I think the real story is that you're an alien from a planet on which several days can occur in the span of 24 earth hours. That teaser went up just a day ahead of the announcement.

Besides the Beatles are pretty much the best selling band of all time. In the 2000s only eminem sold more records then the Beatles. In a decade three full decades after the broke up, and with out a new medium to be released on they were the second best selling artist. They may not be a big deal to you but they are a pretty big deal.

.999... is the sum of 9 * 10^(-n) for each n in the set of natural numbers. If you multiply that by 10 and subtract the original sum you will get that the difference is 9, as long as in the set of natural numbers n, being a member implies that (n + 1) is also a member.

Apparently I value your time and expertise more then you do. Your time and expertise are part of the price. Also Build it yourself you tend to lose Aesthetics or Miniaturization if not both.

I was talking about The Market analysts that make recommendations on the basis that everyone is a day trader that punish stable profitable companies, just because they don't grow or their rate of growth isn't growing. A non-growing company that isn't stagnating and is profitable should be able to maintain a stock price such that dismantling the company and selling off it's assets is more isn't more profitable then selling the stock.

That's exactly what $400 dollar small form factor machines are supposed to do, suck, suck hard, and fail if you look at them wrong

That's the math of computers. Quality & Performance & Miniaturization & Aesthetic = Price. Enough people refuse to accept this and because there are vendors willing to take advantage of those people, many of them do so as not to lose market share and have their company killed by "Market Analysts" (Another group of people that seem incapable of doing the math of the real world)

Except that points, 2, 3, and 4, from the post you are replying too, explain why it does not. Here they are again for you.

Every viewer Analytics are a NEW thing. Webpages don't have them, billboards, don't have them, magazines don't have them, TV ads son't have them, radio ads don't have them. Direct mailings don't have them, ... And while they might have started to make their way into computer apps, for the most part they are limited to mobile phone apps. So surely if all those other ads can be sold with out every viewer analytics you can sell them for a phone without those same analytics, not that AdMob would even have to go that far, see points 3 & 4.

Beyond that, There is a good chance that gathering every viewer analytics from iOS apps is illegal. In many jurisdictions you are not allowed to monitor people without notifying them that you are doing it and/or getting their explicit consent. iOS apps generally don't make me agree to an Eula, and don't provide a terms of service, or if they do, don't do anything to make me aware of it. And since those are the tools that most software developers use to cover there legal obligations with regard to data they collect, there is a chance that those apps are crossing the line.

Did you say something? I think your comment might have gotten stuck in my firewall.

Yes, and anyone can be a spy. But we still give people security clearances.

Apple's competitors could conceivably use their Analytics groups for industrial espionage and if they do Apple doesn't even have a good way to find out about it. Independent Analytics groups may try to glean and sell trade secrets from the analytics that they gather, or they may even just announce them. But there is a good chance that Apple will at least know what was leaked. But if there is a continuing problem Apple will probably take steps.

No I don't that's why they left the ban in place for ALL their direct competitors.

This is about spyware, which is why Apple's first change was to allow NO ONE to collect analytics. Apple isn't banning people just now, they were banned. It's letting people back in.

Apple, really really doesn't like their development to get leaked. The Apple paranoia about their trade secrets is long standing and well documented.

My main intent was to remind people that Advertising is not Analytics. So this isn't an Advertiser restriction, it's an Analytics restriction. So it doesn't ban AdMob. So it's probably not an AdMob vs. iAd thing, since AdMob isn't even banned.

Every viewer analytics are actually a new thing.Moreover many of the current analytic gathering practices, especially on iOS where most Apps are sold without a TOS or EULA, are ethically and legally dubious. So really we should be having a discussion about Analytics rather then iAd.

!. The terms of service DO NOT block AdMob. It blocks AdMob from having apps on the client gather analytics for it.

2. The type of AdMob gathers aren't required for advertising. If they were, AdMob's parent google would be out of business, or trying to get us to install spyware all the time.

3. AdMob could even still use a 3rd party analytics form to gather Analytics for it. Apple doesn't want it's phone competitors to be able to use their advertising businesses to harvest information about Apple's devices (especially those under development), without at least Apple having a chance at that same information.

4. AdMob could even change their client/server model so that without having the device send the information, the server could collect all the extra information that it's reasonable for them to get anyway.

5. With out App Eula's that give them permission some of the Analytics gathering that is sacred may even be illegal in jurisdiction that have anti-monitoring laws.

Apple's move was not a move to give iAd an advantage. It was a move to try to keep analytics from being spyware.

First of all, I think google will be ok without analytics. I mean they don't get analytics for their web ads, and they still manage to sell those.

And they didn't retroactively do anything with deals made with google. the deals weren't made with google. They are just not letting google retroactively let themselves in.

Apple is not locking out advertising competition. They are locking out industrial espionage under the guise of advertising. So they are not locking out google. Apple is just limiting the scope of information about it's devices that an App can get, and then more specifically that ti can get and then directly send to a direct iOS competitor. Web Ads, are still a go. Embedded Ads from a direct competitor, still a go. Embedded ads from a direct competitor that uses 3rd party analytics, still fine. The only thing their direct iOS developers can't do is harvest advanced information about iOS users are doing?

I Don't think there is a DOJ case here, but if there is, it should be about how google is internally using the analytics admob gets. Not what Apple has done to protect itself from it's direct competitors.

Apple isn't in mobile advertising, they are in iOS advertising. There isn't an iAD API for android forthcoming. And they allow independent analytics. This move isn't about the advertising business.

Apple found out the hard way, that analytics leak trade secrets. If apple's competitors got exclusive/early access to those trade secrets, Apple won't know what their competitors know and when they know it. So they decided that no Apple iOS competitor should have special access to information about what iOS devices are being developed or even what people are doing on their iOS devices. No doubt that data will still eventually be sold, but when it is Everyone will have the potential for the same access to it.

Uhhh....

"foaming at the mouth hatred"? where did you pull that one from?

Google is a competitor in a few areas, and in other areas apple has no desire to compete. If allowing google to be the default, but allow for other choices is "foaming at the mouth hatred", then he must really loathe Yahoo for not letting them even be the default.

Apple discovered that analytics data was being used against them, and they were pissed and banned analytics. Then when they re-allowed them, they said that it can be with a direct competitor. Which makes sense. A competitor's phone division if they have analytics, probably has first crack, and might have more access to that data then the rest of the world ever gets a chance too. So they want the analytics forms to be independent so that if data is made available everyone can get the same data, and they can get it at the same time. That makes sense.

And while Apple may not be as generous with the data they collect, they are not collecting data from their competitors handsets. Unless of course I missed the announcement about the iAd API for android?

Well, not actually. An AppleTv can play to Airport Express speakers and and is controllable from the ipod touch/iphone, you just need to make sure it has a copy of your music. It's also great if you are running iTunes to add an additional point of control to such a system and keep synchronized libraries.

Business isn't about successfully running a business. It's about creating an environment where the major inner circle investors can make boat loads of money, if my nothing else, destroying the company.

I find it interesting that you see, a longer school year as being less time. You are working under the premise that learning stops outside of the instructional hours so fewer instructional hours spread over a longer school year is less time. I don't think that is a fair assessment. There are only so many hours in a day so if you shortened the school year and lengthen the school day, there is less time for homework. And the teachers also have less time per material covered to recognize problems and start to address them, and less time to be thorough in evaluating the process of their students.