xtractinator

>>I sympathise with the sentiment expressed but must point out that there is no market force that prefers un-established open products to established walled gardens save for a fraction of hackers' tastes and preferences.

Oh, yes there is, it's called change.

Nice advert for Apple computers.

Employers disarm their employees right to complain by providing them services for free? What an awful situation.

It's not just about having alternative options, or "hating that people enjoy Apple" about doing things an effective and efficient way. Being efficient is something we all care about because we're all on the same planet. Being locked into a certain vendor's way of doing things is a Bad Thing™, and definitely not efficient. We already learned this with Microsoft... I guess everyone has to learn the hard way that not caring about your tools, paying someone else to care, and then expecting them to "just work" is not a effective way to do anything.

Nope, you should blame a market that buys computers but doesn't care about computers. What you get is Apple.

No, they have command line interfaces.

I'm weary of using structured data, that is data that is structured in such a way that you don't need to understand what it's passing around. Keeping it simple means that the developer will always know exactly what data is being passed around.

This is important for a lot of reasons not all of them are related to only development as a job.

Because Apple solves all the hardest problems.

Large companies have known for a long time that your dataset is more important than your algorithms.

Data is facts and algorithms are basically opinions of the developer. A smarter developer may have more correct opinions on how data is related, but it will always be skewed by the limited perspective of the developer.

They are offering new self-service tools for lowering your bill, using your instances effectively.

Yes, there was an app that had a back-door built into it so the app could be secretly used to jail-break the device it was running on. This was pulled from the market.

I keep seeing this argument pop-up. That we should just ignore Apple because it makes their users happy. Or

"whining geeks have no affect on Apple and it's users, we should just stop paying attention to them" Obviously, that's wishful thinking. Computer experts will always pay attention to what most people are using and the markets that drive it, and other people who care what smart people think will continue to seek their opinion, because they are right.

Not really interested in why this has become a standard tactic by some... but it's not gaining any ground, so you can just stop it.

The way I type changes dramatically from day to day, depending on my emotion. Sometimes I top very choppily at 35wpm, and sometimes I type like a waterfall flowing over rocks in waves at 120wpm. There's no way that this method would work reliably for me.

This is how Apple users think, and this article is a prime example of the hyperbole and posturing that is Apple.

There's many ways to turn a profit.

I'd really like to understand what hugely difficult technical issues you're talking about. Funding the development of a new higher DPI display?

Doesn't matter. Apple maps needs flash to be displayed. iPhones don't support flash. Everyone who uses Apple machines has no choice unless they want to use a 3rd party app that isn't integrated into Siri and iCloud.