Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 24th Sep 2008 07:50 UTC
The situation regarding Apple's App Store for the iPhone is getting weirder by the day. Several applications have been rejected from the App Store based on seemingly dubious claims such as duplication of functionality (even though they didn't duplicate anything), or alikeness to default applications. Two such cases made headline news over the past few days; Podcaster and MailWrangler. The developers of these applications openly protested against these rejections, and apparently, Apple doesn't really like that. Apple now reiterates that rejections fall under the NDA, prohibiting developers from speaking up about rejections.
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RE[3]: Apple vs Google
by PlatformAgnostic on Wed 24th Sep 2008 09:32
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Not really - heaps of PC motherboards have Firewire. Both my computers (a cheapie and an expensive one) have Firewire ports.
Firewire is a bit of a white elephant. For ordinary consumer-level devices there's USB. For ultra-fast external hard disks there's eSATA. Firewire is the domain of Mini-DV-camera owners, kernel programmers, and black hats.
Typical Apple BTW - encouraging a standard with a showstopper security problem.
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Are you under the impression that eSATA doesn't have DMA? Seriously, DMA is the only way to have high-performance data transfers on any computer architecture, which is why any bus designed for performance supports it. DMA is a security hole, definitely, but until most PCs start shipping with IOMMUs that's just something you have to live with. Physical access to a machine typically leads to all sorts of possible exploits...
RE[3]: Apple vs Google
by BallmerKnowsBest on Wed 24th Sep 2008 16:26
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RE[3]: Apple vs Google
by walnut tree on Thu 25th Sep 2008 21:26
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Firewire is a really good standard, and it only didn't catch on [in the PC world] because of cheapo PC manufacturers not wanting to pay the licencing cost.
Well, there are two ways to spin this story - one is to say that PC manufacturers were too cheap to pay the royalty fees that Apple wanted. The other is to say that Apple set their royalty price too high for component manufacturers (who were already operating under tight margins). See these stories for more details
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG19990115S0019
http://news.com.com/2100-1040_3-220209.html
Intel offered component makers the USB technology royalty-free which no doubt helped USB gain ascendancy despite its initial inferiority in terms of speed.
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I get your sentiment; but I don't understand the Firewire dig?
I love Firewire. It freakin' works. USB hard disks are painfully, woefully slow. Firewire is a really good standard, and it only didn't catch on [in the PC world] because of cheapo PC manufacturers not wanting to pay the licencing cost.
My 2003, 40GB 3G Firewire iPod transfers songs 2~4x faster than my 2006 5G USB2 iPod.