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Re: The App Store Nightmare

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Post by w1ntermute »

misterbee wrote: post #68
w1ntermute wrote: post #8

> So this leaves me with the following options: > 1. Completely nuke my machine, create a new US Apple account and repurchase everything (yeah, right) > 2. Pay $49 to have Apple Support look into the issue > 3. Give up and use Linux (I hear Windows 8 will have a locked-down App store too) As a Linux user, the fact that Apple developers are seriously considering moving to Linux makes me very excited. If even 1% of the…

It's just grandstanding. You can't get your favorite TV shows or apps on Linux.

> You can't get your favorite TV shows or apps on Linux.

I would agree with TV shows not being legally available as easily on Linux as on Mac or Windows, primarily due to the lack of support for Linux from Netflix. That doesn't affect me personally, since I just pirate everything anyway, and there are a dozen different Linux video players you can pick from if you've got a DRM-free x264-encoded video file.

Either way, when one is developing, access to TV shows isn't exactly a big concern.

As for apps, I don't see the big deal, especially for development work (and it's developers we're talking about here). All the necessary tools for webdev are available.

Re: The App Store Nightmare

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Post by mappu »

skystorm wrote: post #47
alexsb92 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That doesn't mean that people can't complain about it. They could have easily supported multiple locations and credit cards and still streamline the process, and the only users who'd have to deal with it are the ones who need to use the feature.

I think you didn't pick up on ddlatham's sarcasm. :)

There are many people who actually think that way. C.f. Poe's law

Re: The App Store Nightmare

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Post by tceduard »

- there SHALL NOT BE differences of content on the Internet set by physical regions on the Earth! - there SHALL NOT BE on the Internet any laws that are in place for each physical region on the Earth! - the Internet SHALL NOT BE changed ! - the Internet SHALL NOT BE ruled by any Government !

Re: The App Store Nightmare

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Post by jvdh »

nirvana wrote: post #27

I travel full time, and have been living all over the world for the past four years and never had this problem. From Romania to Chile, Venice to England wherever I am, my iTunes works the way I'd expect. Compared to HULU and Netflix, Apple is one of the best in this regard. I have to get on a VPN to the USA to use my HULU or Netflix accounts, but iTunes just works, globally. I have a US itunes account, and use it in…

> It doesn't make sense to have multiple iTunes accounts, and it would be good if Apple would let your merge them.

This is impossible. Apple does not let you merge accounts, no matter how high you jump or how much money you're willing to throw at them.

The only way to do that is to manually repurchase everything on the other account. That is assuming that it is still available of course, otherwise your SOL.

Re: The App Store Nightmare

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Post by Create »

I have almost the same problem. I bought my AAPL with 10.6 in one country, moved to another. I wanted to update to 10.8. So I got a gift card at an authorised AAPL vendor store. I had to register a new AAPL ID, because my other ID didn't accept the code. So I registered a new account for my new card. It happily accepted the money.

I went through all the hoops, pressed "Buy App". I only got the modal boxes: "Please contact iTunes Support to complete this transaction. We could not complete your request. There was an error in the App Store Please try again later. (100)" It ate my money, I cannot use it, and I am left without an OS soon.

I am done with AAPL, and am putting Linux not only on half, but on all of the disk.

It reminds me of the DVD region codes, and the problem of which one to pick, when sending films to the Space Station...

Re: The App Store Nightmare

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Post by Joeri »

indiecore wrote: post #18
PythonDeveloper wrote: post #2

Yet another example of Apple idiocy (I'm a former customer, having spent easily $100K on Apple hardware). It became clear to me a year or so ago that Apple is moving in a direction that is anti-developer. At that time I stopped buying their hardware, installed Linux on the Apples I still had, and stopped writing apps for the iPhone. My life has been MUCH easier since then. We really don't need to be spending any more…

The problem with this is that iPhone users still make the majority of app purchases. It's all well and good to make proclamations about using our own open platforms but I'd like people to USE the stuff I make...

Google are really the ones causing that, because they've allowed piracy to grow rampant on android. Android has a much larger user base, but google's practices have caused android users to get used to getting everything for free, which together with the ongoing piracy means the market for paid apps is an order of magnitude smaller than it could have been.

Re: The App Store Nightmare

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Post by Create »

Joeri wrote: post #76
indiecore wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem with this is that iPhone users still make the majority of app purchases. It's all well and good to make proclamations about using our own open platforms but I'd like people to USE the stuff I make...

Google are really the ones causing that, because they've allowed piracy to grow rampant on android. Android has a much larger user base, but google's practices have caused android users to get used to getting everything for free, which together with the ongoing piracy means the market for paid apps is an order of magnitude smaller than it could have been.

Android should be free (GPL) anyway, and there is f-droid.org for free (FLOSS) apps.

Re: The App Store Nightmare

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Post by LiveTheDream »

> If this is any indication of the future of software distribution in general, I think I’m going to just give up and go into farming. AFAIK there are no DRM or geolocation limitations on farming equipment yet.

It seems the author is not familiar with global biotech company Monsanto and its genetically restricted seeds.

Re: The App Store Nightmare

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Post by akurilin »

I want to make sure I got this right. Can I take a trip to a foreign country with a US-purchased and US-registered MacBook and still expect to be able to purchase apps and update existing applications (e.g. XCode) while abroad?

Re: The App Store Nightmare

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Post by notimetorelax »

Joeri wrote: post #76
indiecore wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem with this is that iPhone users still make the majority of app purchases. It's all well and good to make proclamations about using our own open platforms but I'd like people to USE the stuff I make...

Google are really the ones causing that, because they've allowed piracy to grow rampant on android. Android has a much larger user base, but google's practices have caused android users to get used to getting everything for free, which together with the ongoing piracy means the market for paid apps is an order of magnitude smaller than it could have been.

I think that's a trade off you will have with an open system, still since I got my android phone I bought many more applications than I ever did on my PC. Having credit card tied to your store account makes it much easier.
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