"Apps that use location-based APIs for dispatch, fleet management, or emergency services will be rejected"Emergency services I get, but I wonder why not for dispatch or fleet management.
Apple Inc has filed a formal public statement with the Copyright Office declaring that any form of iPhone jailbreaking constitutes copyright infringement and a DMCA violation. The company argues that jailbreaking a mobile phone removes certain restrictions which are thereby liberating the iPhone from Apple's software. Furthermore, jailbreaking allows smartphone users to run other applications that are not available from the Apple Store.Fortunately, IIRC, this threat was at least partly removed by events outside of their control. But they wanted to and said they could.
Introductionposted by nomadicink at 11:59 AM on September 9, 2010
We're thrilled that you want to invest your talents and time to develop applications for iOS. It has been a rewarding experience - both professionally and financially - for tens of thousands of developers and we want to help you join this successful group. This is the first time we have published our App Store Review Guidelines. We hope they will help you steer clear of issues as you develop your app, so that it speeds through the approval process when you submit it. We view Apps different than books or songs, which we do not curate. If you want to criticize a religion, write a book. If you want to describe sex, write a book or a song, or create a medical app. It can get complicated, but we have decided to not allow certain kinds of content in the App Store. It may help to keep some of our broader themes in mind:Lastly, we love this stuff too, and honor what you do. We're really trying our best to create the best platform in the world for you to express your talents and make a living too. If it sounds like we're control freaks, well, maybe it's because we're so committed to our users and making sure they have a quality experience with our products. Just like almost all of you are too.
- We have lots of kids downloading lots of apps, and parental controls don't work unless the parents set them up (many don't). So know that we're keeping an eye out for the kids.
- We have over 250,000 apps in the App Store. We don't need any more Fart apps. If your app doesn't do something useful or provide some form of lasting entertainment, it may not be accepted.
- If your App looks like it was cobbled together in a few days, or you're trying to get your first practice App into the store to impress your friends, please brace yourself for rejection. We have lots of serious developers who don't want their quality Apps to be surrounded by amateur hour.
- We will reject Apps for any content or behavior that we believe is over the line. What line, you ask? Well, as a Supreme Court Justice once said, "I'll know it when I see it". And we think that you will also know it when you cross it.
- If your app is rejected, we have a Review Board that you can appeal to. If you run to the press and trash us, it never helps.
- This is a living document, and new apps presenting new questions may result in new rules at any time. Perhaps your app will trigger this.
We have over 250,000 apps in the App Store. We don’t need any more Fart apps.I have a funny feeling that a few years from now this will be mocked as bad as "640K ought to be enough for anybody."
Because there are a variety of devices that will play DVDs, the inability to play a DVD on a particular device or with a particular operating system is simply a matter of preference and inconvenience. Persons wishing to play CSS-protected DVDs on computers with the Linux operating system have the same options that other consumers have. As a general proposition, the DVD medium has increased the availability of motion pictures for sale and rental by the general public, and the motion picture studios’ willingness to distribute their works in this medium is due in part to the faith they have in the protection offered by CSS.There have been a few instances of this kind of thought process. Like, I'm too lazy to look it up right now, but either in 2003 or 2006, someone proposed an exemption for audio recordings downloaded from online stores that require that you pay a monthly fee to keep listening to them, if those stores eventually go out of business and the customer wishes to break the DRM to continue listening to the songs. The LOC's position was basically: this service is different from purchasing MP3s, and it's priced accordingly. If you wanted the ability to continue listening to your songs without continuing to pay for them, you could pay more and just buy them. But since you didn't, you run the risk of this happening someday, and we're not going to make an exemption for you to listen to them anyway.
Furthermore, Apple switched after Intel moved to the Core architecture, which really was a significant improvement over the Pentium 4 / Netburst architecture.I've heard this before, but Intel has been selling P6 based chips continuously since 1995. There were was only one year, 2002 that had a gap between the PIII and Pentium M when only P4s were sold, but there were still high-end Xeon chips being sold with the P6 architecture.
The iPad on the other hand is pretty much a new category of device - coming at the problem of creating a tablet PC by scaling up a media player rather than scaling down a PC turned out to be the real key to making that form factor work.Oh come on. There were tablets before the iPad and there were tablets being released around the same time as the iPad. And there will be tablets after the iPad. Remember the Newton?
The bigger problem is that modern game engines often include interpreted languages that run within the engine. UnrealScript, Lua, what-have-you. No doubt the Rage engine will have something similar.I think the original quake engine actually used interpreted C.
This is rubbish. It's not Apple's job to look out for parents who aren't keeping tabs on what their kids are doing, particularly by banning certain content to everyone, child or not.Especially since, you know, apple could just turn parental controls on by default. Besides, you can surf for porn on the iPad, you just can't have it in the apps.
I'm curious how many of those criticizing Apple's closed platform have owned a Wii for years without noticing it has the exact same problems.Well, if people were saying that the iPad was going to be the future of video gaming, it wouldn't be such a big deal. A bunch of people seem to want to replace all computers with it, that it's the future, bla bla bla. It becomes more problematic. Apple isn't selling the iPad as a toy
The iPod's significance wasn't that it was the first. Its significance was that it was the first to get everything right.It originally came out without a music store at all, limited to Macs. It's brilliance was that, at a time when music players were relatively huge and clunky with awkward interfaces for the average user, it carried a ton of music in an outrageously small package with a good user interface for navigating and playing through the music collection. Better than good enough for most people.
I don't think that's true at all.
The iPod line is a pretty shitty set of MP3 players. Without the iTunes Store (i.e. a "viable" way to buy digital music), and the timing of its ascendance, i.e. digital music goes mainstream, it's just another player, no better (actually worse, imo) than Sandisk. (tell me how to get my music from my iPod onto your (unauthorized by Apple) computer.)
Good news: I did get confirmation back from Apple that it will most likely get back in once I resubmit.'It' is probably GV Mobile, which is a good app.
There are no Apple brownshirts going door-to-door ripping PCsNo, just searching people's houses.
Growing Android Power Led to Apple's Developer CompromiseYeah. If you alienate developers, no one will develop for your platform. Apple may have a lot of apps, but most don't make that much money.
That's the worst part of this Android/Apple "fight". I wish that had worked together for a few years to decrease the power of the US carriers, but instead they're fighting each other and letting the carriers still retain their grips on everything.I doubt Jobs has much interest in getting over his grudges. If apple and Google colluded to fuck over verizon, that would be great. But it's not going to happen. Instead, google and verizon are colluding to fuck over everyone! Good times
People identifying themselves as representing Apple last week visited and sought permission to search the Silicon Valley address of the college-age man who came into possession of a next-generation iPhone prototype, according to a person involved with the find.posted by nomadicink at 6:56 AM on September 11, 2010 [1 favorite]
“Someone came to [the finder's] house and knocked on his door,” the source told Wired.com, speaking on condition of anonymity because the case is under investigation by the police. A roommate answered, but wouldn’t let them in.
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