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I have ADHD and am organizationally challenged and was hoping to get away from lugging laptops when I travel. Not to mention the ADD-driven urge to have multiple copies of reading devices "in case one breaks." ![]() If, in the end, I can't use my iPad or iPhone with the kindle app to access my library, it won't be a disaster, but it shreds my "contingency backup" plan and my "everything in one format on one app" plan. Don't worry, I already know I'm nuts, but I do try to make things easier to make up for it. ![]() |
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I even question how they can enforce such a policy anyway. One I am not certain it is legal to do unless Apple tries to claim the iPad is a carry around version of the set-top cable or satellite box. And even then since Apple has not been enforcing this policy it could well be that voids the clauses associated with it to begin with. So users who purchased under the original agreement could have a potential case? I dunno, legal stuff always is a rats nest but I have learned over the years one thing about contracts, especially very restrictive contracts which weigh heavily in the favor of the stronger party, such contracts are rarely enforceable and even illegal in some states. I know Apple has a large set of buildings full of liars, errrr, lawyers so the wording is likely as complex as possible to ensure no concrete interpretation. I am doubly disappointed since for the first time, after playing around with a Touch 4th gen for a couple weeks, I was seriously considering an iPad as my tablet device solution even if I was forced to use iTunes to manage it, assuming I did not jailbreak it but I really do not want to add that layer of fiddling to any device I buy for increased productivity. ![]() BTW, I also agree with you, I want my devices to match OS wise as much as possible. And barring that I want them to be at minimum data compatible with the ability to share data and intercommunicate without any significant barriers. It's one of the reasons I have balked at the iPad to begin with, the whole connectivity issue. Requiring users to use a hardwired connection for even very limited access to my own files or to use some kludgey 3rd party deal like Dropbox to "share data" is not, in my definition very inoperable or acceptable. It's why I am waiting to see the iPad 2. Quote:
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But my own memory about this has faded over the years. But I do remember there was something along those lines in place. So this whole thing is not 100% new to The Apple Way. I wonder if a lot of the return to this behavior can be linked to the ups and downs of Jobs' health. Poor health, especially the sort he is dealing with, can really affect a person's cognitive ability and make a person prone to manipulation by those trusted inner-circle sorts. Or it can cause a person to become quite bitter and angry in which case this could be a case of Jobs sort of acting out to vent on the people he has always loathed, his customers. Of course this decision could simply be from the "new guard" which is not running the show with Jobs on medical leave. Still, I can see some bean counter getting wood just thinking about trying to enforce the ability to charge sellers of products and services for the ability to let users decide what programs they want to install and what content can be used on the devices those users were under the impression they actually bought. If the situation is really as we out here have inferred from the Apple agreements and news releases, then Apple is really moving to hardware as a subscription and computers "sold" as if they are no different than a cable box. It could be why Jobs was very careful to avoid calling the iPad a computer, instead he seemed to always refer to it as a content consumption device. Playing words games like this would seem very intended to deceive the end user who has been conditioned to understand the hardware, once paid for, is theirs to use as they see fit. |
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"...but I'm feeling much better now...." hahaha...I guess one had to actually watch the scene because it was so freaking funny. Here from the wiki entry: Quote:
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Apple...d-182151.shtml This article claims that Apple hasn't changed anything in their agreement but simply enforcing the existing one. edit: in that same article there seems to be mention of a new change. ![]() I'll stand by initial assertion... it is still too early to start placing blame. All parties involved are being deliberately obtuse... maybe to gauge the winds of commentary to see who will blink first. Last edited by WillysJeepMan; 02-02-2011 at 06:14 PM. |
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Apple seems within its rights to start enforcing the apps agreements with developers. As a consumer, all I needed to know was that that might limit my access to books, if not now, later. As snipenekkid says, we buy devices for the convenience of accessing our content. If Apple is undermining that feature, I don't have reason to keep buying. |
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