GoofballJones

He doesn’t do that in interviews. And he’s just being pedantic prick about it.

Ah, and another one, but with the added BS of “OMG! You’re hurting society!”

Mkay...

Then we need a story like this article confirming that do this too. So far the evidence points to “no”, but that isn’t enough. The transparency report from Apple needs to report this as well.

The RMS defense. Like when he’s asked about Linux and he says he doesn’t know what that is unless you specially say “GNU/Linux”

I’ve been both inside and outside that walled garden. I increasingly prefer life inside the wall.

But that’s just me. What concerns me is the tribalism of people. “OMG! You use THAT phone/computer/OS?!?! I would NEVER use that!” Then go on to explain why their buying choices are better than yours. Look at the replies here, they’re rife with it.

It’s not the same. These are border guards easily putting spyware on Android phones, since it’s a feature of Android (to load programs). With iOS, you’d have to jailbreak it first, which isn’t a trivial thing to do “while you wait” at the border.

That’s all.

I know it's trendy to hate on Apple in this type of community, but why is all the blame for their unrepairability laid at his feet? Did he decide all that on his own? He DID have bosses, yes? They have meetings on all this stuff. Someone sat in a meeting and told Ive to "design it so it's a closed system" or whatever.

Don't get me wrong, Ive was a huge part of it, no doubt. But he didn't do this alone.

I keep forgetting that the the great coders like Avie Tevanian are long-gone from Apple.

The last part of the review says it all.

That's what I'd like to know also. And if so, what is stopping a group of people from forking Chromium and building one that can turn it off? Chromium is open source, yes?

With everyone crying and complaining about Firefox on this thread, why not all get together and fork THAT browser too? There have been forks of software before...some MUCH bigger than a browser. Take MATE forking off from Gnome 2 when people didn't like Gnome 3 at the time. Look at LibreOffice. Why should Chromium or Firefox be any different?

Just a question on principles...as someone elsewhere here has stated that this article is out of date and that you can, in fact, disable Widevine in Chrome 57.

But either way, let's say you couldn't disable it...and that it was also the case in Chromium. Couldn't someone fork Chromium and put out a new browser with that disabled? Chromium is all open source, yes? So what's stopping someone from doing that?

My sister-in-law got us tickets to go see him about 10 years ago. I went, thinking that the "concert" was just going to be him dancing around and goofing off to pre-recorded music and things like that. WOW, was I blown out of the water.

He has one of the tightest bands I've ever heard. I mean, they played live and hit everything almost perfectly. I later find out he's been touring with the same people for decades, and they are at the top of their game musically. I went in being a fan of his music, but came out with so much respect for him as just a shear musician.

Where are you getting that they're planning on selling your data? Source for this? From everything I've heard, they're doing the opposite.

I used to goof around on this at the place I worked, which had an SGI Indigo II with it install.

Just goofed around with it, never actually "used" it in any meaningful way.

Yeah, I don't get that amount. I mean, Ford or GM isn't even worth that much are they?

I'm sorry, I can't subscribe to this idea.

I have a finite time in my life, and there are way too many books for me to read. There are so many books I want to read that it's literally going to take me a lifetime as it is...so every book I re-read is a new book I'll never get to read.

Now write the game "Rust" in Minecraft.

no, not yet, but from what I understand they'll be implementing it slowly.

I mainly got it though because getting 1TB cloud storage for the price is still cheaper than Box or Google Drive or Dropbox, the "unlimited" is just icing.

It's what works for you. Honestly, I love cloud storage. I decided to go with Microsoft's OneDrive because it has unlimited storage, and if there's any data that I need encrypted, I can just encrypt a folder on the sync-drive.

Just remember to have a back-up of your photos and other digital things that you can't lose at an off-site location also. There are several solutions that can do this that doesn't involve the "cloud".

I love the cloud though. Could it be compromised? Maybe. Could a fire happen in my house where I lose everything? Maybe. But as it stands now, I could walk away from everything I own, walk into a store and pick up a cheap laptop and access all my data again. But that's just me.

Some people are paranoid about their privacy and data (and a justifiable paranoia, don't get me wrong), but use a solution that works for _me_ personally. Everyone is different and will need a different solution. There's really no one-size-fits-all.

Saturation and people are satisfied with what they have.

Take my mother-in-law (please) for example. She does _everything_ on her iPad. Banking, email, surfing the web. She literally (yes, literally) hasn't touched her desktop computer in years.

But, she's still only on an iPad 2. She'll run that into the ground before she'll get another. She loves it, but isn't on any "upgrade cycle", the same for many people.

Now, it would be different if iPad sales were down 18%, yet Android or Windows tablet sales were rising to fill in that gap. As it is, _all_ tablet sales are down.

Sorry, I've been on "open systems" and walled gardens and at this point in my life, I prefer the walled garden.

Whenever I wanted to do something in an "open system", it usually turned into a giant pain-in-the-ass or I got preached/yelled at by everyone. "oh, sorry, you don't have a driver for that yet. Maybe write one yourself and put it on github? Oh sorry, this system doesn't support that format because that format is bad and it kills baby seals and blah blah blah. Oh, don't use _that_ distribution because _that_ Linux distro spies on you and they're in bed with Amazon and they're literally Hitler. Oh, want to run this piece of software? Sorry, that's not available on this "open system", but here's a hacked-together piece of crap that's just as powerful...so I hear..."

I'm old and tired and just want to sit down to something that works. Is that asking too much?

I'm on a 2013 Macbook Pro right now. I've had zero problems with it. It's fast, reliable, quality hardware with a battery that lasts me around 10 hours a day (if I use Safari, if I use Chrome it cuts the battery down to 7-8 hours...it's really a hog now).

BUT, I'm in the market for a new Laptop. I'm one of the few people that liked the announcements from Microsoft about Windows 10 and honestly, I'm bored with Mac right now. So I'm looking at good laptops that will exceed or at least meet the quality and battery longevity of the Macbook Pro. So I'm seriously looking at the new (not out yet, but announced) Thinkpad T250s. Great keyboard and unique Track-point mouse (always intrigued me), battery life near 20 hours (with the extra 6-cell battery option), durable build (like a tank), and the ability to dock it. Not to mention I could also throw Linux on it without any problems (Linux on this Macbook Pro is spotty at best, as some things work, some are wonky...same with Bootcamp and Windows).

But bottom line is, which platform you choose doesn't really matter much anymore. I could switch over to Windows from being 100% Apple for the past 8 years and not have much of a problem.

The very first thing he said was "he hates plastic".

And keyboard preference is just that, preference. I personally like my Macbook Pro's keyboard to my Thinkpad's. Weird how opinions work. But maybe this guy would actually like the Thinkpad's keyboard...he should go try one out. Do Best Buy's carry them? Are Best Buy's still around?

Weird, productivity was the reason I quit Linux. I spent nearly half my time 'tweaking' things to make it run the way I wanted, instead of getting things done. I honestly love Yosemite. Still searching for the "iOSification" people talk of though.

Meh, to each their own. It always amuses me though that people have to tell the world why they're going to switch to a different OS.

Cool, so I'll just find a French friend in a tiny village in the Beaujolais region of France where I can just go stay for two weeks doing nothing but learning French. SO easy to learn French!

I tend to agree with you, I find the guy pretty much a pretentious, unpleasant person. I may have written what you said in a different manner though.

> I wish people would stop saying that.

Really? I thought I had an original thought there for a second. So, someone, somewhere, agrees with me out there.

It's a great OS.

I mean, Emacs is an OS, right? They've certainly crammed enough things into it to make it an OS.

It's how you use Twitter though. Many people forget about Lists. I have a list dedicated to News tweets, such as the BBC, and Reuters, and NY Times...things like that.

Then I have another list for Tech news, and put several different tech websites feeds on it. Then one just for tech journalists (where yes, sometimes you see off-subject tweets, but I _know_ that I may see that sometimes, but you can have a quick interaction on what they say.

I open up a multi-pane client like TweetBot or TweetDeck, then have different lists per pane. I can go through a lot of information in a short amount of time this way.

The EU has it out for Google in particular. Why don't they go after the sites that have the information in the first place?

Regardless, if you have a news story about you, that you did something, it should be there as information forever. If the story is correct, then it's there. 20 years from now, you shouldn't have the right to say to some search engine that just happens to index it that you don't want it indexed anymore. The facts are still the same. The news story is still accurate. The site that has the news story still has it. Just because it may paint you in a negative light 20 years ago still doesn't mean you get the right to expunge that from the public record.

The implications of this are just chilling and far reaching.