It's this kind of stuff that makes me worried about the future of Apple without Jobs at the wheel. I can't back this up, but the PR always seems ham-fisted when handled by others.
Apple Moves to Tighten Control of App Store
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#52If Apple blocks Kindle, I'm not buying an iPad. Kindle is practically the reason I was going to buy it. iBooks doesn't work for me, because iTunes does not accept credit cards from my country.
> Kindle is practically the reason I was going to buy it.
Then why not just buy a Kindle?
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#53Although this is lame on Apple's part, can we also agree that it's lame on Amazon's part to disallow affiliate links for use on mobile devices or websites aimed at mobile?
I have struggled to understand why they would want to keep people (like me) from making apps to drive purchases to Amazon on mobile, and I don't have any good answer at all.
Having said that, I can't quite decode this move by Apple yet...
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#54My app was rejected once for violating the HIG. I really missed out on a PR opportunity to write up a big story about how Apple won't accept apps from gay people! Just because Apple rejects one app does not mean it is a new policy decision. I think these articles, which are, at their core, based on speculation, are frankly dishonest. Apple does not give reasons for rejections to anyone other than the submitter of the…
There are still many people who believe there is a defect in the iPhone 4's antenna, for instance. You should have quit while you were ahead. The antenna fails, but the problem is fixed with a case. Furthermore , here's something else that I never saw anyone mention: The receiver has a terrible echo in some locations. Possibly because there is a rock cliff behind my house (I live on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, s…
The reason there is no problem with the iphone 4 antenna is not that it is impossible to obscure the signal or cause signal loss, but because the new design pulls in signals better-- over all-- than the previous design. The issues you can cause it to have exist on other phones as well.
It is a better design than previous versions, yet people seem to think there is a defect that makes it worse.
I don't doubt there may be better phones out there, and as you note the results will vary by location, and I'd add, carrier.
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#55So Apple wants to block companies from allowing people to see content that wasn't paid for through their system. What's next, blocking paid websites? Surely Amazon would just set up a website where users could access their Kindle books, bypassing the whole App Store problem. This is silly on Apple's part as it decreases the potential audience for their devices, and the ease of use.
"So Apple wants to block companies from allowing people to see content that wasn't paid for through their system. "
No. Sony is butthurt because they broke a long-standing app store rule about in-app purchases, and is working the refs by going to the press.
Every few months a story like this comes up, and there's a huge orgy of pearl-clutching, and then it turns out to have been nothing after all.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are still many people who believe there is a defect in the iPhone 4's antenna, for instance. You should have quit while you were ahead. The antenna fails, but the problem is fixed with a case. Furthermore , here's something else that I never saw anyone mention: The receiver has a terrible echo in some locations. Possibly because there is a rock cliff behind my house (I live on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, s…
The reason there is no problem with the iphone 4 antenna is not that it is impossible to obscure the signal or cause signal loss, but because the new design pulls in signals better-- over all-- than the previous design. The issues you can cause it to have exist on other phones as well. It is a better design than previous versions, yet people seem to think there is a defect that makes it worse. I don't doubt there may…
The antenna apparently has more gain, but the design flaw was that its conducting parts were on the outside of the case. That's just asking for trouble in a hand-held device.
But they are apparently on top of it. As soon as the flurry of complaints came in, they posted a job opening for an antenna engineer!
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
>The whole point of an ebook is to read them on multiple devices. From a publisher's perspective, the point of an ebook is to cut down on manufacturing, storage, shipping, and other costs associated with a physical book. Since publishers own this game, I think we'll start seeing things get played increasingly by their rules as executives catch glimpse of potential savings in an ebook-dominant distribution chain. And…
>>>Since publishers own this game No, they don't. There is not and never will be an OPEC of books. Publishers did not create the ePub standard. It was all the work of techies and book lovers who pushed for a standard file format. The Big 6 publishers are too busy fighting the future with their price-fixing Agency Model.
Publishers own the game because they own the content that most users are going to want. Of course, one can establish a good indie community, but you're not going to get mainstream acceptance until you have availability of mainstream publications, and as we know all too well from movies, music, and other media, big content owners are usually not very intelligent about digital formats.
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#58I think this probably has something to do with the new subscription model they're rolling out with Newscorp and the Daily. I'm not so sure it's as cut and dry as this article makes out, and I'd wait to hear from Apple about that "access to purchases they have made outside the App Store" bit. It sounds a bit weird to me. I can think of a hundred ways that's not enforceable or even legal. As I understand it, the only d…
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
>>>Since publishers own this game No, they don't. There is not and never will be an OPEC of books. Publishers did not create the ePub standard. It was all the work of techies and book lovers who pushed for a standard file format. The Big 6 publishers are too busy fighting the future with their price-fixing Agency Model.
Publishers own the game because they own the content that most users are going to want. Of course, one can establish a good indie community, but you're not going to get mainstream acceptance until you have availability of mainstream publications, and as we know all too well from movies, music, and other media, big content owners are usually not very intelligent about digital formats.
Mainstream? The Big 6 have been dredging the self-pub field as a minor league for their majors. This is how desperate they've gotten -- well, that and lazy too. Their business model is unsustainable and will inevitably collapse.