followed all of THEIR rules. In order to get access to this free and private communication that Google hoped to provide. Now I'm no Google insider. I'm only playing the 'google's advocate' to turn a phrase. I can only speculate as to their intentions. Given Google's past and philosophy, this is the only scenario that makes sense to me.
Columbia University Business school finds "people in power makes better liars." The report goes on to state, "it's 'bitchin' cold in Antartica" and "people who cut me off in traffic are total 'dick's." Full story at 11.
But can it produce enough electricity to power a small radio that plays the music used to create the vibrations necessary to produce the electricity?
No.
Sincerely yours,
The Second Law of Thermodynamics
but you don't understand maan... Their radios... they go to 11.
How about we change things in Windows so it actually prevents infection in the first place?
1. Educate users. Microsoft does a piss-poor job of this...
OK, if you can do the first step to a satisfactory degree with 90% of all windows users without blowing your or some idiots brains out. I'll see to the other 3 steps personally.
Judging from the successful product that Sony's 'Move' will surely be. Sony's next move will be to introduce the 'new' and 'innovative' Sony 'Step.' A new and innovative platform that you can sit and stand on and by balancing on this boar.. I mean platform one can control in-game actions [/sarcasm]
honestly this doesn't sound like a question of the child mistaking the gun for a Wii controller at all. This sounds like the father left the gun out unsafe and unsecured where they're young child who didn't know any better could reach and play with. It sounds like they are just looking for a reason/excuse to blame someone else for what is CLEARLY and SOLELY THEIR FAULT.
because someone has to [xkcd.com]