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Re: Apple Approves VLC For iPad

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Post by loewenskind »

CamperBob wrote: post #70
city41 wrote: post #58

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I think you greatly overestimate the percentage of iOS users that even know what jailbreaking is.

I don't know about that. I know a lot of people with jailbroken iPhones, whom we'd all think of as "computer-illiterate" at best. Jailbreaking is very much a mainstream activity these days. Edit: I'll go so far as to speculate that the large proportion of jailbroken iOS devices is what is driving the glasnost at Apple lately. They are faced with keeping some control over their customers's devices, or losing the contr…

>the market has decisively rejected Apple's attempt at total control

If it's so decisive you must be able to cite it pretty easily, eh? I'm plenty "tech savvy" but I've never jailbroken my phone. I like the safety the App Store gives me. I don't have time to vet every damn application and I'm happy that some else does, even if they fail to let few a few things I might have liked.

Re: Apple Approves VLC For iPad

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Post by amirmc »

jbk wrote: post #102
code_duck wrote: post #96

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Don't disclaim that, proclaim it! Clearly it adds credibility. Thanks for the info. I'd consider working on VLC.

:D Still, I have to mention it on those comments, so people know I am biased...

Biased? Maybe, but in a good way. In any case, it definitely brings a degree of relevant authority to the topic.

Thanks for joining in :)

Re: Apple Approves VLC For iPad

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Post by Gormo »

nonane wrote: post #108
Qz wrote: post #93

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Is Windows Mobile 7 really a threat?

Not yet, but probably it in the future. Microsoft may not have got Windows Mobile right in the last 10 years but they now have a good template to follow (user interface, user experience, even the business model) thanks to Apple. You can see this with Windows Mobile 7 - they've 'rebooted' and are following Apple's lead. They're definitely the underdog but I wouldn't count them out.

Microsoft is launching Windows Phone 7 with a more restrictive development model than Apple.

The OS is just as locked-down as iOS, and as with Apple users are only allowed to install software from the official 'marketplace'; but Microsoft also restricts what license developers are allowed to release software under, and limits how many free applications they can offer without paying additional fees to MS.

The one advantage that Microsoft has traditionally had over Apple - the openness of their platforms - has been squandered.

Couple that with a featureset that is competitive with the first-edition iPhone, but nowhere matches current iOS and Android devices, and you have a recipe for a flop.

Re: Apple Approves VLC For iPad

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Post by elblanco »

Ogre wrote: post #100
RyanMcGreal wrote: post #90

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I sometimes worry that the HN archives will eventually become so authoritative that actual discussion devolves into a chain of deeply idiomatic references to previous discussions, a la Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra .

Pg and the top idea. Jobs, when the walls fell.

In this metaphor, who's the invisible beast we have to work together to defeat?

Re: Apple Approves VLC For iPad

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Post by CamperBob »

loewenskind wrote: post #111
CamperBob wrote: post #70

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I don't know about that. I know a lot of people with jailbroken iPhones, whom we'd all think of as "computer-illiterate" at best. Jailbreaking is very much a mainstream activity these days. Edit: I'll go so far as to speculate that the large proportion of jailbroken iOS devices is what is driving the glasnost at Apple lately. They are faced with keeping some control over their customers's devices, or losing the contr…

>the market has decisively rejected Apple's attempt at total control If it's so decisive you must be able to cite it pretty easily, eh? I'm plenty "tech savvy" but I've never jailbroken my phone. I like the safety the App Store gives me. I don't have time to vet every damn application and I'm happy that some else does, even if they fail to let few a few things I might have liked.

If it's so decisive you must be able to cite it pretty easily, eh?

Google returns "about 1,150,000 results" for the term jailbreakme. I think that'll do.

Re: Apple Approves VLC For iPad

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Post by loewenskind »

CamperBob wrote: post #115
loewenskind wrote: post #111

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>the market has decisively rejected Apple's attempt at total control If it's so decisive you must be able to cite it pretty easily, eh? I'm plenty "tech savvy" but I've never jailbroken my phone. I like the safety the App Store gives me. I don't have time to vet every damn application and I'm happy that some else does, even if they fail to let few a few things I might have liked.

If it's so decisive you must be able to cite it pretty easily, eh? Google returns "about 1,150,000 results" for the term jailbreakme . I think that'll do.

You're pretty easy to convince. Even if every single one of those results represented a person who jail broke their phone then there are still several times more people who haven't then have. I don't think the phrase "decisively rejected by the market" means what you think it means.

Re: Apple Approves VLC For iPad

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Post by CamperBob »

loewenskind wrote: post #116
CamperBob wrote: post #115

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If it's so decisive you must be able to cite it pretty easily, eh? Google returns "about 1,150,000 results" for the term jailbreakme . I think that'll do.

You're pretty easy to convince. Even if every single one of those results represented a person who jail broke their phone then there are still several times more people who haven't then have. I don't think the phrase "decisively rejected by the market" means what you think it means.

Translation: "I don't like the data."

Re: Apple Approves VLC For iPad

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Post by loewenskind »

CamperBob wrote: post #117
loewenskind wrote: post #116

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You're pretty easy to convince. Even if every single one of those results represented a person who jail broke their phone then there are still several times more people who haven't then have. I don't think the phrase "decisively rejected by the market" means what you think it means.

Translation: "I don't like the data."

what data? One Google query? Again, you seem to not understand how this whole "research" thing works. I really hope you're not a real life reporter because you're either being extremely intellectually lazy with your "argument" or you're trying to be purposely deceptive (again, in an extremely lazy manner). The only real data that's actually been provided shows the exact opposite of your ignorant "decisively rejected" quote.

It's funny when people spend so much effort trying to defend an obviously nonsensical statement. You were wrong. So what? We all say things that turn out to be incorrect, it's no big deal.

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