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I hope that Steve Jobs, who happily credited himself as an openly adherent member and ambassador of the counterculture that fought for ideas like this to be acceptable in a then over-conservative society, is rightfully turning in his grave.
Actually Apple doesn't hate brunettes, what they hate is the likeness to reality that your brunette colored people are, where if you color the hair like in your second example, the people become less realistic and more like abstract icons; their hair being the exact same color as their body skin (yellow and red). Doesn't take a genius to figure this one out, but then it doesn't take a genius to write a bitching blog…
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>Apple is trying to move from being the cool kids counter-culture creative types alternative to the PC to being the corporate acceptable alternative to the Blackberry. A story about karmasutra apps or ifart in the WSJ could cause a CEO to change their mind about allowing users to use their iPhone on the corp network. Only this has nothing to do with it. iOS made inroads into the enterprise DESPITE the plethora of far…
"Apple could care less about the hypothetical CEO you mention" The old fringe player Apple could - the new $trillion corporate Apple might "think different". Remember once upon a time Microsoft was a cool fashionable young persons software company fighting against the established corporate monopolies I'm sure this was just a new employee who was probably still in high-school when the Appstore launched and thinks anyt…
I seriously doubt it. Especially since they became the "$trillion corporate Apple" by not caring about those things --so why change a winning strategy?
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In this case the crux of the problem is that they're deleting an app that's almost as old as the app store itself. Curating content is almost impossible to do; app stores should limit their reviews to exclude: - viruses - blatant spam and copyright violations and THAT'S IT. Assessing the quality of an app is what users' ratings are for (and of course excluding adult content is just childish).
I agree with you, which is why I use Android. But, I see an appeal to the walled garden. I can let my children get on the app store without worrying too much it will lead to questions I don't feel like answering at that age. I have greater confidence that getting a game for the kids won't come with overly onerous spyware. I also have a better feeling that it will generally work. This is not the way I want to operate,…
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http://martingryner.com/on-alternative-android-app-stores/ " In first week, Number Game got about 360 downloads on Google Play. By that time, Number Game on SlideMe had been downloaded about 700 times…in 3 days. SlideMe is the number 1 source for Number Game downloads adding over 100 on better days. If you also happen to update your application and get to “updated” section, you could pick up as much in few hours. Sli…
So the only reason it's not a problem is that it doesn't work? "Your Honor, yes, I shot at him, but I missed! "
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Exactly - it was a perception issue - in that the signal strength indicator was showing 5 out of 5 bars with signal strength ranging from 60% to 100%. When you covered the antenna with your hand, the signal strength dropped ~40%. So if you were in an area with strong reception, you would get ~60%, which Apple considered so "good enough" that we might as well show Full bars. If you on the other hand were in an area wi…
The iPhone is as much a music player as a phone, so every iPhone comes with a special microphone headset with some external controls in the chord. Many iPhone users (myself included) prefer to talk on the phone via this headset. Using the headset you get better sound quality for both parties, can hear with both ears, can move more freely and be more comfortable and can use the phone to take notes or check your calend…
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Why not just buy an android phone?
1) Notice that Google has removed this app too. 2) Carriers (AT&T) are known for disabling app sideloading. 3) Having to root your device presents the basic user with a major technical hurdle, and in some cases, an outright impossibility. If you're going to advocate as an alternative an entire platform you can't guarantee freedom on, for freedom's sake, why advocate it?
When I see comments like the parent's the logic seems to be: "Android isn't properly open, so let's sue Apple."
Sergey said that Apple and Facebook are a threat to freedom on the web, but I submit that commercial 'app stores' like Google Play and Apple's AppStore are the real threat. They have all the control and solely get to decide what is acceptable or not (while reserving the right to change their mind later). Google Play won't even let you rent a video from the store if it detects your phone has been rooted. This sucks. W…
I disagree regarding Google Play. Appstore is a threat because if you want software on your Apple phone then it is the only legal method. But with Android you can install software from any app store you like, or directly. Google provide an app store as a service, but it's only one of many.
Javascript web apps on iOS can have home-screen icons, and "loading" splash screens, and persist data to a local database, and even support multitouch and the accelerometer, all offline.
A lot of the iOS apps I use could have been written as web apps. Is this true on Android, too? Maybe it's time for somebody to write a "generic mobile app store", for the apps that don't require fancy things like 3D graphics.
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1) Notice that Google has removed this app too. 2) Carriers (AT&T) are known for disabling app sideloading. 3) Having to root your device presents the basic user with a major technical hurdle, and in some cases, an outright impossibility. If you're going to advocate as an alternative an entire platform you can't guarantee freedom on, for freedom's sake, why advocate it?
I don't think I've ever advocated Android, but I am interested in why it doesn't live up to the promise of being open. When I see comments like the parent's the logic seems to be: "Android isn't properly open, so let's sue Apple."
> I don't think I've ever advocated Android
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I don't think I've ever advocated Android, but I am interested in why it doesn't live up to the promise of being open. When I see comments like the parent's the logic seems to be: "Android isn't properly open, so let's sue Apple."
> Why not just buy an android phone? > I don't think I've ever advocated Android
I really wanted to know why the original commenter was talking about suing Apple, instead of just buying an Android phone.