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by rbarooah 15y ago
In that case you've successfully invalidated the parent poster's claim that posts critical of Google are only made by iPhone owners. Either way shows the parent post to be a baseless ad-hominem.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I thought the whole selling point of Android is that it is not tightly controlled.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Those are not criticisms of Google the company. They are minor feature gripes about products. This supports my point.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
It seems like a rhetorical question.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Press the 'reader' button in safari.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
What proof are you speaking of?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
In other words Android users don't criticize Google . edit: It is hardly a big reveal that this correlation exists. Presumably people's opinions have an influence on how they choose to spend their money and vice-versa. Singling out 'Apple
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by rbarooah 15y ago
It's easy to point to Alan Kay's research and then wistfully say that it will hopefully bear fruit one day, but that actually does a disservice to anybody working on today's systems that treat the user as a mature, self-actualizing owner -
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Instead of being introduced to a world full of self determination and limitless possibilities (as early computer adopters were), modern day users are shown a standard no-free-lunch world where "they either get you coming or going". Develop
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by rbarooah 15y ago
By #3 I was referring to the parent's 3rd comment about the focus on improving the toolchain and runtime. I doubt that you're serious about the jailbreak comment. By far ahead, I was referring to the deployment of code signing technology.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I agree with your first point, but I disagree that it makes Mac OS into a 'display terminal'. Particularly since although hoops are being introduced for good reason, there is no evidence that Mac OS X will be closed in the way iOS is. Your
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by rbarooah 15y ago
It's not an arbitrary dichotomy, it's a factual one. Mac OS doesn't resemble a centrally controlled 'display terminal' at all, whereas Chrome OS does. You also didn't answer the part about trusted code.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
1. Where are those bug searching tools used? 2. I'd agree that the outreach program is something that Apple clearly hasn't done. 3. Apple clearly is doing this too. HP's work on secret agents in the 90's shows that you can't prove code to b
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Are you sure you're not talking about Chrome OS? Also, what's your proposal for establishing the trustworthiness of code?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
You didn't answer my question. You've offered a vague opinion about appearances. If you had answered my question you would be able to pick out at least one thing that Microsoft had done that Apple had not. You said: Microsoft did their jo
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by rbarooah 15y ago
You dodged the question. You haven't listed a single thing that Microsoft has done that Apple has not. You are right that Microsoft started to take security seriously before Apple did, but Apple is not still behind. http://www.theregister.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
What do you think Microsoft has done that Apple has not?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
It may be consistent but suing over standards essential patents is dishonest. Arguably it's worse than what Apple and MS are doing.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Their refusal to clarify what they intend to do with Motorola's standards essential patents groups them in with Apple and MS.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Just to be clear - you do get that I agreed with you in my previous comment? I even went as far as to mildly echo Sayre's comment about economic nationalism. Having said that, these quotes are good to see.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I agree that it's achieving the goal of pushing Apple to improve working conditions although given that they started their improvement program in 2006, it's highly debatable whether the recent outrage has achieved anything that wasn't alrea
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Lord of the rings draws its dramatic tension from evil and the threat or violence and death instead of sex.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Nokia isn't doing the most to improve working conditions. Apple is.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I didn't say it wasn't working. I just think don't think it's helpful to claim it's the best way. [edit: one reason I think it's unhelpful is that it legitimizes misleading reporting, which is itself a great harm]
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I'd definitely agree that trade at gunpoint is on the same spectrum as war. I can see how you get from there to all protectionism being on that spectrum too. Short of eliminating national borders, I don't see how this would go away.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Since they are doing the most to improve working conditions, perhaps they deserve more profit.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Targeting Apple has proven to be the best vehicle for that. Do you have any evidence at all for this? How do you know that targeting other companies too wouldn't be more effective?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
So do you think that Samsung for example, has less responsibility for its worker's conditions than Apple?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I'd suggest that war is different because with protectionism one side can choose not to trade if they don't like the terms, whereas one cannot simply choose not to participate in war.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Summary: If it there was a straw man, you'd be able to identify the argument that it was being used to win. You can't, so there is no straw man.

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