Comments on: Apple gets 30: No reason to celebrate http://www.jeriko.de/2006/04/02/apple-gets-30-no-reason-to-celebrate/ Ein Blog über Fotografie. Von Christoph Boecken. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:54:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Why I won’t buy an iPod - Homeland Stupidity http://www.jeriko.de/2006/04/02/apple-gets-30-no-reason-to-celebrate/#comment-20726 Why I won’t buy an iPod - Homeland Stupidity Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:12:48 +0000 http://www.i-jeriko.de/2006/04/02/apple-gets-30-no-reason-to-celebrate/#comment-20726 [...] few other people read privacy policies, because as far as I can tell, only one other person has caught this ridiculous bit in the privacy [...] [...] few other people read privacy policies, because as far as I can tell, only one other person has caught this ridiculous bit in the privacy [...]

]]> By: Der Druck der Innovation // Jeriko One http://www.jeriko.de/2006/04/02/apple-gets-30-no-reason-to-celebrate/#comment-4058 Der Druck der Innovation // Jeriko One Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:49:39 +0000 http://www.i-jeriko.de/2006/04/02/apple-gets-30-no-reason-to-celebrate/#comment-4058 [...] Man mag mich nicht falsch verstehen, ich habe eigentlich nix gegen Apple - na, vielleicht doch ein bisschen. Mir geht einfach dieser Hype um jede Kleinigkeit gehörig auf die Nerven. Man sollte sich nicht der Illusion hingeben, dass Apple der ganz große Wurf ist. Time Machine ist nichts weiter als eine Backuplösung mit einem hässlichen und vermutlich unbrauchbaren Interface, und dennoch wird es gefeiert als wäre es das Größte seit Jahren. Vista’s Aero-Oberfläche ist hässlich, ja. Vista hat exorbitante Systemanforderungen, ja. Aber nur weil der Rest schlecht ist, heisst das nicht automatisch, dass die eigenen Dinge gut sind. Ein bisschen mehr Objektivität von Z wäre durchaus wünschenswert. [...] [...] Man mag mich nicht falsch verstehen, ich habe eigentlich nix gegen Apple – na, vielleicht doch ein bisschen. Mir geht einfach dieser Hype um jede Kleinigkeit gehörig auf die Nerven. Man sollte sich nicht der Illusion hingeben, dass Apple der ganz große Wurf ist. Time Machine ist nichts weiter als eine Backuplösung mit einem hässlichen und vermutlich unbrauchbaren Interface, und dennoch wird es gefeiert als wäre es das Größte seit Jahren. Vista’s Aero-Oberfläche ist hässlich, ja. Vista hat exorbitante Systemanforderungen, ja. Aber nur weil der Rest schlecht ist, heisst das nicht automatisch, dass die eigenen Dinge gut sind. Ein bisschen mehr Objektivität von Z wäre durchaus wünschenswert. [...]

]]> By: wyrllwynd http://www.jeriko.de/2006/04/02/apple-gets-30-no-reason-to-celebrate/#comment-278 wyrllwynd Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:46:49 +0000 http://www.i-jeriko.de/2006/04/02/apple-gets-30-no-reason-to-celebrate/#comment-278 Apple's security policy differs little from most large companies anymore. Take a look, for example, at the AOL security policy. (http://about.aol.com/aolnetwork/aol_pp) They were one of the first to institute the "disclosure for security reasons" clause. They also constantly track your activity, routinely provide your name to thrid party businesses, and don't directly inform you of their option to release info for the purposes of "national security" until you are in the act of subscribing to the AOL internet service. Also, take a quick look at what happens when you install AOL. It brands your browser, installs various unrelated programs, and joyfully adds little ninja programs and advertisements all over your computer. Uninstalling leaves an ungodly amount of information on your drive. AOL's "free" music service only works while you keep paying them a monthly fee...unlike iTunes. Microsoft polls your pc without specific permission on a regular basis, through the medium of their IM program. It reads your drive content every time you visit their update page. Apple does provide an enormous amount of free software on their Developer site. There are also untold numbers of very useful free programs available from various Mac-related sites as well as from Mac users. On the subject of propriety and trying to keep others from advancing...you have to be kidding. That is just the new corporate knee-jerk reaction to anything coming out that may in any way resemble something done by them in the past. EBay just got sued for infringement for their "Buy It Now" option on auction pages! As for the usability of the Mac OS, it does everything I could ask of it. Granted, it does need to be maintenanced, as would anything used as much as I use my Mac. However, it needs attention far less frequently than my pc's WinXP. Hardware and upgrading aren't an issue either. You can purchase the same upgrades for Macs as pc's, either from Apple, or independent dealers. Performance of the Mac models is fantastic. If you have any doubts, take a look at recent benchmark tests (http://www.macworld.com/2006/04/firstlooks/xpbenchmarks/index.php) done between HP, Dell and 2 Mac models. Using Boot Camp and running WinXP, the Macs outdo all but the new HP Compaq nx9420 running XP Pro, and come out on top of that competition looking great. i am not sure what your direct issue with Apple might be, but you might want to consider that Apple is doing nothing more than any other large corporation while releasing reliable products with solid support behind them. In many cases, they are the lesser of evils when compared with many other corporate entities. Apple’s security policy differs little from most large companies anymore. Take a look, for example, at the AOL security policy. (http://about.aol.com/aolnetwork/aol_pp) They were one of the first to institute the “disclosure for security reasons” clause. They also constantly track your activity, routinely provide your name to thrid party businesses, and don’t directly inform you of their option to release info for the purposes of “national security” until you are in the act of subscribing to the AOL internet service.

Also, take a quick look at what happens when you install AOL. It brands your browser, installs various unrelated programs, and joyfully adds little ninja programs and advertisements all over your computer. Uninstalling leaves an ungodly amount of information on your drive. AOL’s “free” music service only works while you keep paying them a monthly fee…unlike iTunes.

Microsoft polls your pc without specific permission on a regular basis, through the medium of their IM program. It reads your drive content every time you visit their update page.

Apple does provide an enormous amount of free software on their Developer site. There are also untold numbers of very useful free programs available from various Mac-related sites as well as from Mac users.

On the subject of propriety and trying to keep others from advancing…you have to be kidding. That is just the new corporate knee-jerk reaction to anything coming out that may in any way resemble something done by them in the past. EBay just got sued for infringement for their “Buy It Now” option on auction pages!

As for the usability of the Mac OS, it does everything I could ask of it. Granted, it does need to be maintenanced, as would anything used as much as I use my Mac. However, it needs attention far less frequently than my pc’s WinXP.

Hardware and upgrading aren’t an issue either. You can purchase the same upgrades for Macs as pc’s, either from Apple, or independent dealers. Performance of the Mac models is fantastic. If you have any doubts, take a look at recent benchmark tests (http://www.macworld.com/2006/04/firstlooks/xpbenchmarks/index.php) done between HP, Dell and 2 Mac models. Using Boot Camp and running WinXP, the Macs outdo all but the new HP Compaq nx9420 running XP Pro, and come out on top of that competition looking great.

i am not sure what your direct issue with Apple might be, but you might want to consider that Apple is doing nothing more than any other large corporation while releasing reliable products with solid support behind them. In many cases, they are the lesser of evils when compared with many other corporate entities.

]]> By: karach http://www.jeriko.de/2006/04/02/apple-gets-30-no-reason-to-celebrate/#comment-225 karach Tue, 04 Apr 2006 07:47:21 +0000 http://www.i-jeriko.de/2006/04/02/apple-gets-30-no-reason-to-celebrate/#comment-225 Right, big companies - big problems with data security always a problem! Right, big companies – big problems with data security
always a problem!

]]> By: Jeriko http://www.jeriko.de/2006/04/02/apple-gets-30-no-reason-to-celebrate/#comment-222 Jeriko Mon, 03 Apr 2006 14:31:41 +0000 http://www.i-jeriko.de/2006/04/02/apple-gets-30-no-reason-to-celebrate/#comment-222 So why do you think the iPod became so sucessful? In order to listen to music bought via iTunes Music Store on another player than the iPod, people need to burn a CD, convert this CD to MP3 and then copy this MP3s to their player. This is absolutely ridiculous, as about 1 out of 2 iTMS users are not willing to do this. But I agree with you that I can disable this connection by disabling the MiniStore. The other point, it doesn't matter what data they want from me. It's just because they reserve the right to do almost anything they want with it: contact you (even if you don't want to) or even give this data to other companies, which is even more ridiculous. Imagine Microsoft would have privacy policy like this - people would be mad like hell. When I give someone my personal informations, then I'm also the one who tells what will happen to my data, not the receiver. In general, I do not like the one-sided coverage of the company Apple. Wherever I see, it's bad Microsoft, good Apple. I don't like Microsoft either (I use Debian GNU/Linux), but I just wanted to point out that Apple is indeed no better than Microsoft when it comes to dirty tricks, pushing proprietary standards and so on. So why do you think the iPod became so sucessful? In order to listen to music bought via iTunes Music Store on another player than the iPod, people need to burn a CD, convert this CD to MP3 and then copy this MP3s to their player. This is absolutely ridiculous, as about 1 out of 2 iTMS users are not willing to do this. But I agree with you that I can disable this connection by disabling the MiniStore.

The other point, it doesn’t matter what data they want from me. It’s just because they reserve the right to do almost anything they want with it: contact you (even if you don’t want to) or even give this data to other companies, which is even more ridiculous. Imagine Microsoft would have privacy policy like this – people would be mad like hell. When I give someone my personal informations, then I’m also the one who tells what will happen to my data, not the receiver.

In general, I do not like the one-sided coverage of the company Apple. Wherever I see, it’s bad Microsoft, good Apple. I don’t like Microsoft either (I use Debian GNU/Linux), but I just wanted to point out that Apple is indeed no better than Microsoft when it comes to dirty tricks, pushing proprietary standards and so on.

]]> By: karach http://www.jeriko.de/2006/04/02/apple-gets-30-no-reason-to-celebrate/#comment-221 karach Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:11:49 +0000 http://www.i-jeriko.de/2006/04/02/apple-gets-30-no-reason-to-celebrate/#comment-221 Hi jeriko, i read your postings quite regulary and in most cases you bring some really good information. But in this case you mixed a few things up. 1. Yes I use Apple computers, Windows computers, linux and have a FreeBSD File Server at home. So I like Apple but I see what is on the left and right side as well. I think you are right in a view points but when it comes to the ipod you made some mistakes. 1. You get the files as AAC files with DRM but you can burn them to a normal audio cd and use it in a CD Player or on an other computer. You can even convert them to mp3 without any problem 2. You can use your own CDs and convert them to MP3 and put them on the ipod. 3. iTunes and his connections to the Itunes store can be stopped very easy and then no information will be sent to Apple. My name and Adress is given to Apple for about 8 years now and I never got any spam mail on this mail alias I used, I got no Letter Mailings to my postal adress and so I have the impression the adress was not sold to anyone and realy just used for direct company contact. And thats ok. What Apple did when it comes to innovation is a big step every 2-3 years. Apple gave firewire and USB the big entry on the broad market 1997 (USB). The Laptops a great technology for a good price and I think there is nearly nowone on the market making so bright displays for that price. So Apple really is innovative and brings good products to the marked. A lot of companies try to copy that tecnology so its just normal that you need patents to make sure your technolgy and you research and development is paied. Ciao Karach Hi jeriko,

i read your postings quite regulary and in most cases you bring some really good information. But in this case you mixed a few things up. 1. Yes I use Apple computers, Windows computers, linux and have a FreeBSD File Server at home. So I like Apple but I see what is on the left and right side as well. I think you are right in a view points but when it comes to the ipod you made some mistakes.

1. You get the files as AAC files with DRM but you can burn them to a normal audio cd and use it in a CD Player or on an other computer. You can even convert them to mp3 without any problem

2. You can use your own CDs and convert them to MP3 and put them on the ipod.

3. iTunes and his connections to the Itunes store can be stopped very easy and then no information will be sent to Apple.

My name and Adress is given to Apple for about 8 years now and I never got any spam mail on this mail alias I used, I got no Letter Mailings to my postal adress and so I have the impression the adress was not sold to anyone and realy just used for direct company contact. And thats ok.

What Apple did when it comes to innovation is a big step every 2-3 years. Apple gave firewire and USB the big entry on the broad market 1997 (USB). The Laptops a great technology for a good price and I think there is nearly nowone on the market making so bright displays for that price. So Apple really is innovative and brings good products to the marked. A lot of companies try to copy that tecnology so its just normal that you need patents to make sure your technolgy and you research and development is paied.

Ciao Karach

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