I just looked that up. Creepy bastards.
I’m laughing because I just had this conversation with a serious computer geek. Apple is for people who like to be told what to do and how to do it.
I ignore news about this sort of thing, which leaves me free to purchase the device of my choice based on things like what I need it to do, price, and other such concerns, rather than on which group of users I prefer to affiliate myself with. To each their own, of course.
To get around the multiuser problem by using a different app than my partner does for social networking. He uses the regular facebook app and twitter app for his, and I use flipboard to access my facebook and twitter.
ETA: This doesn’t get around not wanting others to have access to your stuff, but if that’s not a problem it’s a working solution.
While I was well aware that this thread could head in that direction. I disagree with your statement completely.
I like to see all the arrogance billowing out the door at the Apple store.
By my observations, it’s because there’s nobody in the Microsoft store.
Really, do we need to go here?
I don’t think I’ve ever seen Microsoft block a Project Gutenburg app because someone could find the Karma Sutra if they searched for it.
Also my Android phone can get flash. Why, if not for arrogance, did Apple block flash? Why can’t a developer complain in public if their app is rejected? Why can’t iOS users use non market apps on ** their phone ** if they want to? Why does Apple try to stop them?
Apple is a bunch of goons trying to wring money out of people.
Because flash’s a pig and how to you play a flash game that uses the Control key on a touchscreen? And sure, why open up a world of free flash games when we can route you to our app store.
I’m not defending them, but I can see their reasoning. But they do make some real headscratcher architectural decisions.
If they followed it 100%, they’d have to remove Safari, it can reach mobileboner.com
Or for people who resent “serious computer geeks” telling them what they should and shouldn’t like. :rolleyes:
Seriously, I disagree with a lot of Apple’s software and hardware decisions, but this sort of thing makes me want to go out and buy an iPad purely out of spite.
When my wife stole my new iPad, I saw something that blew me away:
She actually uses it. Every single day.
She surfs the web, checks her email, watches Netflix every evening, listens to podcasts, calls Brazil on Skype. In short, my computer-hating wife fell in love with it.
Why do I think it was such a hit with her?
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[li]It comes on instantly and turns off instantly.[/li][li]There are only a handful of quite obvious single-purpose apps that you just poke a finger at. No digging through menus or searching or whatever to find them. Just poke at the screen.[/li][li]Each app fits one use very well, with little overlap needed (in her case). For example, she has her Netflix app and her Skype app. She just pokes at Skype when it’s time to chat and Netflix when she wants to watch a movie.[/li][li]The device works with zero user knowledge of files or other computer concepts.[/li][/ul]What makes it this way is that Apple has spent great effort to carefully design the device to meet the needs of most people like my wife.
Geeks like myself hit limitations early on, but still enjoy the device. For example, I would love to telnet into Unix boxes with her iPad, but the on-screen keyboard doesn’t have “ESC”—a showstopper for a vi user. The telnet/ssh clients all have workarounds, but this is really only a geek’s problem anyway.
Likewise, file management: If you are slinging around spreadsheets and such doing heavy editing, you probably are not the casual user my wife is, and might want to use a laptop.
I didn’t know that but it’s great. I already have an iPhone 3GS and was planning to wait until February to buy the iPad (when the new one is supposed to be released), but my parents gave me one for Christmas.
“Blah blah blah I hate Apple. Blah Blah blah Apple suxxors.”
No one cares. Not every thread or story involving Apple is an excuse to vent, which in this context is basically Threadshitting.
Did you read the OP complaining about something Apple did in the OP, or did OP shit in his own thread?
Basically at Apple Stores whenever someone walks out with a new Mac, iPhone or iPad all the staff applaud and cheer as they leave the store. I don’t know how much you have to spend to get the ovation but it guarantees I will never go near one of them!
By all means buy something that you have a lot of disagreements with. I suspect that Apple has a spite-app they will sell you in the process which is the real purpose of their products (to sell you software).
I’ll base my purchasing decisions on the friends I know with multiple programing degrees who eat computers for breakfast. They have to use different platforms on their jobs and would buy Apple products in a New York minute if they did what they want them to do. I want a computer that can be fixed, programmed and otherwise bent to my will and right now Apple fails to meet my dollar-value needs.
this is the sole thing that irritates me about Apple. it’s not the products (those are almost universally excellent) or some of the restrictions on the products (app store only comes to mind.)
it’s that noisy, squawking minority of Apple users who feel the need to loudly and publicly go on about how awesome they are because they bought something.
My husband and I have bought several things at the Apple store in Salt Lake City and have never had that happen; even the last time when we walked out with TWO iPads (we can’t share ANY electronic equipment).
It’s not games – it’s the thousands of websites that don’t display properly because they have flash. The lack of a CTRL key is trivial; Apple can just say that Flash games aren’t compatible. It’s being unable to watch live GameCast of ESPN because Apple doesn’t want you to, or to view videos in Flash.
And their excuse is bogus: They say on one hand that Apple is immune to viruses and malware (not quite true, but true enough for now), but they’re worried that flash will allow the viruses and malware that won’t run on their computers in the first place to run on their computers. Right.:rolleyes:
I bought an iPad earlier this year - no applause for me.