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Comment Re:Just like Siri... (Score 2) 402

Well, thats just because you're an ignorant idiot who either can't read or hasn't actually owned an iPhone so you really don't have any clue what the fuck you're talking about :)

And you're a very pleasant individual yourself, sir! (smiley face).

And what if the user, just like the majority of computer users, just hits OK to close whatever dialog box that popped up? "Well then it's their own fault!", I suppose Mr. Superior I'm-Not-An-Ignorant-Nor-An-Idiot would say.

Comment Re:Just like Siri... (Score 3, Insightful) 402

Yeah, the first iPhone OS was well thought-of and intuitive, but after that it just relies on the user having to know some secrets to get it to work, e.g., who would've figured out that double-tapping the Home button on the lock screen would load Siri? That to move icons, group or delete apps on the home screen you have to hold them until they wiggle, and to group them you have to drag one onto another? Intuitive my butt...

Not that Android apps are any better. On some apps, hitting back actually means "go to the previous screen", even if that means leaving that app. But on my music player, if I load it, it goes to the "Now Playing" screen, which is the least useful screen since I can pause or skip songs on that screen, but I can do that from outside the app as well, so why would it show me that screen? Ok this is just nitpicking, it can't read my mind. But usually I open up the music app because I want to load up a different song. So I press the music app icon, I see the "Now playing" screen. Let's see, how do I see all songs? I press the menu button. No such option. I hit back. Ah, there it is. Real fucking intuitive..!

Comment Re:How do we work this (Score 1) 988

I once believed in this argument, "look, the jailbreakers made your company billions of dollars through your 30% fee!", but someone else said that the cleanness of the iPhone API and the completeness of the SDK/documentation seems to suggest 3rd party app support was in Apple's plans from the beginning after all...

Comment How About Secret Rulings? (Score 1) 38

Will they be also tweeting things like "the opinion of this court is not available to Public"?

People who want to cheer the downfall of the USA, you can cheer, the soul of that country as envisioned by its founder is dead.

On another topic, Twitter. Bullshit artificial limitation (yeah yeah length of an SMS. What percentage of Twitterers actually use SMS instead of fancy-schmanscy smartphone anyway?) but popular because everyone else is using it...

Comment Re:Why is stuff like this considered "innovative"? (Score 1) 109

Indeed, anyone who's ever SSH'ed into their iPhones would see it was just another UNIX machine, with a /home/mobile directory where the user's data is located. I had wondered what would happen if I made several directories under /home and just symlinked mobile to one of those directories, would that make the iPhone a multi-user device?

I gotta try that with my iPod this weekend...

Comment RTFA... (Score 1) 156

I'd like to read the RTFA (or the ruling), but why on FSM's green earth do we, in 2011, have, instead of plain easy-to-read text, the image of text, rendered using fancy Javascript interface, using only about 30% of my 1280x800 screen? Where scrolling is "smooth" (i.e. laggy)?

Fuck this stupidity...

Comment Re:Would this not make social targeting work bette (Score 1) 206

Actually (1) is interesting to Facebook because that data of a single user (unique cookie) from a lot of sites means a marketing profile of a unique person ("this person reads foxnews.com, likes to visit gaming websites, shops at target.com", etc, etc) that Facebook can sell to ad-sellers.

Comment Re:which is very unfriendly (Score 1) 206

Indeed it is! And it's a clever solution to prevent data-leakage which German websites (and hopefully others) will probably now copy, which is why Facebook is panicking about it. "Oh shit, they figured out a solution to prevent us from monitoring users* on the web! We're fucked!".

* Seriously, even a non-FB-account-owning user probably has a tracking cookie from facebook.com to uniquely identify him/her across all sites that have the Like button, and that information is still very useful for marketers, which Facebook (presumably) sells that data to ("just sign this contract to sell your ads using Facebook, and we'll give you the info you want!").

Comment Re:Transparent GIF (Score 1) 49

Those GIFs at least have some measure of anonymity. With Facebook, the user has willingly shared all information as he cares to give to the ad-selling network: name, friends, where they live, things they like, where they hang-out, when they are usually online, and with the Like button virus, what websites they visit...

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