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| Apple Inc. doucebaggery; use our development tools or we'll reject your apps | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 13 2010, 05:38 PM (460 Views) | |
| Axtremus | Apr 13 2010, 05:38 PM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8616274.stm
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| Bernard | Apr 13 2010, 08:08 PM Post #2 |
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Senior Carp
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I have never been inclined to develop software for Apple computers. I'm sure, given the imposed standard, it must be smooth sailing, but I'll take the tower of babel that is "pc" software development anyday, headache that it can be. Of course, if I really had my choice, I wouldn't program at all!
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| Phlebas | Apr 14 2010, 01:13 AM Post #3 |
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Bull-Carp
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Just who are you trying to attack with this piece, Ax? iPhone users? iPad users? Why did you post it? |
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Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D | |
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| Klaus | Apr 14 2010, 01:32 AM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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People always considered Microsoft "evil" for its attempts to impede competitors and restrict the usage of its software. It is getting more and more clear that Apple is worse. |
| Trifonov Fleisher Klaus Sokolov Zimmerman | |
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| Mikhailoh | Apr 14 2010, 02:24 AM Post #5 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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When you have an edge you want to keep it. The vast majority of people will care no more about this than they did about Microsoft's efforts at exclusivity and it will likely end up being a good move competitively. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Piano*Dad | Apr 14 2010, 02:53 AM Post #6 |
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Bull-Carp
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You know, I wondered the same thing. when someone posts an article without making any reasoned comment on it, and couples it with an incendiary title, one wonders whether the main purpose is really information, or having some fun by stirring the pot after turning the temperature up. I guess in general I'm not very fond of threads like this. |
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| Klaus | Apr 14 2010, 02:53 AM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Well, at least software developers are pretty upset about it. If software developers hate to program for iPhone and iPad then this is a competitive disadvantage for Apple. |
| Trifonov Fleisher Klaus Sokolov Zimmerman | |
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| Axtremus | Apr 14 2010, 03:14 AM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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[1] Apple Inc. [2] To air Apple Inc.'s anti-competitive practices in the hope that such airings will lead to public and consumer pressures curing in Apple Inc.'s such practices and lead to a stronger, more diverse potable device application development eco-system that encourages competition, fair play, and innovation. |
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| Piano*Dad | Apr 14 2010, 03:45 AM Post #9 |
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Bull-Carp
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Pardon my asking, but what is a .... potable device? ......... |
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 14 2010, 04:04 AM Post #10 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Back in the day, there was a computer company that started specializing in printers (dot matrix if I remember right). Thing was, they wanted to have an "edge" like that too, so they made their printer parts totally unique, so that you'd have to get all the replacement parts from them, also. I think even the ink and toner was unique, not just the cartridges. I forget the name of the company because they're out of business now. I just remember how stupid that business plan sounded. |
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| JBryan | Apr 14 2010, 04:04 AM Post #11 |
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I am the grey one
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One you can drink, of course. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| John D'Oh | Apr 14 2010, 04:12 AM Post #12 |
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MAMIL
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A doucebag, presumably. |
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| Phlebas | Apr 14 2010, 04:52 AM Post #13 |
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Bull-Carp
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I was actually kidding, and this was a paraphrase from a post in the other thread Ax started on the Vatican. I was using Nothing to see here. Move on. |
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Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D | |
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| Luke's Dad | Apr 14 2010, 04:52 AM Post #14 |
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Emperor Pengin
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| The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it. | |
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| Kincaid | Apr 14 2010, 08:52 AM Post #15 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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A douce sounds like something that floats in a toilet bowl. |
| Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006. | |
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| jon-nyc | Apr 14 2010, 08:55 AM Post #16 |
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Cheers
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What an odd reaction from you and Phlebas. This is certainly newsworthy and relevant. |
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 14 2010, 09:03 AM Post #17 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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I think it is too, but I think Phlebas is saying that he doesn't like the delivery style. Which I could totally understand. |
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| Phlebas | Apr 14 2010, 09:08 AM Post #18 |
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Bull-Carp
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Like I said before in this thread. I was just making a lame joke by paraphrasing this post from the Vatican thread. |
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Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D | |
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| jon-nyc | Apr 14 2010, 09:08 AM Post #19 |
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Cheers
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I don't know, when Apple, MSFT, Google or anyone abuses their market power, I consider it douchebaggery of the lowest order. |
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| jon-nyc | Apr 14 2010, 09:09 AM Post #20 |
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Cheers
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Oh, I missed your second post, Phlebas. |
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 14 2010, 09:10 AM Post #21 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Yep, totally missed it. I'm a pretty tall guy and even that one went right over. It sucks explaining a joke that wasn't even meant to be a big deal in the first place.
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| Phlebas | Apr 14 2010, 09:10 AM Post #22 |
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Bull-Carp
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...and you suck for making me do it.
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Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D | |
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| jon-nyc | Apr 14 2010, 09:11 AM Post #23 |
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Cheers
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Ok, now its up to P*D to explain himself.
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 14 2010, 09:12 AM Post #24 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Yeah but see now the situation's funny (at least to me) so selfishly it just comes out as a wash. |
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| Red Rice | Apr 14 2010, 09:13 AM Post #25 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Joe Biden experiences that all the time. |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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