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Anti-iPhone iPhone game makes it past Apple's review process

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Re: Anti-iPhone iPhone game makes it past Apple's review process

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Post by robin_reala »

muraiki wrote: post #37
philwelch wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Setting aside the possibility that some workplace suicides are just suicides and not an artifact of capitalist oppression, sure. By that standard, there should be postage stamps emblazoned with the image of a disgruntled postal worker shooting his coworkers to death, just so we as consumers know what's at stake when we send a letter.

Yes, but this game isn't just about random workplace suicides. It's about workplace suicides in the context of manufacturing phones. It's about the specific plant that manufactures these phones. That context is important to understanding the game, and taken outside of that context, yes it would be absurd.

Didn’t someone run the numbers and find that the number of suicides / head at Foxconn was significantly lower than the number of suicides / head for the general population in that region?

Re: Anti-iPhone iPhone game makes it past Apple's review process

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Post by jarek »

zdw wrote: post #15

One big point - Apple supports it's products longer than the rest of the industry, thus they don't end up in landfills as quickly. For example: - The original iPhone was released in June of 2007, and had the newest iOS (3.x) available until the release of iOS 4 in June 2010. - The iPhone 3GS was released in June of 2009, and is still getting OS updates, even to iOS 5 released later this year. How many Android phones…

Err what? This month is three years since I got my Blackberry 8100, first released in 2006. No, it doesn't get the newest OS (though when I last looked in early 2010 it did get updates to OS 4.5), but it does work quite well and isn't heading for the landfill just yet. The problem of things going to the landfill is with the user, not the device or the manufacturer.

Re: Anti-iPhone iPhone game makes it past Apple's review process

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Post by w1ntermute »

sambeau wrote: post #18

I'm not surprised that this got through as it is more likely to offend Apple than a user. Apple's control of the App Store is not without good reason. It seeks to protect users (and their children) from malware, pornography and offence (and protect Apple from bad publicity and legal action by selling such things to its users). While an overzealous employee might take it onto themselves to try to protect Apple from cr…

> It seeks to protect users (and their children) from malware, pornography and offence (and protect Apple from bad publicity and legal action by selling such things to its users).

Do people really still buy this line? If they're trying to protect users and their children from "malware, pornography and offence," shouldn't they be blocking those things in the iPhone web browser as well? And what about on the Mac? All those things should be blocked on there as well.

Re: Anti-iPhone iPhone game makes it past Apple's review process

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Post by technoslut »

windsurfer wrote: post #35
technoslut wrote: post #28

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Does it really matter? The upgrade would be pointless. Any first generation iPhone or Android device couldn't run the newest version of the OS well.

I'm using a G1 and the latest Android, and it has fine performance... It supports the latest apps and still does everything it did on release day.

When I see videos like these with a lot of lag I don't consider it to be running the OS well. It's bearable at best, which is always a matter of opinion.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ0abA1fksE www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovUMS3f-QLw

Re: Anti-iPhone iPhone game makes it past Apple's review process

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Post by heysomeguythere »

mikecaron wrote: post #11

I wrote a letter to Tim Cook about this ( http://mrcaron.tumblr.com/post/10163623845/open-letter-to-ti... ), hoping to spread the love.

http://www.apple.com/recycling/

Looks like Apple already implemented everything you asked for.

Re: Anti-iPhone iPhone game makes it past Apple's review process

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Post by 0x12 »

sjs wrote: post #40
0x12 wrote: post #36

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It's pretty sad if 3 years is the longest stretch that apple is willing to support their hardware with updates. Of course the turnover in the mobile phone world is a lot higher than with 'general purpose computers' but imagine if the whole electronics industry had a three year time to replacement. Pretty sad. Especially since the biggest component of a smartphone is the software. The argument that newer phones have f…

It's not sad, that's simply the reality of how fast mobile technology is currently changing. We're doing more and more with our "phones" each day and thus are demanding more power from them. Even if you only play games and such the old phones don't have gyroscopes, compasses, and all the other goodies that newer phones have. Anecdotally I have a Nexus One and it feels just as dated as an iPhone 3GS (which I previousl…

Not being able to run certain apps is not the same as your mobile phone manufacturer no longer supporting the hardware you bought with updates.

Re: Anti-iPhone iPhone game makes it past Apple's review process

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Post by blinkingled »

zdw wrote: post #15

One big point - Apple supports it's products longer than the rest of the industry, thus they don't end up in landfills as quickly. For example: - The original iPhone was released in June of 2007, and had the newest iOS (3.x) available until the release of iOS 4 in June 2010. - The iPhone 3GS was released in June of 2009, and is still getting OS updates, even to iOS 5 released later this year. How many Android phones…

The impetus to upgrade and chuck the old phone is much higher in their case

77% of surveyed iPhone 4 users were upgraders! Source : http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/handicapping-apples-iphone-4-d...

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