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Structaural said:
I'm not convinced, it'll be interesting to see if Apple do anything about Gizmodo. That'll help confirm that idea or not.
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Love ZDNet's photo accompanying their article:

How will Apple punish Gizmodo?

steve_jobs_630x.jpg


Blimey - read this link from the article:
Apple legal will subpoena Gizmodo’s ISP request all of its email for three years so that it can find the leak. (No wait, Apple did that to me.)
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=6676
 
They asked for it back, then they will carry on like nothing happened.

That's what I'd do. Then make a joke about it at launch. This stuff is very hard to stop sometimes so just have to shrug and get on with it. Just try harder to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Its not like it not known that one is on the cards and people buying an iPhone and an iPad are very different markets.
 
Can I just add that the Lonely Planet city guide iPhone apps are all free at the moment, and the London one lists urban75 at the top of their new media section, describing the site as, "outstanding and original."

That is all.

*looks for smug smiley

:D
 
grit said:
Its a nice marketing gimick for people stranded due to the ash.
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I just downloaded 13 of em, at full price that lot would have cost me nearly 80 quid! Gimmick or not I'm pretty fucking happy. :D
 
well yes, so was the Low Doorway I banged my head on once. I'm not made of perfect!
 
New Guardian piece which some may find of interest:
How Apple could bite the free press
Apple is hailed by many as saviour of the news industry, but its iPad and iPhone aren't entirely compatible with an open society

...Journalists, meanwhile, might consider rethinking their love affair with a company that arrogates unto itself the right to act as judge, jury and executioner as to what it will make available to the public and what it won't.

A free society depends on the free flow of information. It's bad for democracy if an admired, influential company like Apple stifles that free flow in ways we would never tolerate from the government.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/apr/20/apple-ipad-iphone-free-press
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Bit OTT really. Jobs has already said the Fiore thing was a mistake. Pretty sure he isn't going to censor an app by any major publisher, their content will get through fine if the app isn't a peice of shit.
 
That is probably the stupidest article I have yet to read, given that it completely confuses "the App Store" with "content on the iPad/iPhone" - it's not a typo, the author just doesn't have a fucking clue what any of this is about.
 
I like this guy's writing better:

On This Week in Google last night, I went too far slathering over the iPad and some of its very neat apps (ABC’s is great; I watched the Modern Family about the iPad on the iPad and smugly loved being so meta). I am a toy boy at heart and didn’t stop to cast a critical eye, as TWiG’s iPadless Gina Trapani did. This morning on Twitter, I went too far the other way kvetching about the inconveniences of the iPad’s limitations (just a fucking USB, please!) in compensation. That’s the problem with Twitter, at least for my readers: it’s thinking out loud.

http://www.buzzmachine.com/2010/04/04/ipad-danger-app-v-web-consumer-v-creator/
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Adobe throws in the towel on Flash for iPhone
Seth Weintraub | April 20, 2010 | iProducts
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Adobe is basically saying they've given up on Apple's iPhoneOS products. Principal Product Manager for developer relations for the Flash Platform at Adobe, Mike Chambers lays out the bad news for Flash developers who'd want an easy way to port their apps to iPhone.

While CS5 will still export for the current iPhone, they are warning developers that Apple will probably pull their "100+ apps already built in Flash"from the App Store at some point in the future and, most importantly, Adobe have suspended all investments in Flash CS5's iPhone App export functionality.

What's interesting is Chambers says they are going to learn from their experience on the iPhone and put their energy behind Android phones and tablets. He's excited about Android. But Is Google excited about Flash? Remember, it was Youtube that went to H.264-encoded MP4s (and made lack of Flash on the iPhone that much more bearable). That wasn't because Google was head over heals for depending on Flash and their technology.

At this point in time, with Google being the underdog in the field, the Android folk are probably looking for differentiators to Apple's dominant iPhone platform. Flash is definitely different and brings with it hundreds of thousands of ready-built apps. Plus, it is better to have friends in the industry rather than enemies. Speaking of which, no recent Adobe blog post would be complete without a jab at Apple:

To be clear, during the entire development cycle of Flash CS5, the feature complied with Apple’s licensing terms. However, as developers for the iPhone have learned, if you want to develop for the iPhone you have to be prepared for Apple to reject or restrict your development at anytime, and for seemingly any reason. In just the past week Apple also changed its licensing terms to essentially prohibit ad networks other than its own on the iPhone, and it came to light that Apple had rejected an application from a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist on editorial grounds (which Apple later said was a “mistake”).
 
http://gizmodo.com/5520746/apple-didnt-leak-the-iphoneand-why-that-matters

Interesting, they were already on Apple's shitlist

(It bears mentioning that Apple also will remove advertising from outlets that it is unhappy with, as they did with Gizmodo ever since we reported on Steve Jobs' health problems. Fortunately in organizations with a clear wall between edit and advertising—not perfect at Gawker, but as good or better as any other outlet I've ever worked for—it isn't a concern for the writing staff.)
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The rules (shitty though they may be) are very clear on the running of interpreted code
 
Crispy said:
The rules (shitty though they may be) are very clear on the running of interpreted code
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Let's see if Jobs pulls a few strings for his old pal and turns a blind eye once again, just like he did for Playboy and the corporate lads mags during his recent Puritanical purge.
 
I doubt it - the content bans are very handwavy and vague and open to interpretation, but the "no interpreters" rule is pretty straightforward, unless they change the rules to include only interpreters with certain functions.

Actually, I have seen an emulator for an old programmable calculator. Shhh! Nobody tell Steve!
 
FridgeMagnet said:
I doubt it - the content bans are very handwavy and vague and open to interpretation, but the "no interpreters" rule is pretty straightforward, unless they change the rules to include only interpreters with certain functions.
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The no soft porn/no boobies'n'bikinis rule seemed pretty straightforward too.
 
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