Apple, stop trolling me
mihir.xxx
mihir.xxx
I was at home, so I took a chance on the .xxx link, but seriously, this is worse than registering your trendily-named startup's domain in Libya. I'm all for devaluing ICANN's TLD money grab, but for the time being, this sort of URL is going to set off alarm bells.
Best part? The guy who bought mihir.io has been parking it for the past four months.
Those with disposable income to spend either on porn directly or at the porn sites' sponsors are perfectly capable of browsing on their home connection where no restrictions exist. The only people who are filtered are a) children, who don't have any money to spend on things like that, and ostensibly are not legally allowed to consume/purchase "adult" material anyway or b) people who are at work. Neither of these types of people are worthwhile to the porn industry.
I think it's even positive for citizens with national web filtering, because it will take pressure off moderation of other TLD, and their typical national web filter circumvention method will allow access to .xxx just like it allows access to all the other banned stuff.
It also allows people who want to filter for porn to find it easily. Think imgur.xxx for NSFW and imgur.com for not-NSFW. imgur guy says he is obligated to keep "no pornography" in his TOS even though it's obviously not enforced because otherwise he can't get any advertisers. A segregation like this can allow him to actually follow these terms and take adult-specific advertisers on the site in the xxx namespace.
The only argument against the segregation into a custom namespace is that porn sites shouldn't make filtration easy, but I don't really see any benefit to that position for anyone.
Different people will word issues differently, leading to multiple tickets for the same issue.
The way crbug works is much better, you can see everyone else's issues (minus security ones I suspect) and track their status
But the iPod Touch 3G was discontinued in September 2010, whereas the iPhone 3GS, despite being released slightly earlier, was not discontinued until September 2012.
1) Apple is a huge contributor to open source (WebKit, LLVM, OpenCL, GCD, LaunchD, ZeroConf, CUPS just to name a few).
2) Given how much of a sad joke "Linux on a Laptop" still is to this day Apple is the only provider of UNIX laptops and huge popular amongst developers including Linus himself.
You could be some famous legacy device soldier. Fighting the good fight! Battle on my friend.
All of my mobile devices are at least outdated by two to three years.
With my Androids, I can just use CyanogenMod, but there's no custom rom for iOS devices. :(
You make it sound like with Android there is this guaranteed upgrade path to a newer OS which simply not true. And even when you can upgrade it is common for there to be serious bugs or functionality missing.
Whoever designed it, please see high contrast looks good: http://contrastrebellion.com/
Since iOS6 its been a major change over the whole iOS ecosystem. Most people don't realise this but iOS6 has changed a lot of things for Apple devices in general.
Few things I feel Apple should implement,
- Fix the issue OP mentioned. If a app requires iOS6 only make it visible to iOS6 compatible devices. And btw if iPhone 3GS can get iOS6, so should iPod Touch 3G.
- App updates should be pushed only to devices which can support the update. Like the ones which require iOS6 should not annoy a user still/stuck on iOS5.
I've met a few people who knew who Tintin was (especially after that movie :/ ), but never someone who read Asterix and Obelix.
You disagree with one of the proposed solutions - which is to remove ios6-only apps from the store, as seen from these devices.
Perhaps still listing the app, fixing the supported devices list, and removing the install button (or updating the error message) would suffice.
I agree with OP: the term "trolling" is generally understood very differently from how it is used in the article.