Posts by Aylee 7 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Feb 2010
An idea for those who need to manage a lot of computers. Apparently if you subscribe to Logmein Central (normally £200, but 50% off if you are a new subscriber), then you still get to use up to 100 free Logmein host subscriptions with that type of account, and Central is not affected by this change (apparently no plans to do so, but you never know).
My HTC Hero has been running Android 2.1 for the last month. Sure, I had to upgrade it myself, but it was hardly rocket science. The problem with Apple users is they expect to be spoon fed everything. I have no objection to Apple making things easier, but their user base seems to have stopped thinking for themselves.
Sure, my year old HTC Hero is a little slow, but I have played with the iPhone 3GS and the HTC Desire, and the latter wins by a mile in terms of battery life, features and usability.
Flash is a DEFACTO standard numb-nuts, it's pretty much everywhere, despite Jobs having his head up his a***.
The App Store may break even, but it sells hardware for Apple. Now if Apple allowed Flash then possibly less people would buy from the App store, and then it would start losing money (i.e. become a COST) instead of just breaking even, eating into Apples profits.
So YES, Apple makes money from the App store because it helps them make a profit from their hardware. Think things through before you state so called "FACTS".
Open in this regard generally means "open source" or "open to extension or use without royalty".
Just because the specification is documented does not make it "OPEN"! A patent is documented and the specification is freely available, but you wouldn't call THAT open!
So h.264 is NOT "open" by any definition of the word in the software community.
If it were just Flash, that would be one thing. However, the lockin to iTunes, the proprietary connectors, the lack of multitasking (inspite of consumer complaints), the suing of bloggers, the alleged patent infringement --- all add up to Draconian.
Besides, as I said, it is not just Flash, Apple want to control everything regarding their platform. Can you imagine what would happen if they got as big as Microsoft? How many other software companies would go to the wall because they were prevented from competing on equal terms because they were locked out of the Apple platform.
Already iTunes is a near monopoly!
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