Remember all the different polls we've had in the past asking users whether or not they'd be willing to go 3.0? Well, it is starting to sound like you won't have much choice- If apps and games are going to be required to be 3.0 compatible or be removed, how long will developers even bother testing things on 2.x after 3.0 gets pushed out?
wow, greedy apple lol. (DONT MURDER ME OVER SAYING THAT) But I can see why they want that done, for simplicty reasons
How is Apple greedy by forcing developers to make sure their apps work with the most recent software update? This is why Apple products are successful, they don't allow people to stew in their Windows 95 compatibility mode juices. Microsoft wouldn't be having half the problems they do today with their products if someone over there had the scrote to say "You know what, we need to move forward." Also I really wish I could figure out why you insist on posting white text. It's hilariously passive aggressive.
Instead Microsoft is hanging onto XP, and not letting it die and Vista (phail) and 7 take its place. It is very dumb, and Apple makes the best business decisions of ANY company.
This has to be the stupidest thing I have ever seen posted on Touch Arcade. Why are you dragging politics in to things that have absolutely nothing to do with them? Are you intentionally trying to troll this thread and start a flame war or do you really not know any better?
I think I'll go into the Games section in a random thread and post about how horrible Bush was, and how great Obama is, and how much better Hillary would have been. That is the easiest way to hijack a thread. I'm not sure about that. I figured most people on here would be liberal. :|
+1. He's a douche IMO. Smart decision on Apples part. Now we know that we won't end up with the "Microsoft problem".
Yep. I wouldn't say full on douche, but that was a bad choice for him. Always is. People who are too cheap to pay for 3.0 are going to pirate it, which is BAD. These are the same people who haven't touched the App Store button in months from using "alternative" method apps. Sad really. People. Pay the $10 if you have an iPod touch and suck it up. I'm on the betas, and I'm going to downgrade just so I can pay. Dang. The problem MS has is never going to go away. No Windows 7, no anything will fix the problem they have with Windows running on anything, and the fail that Vista is.
Actually, Microsoft's problem could easily go away if they were willing to start from scratch. Microsoft could switch Windows to be *nix based just like OSX and provide legacy support for non Windows 8 (or whatever they call it) apps via a sand boxed virtual machine that would emulate old Windows. Look at how Apple transitioned from OS9 to OSX, the same could work for Microsoft... They just need the scrote to finally say "You know what, you can only dangle so many air fresheners around a pile of crap. Adding more air fresheners isn't working, maybe we should shovel out the crap instead." A *nix kernel, security model, and user system could solve most of the gaping security holes Windows has. The whole situation just kind of boggles my mind though. Microsoft is a company that practically has unlimited resources. They could afford to hire the best developers on the planet with an unrivaled budget to produce a truly revolutionary OS. But instead, we have copycat products like the Zune and worthless "upgrades" like Windows 7. Microsoft's refusal to innovate really is what drove me to Apple products in the first place. From Windows 95 to Windows XP almost nothing changed aside from a different default theme, a reorganized start menu, and some copy and pasted code from Windows NT. On the other hand, Apple did a complete rewrite of their operating system, and has provided truly amazing features with each major software upgrade. I'm really glad they're doing the same thing with the iPhone. I think this is the main reason why their competitors will never be able to out-iPhone the iPhone. No other companies really seem to have the gumption to just start over and make something better. Palm came close with the Pre, but I have a feeling it's going to fall flat due to network restrictions and the impending third generation iPhone.
Well, more like acquired from Steve's other company. Apple failed to write a new OS several times, and finally just bought one. I think they made the right choice. I hated Macs before OS X. It's the portability of OS X that made the iPhone possible. You'd be amazed how much shared API there is. I spent months upgrading a 2D desktop app from Quickdraw to Quartz a couple years before the iPhone came out. When I started developing for the iPhone, I could use every single one of those Quartz API calls on the phone.
True. But, Microsoft won't do that. They are blindly proud of what they have made. Between MS-DOS and NT (remember, MS has done something very similar once already), they aren't about to embrace open source to fix this horrid thing. Plus, that would mean UNIX viruses. No, those DA's of CEOs that they had after Steve was shown the curb (Micheal Spindler and Gil Amelio) couldn't make anything. They caused Apple to fall off a cliff. Luckily Steve was waiting with an air bag and an elevator at the bottom. I do love John Sculley though. Where would we be without Steve founding NeXT? Nowhere. Sorry for the off topic.
lmao, unix viruses. I love when Microsoft zealots attempting to argue the evils of Open $ource try to use the proliferation of root kits as one of *nix operating systems' most gaping flaws. Somehow I think the inception of ActiveX is substantially worse than a buffer overflow privilege escalation which only affects eight year old linux kernels. Back in the .com days when getting your MCSE and making $100k a year was all the rage I worked in a datacenter and you wouldn't believe half the Microsoft myths about open source software I heard.
Really. That it was anti security? Allowed redistribution of it, which could spread viruses? I don't see how any of that makes sense unless some idiot is clicking the ads on Google, and getting the virusified versions.
Well you see when anyone can see your full open source codebase that's like saying "Here, please inspect the inner workings of the door lock on my house, just please don't use that knowledge to break in to it!" Most people who were proud to have dumped $5 grand on MCSE camp were desperate to come up with any kind of stawman argument against *nix server OS's so they didn't have to answer hard questions like "Why should I give Microsoft $1000+ for a server OS when I can use Linux for free?" I don't think it ever was supposed to make sense.
No, it makes no sense in a lot of ways. Why can you get a better OS for free than you get get by paying for one? Why do Macs get everything best? Best OS. Best software. Sexiest hardware. All that. Nothing makes sense. Why does everyone buy PCs, when Linux (Ubuntu anyway) is very user friendly and Macs are worth every single extra penny?
