The conspiracy theorist in me says 700mb ain't squat, and conspiracy isn't about storage anyway, it's about bandwidth. I KNOW HOW TO ENABLE IT. It just ain't there for me yet...
[whine-again]I know they have...for some people. The conspiracy theorist in me says G is first rolling it out to non-intensive GMail users (like my buddy who uses.MAC and has been laughing at me daily), not people like moi[endowhine-again]
I will never understand that point of view. If that being is secured a place in a good family (as pet or child), then what is the ethical problem? Why is it more moral for a child to be created by rape? A crack whores illicit child? A drunken chance encounter? a one night stand?
Not sure if this entry is a troll, but I'll bite anyway (I'm not even going to address your if statement):
There are two problems with your argument--law and society:
Is the hybrid a human being? Will it have the rights of a human being?
How will society perceive and treat this hybrid independent of law?
You can continue to poke holes in my questions by talking about the unfairness of the law, the way humans treat other humans already (racism, sexism, other prejudices, etc.), but the problems will reach a different order of magnitude with hybrids. Producing hybrids without some proper framework in place is irresponsible.
It's not a question of Apple taking action, it's a question of what action it takes. Moral and legal issues aside, I'm wondering if they could have minimized the PR hit they are going to take or even spun it as a positive:
I'm wondering if the upgrade could have included re-flashing the firmware. Then, Apple could say, "Though unlocking voids the warranty, we want to provide you with the best and seamless iPhone experience--that includes incorporating the new features included with the upgrade. To take advantage of these new features, however, we cannot guarantee that an unlocking procedure or unlicensed third party applications will be preserved."
And, I think, you need to be running IE to automatically launch the downloader via One-Click? I couldn't get it to work with FF, but maybe I'm doing something wrong.
So, 99.999% times whatever the IE market share is these days...
Okay, I'll bite. I don't consider myself a fanboi (the iPhone is the first Apple product I've bought since the 128K Mac):
defective by design hardware featuring crippleware to degrade functionality in the event of uses which differ from the uses the parent company approves...
I am comfortable with what Apple needs to do to maintain its relationship with AT&T wrt the iPhone. Without AT&T (and I'm not saying I like AT&T), there'd be no iPhone.
intentional attempt to force customers to buy uncompetitive/unattractive services in addition to the thing they want...
"Force" implies monopoly. Dude, you are not "forced" to do anything here--buy a Blackberry.
vague and misleading corporate spin which dodges the real issue...
Really? What part do you think is misleading? Apple has an agreement with AT&T. They are doing what they can (and, btw, are legally entitled to do) to maintain that relationship while the agreement is in place.
I cannot believe that people who hacked their phones (or support the hack philosophy) to work outside the intent of Apple are up in arms that they've taken matters into their own hands.
But that's the whole point, isn't it? It's the general population that the government is concerned about, not anyone who knows anything. Just like how our government is tickled pink that more people vote on American Idol than in our Presidential election...
Anyway, the firewall is like DRM. It 'protects' the general public from seeing things they shouldn't, but it isn't really effective against anyone who knows anything.
Actually, there are three. You can set up your own GMail POP client instead of using the built-in GMail one--I chose Door #3 so that I could use my permanent email address, not my gmail.com one.
Yes, there are shortcomings using either the Safari or POP version of GMail, but (and maybe I'm fanboi rationalizing), POP works for me for my mobile email needs...
One more thing. I think the iPod Touch is very cool, but I'm not complaining about shelling out more for the iPhone--email (yeah, yeah, they could put the email client on the Touch), camera, sms, and...phone make it worth the extra bucks...
There is always a differance, you won't get the same hardware, it will be slower. You won't get the same software, it will be badly integrated with the rest of the phone...
I think the main point of the article is that quality might by lacking right now, but in the very-near future, it will exceed what is available on the global market. For example, TFA says that Samsung actually tried to contract with a clone company after discovering them...
I'm gonna rant for a while, so move along if you don't want to hear this--you've been warned...
You know how Steve mentioned three things when he introduced the iPhone? Well, two out of three ain't bad--mine wasn't a phone for about 24 hours (and didn't bother to tell me):
I was trying to make a call and/or send a text message to my wife at about 8pm to tell her that my son and I would be a bit late coming home. No dice.
I figure it's just my iPhone lying to me about signal strength, so tried a bit later from a different location--no dice.
I realize that my wife said she tried to call me in the afternoon and that my iPhone didn't even say missed call, new voicemail, or anything.
Then, I realize that I haven't gotten a call/message/made a call for about 24 hours.
So I reboot.
Voila. Several voicemails, missed calls, text messages appear magically. And I can make calls too!
Either this update better address phone-freeze or I'm gonna have to reboot every 24 hours (or chuck it)...
Apple made a big strategic blunder in choosing Cingular/AT&T as an exclusive partner. If they had made a multi-band phone and sold it SIM-less, they could well have cracked the carrier market wide open.
Hmmmm, I don't think it's so black-and-white. Without partnering with a carrier (who itself was willing to make system and software changes to accommodate iPhone-specific functionality), will the iPhone be more or less successful? Since Apple went down the AT&T path, we'll never know, but we will be able to point back to this strategic decision is the iPhone flops.
I think that the time frame of AT&T's exclusivity is just about right--it will be over before you know it. After that, iPhone will be SIM-less, other carriers will modify their systems/software to accommodate iPhone functionality, and you will indeed see the things that you are talking about.
I'd love to see Steve bag the month-to-month and pull the plug on Universal. It would be a serious high-stakes poker move. Then again, I guess that's why I ain't CEO of Apple/Pixar/NeXT/whatever...
Edgar Bronfman Jr., the chairman of Warner Music Group, reinforced that idea at a recent investor conference, saying "we believe that not every song, not every artist, not every album, is created equal."
And yet you sell all your CD's at $16.99 regardless of that fact now, don't you?
I see no inconsistency: their CDs have JUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUST the right mix of crap and non-crap to make the calc come out to...$16.99:-)
It's more than that. I'd venture to say that Safari will be Apple's media portal. When the bugs are hammered out (READ: beta), Safari will integrate all the Apple-related applications whether it be iTunes or QuickTime. The close relationship with Google (as in board member) will ensure that it is the platform of choice for Google Apps.
This is the vision that Marc Andreessen had for Netscape, but now, Apple has a foothold with it's 1/2 a billion iTunes users. If I'm using my Safari Media Center, why would I go out of this environment to surf the web?
Maybe I'm being a luddite, but I want my kids to have access to a physical newspaper at the breakfast table w/o having them having to go online. So, even though I can get the NYT for free online, I'll pay for it to have the tree-killing version too. The non-luddite in me also reaps the benefits of access to NYT historical content which is available to me since I take the tree-killing version...
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I can't take your post seriously: When I first read it, I thought 'slimline' said 'slime lime' and I couldn't get that image out of my head. Sorry!
The conspiracy theorist in me says 700mb ain't squat, and conspiracy isn't about storage anyway, it's about bandwidth. I KNOW HOW TO ENABLE IT. It just ain't there for me yet...
[whine-again]I know they have...for some people. The conspiracy theorist in me says G is first rolling it out to non-intensive GMail users (like my buddy who uses .MAC and has been laughing at me daily), not people like moi[endowhine-again]
...how 'bout first enabling that promised IMAP interface so I can ditch the unreliable POP on my iPhone?[end-o-whine]
What do you look like? On second thought, who cares?
Not sure if this entry is a troll, but I'll bite anyway (I'm not even going to address your if statement):
There are two problems with your argument--law and society:
You can continue to poke holes in my questions by talking about the unfairness of the law, the way humans treat other humans already (racism, sexism, other prejudices, etc.), but the problems will reach a different order of magnitude with hybrids. Producing hybrids without some proper framework in place is irresponsible.
It's not a question of Apple taking action, it's a question of what action it takes. Moral and legal issues aside, I'm wondering if they could have minimized the PR hit they are going to take or even spun it as a positive:
I'm wondering if the upgrade could have included re-flashing the firmware. Then, Apple could say, "Though unlocking voids the warranty, we want to provide you with the best and seamless iPhone experience--that includes incorporating the new features included with the upgrade. To take advantage of these new features, however, we cannot guarantee that an unlocking procedure or unlicensed third party applications will be preserved."
And, I think, you need to be running IE to automatically launch the downloader via One-Click? I couldn't get it to work with FF, but maybe I'm doing something wrong.
So, 99.999% times whatever the IE market share is these days...
Okay, I'll bite. I don't consider myself a fanboi (the iPhone is the first Apple product I've bought since the 128K Mac):
defective by design hardware featuring crippleware to degrade functionality in the event of uses which differ from the uses the parent company approves...
I am comfortable with what Apple needs to do to maintain its relationship with AT&T wrt the iPhone. Without AT&T (and I'm not saying I like AT&T), there'd be no iPhone.
intentional attempt to force customers to buy uncompetitive/unattractive services in addition to the thing they want...
"Force" implies monopoly. Dude, you are not "forced" to do anything here--buy a Blackberry.
vague and misleading corporate spin which dodges the real issue...
Really? What part do you think is misleading? Apple has an agreement with AT&T. They are doing what they can (and, btw, are legally entitled to do) to maintain that relationship while the agreement is in place.
I cannot believe that people who hacked their phones (or support the hack philosophy) to work outside the intent of Apple are up in arms that they've taken matters into their own hands.
Actually, there are three. You can set up your own GMail POP client instead of using the built-in GMail one--I chose Door #3 so that I could use my permanent email address, not my gmail.com one.
Yes, there are shortcomings using either the Safari or POP version of GMail, but (and maybe I'm fanboi rationalizing), POP works for me for my mobile email needs...
One more thing. I think the iPod Touch is very cool, but I'm not complaining about shelling out more for the iPhone--email (yeah, yeah, they could put the email client on the Touch), camera, sms, and...phone make it worth the extra bucks...
Why does a dog lick its balls?
Wait, you mean Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11? Then why did you guys invade Iraq?
Well, you just reaffirmed El Jobso's strategy: He ain't selling to you, he's selling to your wife.
My wife uses an iPhone, but until I can legally program the damned thing, I'm not getting one.
They will eventually just clone Steve Jobs...
Okay, I'll let the cat out of the bag--the whole story about outing FSJ is a scam--FSJ is really Chinese...
There is always a differance, you won't get the same hardware, it will be slower. You won't get the same software, it will be badly integrated with the rest of the phone...
I think the main point of the article is that quality might by lacking right now, but in the very-near future, it will exceed what is available on the global market. For example, TFA says that Samsung actually tried to contract with a clone company after discovering them...
Think Lindsay Lohan and rehab...
You know how Steve mentioned three things when he introduced the iPhone? Well, two out of three ain't bad--mine wasn't a phone for about 24 hours (and didn't bother to tell me):
Either this update better address phone-freeze or I'm gonna have to reboot every 24 hours (or chuck it)...
Apple made a big strategic blunder in choosing Cingular/AT&T as an exclusive partner. If they had made a multi-band phone and sold it SIM-less, they could well have cracked the carrier market wide open.
Hmmmm, I don't think it's so black-and-white. Without partnering with a carrier (who itself was willing to make system and software changes to accommodate iPhone-specific functionality), will the iPhone be more or less successful? Since Apple went down the AT&T path, we'll never know, but we will be able to point back to this strategic decision is the iPhone flops.
I think that the time frame of AT&T's exclusivity is just about right--it will be over before you know it. After that, iPhone will be SIM-less, other carriers will modify their systems/software to accommodate iPhone functionality, and you will indeed see the things that you are talking about.
Same reason that a dog licks its you-know-what...
I first read this as "given to soldiers so they'll eat MRE's..."
I'd love to see Steve bag the month-to-month and pull the plug on Universal. It would be a serious high-stakes poker move. Then again, I guess that's why I ain't CEO of Apple/Pixar/NeXT/whatever...
I see no inconsistency: their CDs have JUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUST the right mix of crap and non-crap to make the calc come out to...$16.99
You, sir, are condemned to Hell. We don't discuss things like that. For more information, we invite you to our museum...
This is the "SDK" for iPhone.
It's more than that. I'd venture to say that Safari will be Apple's media portal. When the bugs are hammered out (READ: beta), Safari will integrate all the Apple-related applications whether it be iTunes or QuickTime. The close relationship with Google (as in board member) will ensure that it is the platform of choice for Google Apps.
This is the vision that Marc Andreessen had for Netscape, but now, Apple has a foothold with it's 1/2 a billion iTunes users. If I'm using my Safari Media Center, why would I go out of this environment to surf the web?
Maybe I'm being a luddite, but I want my kids to have access to a physical newspaper at the breakfast table w/o having them having to go online. So, even though I can get the NYT for free online, I'll pay for it to have the tree-killing version too. The non-luddite in me also reaps the benefits of access to NYT historical content which is available to me since I take the tree-killing version...