First... sorry, you're right. I should've addressed SS and AVG directly, rather than you. Corrected as above.
Secondly... no, Rossman has not been given short shrift. At least where bd139 and I are concerned, our opinions are the result of deep-down, depth-first research on exactly what Rossman and his PAC are doing. The legislation he promotes is already so watered-down that by the time it comes back from committee, it will be nothing more than our representatives making another gift to the bastards they're supposed to be regulating. Everything I've seen indicates that Rossman and his PAC know this, and I for one don't trust him or them with a penny.
Bottom line is that if we did get this legislation passed, it will be just like when some corporate lawyer offers a check for thousands of dollars to some poor sod who's been exposed to hazardous waste product in exchange for signing away their right to sue later. The corporations will just point to it and whine that they've already made this concession, which we have no means to enforce without costing the taxpayer billions in the long run.
No, we need to stop begging them to do the right thing and start making them clean up their own mess.
mnem
The only sure fire way of doing that is to stop buying their products until they do clean up their mess. You cannot complain about them and still continue to use their gear, that makes you and everyone else who uses their gear, part of the problem, fact. You have to hit them where it hurts the most, in their wallet.
I do, however, feel the regular iPud at ~US$330 is a steal of deal for the tech and painless user experience you get from it...
I've keep out of this "discussion" but can't let the comments on SD cards pass.
Most, if not all, phones with microSD card compatibility have a slot they have a tray of sonmesort so nothing to stick a coin or similar into. My Samsung has a sealed tray that maintains water resistance. I guess you will argue you said SD card not microSD, but that would be silly, no recent phones (or any I can think of) have used full sized SD cards.
The advantage of an SD card is it is somewhere I can store my photos and data that is fairly secure and can be removed and read in another computer even if the phone has died or been smashed. No, don't consider the cloud to be secure and accessible for this purpose. I may need the data when the network is not available or my phone is dying.
...The advantage of an SD card is it is somewhere I can store my photos and data that is fairly secure and can be removed and read in another computer even if the phone has died or been smashed. No, don't consider the cloud to be secure and accessible for this purpose. I may need the data when the network is not available or my phone is dying.
...Yes, but you are comparing a utilitarian device with an iDevice which is manufactured and marketed as a luxury aspirational brand. Literally comparing apples and oxcarts. The sleek, sealed design is part of the exclusivity that is their stock in trade; this simply is not a reasonable argument.
You don't have to buy Apple. Nobody needs anything they make. Trying to make them be like your Yugo phone is like trying to beat a alligator into a pigeonhole; even if you were successful, what value would be the result? You are not going to ever be able to make people stop wanting an exclusive product, nor make other people stop making those products to sell to them.
No, the solution here is still to fix the core problem of allowing any corporation to command our lives, and forcing them into accountability.
You know... that thing that's been a dirty word since The Gipper played the role of a lifetime... regulation.
First... sorry, you're right. I should've addressed SS and AVG directly, rather than you. Corrected as above.
Secondly... no, Rossman has not been given short shrift. At least where bd139 and I are concerned, our opinions are the result of deep-down, depth-first research on exactly what Rossman and his PAC are doing. The legislation he promotes is already so watered-down that by the time it comes back from committee, it will be nothing more than our representatives making another gift to the bastards they're supposed to be regulating. Everything I've seen indicates that Rossman and his PAC know this, and I for one don't trust him or them with a penny.
Bottom line is that if we did get this legislation passed, it will be just like when some corporate lawyer offers a check for thousands of dollars to some poor sod who's been exposed to hazardous waste product in exchange for signing away their right to sue later. The corporations will just point to it and whine that they've already made this concession, which we have no means to enforce without costing the taxpayer billions in the long run.
No, we need to stop begging them to do the right thing and start making them clean up their own mess.
mnem
The only sure fire way of doing that is to stop buying their products until they do clean up their mess. You cannot complain about them and still continue to use their gear, that makes you and everyone else who uses their gear, part of the problem, fact. You have to hit them where it hurts the most, in their wallet.
I'm not the one complaining aboot them. You are.
I don't feel the value to dollar ratio is there with iPwns. I'm not bd139; I don't rely on the iPwn services Apple provides for my livelihood the way he does.
I do, however, feel the regular iPud at ~US$330 is a steal of deal for the tech and painless user experience you get from it... provided you don't fuckerize it yourself like I did.I will probably buy another for my wife if I can't resurrect daughter's old one cheaply enough... I'm already thinking aboot ways to workaround the crunked-up audio/charge connector and that I borked last time I had my big ol' hamhands inside it. And this time I'll outwit myself and get the extended hummer provision plan along with it, just like bd139 does.
mnem
As regards to the custom chips not every chip etc is going to custom surely? Even if they are, that is still not a reason to make them unavailable via the Apple system.
I do, however, feel the regular iPud at ~US$330 is a steal of deal for the tech and painless user experience you get from it...
OK so you want a portable device to work alongside your existing infrastructure which of course for many of us is Windows and you wanna drop PDF's and the like onto your iPad so to have them on hand in the workshop for mechanical repairs and the like.......trouble is Apple and Windows won't play nice together and you need iTunes as an interface just to get PDF's onto your iPad !
Sure some of your iPad file sys is visible on Windows but try dropping files onto it for convenience of use later.
I do, however, feel the regular iPud at ~US$330 is a steal of deal for the tech and painless user experience you get from it...Would you extend that sentiment to a brand new iPhone straight out of the box?
They do so at the demand of their biggest customers, the American public... who in general don't give a flying fig aboot repairability
OK so you want a portable device to work alongside your existing infrastructure which of course for many of us is Windows and you wanna drop PDF's and the like onto your iPad so to have them on hand in the workshop for mechanical repairs and the like.......trouble is Apple and Windows won't play nice together and you need iTunes as an interface just to get PDF's onto your iPad !
Sure some of your iPad file sys is visible on Windows but try dropping files onto it for convenience of use later.
That one "word" is the reason I asked this question...I do, however, feel the regular iPud at ~US$330 is a steal of deal for the tech and painless user experience you get from it...Would you extend that sentiment to a brand new iPhone straight out of the box?When I bought an iPhone 4, I couldn't even get it to work, without first installing iTunes on my computer...and that piece of software was the most arrogant, invasive, controlling, pain-in-the-ass thing I have EVER had to deal with ... even outdoing AVG on that scale.
They do so at the demand of their biggest customers, the American public... who in general don't give a flying fig aboot repairability.... until the device fails and their anxious pleas to get back irreplaceable photos or other data is greeted with "Sorry. That's impossible. .... Look - Here's a new shiny!" Then someone in a NY repair shop does the "impossible".
[...] ...trouble is Apple and Windows won't play nice together and you need iTunes as an interface just to get PDF's onto your iPad ! [...]
I do, however, feel the regular iPud at ~US$330 is a steal of deal for the tech and painless user experience you get from it...Would you extend that sentiment to a brand new iPhone straight out of the box?
[...] ...trouble is Apple and Windows won't play nice together and you need iTunes as an interface just to get PDF's onto your iPad ! [...]
My wife is extremely angry about the lack of compatibility between the two, it gets in her way constantly.
I'm looking at a new idea: putting an FTP server on the iPad. Have you attempted something like that?
I have one on my Android phone and it is an awesome way to sync to the PC... but who knows, maybe Apple doesn't allow it or something...
Welcome to the "Right to Repair Channel" with Apple bitching and moaning thrown in for good measure and total freaking boredom to some of us readers.![]()
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Sorry, but the last 10 to 15 pages of this thread have been IMHO a waste of time. BUT....it does make it easy to catch up because I skip 90% of it.
They do so at the demand of their biggest customers, the American public... who in general don't give a flying fig aboot repairability.... until the device fails and their anxious pleas to get back irreplaceable photos or other data is greeted with "Sorry. That's impossible. .... Look - Here's a new shiny!"
Sorry, but the last 10 to 15 pages of this thread have been IMHO a waste of time. BUT....it does make it easy to catch up because I skip 90% of it.
I'm looking at a new idea: putting an FTP server on the iPad. Have you attempted something like that?
I have one on my Android phone and it is an awesome way to sync to the PC... but who knows, maybe Apple doesn't allow it or something...
I'm looking at a new idea: putting an FTP server on the iPad. Have you attempted something like that?
I have one on my Android phone and it is an awesome way to sync to the PC... but who knows, maybe Apple doesn't allow it or something...
Even if your FTP server is running FTPS the very idea of running an FTP server on a phone connected to the internet without a firewall and IDS sends shivers down my spine.
Or you could just admit to yourself that privacy in the digital age is a fucking unicorn (or a dragon, if you prefer), start using your iDevices as if someone were always watching, and pay Apple the 99¢ a month to use iCloud as your tertiary backup so that even when you forget your weeklies, you don't suffer too much pain the next time you flush your phone down the loo.
mnem
*to empty room* I know you're listening. hissssssssssssssssss...
They do so at the demand of their biggest customers, the American public... who in general don't give a flying fig aboot repairability.... until the device fails and their anxious pleas to get back irreplaceable photos or other data is greeted with "Sorry. That's impossible. .... Look - Here's a new shiny!"
It never ceases to amaze me that "backups" is not in the dictionary of almost any user. Some of them are lucky, and have professionals managing their devices for them, so those backups do actually exist. For everybody else there is Apple, who do indeed say "Here's a new shiny...", but continue "...setup up with your restored settings from iCloud with all your photos, messages, etc.". Don't forget that much of the price of an Apple device is the infrastructure to support the 'free' 5Gb of cloud storage that they maintain indefinitely for you - which you can whack up to 50Gb for a very reasonable £0.79 a month (two pints of beer a year) or 250 Gb for £2.49 a month (a coffee a month).
Apple also make keeping backups of laptops/desktops managable by the average user. Sure, unlike the phones and iPads it's not all done for them, they have to buy an external drive and plug it in, then turn time machines on, but once that's done they get backups every hour. I have never lost data on an Apple device except by my own stupidity of not turning backups on on one machine or making alternative backup arrangements for that machine (I lost a drive of archived material when the disk it was on went south).