I thought this might be interesting, considering so many of the board members here are big into iPhones.
Article: 5 Reasons you should be scared of Apple
P.S. Its a company, not your grandmother, nobody lose their mind in nerd-rage of this please!
That's one hell of an article. Thanks for posting it.
I own PCs and I own a year old MAC, and I've experienced some of the thinigs mentioned, but that new app they've cooking up (and with any luck, will never launch) that shuts down your phone and ability to make calls if you don't engage one of their unskippabable ads? That's just pointlessly sinister and it would, for me should it happen, make the Iphone a worthless, high priced chunk of someone else's megalomania.
make the Iphone a worthless, high priced chunk of someone else's megalomania.
See, I'm ahead of the times again, I already think that :P
That's one hell of an article. Thanks for posting it.
I own PCs and I own a year old MAC, and I've experienced some of the thinigs mentioned, but that new app they've cooking up (and with any luck, will never launch) that shuts down your phone and ability to make calls if you don't engage one of their unskippabable ads? That's just pointlessly sinister and it would, for me should it happen, make the Iphone a worthless, high priced chunk of someone else's megalomania.
"Apple can further determine whether a user pays attention to the advertisement. The determination can include performing, while the advertisement is presented, an operation that urges the user to respond; and detecting whether the user responds to the performed operation. If the response is inappropriate or nonexistent, the system will go into lock down mode in some form or other until the user complies. In the case of an iPod, the sound could be disconnected rendering it useless until compliance is met. For the iPhone, no calls will be able to be made or received."
Whoa! Where is Apple located again? Nessus?
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but that new app they've cooking up (and with any luck, will never launch) that shuts down your phone and ability to make calls if you don't engage one of their unskippabable ads? That's just pointlessly sinister and it would, for me should it happen, make the Iphone a worthless, high priced chunk of someone else's megalomania.
I'm pretty sure the FCC would be all over that one. I don't think a company can arbitrarily disconnect someone's phone service.
Anyway, I would consider this to be along the same lines as the "pay for Facebook" scenario. The people running the respective companies know that, while their products and services enjoy ubiquitous popularity, there are actually perfectly viable competitors on the market that could readily take their place if their products or services became cumbersome or a nuisance.
Whoa! Where is Apple located again? Nessus?So, does that mean Disney is running the Abyss?
So you're saying Mickey's big mouse ears are just felt horn warmers? Well that's hell toupee indeed!
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So you're saying Mickey's big mouse ears are just felt horn warmers? Well that's hell toupee indeed!
Hell toupee?
Hell toupee.......
Oh, ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.....
....I don't get it.
make the Iphone a worthless, high priced chunk of someone else's megalomania.See, I'm ahead of the times again, I already think that :P
R: "While you're in the future, could you check to see if I'm still alive? And if I'm not, could you please find out the details of my death. I'd really like the chance to sidestep a falling safe or two."
K: "But uh... Rone, you died of exhaustion during a six hour lovemaking session with three beautiful women and five sticks of butter."
R: "Then again, who am I to play with fate?"
Or in the cuisine section. After all, we have butter. Although the butter in question is now anything but food grade.
I was really shocked by the last one, I mena I knew Apple weren't open source friendly, or even flexible about you using anything unperscribed, but that's just corporate tomfoolery!
Or in the cuisine section. After all, we have butter. Although the butter in question is now anything but food grade.
I approve of this use of me. Well, as long as I'm not being applied to The Jade bits.
Or in the cuisine section. After all, we have butter. Although the butter in question is now anything but food grade.I approve of this use of me. Well, as long as I'm not being applied to The Jade bits.
Not applied to directly... but contact was eventually made I'm afraid.
Whoa! Where is Apple located again? Nessus?So, does that mean Disney is running the Abyss?
That would be a safe assumption.
make the Iphone a worthless, high priced chunk of someone else's megalomania.See, I'm ahead of the times again, I already think that :PR: "While you're in the future, could you check to see if I'm still alive? And if I'm not, could you please find out the details of my death. I'd really like the chance to sidestep a falling safe or two."
K: "But uh... Rone, you died of exhaustion during a six hour lovemaking session with three beautiful women and five sticks of butter."
R: "Then again, who am I to play with fate?"
Hm... I wonder whether I should have told him hat the women were his nurses and the butter was the real victim there.
Hm... I wonder whether I should have told him that the women were his nurses and the butter was the real victim there.make the Iphone a worthless, high priced chunk of someone else's megalomania.See, I'm ahead of the times again, I already think that :PR: "While you're in the future, could you check to see if I'm still alive? And if I'm not, could you please find out the details of my death. I'd really like the chance to sidestep a falling safe or two."
K: "But uh... Rone, you died of exhaustion during a six hour lovemaking session with three beautiful women and five sticks of butter."
R: "Then again, who am I to play with fate?"
Well now that makes a lot more sense. :/
Well now that makes a lot more sense. :/Hm... I wonder whether I should have told him that the women were his nurses and the butter was the real victim there.make the Iphone a worthless, high priced chunk of someone else's megalomania.See, I'm ahead of the times again, I already think that :PR: "While you're in the future, could you check to see if I'm still alive? And if I'm not, could you please find out the details of my death. I'd really like the chance to sidestep a falling safe or two."
K: "But uh... Rone, you died of exhaustion during a six hour lovemaking session with three beautiful women and five sticks of butter."
R: "Then again, who am I to play with fate?"
Well, will it console you that your nurses were emotionally scarred for life? They could never eat breakfast again, and whenever someone around them would consume butter, they'd either run away screaming or vomiting uncontrollably all over the place. Usually both.
You're one of those evil-doers who goes for that sort of thing, right?
but that new app they've cooking up (and with any luck, will never launch) that shuts down your phone and ability to make calls if you don't engage one of their unskippabable ads? That's just pointlessly sinister and it would, for me should it happen, make the Iphone a worthless, high priced chunk of someone else's megalomania.I'm pretty sure the FCC would be all over that one. I don't think a company can arbitrarily disconnect someone's phone service.
I don't know. After all, it would be in the contract. And you can continue using the phone after you have interacted with the ad.
Anyway, I would consider this to be along the same lines as the "pay for Facebook" scenario. The people running the respective companies know that, while their products and services enjoy ubiquitous popularity, there are actually perfectly viable competitors on the market that could readily take their place if their products or services became cumbersome or a nuisance.
People already put up with a lot of crap. Apple just keeps on telling their customers that they're hip and better than others when they keep using Apple products, and it will keep on working.
Some might be lost as customers, but as long as the extra profit from the ads is bigger than the losses they take from that.
Well, will it console you that your nurses were emotionally scarred for life? They could never eat breakfast again, and whenever someone around them would consume butter, they'd either run away screaming or vomiting uncontrollably all over the place. Usually both.
You're one of those evil-doers who goes for that sort of thing, right?
<sigh>
::looking down while digging his big toe into a Dupont Stainsaver::
Yeeeeeeees. I think I got it all twisted back when I first figured out that if I folded the Land O' Lakes butter maiden's rosy tipped knees up to her chest they looked like perfect golden bozos. I blame corporate america for my rich creamery depravity!