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All of this has happened before, All of this will happen again

by thomasfitzgerald on 11. Apr, 2010 in Apple, iPad, iPhone, iPod

I’m getting kind of tired of all the rhetoric that is been written about the whole Apple / Flash thing. I realise too that I’m beginning to sound like an Apple fanboy. Mind you, that’s the only reason some people get away with writing what they want, because they pre-emptively label anyone who disagrees with them an Apple fanboy. As per usual when people are talking about Apple, they collectively lose their fricken’ minds. Take this wonderful piece from an article on Tech Crunch:

…. The iPhone faces a growing threat from Google’s Android phones, which are the PCs of the mobile world. Only Apple makes the iPhone, but many phone manufacturers make Android phones just like many PC makers produce Windows PCs. Slowly but surely, those Android phones are getting better.

Sound familiar? Replace Android Phones with Mp3 Players and iPhone with iPod. Apple’s so called walled garden we keep hearing about that’s going to destroy the company? Why that sounds awfully like how Apple not licensing it’s DRM to other companies was going to destroy the company, or how not licensing OS X was going to destroy the company.

Sorry Erick Schonfeld of Tech Crunch, Jobs isn’t the one ignoring history, you are. Your article is just selectively handpicking events to justify your point.

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Psystar halts sales of clone Macs

by thomasfitzgerald on 03. Dec, 2009 in Apple, Technology

Looks like the Psystar Saga might finally be over.

From AppleInsider:

Less than 24 hours after its $2.675 million settlement with Apple was revealed, Psystar has removed all of its unauthorized machines equipped with Mac OS X for purchase from its online store.

[Read AppleInsider | After Apple agreement, Psystar officially halts sales of clone Macs]

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The Rogue Amoeba Calamitous Conundrum

by thomasfitzgerald on 16. Nov, 2009 in Apple, Mac, Software, Technology, iPhone

I had refrained from commenting on the whole situation regarding rogue amoeba’s decision to stop developing for the iPhone because the whole thing had me seeing red with anger. No, not anger at Apple for it’s “unreasonable” app store policies, but anger that the story had gotten so much attention and that people weren’t calling rogue amoeba out for this bullshit. First of all, they claimed that tat the first rejection was ambiguous. Unless you’re suffering from a concussion, when Apple tells you your app is being rejected because it uses their copyrighted images, and you know you’re using Apple images, regardless of where they came from, to claim that you weren’t sure what they were referring to is disingenuous at best.

Then there’s the way the story has been picked up by others. People are claiming that Apple delayed a bug fix of the software by three months, but this is simply not true. They told Rogue Amoeba what they had to do, but rather than comply they decided to stick to their guns. Make no mistake, it was rogue amoeba who caused the three month delay in getting a bug fix out to their customers, not Apple. John Gruber (whom I greatly respect) goes on the defence for RA claiming that the use of copyright statement is not in the SDK (it’s right there in black and white) and that they had no way of knowing that this was a violation until they had developed and submitted the App, because the details of the infringement were only in the rejection letter. This isn’t true though because it’s right there in the agreement. Gruber even posts the relevant section from the SDA agreement where it references the acceptable use of Apple logos and Images which contains the exact language of the rejection letter word for word. I also find it ridiculous that they claimed they weren’t sure why it was being rejected, but waited till the second rejection before they emailed Apple to get clarification.

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Some Sanity after the 10.6.2 Atom Bomb

by thomasfitzgerald on 03. Nov, 2009 in Apple, Software, Technology

Finally someone succumbs to rationality in the ridiculous story that has been doing the rounds the last few days. I was trying to work up the energy to respond to the nonsense myself |(but I’ve been sick with a bad bacterial flu and bronchitis) but thankfully Ars Technica has seen calm amid the phoney outrage. In case you missed it, some hacker on his or her blog noted that the code pertaining to the CPUs in an unreleased 10.6.2 has been changed significantly and that the side effect of this is that the Intel Atom CPU is no longer supported. This in turn means that popular hackintosh netbooks would no longer work with 10.6.2. This caused the collective mental implosion of nerds all over the internet with cries of outrage at this heinous crime. So from one hackers blog post about code changes in an unreleased version of OS X within a few hours it had become Apple declaring war on the hackintosh community. From a report that Apple my be removing support for Atom CPUs the leap was made to “Apple is disabling Atom processors” Considering Apple has never made a system with an Atom CPU, the fact that some people felt entitled to continued Atom support is hilarious. But it is the adamance by many, that this is some sort of malicious move on Apple’s, with no evidence whatsoever other than a blog post on some random hacker’s blog, that is just shocking.

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