iCloud’s Real Purpose is to Kill Windows

Post by __david__ » Wed, Jun 08, 2011, 3:29 AM UTC

JonnieCache wrote: post #102

SoftwareMaven wrote: post #101

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Almost nothing in technology is drawn out of thin air and developed from scratch. If you tried to give credit for every single stepping stone you used to develop anything, all you'd do is confuse the end users, and that's the whole point of what Apple is trying to accomplish: simplify for the user. Honestly, if I developed rsync, the fact that Apple was using it to power Time Machine would be quite an acknowledgement…

I don't imagine that the people with "invented rsync" on their resumés are exactly struggling for income either. Being able to tell people about your achievements is a lot better than having everyone pre-aware of them anyway IMO. (Also it should be pointed out that time machine doesn't actually use rsync at all, or anything like it. It uses a totally different and much simpler system, seemingly built on their own FSE…

Post by GeneralMaximus » Wed, Jun 08, 2011, 6:13 AM UTC

hnsmurf wrote: post #21

I don't get it. Most of what iCloud does is already being done on smartphones for free. Gmail and Exchange Server both already sync contacts, calendars, and email quite nicely across devices. I haven't had to manually transfer any of that to a new smartphone since long before there was an iPhone. The music thing is nice too, but it's either a paid solution or an incomplete one. Apple once released a stat that only 10…

Post by pyre » Wed, Jun 08, 2011, 6:25 AM UTC

__david__ wrote: post #111

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I don't imagine that the people with "invented rsync" on their resumés are exactly struggling for income either. Being able to tell people about your achievements is a lot better than having everyone pre-aware of them anyway IMO. (Also it should be pointed out that time machine doesn't actually use rsync at all, or anything like it. It uses a totally different and much simpler system, seemingly built on their own FSE…

And in particular, hardlinks to directories. That is why it is so fast (and also why it only works on HFS).

Post by rimantas » Wed, Jun 08, 2011, 7:42 AM UTC

recoiledsnake wrote: post #74

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Oh, so now Apple pays salary for Foxconn employees? That's an interesting piece of news. How about HP, Cisco, Intel, Acer, Asus, Dell, Nokia, etc? How is suicide rate among Foxconn employees compared to average?

Yes they did provide a raise. Here's your interesting news. http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?s=&threadi... You can find other references to that raise by using a search engine. You mean you have no control over a factory that you're the primary(or only) customer of? >How about HP, Cisco, Intel, Acer, Asus, Dell, Nokia, etc? I was replying to your GP post that stated that Apple and Jobs weren't after prof…

  > So you mean Apple is as mindlessly profit driven(if not
  > more) as all those other companies you just listed?

Post by rimantas » Wed, Jun 08, 2011, 7:53 AM UTC

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I disagree. The usage of features in Word undoubtably follow the power law, so there is undoubtably somebody somewhere who does use any particular feature, but the vast majority of people don't use them. Pages doesn't have all of the functions and if you can't live without a particular function, it is obviously not a good replacement. However, for the vast majority of users, it has all the functionality that they wil…

Someone said some time ago: all people use only 5% of Word features at a time - the problem is that these are DIFFERENT 5% for everybody.