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SJ and Ryan Tate go at it via email at 2AM!
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The app store only exists within different sets of search results. Sure, if you're examining the App Store servers you may discover that porn accounts for a huge percentage but within the store app itself it's hard for anything to overrun it, unless you actively search for something or look at the charts. It's not like you can bring up a list of all the apps.
I'm sure some people would say that fart apps overrun the store yet I haven't seen any in months.
I'm sure some people would say that fart apps overrun the store yet I haven't seen any in months.
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That's because APPLE has been rejecting a lot of stupid and useless apps. In other words, they have control over their store and what gets sold there.
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Mr. Ryan,
You come off as an arrogant and ignorant fool. Good job in embarrassing yourself!
Apple has no obligation to make the device YOU want. It likes to make a profit by making devices what it thinks many people would like to use. If you want flashy stuff in your smartphone or tablet, get one that offers that. Apple stopping isn't stopping you.
Apple is entitled to their product strategy just as much as you are entitled to your stupidity.
You come off as an arrogant and ignorant fool. Good job in embarrassing yourself!
Apple has no obligation to make the device YOU want. It likes to make a profit by making devices what it thinks many people would like to use. If you want flashy stuff in your smartphone or tablet, get one that offers that. Apple stopping isn't stopping you.
Apple is entitled to their product strategy just as much as you are entitled to your stupidity.
Ummm... use the entire quote? Like the part that says you can now get other browsers to use on your IProduct. M$ got sued to add such things.
Now if M$ had a marketplace selling such add on products, you better believe they would use the same tactics. Matter of fact, what apps does M$ offer? Oh, apps made with their XNA software, not even their mobile windows 7 software. They do exercise the same set of controls for their environment.
When I get an update for a XBox game, it arrived to me a week or two after it was submitted. Why? Because M$ wanted to review it, to make sure it doesn't 'break' anything in their Live environment. It's part of their quality control. Do I complain about it, do companies? Yes. Only because it slows down when I get that much needed update, but it is something necessary and it is accepted.
M$ indeed does do the same thing. Am I crying a river over it? No.
Couldn't help but LOL at that last line of Steve Jobs. It's becoming more and more clear the "cult mentality" is coming more from Apple haters than Apple customers. No one forced you to buy a Mac, but here you are whining about it like no other option exists.
But the biggest misconception here is that Apple is sooo much more restrictive than their competitors. Hmmm, let's see, Amazon has an online movie site, does it sell hardcore porn? No. How about the Microsoft Zune store, is there porn there? Does Google allow porn on YouTube? Why no hate directed at those guys?
The cross compiling issue - when Vista was getting ready to come out, Microsoft wanted to give Office the ability to export PDFs. Guess what Adobe did? They sued them, and MSFT was forced to back down. Yup, Adobe, supporter of "open formats," didn't so much like it when their format was the one being taken out of their hands.
But the biggest misconception here is that Apple is sooo much more restrictive than their competitors. Hmmm, let's see, Amazon has an online movie site, does it sell hardcore porn? No. How about the Microsoft Zune store, is there porn there? Does Google allow porn on YouTube? Why no hate directed at those guys?
The cross compiling issue - when Vista was getting ready to come out, Microsoft wanted to give Office the ability to export PDFs. Guess what Adobe did? They sued them, and MSFT was forced to back down. Yup, Adobe, supporter of "open formats," didn't so much like it when their format was the one being taken out of their hands.
A lack of porn applications on the iPhone is not a problem.
The only reason there's so much buzz around the lack of porn apps is because Steve Jobs made a comment saying porn apps will never be approved into the app store. This makes complete sense considering that the app store itself is marketed by Apple to be the premium place to get quality applications. I'm sure they're not happy about the fart applications either, but they know that this doesn't hinder the store's reputation by as much as an overflow of porn applications use.
Personally I am indifferent regarding this decision. As long as the quality, useful, fun and entertaining applications get through, you can consider me a happy and proud iPhone owner.
The only reason there's so much buzz around the lack of porn apps is because Steve Jobs made a comment saying porn apps will never be approved into the app store. This makes complete sense considering that the app store itself is marketed by Apple to be the premium place to get quality applications. I'm sure they're not happy about the fart applications either, but they know that this doesn't hinder the store's reputation by as much as an overflow of porn applications use.
Personally I am indifferent regarding this decision. As long as the quality, useful, fun and entertaining applications get through, you can consider me a happy and proud iPhone owner.
You have the final say on this AFAIC. Love to know if Ryan Tate has a 4chan account.
I've read the same thing, but more of in large cities it's that it's it more time efficient as most right turns or yield on red lights. Making you stop less.
Let me know when Apple controls more than 90% of the phone or computer market. At that point, governments may very well decide that there is a compelling public interest in forcing Apple to help other companies compete against them. But given that Apple has way less than 50% of either market with no real hope of attaining monopoly control, you really can't compare them to MS.
For a behavior to be considered "anti-competitive" (which is what you're implying Apple is guilty of) it must actually reduce competition, not increase it as Apple is doing in both the computer and mobile phone markets.
Whether I buy an iPhone, a Droid, a Blackberry or whatever, the choice is 100% mine. No one needs bizarre theories about "oh so mighty and scary companies" that allegedly tell me what to do and how I am manipulated blah blah blah.
There are other areas that need more attention like banks, military contracts, oil, health care etc. The smartphone market is perfectly fine. Thank you.
Much as I think this planet would be a better place without Nick Denton, he's not going to lose Gawker.Not for long.cvaldes said:
If things really got bad, he'd fire Ryan to preserve his empire. He's probably itching to fire Gizmodo's Chen and Lam.
The guy is completely amoral. He ranks right up there with Carl Icahn as one of the biggest tools on the planet.
Very well put. Generation Me is really starting to grate on me. I'm 35 years old, and while I do think that respect is something that, by and large, is earned... it is also a two-way street. You give respect, you get respect. You act like a jerk who thinks he's entitled, you're not going to get very far.
Gawker Media believes kind of foolishly that they are journalists. I don't consider the National Enquirer staff to be journalists for the same reason I don't consider Gawker Media journalists.
I don't really care what one's view of Apple is or isn't. Brian Lam comes off as a juvenile douchebag in his email, and he admits to engaging in criminal activity by asserting oh woe is Gizmodo, the lengths they had to go to in order to "get the scoop." Guys, there is more than one way to write a story... try writing about something substantial and informative. I know that may take you some time, and not allow you to remain so competitive in order to get those hits you need to put more millions of advertising dollars in the handful of senior staff you DO pay.
But isn't it funny the response that this case is getting... Kids who believe Gizmodo is entitled are bitching at Big Bad Apple for being corporate tyrants, transfixed on the almighty dollar. Forgive my ignorance, but isn't generating business at any expense basically what Gawker Media's editor Brian Lam just argued was his JOB?
Whatever else you want to say, Apple made a tangible product. Lam is just in an awkward position of having to try to spin getting caught with his hands in the cookie jar in order to fabricate a story to sell some ad space... a completely dubious business model considering the "news" they offer has zero intellectual or socially informative value (as opposed to, say, a piece on government waste, local weather or being informed of a crime wave in your area).
Do people actually think that Perez Hilton has any journalistic integrity? Brian Lam is just proving himself to be the Perez Hilton of gadget porn... desperately grasping on to whatever story he can get because they'd already ruined their credibility with stuff like the CES prank... further proof that these yahoos aren't serious journalists.
It's not like I'm not put in the position Lam thinks he is. I run a film website that you've probably never heard of. Why never? Because I don't stoop to such lengths to get a story. I almost got sucked into that mentality a while ago, when I saw another publication gaining ground really fast. But you know how they do it? They scour the net and regurgitate stories that aren't theirs. They use images they don't have permission to use. They blurb about anything just so they can increase their total traffic by casting a larger net of more bullsh-t stories per hour than you can possibly read. They kiss a lot of ass in the industry so they can talk ask Jennifer Connelly stupid questions and get stupid answers. Do I want to be part of that? God no, I have brain cells still rubbing together.
If businesses don't like the fact that I have integrity and I'm not going to shill for them like that ass clown Harry Knowles, or act like a pompous demanding douchebag like Brian Lam, then fine. I can live with that. What I can't live with is selling myself out just so I can talk about the latest color underwear Will f-cking Smith is wearing.
There are enough idiots writing about that kind of fodder for the brain-numbed masses. I'll stick to writing real pieces, even if it means I'm not going to get paid ass loads of money. Isn't that what you guys really want to see when you accuse Apple of being the Big Bad Corporate Wolf?
Or are you so blinded by your need for instant gratification that you err on Gizmodo's side or against Apple's not because of what is right, but what is of greatest convenience to you? If this is the group you belong to, you're the ones that create the appetite for both the product and the gossip, and consequently the very market for corporate conglomerates you pretend to loathe only when they run afoul of your sense of entitlement.
But these same "evil", "orwellian", "money-grubbing" conglomerates are perfectly fine as long as they're satisfying your wants, right?
PBS? Really? You don't strike me as the kind of guy who watches a lot of PBS. You know it stands for "Public Broadcasting Service" and not "Porno Broadcasting Service", right?
Sorry, have to totally disagree with ya...Communist News Network is the worst!