Apple Leaves Customers Smoking
Apple cares for your health… NOT!
Fact is we really wouldn’t give a damn about this story if Apple just had it in writing that smoking may violate your “AppleCare” agreement.
But no, Apple does what Apple pleases and thanks largely to the fanbois, they get away it it.
This gets added to my list of why not [...]
Apple Defends It’s Crazy Policies
What must feel like another slap in the face to its iPhone developers, Apple fully defends and deflects blame for its iphone policies.
Two Sources, the first, TC:
Phil Schiller Grants Interview About Apple’s App Store, Claims Devs Actually Like Approval Process
Phil Schiller, Apple’s SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing, is back on his one-man crusade to defend [...]
Latest Google Offering: G-Evil
We love Google, heck we can’t name a single day in the past 3 years (or more) that we have not used their search… and we love Youtube, we find ourselves increasingly using the online streaming service instead of downloading pirated content (again, just goes to show: if there are viable alternatives even the most [...]
BS Vs. BS – Fair Use Contributes 2.2 Trillion!
Big content (which comprises the companies that pay the RIAA/MPAA/BSA etc) loves to throw bogus numbers around: XX billion lost to piracy of movies, XX billion lost to piracy of music, XX billion lost to piracy of software etc.
While these numbers are quickly (almost immediately) debunked on sites like Ars, TechDirt , Wired etc they [...]
Prized Devs Leaving iPhone In The Dust
Continued issues with the App Store approval process are prompting developers to shun the platform entirely. Though there are tens of thousands of other developers pumping out over 100,000 iPhone apps, will continued migration away from iPhone development result in less quality software for the platform? Worse yet, will users even care?
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Apple’s control over the [...]
Facebook: Devs vs Apple
(There is a related article on this right here at eZee)
In July of last year, I wrote about The New Apple Walled Garden. The post was about the irony of developers and advocates who were otherwise open standards and open source champions being absolutely pro-iPhone, a platform that is closed and proprietary in every sense. [...]
Facebook iPhone Dev Quits Over Apple Tyranny
“My decision to stop iPhone development has had everything to do with Apple’s policies.” – Joe Hewitt
Facebook developer Joe Hewitt, the man behind the immensely popular Facebook application for iPhone, has just tweeted that he’s done with the project:
“Time for me to try something new. I’ve handed the Facebook iPhone app off to another engineer, [...]
‘Pirate’ reports Anti-Piracy Mob To the Police!
Here’s one guy who certainly cares about the visitors to his site, if only Hollywood and the music industries cared half as much about their consumers instead of treating them like scum they wouldn’t be in the mess they are today trying to forcefully stuff the genie back into the bottle.
From Torrent Freak:
LinkoManija.net is the [...]
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