Things can change in the final build, it happened with Lion and other versions. ESPECIALLY things like this and wording. I know there are articles out there comparing developer builds of Lion or Leopard and their final versions.
Is that your default comment for every Apple article?
"the personal computer are designed to work exactly the opposite of what you describe"
Says who? Because the modern computer is basically an appliance, or fast becoming one. As such, companies and their brands are on the hook for making the experience, usage, and support of their products as seamlessly usable as possible.
You can certainly go other routes with alternative OSes or even open source and not bother with this. That's your choice. Just as you can build your own appliances of other kinds of you wanted to. But if you're buying a TV or refrigerator, what it is is what it is. It's clear that average people would rather see their computers that way in terms of product brand and how they use it. They don't want what they see as complexity in it at all. As such, the company brand is responsible. Also, your description simplifies it too much, there are user-facing issues that would seem easy to you or I but complex to the average user or malware that need to be addressed so that you can't have it all in terms of blocking some but letting others through unless there's a control for that.
Is the obvious that invisible to you? This article leaps to conclusions and intentionally creates controversy out of a developer preview build that isn't finely tuned at all, let alone knows what Adium is (especially considering the certification concept which Gatekeeper is looking for and obviously no app has one yet, including Adium, which is why the message box shows). But sensationalism and generating controversy is exactly what Gizmodo does to attract pageviews. In any event, it spins the entire situation into one that doesn't consider or at least explain what's going on but rather harps on a single point of negativity based on ignorance rather than facts and context of it.
Couple comments/links to read:
[gizmodo.com]
[blog.wilshipley.com]
The fact that you consider a consumer electronics device company an enemy is too much.
There was a post once on Gizmodo which called Apple patent trolls when it was the farthest thing from the truth, and commenters put the writer in his place for it. So I give you exhibit A of an actual patent/trademark troll - Proview. Funny that they wouldn't even have the iPad name if they weren't "inspired" (I use that term loosely) by Apple to begin with.
Because you're ill-informed? Because you want to only see one aspect and not the rest so it'll fit your personal bias? Who knows. If you want to know more than that, you'll understand that it's about trade dress, look that up. #devnull
Did you even bother to read the rest of the comments here? I guess they're all just joking then. Hard to tell.
You contradicted yourself, weird. If every current Android device were on 4.0 then yea, they're not fragmented. What's your point? Because every current Mac runs Lion, therefore not fragmented. This situation is just dropping support for older hardware, that's expected. It's legacy. But for Android, even current devices can't run 4.0 despite them being current. Now that's fragmentation.
It's *old* hardware. That's the difference. Old hardware can't run new stuff, that's fairly expected. It's not fragmentation, it's legacy. When current hardware can't run current software/OS or older versions or just different versions altogether running on various multiple devices then that's fragmentation.
lol @ 'someone had to' - no one had to. If you had to, at least define it correctly as this actually isn't it.
You shouldn't have blurted anything. This is called legacy, old hardware can't run new stuff. Fragmentation is when current hardware can't run current stuff, usually where there are a number of devices that run different versions of software/OS even though the devices are current. Why are there so many people who don't get it?
Not. The. Same. Thing.
Exactly - Why does this need to keep being explained to the same people who keep asking the question/trolling about it? It's ridiculous. No, Apple didn't invent it - that's not even necessary. They made it fucking awesome. That's why people say it's fucking awesome. End.
Yea, Apple should've never pushed for HTML5, Flash is clearly better
Yea, I don't get it either. I do know the author of this post made a thread on Reddit pretending to be a dying person and had people ask questions about himself, completely creating a hoax and generally just shitting on the community. But what motivated such a thing.. no idea. Reddit is a really expansive site where the users are in control of most everything in terms of communities and subcommunities.. there are good and there are bad. The tone this article takes is making it out like the entire site is demented when it's only a subgroup. Some people and groups can do some really great things like charitable contributions and making lives better in general or just shooting the shit.. then there are some assholes and weirdos, in a bad way. But I wouldn't label Reddit in that negative light just because the negative light exists. Life has its good and bad and amazing people and creepers too but if you focus on the bad, all you're going to see is bad.
Did you get your star from making bad jokes like that?
Your last sentence reeks of bias and hate - um, yes, their product sales "roared" due to their product portfolio. No shit. You found something to disparage about that, huh? Your Nostrodamus-like prognostication is also off considering you have no specific idea, nor does anyone else, about their future roadmap. Their track record is brilliant and any "hardware adjustments" are obvious. The iPod went through a lot of that too, sounds like a recipe for success to me (coupled with lots of other things in marketing and software and ecosystem and media deals, etc etc etc but don't let that sway your judgment by singling out one aspect to judge the entire platform on). By your definition, Android has been in a constant state of "hardware adjustments" since the first iPhone when it fundamentally switched gears to another version of an iPhone from being another version of a BB device.
And where is the reasoning that they *are* overvalued? I don't see any. Just opinion that they aren't "as big or important as they want to be." Just look around. The truth of the matter is that the iPad has virtually no viable competition, the new iPhone (despite the hate around here) has had record sales vs Android - a single company with a single phone making the most profit out of the smartphone industry. Competitors ride their tailcoat and make it a priority to nick their design chops, consumers have the overwhelming and justified impression of quality in mind share. I'd be very surprised if the value went down anytime soon or for the foreseeable future.
Exactly - it's an issue that far outweighs just badmouthing one company. It not only extends to Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, HP, Dell, or any of the other retail outlets and consumer electronics companies who also heavily employ Chinese labor to build their products, but it's fundamentally about consumer demand and the culture it's created.
