12-21-2012, 02:24 PM | #76 | |
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If you're not locked into something, you'll be a criminal. What should happen is that your licenses are transferred when you move from one closed system to another, but consumers do not have enough money to bribe, er, influence the politicians who make these laws. |
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12-21-2012, 03:52 PM | #77 | |
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From the Wall Street Journal:
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12-21-2012, 04:20 PM | #78 | |
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It's fine to disagree with my opinion, but please stop playing these childish games. |
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12-21-2012, 04:21 PM | #79 |
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Kenny,
You know what Jerry Seinfeld would ask about that WSJ report, don't you? |
12-21-2012, 04:25 PM | #80 |
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12-21-2012, 04:44 PM | #81 | |
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Your understanding of these events is that they make Apple likely to exclude those services from iOS in the future. Why would that be? Why is Business Insider gossip more relevant to you than the actual historical record? Today, Apple promotes Google Maps as the top-ranked mapping solution in its iOS store. It is the first app you see when you click on this: If anything, the historical record shows Apple has a consistent willingness to tolerate and even encourage rival services on its platform. The reason for doing so is that the vast majority Apple's revenues come from hardware, not services or software. The better iOS is, the more iPhones and iPads they sell. I'm sorry, but you have misunderstood the company's business model, its history, and its motivations. There is not much to take seriously in your argument. Don't be rude, Kenny. It's the least courtesy you could extend to those of us who patiently tolerate your terrible jokes and pointless linkspam day in and day out. Last edited by holymadness; 12-21-2012 at 04:48 PM. |
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12-21-2012, 04:50 PM | #82 |
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Oh please. I assume you haven't been living under a rock for the last few months and are aware that this is only the case because Apple's own mapping solution was such a monumental failure. Why would you insult us by assuming we don't know that?
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12-21-2012, 04:54 PM | #83 | |
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Apple has had that button prominently featured on the front page of its app store since a few days after the release of iOS 6. |
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12-21-2012, 04:57 PM | #84 | |
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You could never purchase books through the iOS Kindle app, you always bought them through a web browser. The only impact of the Apple change was that Amazon removed a button from the Kindle app that switched to their page in Safari for you. They did not introduce a web app to 'get around' the change. |
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12-21-2012, 04:57 PM | #85 |
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12-21-2012, 05:09 PM | #87 |
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Thanks. I appreciate your compliments (whilst noticing your lack of any real response).
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12-21-2012, 05:12 PM | #88 |
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Wow, the end of the world really brings 'em out eh?
Maybe we did cross over....hmmm.... |
12-21-2012, 05:16 PM | #89 | |
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If you mean your bizarre objection that in the future, I should spell out common knowledge as if I were talking to illiterates, then I'm sorry I tried to write as if for an adult audience. In the future I will keep your special needs in mind. |
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12-21-2012, 05:29 PM | #90 | |
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