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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
I wouldn't exactly classify Apple's response to questions, which they were explicitly asked by the Copyright Office, as "fought hard". Fighting hard would be Apple spending millions of dollars lobbying against the exemptions or taking the c
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
Unless things have changed with the iPhone 4, the only case in which downgrade is not possible is if the upgrade modifies the baseband firmware. At least that has been my experience. I've downgraded iOS on my phone a number of times, most r
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
As Chairman Gruber already replied [ http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/08/30/holwerda ] Thom is misrepresenting or at least misinterpreting his statement and its context. In order to say that Apple are "fighting" jailbreaking we'd hav
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
Ironically, today Apple announced the App Store Volume Purchase program, targeted specifically at education institutions. Apple don't provide much information precisely how it works from the point of view of a school, but from the 5 sentenc
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
Well, it's quite simple really - the license is not GPL and there is no reciprocity requirement - that alone in the minds of some GNU fanatics, amongst which obviously Moglen is, is a crime against freedom and all that's holy. Maybe I'm ge
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
The whole story is very skimpy on details but it seems this guy is trying to pull off quite a bit of hacky and "clever" tricks (I'm gathering this from the posts about two previous rejections). Considering this, this doesn't seem to be as f
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
According to an anonymous Gizmodo reader here [ http://gizmodo.com/5570963/apple-white-iphones-more-challeng... (see update 2)] the display glass is not painted but screen printed, presumably so it can be translucent for the sensors benea
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
I believe the issue is not in the shade of white but in the degree of translucency of the coating. On all Apple phones up to now the black frame around the screen (or at least parts of it) lets light through for the proper functioning of th
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
MacRuby is not on the iPhone because there is no garbage collected Objective-C runtime on the iPhone, NOT because it is banned.
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
Measuring and comparing the "fastness" of a language is a tricky thing in general, but I think it is safe to say that for most intents an purposes we can consider MacRuby just as fast as Objective-C. The point you seem to be missing is th
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
Although it would have been best if Topolsky et al. had figured this out before they posted the poll, the reason for pulling it is quite sensible. Comparing a device that has sold not that many units yet with a device that is yet to go on s
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
It is a "true".
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
If you go to the developer page (here http://developer.apple.com/safaridemos/ ) you can attempt to run the demos in any browser you fancy. On the consumer accessible page Apple are requiring Safari because they can guarantee that the demo
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
Regardless of the merits of Lala's service, I highly doubt that the biggest music retailer in the U.S. had a reason to be afraid of any competition from them. Certainly not reason enough to be forced to buy them. Apple are infamously frugal
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
There is a meta-ticket tracking just that - http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=4068
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
Google's issue with h.264 is that they are not part of MPEG LA. They don't have a say on licensing fees or terms and as result it becomes theoretically possible for the companies part of MPEG LA (amongst which are Apple and Microsoft, direc
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
But isn't this pretty much what Jobs said in his rant. To quote: "We have routinely asked Adobe to show us Flash performing well on a mobile device, any mobile device, for a few years now. We have never seen it." The way I see it, "we have
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Curated hypocrisy: How Google camouflages its attacks on Apple(counternotions.com)
3 points by lurch_mojoff 16y ago|2 comments
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
"Nothing" and shame will always go hand in hand. But you can always reevaluate what "nothing" means to you. "I created a great family and brought up great kids." "I helped the people in my community." "I managed to stay a decent person." Th
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
True, but Woz, after his initial contribution - Apple][, called it quits on the industry and dedicated his life to hobbies and personal projects. Jobs stayed in the industry and eventually returned to Apple to turn a dying company into one
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
OK, let's be realistic here - this a little bit like saying that since there is GNUstep and GCC, you don't really need a Mac to develop for the iPhone. The bulk of Flash content online is developed with Adobe's authoring tools. That's why
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Steve Jobs' Prescience (Or: Who Wants A Stylus?)(waffle.wootest.net)
90 points by lurch_mojoff 16y ago|65 comments
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
Unfortunately I cannot off the cuff cite a source (if I find one I'll add a link to it, though). I can tell you the context in which I came across this. A couple of months ago there was a story that Adobe were "sabotaging" HTML5 - in realit
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
The working group tasked with creating HTML5 has a charter that defines what are they supposed to work on and deliver. The codec of the content served through the video tag is outside of the scope defined in said charter. Apple, among other
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
W3C is in no way, shape or form "allowing H.264 to infiltrate its way". The HTML5 spec does not require or endorse h.264 or any other codec. Opera's, and Mozilla's I believe, attempt to sneak a codec requirement in the spec (Theora) was sho
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
First, this is mostly a rehash of an Engadget article - little to no original content here. And second, it doesn't really answer the stated question. It enumerates the specs of the device and comes to the tired old conclusion that based on
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
As you were everyone - "...sources say..."
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
It would have been awesome if you had put the effort to state your position instead of slapping two links to Wikipedia and leaving us to infer what you're trying to say. If you are implying that Apple removed the page because they are asham
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
There is no deep conspiracy behind Apple's and Microsoft's support for HTML5 video and h.264. They are adopting HTML5 for video because video is becoming more and more essential part of the web and an open standard for it makes the browsers
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
More importantly they can control how well it does what it does.

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