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Started out with potential and then the author quickly put Steve Jobs' junk in their mouth. The notion that you can only manufacture successful products by controlling both the software and the hardware is not just silly, it's empirically denied.

What a waste of a good submission headline.

Why? Why do people still get hung up on people using drugs? Are you assuming he is an addict? Do you know he abuses them?

I knew these "tips" when I was 16 after playing with HTML/CSS for a few weeks. These are obvious no brainers for anyone that has any business doing anything web related.

Descriptive 404, obvious SEO things that just make sense to do anyway, alt text?

Who needs a checklist to do these things? And one that takes 6 seconds to load in all the JS at that. (I'm not one to complain about JS usually but the scripts were working for a significant and noticeable amount of time)

That makes more sense, still think that could be done at an application level on the phone. Though in the spirit of being in the cloud and not needing heavy client-side applications, this presents a very nice forward looking solution.

This article is easily defeated by a simple observation. Locking out a competitor from your platform is hardly competition. Maybe "artificial competition". Stealing/copying/borrowing features is the age old cycle of innovation and competition in the tech industry.

Pointing fingers about stealing ideas is ridiculously silly, no wonder Gruber is wasting his precious word count on it. But to defend Apple's draconian policies as good in the eyes of competition is simply too much for me to hear without the bullshit-ometer going off.

I love how Apple 'markets' applications from the App Store they don't like.

You're defining marketing to include the definition of the word 'ban'. It's rather silly IMO.

FourSquare is hardly required for this. Any application like Locale or Tasker can do this on any Android phone far more effectively without relying on OpenVBX or an additional "social networking" site.

No offense, but you need to read and write a lot more. I know that your post is not the most important writing in the world, but there are many poorly constructed sentences, misspelled words, completely missing words, etc.

It makes a huge difference in how people perceive you and it's also reflected in your speech patterns and your speaking ability. This in turns affects how people perceive you face to face. Poor verbal communication can make even the best resume useless.

Apple locking Google out is the same thing as Android competing with iOS. Yup. What's new?

One side is competing with the other. The other side is locking them out of the platform on an application (Google Voice) and an advertising level.

What if Google said they weren't going to allow Apple apps on Android or allow iAds on Android (not that I think either would ever happen in a million years).

I simply can't fathom the double think that Gruber uses to excuse Apple's actions while pointing fingers at Google.

I read all of that. I have no idea why. The single paragraph on different types of plagiarism and great writers who have plagiarized was nearly though provoking, if I hadn't heard those examples before or been a student.

I don't really think either person is being unreasonable. I don't think he was that rude either. If I were him I would've fixed the bug or implemented a work around but clearly he was more interested in additional revenue from new customers or upgrades.

You're giving your password to someone else. You don't magically get some guarantee that they are safe, that they won't be stolen etc. Yes, I know that oAuth perms can be revoked, that is the entire point and that's why it's dumb to give a site your credentials when better alternatives exist.

"I've never given my username and password directly to websites, except for Etacts." This is all about Etacts right? How do you expect someone to be accessing your account? You gave them your user and password. The point is, you hand out your username and password, it just makes you look silly to suggest that your account is being compromised by covert wifi sniffers (you are using encryption right?), etc.

I still don't understand why you need to DBAN to do an OS reinstall unless you are just using the term DBAN loosely.

Not if you give your username and passwords to websites. I feel like you don't understand this distinction all up and down this thread...

Also, man, what is the point of DBANing your install? Is software that is no longer accessible to the OS or likely even any consumer level hardware going to magically log your keystrokes, I mean make you give your usernames and passwords to websites and then be surprised that they use them?

Changing my password that I've given to a website hardly qualifies as "revoking access". I have no problem using my Google Account as a login mechanism when it's through oAuth or xAuth or whatever Google is using these days for that pass through, but the Facebook give-us-your-login-temporarily style stuff is unacceptable.

I hate what Apple's doing and I'm a HUGE Android fanboy, but this seems way out of Congress's jurisdiction or list of important things.

I love seeing the same data repeated over and over and over with no new analysis over the last time I read it. Especially when the data has been available and has been being talked about for a month now...

Desktop chrome. It's literally just too large for me to process without sitting 10 feet away or zooming out. The text is just uncomfortably large.

I can't even read this without zooming out at least three times.

Yes. This is not reason enough for Apple to censor it which is what this discussion boils down to. Is it okay for Apple to censor interracial couples in comics? Come on, this is the 21st century. Apple has no place censoring this. Should we have a homo-flag to qualify apps as suitable or not suitable for bigots?

I use it and love it for personal use. I would not trust it for business use yet. Text syncing goes out once every two weeks, sometimes for an entire weekend. It requires manual refreshing in the GV app. Froyo's new push notifications should reduce this problem.

I've been told that people have tried to call me and got busy signals multiple times.

This just in, kissing = gay sex. Also, tjmaxal is defending apple and homophobia up and down this thread.

Really? Windows 7 still makes users Admins by default, doesn't warn you against it. Single limited users are still restricted to the point of in-usability requiring the the UI and all apps run at administrator level, defeating any security principles.

UAC is defective from the standpoint that every school and corporation I've been at disable it, and those that done click Accept every time without reading or considering what they're clicking on. I understand this is partly a user problem, but damn, I'll do one tiny thing before remembering to disable it and I have to Accept 30 things before I'm done.

If it's a killer app, it will be regardless of its acceptance onto the iOS platform. The notion that Apple is hegemonic enough to restrict the level of innovation on mobile platforms is silly.

Have you ever tried to use Windows as a limited user? It's a nightmare. It's "supported" but I can't imagine they actually expect people to use it that way.

Why is the first account you create an admin account by default. If they wanted the use-case that you imply is supported, they would have you create an administrator account and then would ask you to create a regular user to use day-to-day.

Or they would more fully embrace the su/sudo routine that linux uses.

God. Justified text is the most annoying thing in the entire world.

Oh look. Another article that skimps on the details more than any of the previous ones crying about fragmentation and how it will destroy Android.

We get it. We're tired of these articles. When the development cycle slows and when the custom layers either die or turn into a simple custom skin alongside Android, this will all be a thing of the past.

Hhmmm, is there an option for round trips?

It's a public link... I'm not sure how you want to go about fixing this. If you share with other dropbox users it forces them to have accounts and give you access control.

What you created was a public link. Not sure what you're wanting them to do. At least you can't access other files in the PrivateFiles folder by simply modifying the end of the URL. Now that, I might actually consider a "leak".

The two no's for Android are hardly `no`s anyway.

Orientation lock can be specified from the Settings and can be overridden on a per-app basis.

Anyone using the homescreen is an idiot. The stock Launcher is terrible. LauncherPro is marginally better than ADW Laucnher which are both 100x better than the stock Launcher.

That having been said, there is a fair amount of feature loading here for Android. I think it's an accurate comparison, but not a fair one as it leaves out features that would have 'Y's in the iOS columns and 'N's in the Android columns.

Good on them.