Also this. Wozniak was Wozniak. And Jobs was Jobs. They had an important synergy. But without Jobs, Woz would almost certainly be as you described.
Synergy is the exactly correct word.
The world would not have heard of either of them without the both of them.
Acorn did somewhat better and parts of Acorn are alive and well to this day.
Not the least of which are inside every single Apple Silicon SoC!
Without Jobs, Woz probably would have been a really great engineer in some company and you'd never have heard of him at all.
And very much vice-versa!
It was one of the great accidental business synergies in history; at an amazing time that can never happen again. . .
How about we present the message: "it is fraud to advertise a device as suitable for use on the internet unless you are committing to fixing any critical security flaws found on it for the lifetime of that device".
So, if internet Usage Statistics suggest that only 2 people are still running iPhoneOS 1.0, it must be Maintained?
Riiight. . .
Apple currently supports 11+ years of devices and 5 major OS software revisions.
First, both of those numbers are irrelevant. If Apple is popular then there will be more devices to support. Second, Apple doesn't support all of those revisions on all devices. Third, Apple can easily support all of the devices, because they have all of the necessary information. Fourth, stop asking stupid questions, you're exactly like the people saying "how much do you think a living wage is" when that's completely beside the point of the argument.
Any Device that can run a Certain Major Version of an Apple OS, can run any Minor Revisions within that Version. So, e.g., iOS 18.x.x.x would be supported. Consequently, Apple wisely Updates only the Highest Revision within a Major Version it intends to Support. Anything else would lead to nearly infinite Regression Testing!
How about we present the message: recycle old devices that cannot be updated anymore?
Apple does not back port all fixes. They only fully update their latest OS.
Their usual Policy is to fully Maintain the Current Major OS Version and the Previous Major OS Version. At present, that means 26.x and 18.x.
If an Exploit is serious enough, they can and will reach back even further to update even more previous OS Versions.
Are you implying that American citizens do not exist?
With the constitution in tatters, you might be right about that...
Trump is working hard on that one!
At the same time suicidal empathy is a thing. I think currently we have too much empathy and not enough cost vs. benefit analysis going on the societal scale. To put it bluntly - maybe sit out protesting ICE when they are deporting murderers and pedophiles?
That's really what you think they're doing?
ICE ran out of those in the first 20 days.
Trump was caught red handed with documents in fully unsecured/unlocked locations and Trump didn't even give up the documents, he refused until Mar-a-lago was raided.
The FBI did not RAID Mar-a-Lard-Ass. They executed a Search Warrant after being blown off and lied-to in writing, under Oath, for months on end . . . They showed up in golf shirts and slacks; so as not to frighten the guests. The FBI even Called forty-five minutes before they arrived, to inform them.
In stark contrast, The Fulton County Election Clearinghouse FBI Operation WAS a RAID. Full Tactical Gear. No Notice Whatsoever. Not even a proper Warrant.
Absolutely no comparison whatsoever.
And this just a few days before Fulton County was going to hand them Certified Copies of the Records they were seeking. But Instead, now ONLY the FBI is in possession of the ORIGINALS of Ballots, VOTER ROLLS, Machine Tabulation and Verification Reports,et cetera, and can say anything whatsoever is in, or not in, those "Official Records", with absolutely no way for Fulton County to Rebut or Refute the Government's "Proof".
Remove it to "Judge" Aileen Cannon's Court under some Federal "Reciprocity Jurisdiction" bullshit, and it's Game Over, Man!
No, I don't. He "cooperated" because he was caught red handed. A former senator and vice president does not have the same authority to declassify docs as they see fir. See the difference?
And to just leave banker boxes of classified material in his unsecured garage is beyond the pale and it was clear he'd been doing that for years.
As opposed to in the Bathroom at Mar-a-Largeass; which is ever so much more secure. . . [rollseyes]
To make it explicitly clear. I am not aware of anybody on the right that thinks criminal illegals should be protected from deportation or sympathetic with organized protesters that attempt to disrupt federal authorities conducting lawful deportations. We are, however, concerned about protecting our rights to peacefully protest and also concerned about our rights to bear arms. We also concerned about lack of leadership at ICE, where up to very recently there was no realization that this situation caused a serious and avoidable crisis. Personally, I'd rather see sanctuary cities lose all federal funding and have complete pull-back of federal law enforcement - let them have all the illegal immigrants they want - than have these confrontations.
Finally read the rest of the poem, didja?
Then get thee to the correct side, rather than the "Right" side, of History!
You are probably a committed partisan, that no level of evidence would convince that Conservatives are patriots who want what is best of the fellow citizens.
There is zero evidence that the Societal Norms of "Empathy" or "Humanity" apply to anyone in DHS and about 1/2 of Congress. . .
The Stanford iPhone programming course has been free online from the very first year. It is absolutely extraordinarily popular and it has always been taught by top-shelf people. The first year was taught by a guy who worked with Steve Jobs at NeXT. It's like you're saying, is $20k worth it for food to stay alive? Yeah sure, it's better than death EXCEPT you're not mentioning that there's also a church giving away free food all the time that's across the street. If the 193p lectures and exercises are not enough for you to learn, you do not have the brains to be an iOS developer. And let's face it, the way the $20k course is being targeted, it is not intended to get results. It is just setting money on fire in a racially discriminatory way to make Apple look good, somehow.
Interesting, thanks!
We're talking about a market where goods/services are bought and sold at a price, so this is beer.
Additionally, our legal system equates money with speech. Restrict someone's money and you restrict their speech. While I have serious problems with some of the implications of that perspective, at least the courts are being consistent here, in a case where that interpretation actually does something good for the public (and incidentally the market).
Well, other than the $99/yr for a Publisher-Level (Not the real title) Apple Developer License, Publishing and Maintaining a Freeware App on the iOS App Store costs the Developer Nothing. I do not know if Apple waives their ($100?) App Submission Fee for Freeware Publishers.
Yes the ICE tracking app is a bit tricky in the trump era, in pricipal ICE is law enforcement, and any app that interferes with legitimate law enforcement ( if you don't like ghe laws on the books work to change them ), but when you have a convited criminal, thst seames tomsdmire and want to emulste desopots ocupuimg the oval offuce... yea it's a tricky one all right. And before you say " but trump was elected in a free and open election " yes I know, that's the scary part, who votes for a convicted cry fot fge highest office in the land, I still dont get that part
At the risk of “getting something started”, IMHO, the primary Bug we have found is that the Vaunted Checks and Balances are, unfortunately, distressingly, Voluntary. . .
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