In what initially appears to be an anticompetitive move, Apple forces Stanza to remove the ability to add books via USB. Apple claims that they are justified because Stanza has to use a private API to access the books because the iPhone is such a shitty platform that it won’t allow you to copy files to it without a work around.
I hope there is a good android phone out there by the time my contract expires. Apple is seriously starting to piss me off.
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Control for the better good?
Honestly I’m not sure how to feel about alot of apple’s practices recently.
As I told you awhile ago I was raped of $5 for an ipod touch software update just to be able to run the most recent version of facebook on the device.
Nothing in recently years really since the ipod fatty I’ve been all that impressed with. Seems like everything they do good they match with something shitty. Also they seemed to really like charging for features that previously were free like remotes, firmware updates, and mattte displays.
Mostly it all comes down to the “rage” of subscription models, micropayments and the rape of america a dollar at a time to do next to almost anything technology related.
Yeah, I am pretty pissed about a lot of the things Apple has been doing lately. I really wish that you could get the adobe creative suite for linux, then I would at least have the option of abandoning OS X.
The first 6 episodes of season 1 of 24 were some of the best hours of television I’ve ever seen. Really tight script, really well acted the list goes on. It’s a shame they screwed up the rest of season 1 but they’d made their mark in the sand by that point and changed the way we look at television. Even if you didn’t like 24 it raised the bar and the rest of the TV market was all the better for it.
I’ve recently started watching Season 3 of 24. And, well. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve heard someone use the phrase “You just have to trust me!”, seen someone break the rules, stopped caring about the body count, watched Jack pull off yet another episode where he’s operating “outside of parameters”. It’s all got a bit familiar, you learn to spot from a million miles away who is going to be held hostage and that at the end of the episode something will happen that makes what we know at that point completely pointless.
Apple’s iPhone SDK contains the following line about apps submitted to the store :
“must not use or call any unpublished or Private APIs”
Developers using Private APIs are the Jack Bauers of the iphone development world. I’m on the fence as to whether they’re just trying hard to get their app working and out there however they can for the greater good. Or whether I’m tired of seeing Jack get away with breaking this rule yet again and would quite like to see the book (see what I did there?) get thrown at him.
Soon they will have a Napster/Zune inspired iTunes Music Store subscription model that will be paid though state taxes.
I love my iPod and my Mac has been a decent computer.
Within the next few years I’m going to have to upgrade my computer at some point and sadly I don’t have a clue what I’m going to do I hate pretty much everything related to technology these days.
Four-letter words and crude speech really don’t advance the discussion much! They reflect more on the writer than the produce or company being criticized!
Still, I agree 100% with you! Cutting of Stanza’s access (I’ll have to explore this more) is very bad news. Are they doing it with every other program that connects this way? I’ll bet not… in which case, this is related to the launch of the iPad and iBooks. I just hope they’ll be smart enough to permit all the ebook readers on the iPad– if they don’t they’ll have trouble.
Still, I’m buying an iPad as soon as it comes out!