Same thing i posted above. Apple has their iAd service with "customized" ads with apple taking 30% of the revenue and the developer taking the remaining 70%.

So, Google ads = BAD, apple ads = Good because?

"So you've never heard of Jailbreak"

So, make up your mind.. Are apple product secure, or can they be "hacked"?
What is a "jailbreak", If i am not mistaken, that is when you gain "root" access to the device right?
Remember when you could do it just by going to a website?

I can install cyanogenmod on my android devices if i want, and their roms dont come with google play or any google services... Other then "jailbreaking" your apple device, what are your options?

Apple doesn't sell your identity.. good one.. Perhaps they can explain "iAD"?
At first Apples take was 40/60 but then they went with 30/70.

First, let me start off by saying I use to be very "pro-ubuntu". It was a great distro, and one of the few you can just throw the CD in and reboot into a usable system fairly quickly.

Then they seem to flounder around and lack direction so i moved to MINT. Of the 6 desktop PC's in my house, at one point 5 of them ran Ubuntu. Now three are MINT, two remain ubuntu and one is still on windows.

Ubuntu seems to be suffering a bit of the classic "floundering around" you often see in the opensource world. Instead of having a number of people working on a great distro, we have hundreds of "fractured" distro's (many based on Debian, some based on Ubuntu which is based on Debian).

Anyhow, look at some of the past products from the past ideas from Canonical...
Ubuntu TV, Looked promising...
Ubuntu ONE - I liked how you could "sync" the installed apps on one system and use it as a template to build other "similiar" machines...

Now they want to "fracture" it to create a "phone" version?

Agreed, the funny thing is they are often "proudly american" as well....

Just not "proud" enough to :
1) Hire Americans (outsource everything to China)
2) Pay their fair share for the services they use (Bermuda, cayman islands, Ireland....)

Apple for example sure enjoys the US legal system, but not funding it...

You are kidding right?

Canada (where i live) has tax treaties in place for a large number of countries, they even publish a list: http://www.fin.gc.ca/treaties-...

Earn money in the US, revenue Canada will be looking for you to pay the "top up" tax (the difference between your US taxes and what you would have paid in Canada).

NOTE: this is for individual ratepayers, might be different for corp taxes.

In many regards, the US rules are actually similar, I entered the US on a work via by showing up at the border with a letter as well. In and out in around an hour and $25 for the "processing fee".

The US has their "h1b" program and the associated "problems", in Canada we have our "Temporary Foreign Worker Program".

OK, i guess then if i paid 5x for a phone, i would expect it to be better supported then the far cheaper phones?

Most of those "androids which are never updated" are also around $99 with NO contract. Hard to compare a $599 phone with a $99 phone and say one is better supported.

Apple, meet Orange?

OS X Mavericks is compatible with most Macs that are capable of running OS X Mountain Lion; as with Mountain Lion, 2 GB of RAM, 8 GB of available storage, and OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) or later are required.

The full list of compatible models:

mid-2007 or newer iMac
aluminum MacBook, 2009 or newer polycarbonate MacBook
2007 or newer MacBook Pro
late-2008 or newer MacBook Air
2009 or newer Mac Mini
2008 or newer Mac Pro
2009 Xserve

So, take a mac pro earlier then 2008 and install mavericks on it. Cant? Sure you can, you just have to "hack" the installer.

So like i said, arbitrary limits.... The box can run it, just it wont install without modifying the setup program.

Care to post some facts behind your " is miles and light-years ahead of everyone else. Bar none." statement?

Go take a look at which devices support "mavericks" and come back and post your findings.
HINT: Many Mac Pro users were unhappy with the "line" at "2008 and newer"

Looking around my house, I have a SUN X4500 (Released July 2006) which runs Solaris 11.2 (Released April 2014). This alone exceeds Apple's "miles and light years" approach you listed by at least 2 years.

Windows PC's generally don't have arbitrary limits to which OS you can install (unlike Macs).

Next FUD please?

My Galaxy Tab 3 just received the update to android 4.4, not bad considering the tab 4's have been out for some time now.
With android devices there are also custom rom alternatives (Cyanogenmod comes to mine) and they make it fairly easy to install as well.

"You are one fucking idiot. "

Always the sign of an articulate individual who will surly provide a lot of value to any discussion.

I stopped reading after that, so good use of your time i guess.

" Samsung didn't copy their teacher, they learned from him." ??

Except when they are copying Braun and others?

Braun: http://visual.ly/braun-or-appl...
Swiss transit clock: http://www.cnet.com/news/time-...

The clock sure looks like the one from the swiss transit, except it is missing the trademark logos. I guess Apple didnt think about Braun and the Swiss having access to time machines and going back into the past after stealing apple designs?

While iTunes could stand improvement, of course, it is still oly about a million times better than anything else. At least a million.
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Probably because Apple bought it instead of building it house?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...

I didnt say they were government mandated, just that the US does regional restrictions as well.