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Good article. Once upon a time, I wrote a series of opensource iSync plugins for the sidekick/hiptop platform, back when Danger first opened up their XML-RPC S
by rit 17y ago
Good article.
Once upon a time, I wrote a series of opensource iSync plugins for the sidekick/hiptop platform, back when Danger first opened up their XML-RPC Service.
Then it came out that in order to run in "production" (e.g. on a phone without a developer provisioning loaded) your app had to have t-mobiles permission. We kept repeatedly getting told "no" on the iSync plugin, that they had no interest in supporting Mac. Then of course a commercial plugin appeared and I got fed up and stopped trying, getting the clear impression that commercial was what T-Mobile wanted.
Mostly however, it was the shock in realizing that you had no access to your own data as a standard user. You were completely and utterly locked in to that device, with no alternative.
- ajg1977 17y agoAre you kidding? It's a terrible article that consists of nothing but speculation and conflicting segments that attribute the data loss to "dogfooding", and/or sabotage, and/or aggressive non-beneficial firmware updates, and/or incompetence. Well done AppleInsider, you managed to nail the problem simply by covering every possible base.
- rit 17y agoFair enough. In hindsight: - I'm at the point where my brain mostly parses out all the speculation crap, I come across it so often. There was good tidbits in there covering some of the contract issues, etc. - I think the "Good article" was almost a (can't think of the word[s] I'm looking for, but something you say out of habit/reflex without thinking). It kind of came out without actually considering other than "I found interesting things in it". I apologize, you are in fact correct that it was incredibly speculative.