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Re: Google Blindness

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post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which is completely irrelevant in a discussion about the iPhone from a user's perspective.

The original poster is a developer. A developer for Apple platforms. Chances are this affected him and if not, it did affected his peers. Yet he never mentions the massively embarrassing outage...

He does in his podcast and on Twitter

Re: Google Blindness

#112
post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple has had iTunes Match since 2011 for music that doesn't fit on your device.

Sure, for a fee. Google Music is free for the first bazillion bytes (20k songs or something).

How long till it has adverts seen as every listen will cost google something.

I'd rather pay

Re: Google Blindness

#113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

really? Never ever? http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/jobs-confirms-app-store-kill...

Yes. That link acknowledges a kill switch for malicious apps, which they've never used.

not necessarily a good thing -http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/07/first-ios-malware-fou... - Still could be on devices, no reason it should be

Re: Google Blindness

#114
"I object to a huge, creepy advertising company having that much access to me and my data, I think it’s unwise to use many proprietary, hard-to-replace services in such important roles, and I think it’s downright foolish to tie that much of your data and functionality into proprietary services run by one company in one account that sometimes gets disabled permanently with no warning, no recourse, and no support."

that's one horrific run-on sentence. it's both grammatically flawed and descriptive solely of the platform the author is attempting to defend.

i can no longer tell if this guy's serious or just trolling.

Re: Google Blindness

#115
post #43

Marco's article is so poorly-written, so poorly thought-out, I don't know where to begin. It's really more an article about hating Google as a whole. Google blindness? Or blind hatred for Apple's competitors? Some gems, though: I think it’s unwise to use many proprietary, hard-to-replace services in such important roles, and I think it’s downright foolish to tie that much of your data and functionality into proprieta…

A long time ago back in the 3GS days I was a happy iPhone user, who happened to like podcasts. There were several very nice podcast apps which I liked since they would download everything I wanted to listen to over the night and I could listen to them on my walk to work without having to boot up Windows and sync via iTunes. Then one day after an update all the podcast apps were gone from the Appstore and my phone sin…

.....Downcast is a podcast app I use constantly, has been around for years, and receives regular updates. You're, umm, wrong.
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