Except that when you joined the Apple Developer Program in the first place you agreed to the blatant censorship and approval process in full. Do you honestly think a behemoth company like Apple could really be tricked that easily?? Even people with real legitimate reasons to sue have no chance!
There are numerous countries offering the iPhone on multiple carriers, so your woefully ignorant claim of 'one company per country'' is what is 'total crap'.
And the problem isn't companies not giving Apple enough freedom. It's Apple wanting more control than other companies are willing to give - namely Verizon. Furthermore, it is the companies who are declining to work with Apple, not the other way around.
One does have to sit down and think about whether you can actually call this stealing or not. Yes, obviously you are using merchandise that would have costed considerably more in a retail setting, but you have to think about the mechanics behind this.
For every track and album bought on iTunes, Apple pays 70% to the artist or label who submitted the tracks (generally.70 per track and 7.00 per album) Apple is going to continue to pay the artists for purchases whether they were made with a gift card or not. This means that all of the fraudulent gift cards are essentially just making Apple give the artists free money. When you consider this fact, this is a much more interesting means of pirating music than usual p2p and bit torrent clients, which obviously give the artists nothing at all. And considering the billions Apple has in the bank, the costs to them are honestly pretty negligible.
It's not that I'm condoning this practice, but if you are stealing music anyways (which, lets face it, most of us are to an extent) at least this way you would really be stealing from Apple, who has a lot more money than the artist, while still actually helping the artist by creating revenue for them.
No, there is no currency exchange going on, the 'gift card' tells iTunes to exempt you from paying for the tracks as you have already presumably payed apple for the gift card. Apple is still paying the artist 70% of the cost of the music being downloaded, and they are paying in real currency.
It is generally pretty easy to find any moderately popular music as 320kbps mp3s or in FLAC format. The high quality versions do tend to have less seeders however, presumably because of larger file size.
Same here. I love Apple, and understand why it's important that Jobs returns to his post (more like a helm really..). But the title of this article made it sound like some of the many laid off would be reconciled, when clearly that is NOT what is going to happen.
you really have done absolutely no research on this. Apple uses standard DDR2 memory just like everyone else, they also use standard SATA hard drives and IDE optical drives. The airport extreme card even uses mini-PCIe. Anyone with a screwdriver can replace the hardware in their apple machine, in fact the manual specifically explains procedure for replacing memory, and the new 15" macbooks actually moved the hard drive into the battery bay to make it EASIER to replace!
The now-defunct ADC is a good example, used for older apple displays. Then they went to using mini-vga and mini-dvi ports which i think may not necessarily have been proprietary, but definitely were not very common. Last year they introduced the display port which is another new proprietary display connection requiring slightly more expensive adapter than the previous generation, and even with some HDCP restrictions.
Other than display ports, however, Apple uses mostly standard connections - 1/8" headphone/mic/optical jacks, usb, firewire (kinda), RJ45 ethernet, internal SATA and mini-PCIe, even the battery uses a standard internal connector. I'm not positive but i believe the internal optical drives are still IDE. The iSight camera is actually USB as well.
Also, the nonstandard power connector only applies to laptops as well. The desktops use a standard IEC power cable.
Except you are ignoring labor costs, which are ALWAYS overly high no matter who the company is. Apple is mass producing all of the MBPs with glossy displays already in them. For you to special order a matte display a technician has to actually open the computer and swap out the panels. The actual cost of the materials is negligible.
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I know that it's one that AT&T uses in the US, but T-Mobile doesn't, because unlocked iPhone 3Gs can't use the 3G network on T-Mobile
You must be new here.
Except that when you joined the Apple Developer Program in the first place you agreed to the blatant censorship and approval process in full. Do you honestly think a behemoth company like Apple could really be tricked that easily?? Even people with real legitimate reasons to sue have no chance!
whilst crushing 2 or 3 compact cars completely oblivious to their presence
hahaha I honestly laughed pretty hard at that one.
*gasp* SOCIALIST!!!
faith officially lost. What took you so long anyways?
Of course, he also said our computer labs were obsolete, which was bullshit, so who knows what to believe.
Well, remember that for Apple, anything more than 6 months old is considered 'obsolete'.
There are numerous countries offering the iPhone on multiple carriers, so your woefully ignorant claim of 'one company per country'' is what is 'total crap'.
And the problem isn't companies not giving Apple enough freedom. It's Apple wanting more control than other companies are willing to give - namely Verizon. Furthermore, it is the companies who are declining to work with Apple, not the other way around.
up your ass
The applications are distributed via the ad hoc method. There's nothing special about this at all, it's been around since day one..
I'll post a link, there's nothing illegal about it:
http://blog.iphone-dev.org/
Would this really be surprising, I mean even www.microsoft.com already doesn't even work properly on IE8...
One does have to sit down and think about whether you can actually call this stealing or not. Yes, obviously you are using merchandise that would have costed considerably more in a retail setting, but you have to think about the mechanics behind this.
.70 per track and 7.00 per album) Apple is going to continue to pay the artists for purchases whether they were made with a gift card or not. This means that all of the fraudulent gift cards are essentially just making Apple give the artists free money. When you consider this fact, this is a much more interesting means of pirating music than usual p2p and bit torrent clients, which obviously give the artists nothing at all. And considering the billions Apple has in the bank, the costs to them are honestly pretty negligible.
For every track and album bought on iTunes, Apple pays 70% to the artist or label who submitted the tracks (generally
It's not that I'm condoning this practice, but if you are stealing music anyways (which, lets face it, most of us are to an extent) at least this way you would really be stealing from Apple, who has a lot more money than the artist, while still actually helping the artist by creating revenue for them.
Just something to consider.
what DRM level? iTunes completely eliminated DRM from their music store a while ago...
No, there is no currency exchange going on, the 'gift card' tells iTunes to exempt you from paying for the tracks as you have already presumably payed apple for the gift card. Apple is still paying the artist 70% of the cost of the music being downloaded, and they are paying in real currency.
It is generally pretty easy to find any moderately popular music as 320kbps mp3s or in FLAC format. The high quality versions do tend to have less seeders however, presumably because of larger file size.
Same here. I love Apple, and understand why it's important that Jobs returns to his post (more like a helm really..). But the title of this article made it sound like some of the many laid off would be reconciled, when clearly that is NOT what is going to happen.
sounds like someone has seen Eagle Eye and Dark Knight a few too many times.
you really have done absolutely no research on this. Apple uses standard DDR2 memory just like everyone else, they also use standard SATA hard drives and IDE optical drives. The airport extreme card even uses mini-PCIe. Anyone with a screwdriver can replace the hardware in their apple machine, in fact the manual specifically explains procedure for replacing memory, and the new 15" macbooks actually moved the hard drive into the battery bay to make it EASIER to replace!
The now-defunct ADC is a good example, used for older apple displays. Then they went to using mini-vga and mini-dvi ports which i think may not necessarily have been proprietary, but definitely were not very common. Last year they introduced the display port which is another new proprietary display connection requiring slightly more expensive adapter than the previous generation, and even with some HDCP restrictions.
Other than display ports, however, Apple uses mostly standard connections - 1/8" headphone/mic/optical jacks, usb, firewire (kinda), RJ45 ethernet, internal SATA and mini-PCIe, even the battery uses a standard internal connector. I'm not positive but i believe the internal optical drives are still IDE. The iSight camera is actually USB as well.
Also, the nonstandard power connector only applies to laptops as well. The desktops use a standard IEC power cable.
It's not something that you just dump something on! It's a series of tubes!
/. readers... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cZC67wXUTs)
(for the less cultured of the
And of course we have a lot more bitchy sue-happy citizens
Citation: http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/
Except you are ignoring labor costs, which are ALWAYS overly high no matter who the company is. Apple is mass producing all of the MBPs with glossy displays already in them. For you to special order a matte display a technician has to actually open the computer and swap out the panels. The actual cost of the materials is negligible.