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[Brentai]

Jobs makes insinuations that turn out to be disingenuous.

I'm getting tired of them.

[Friday]

Falcon Punch

[TA]

Deciding that the curated, "Install what we want and nothing else" method of the iPhone App Store is a good thing for general use, Apple's putting a curated App Store in OS X 10.7.  While you remain technically still able to install programs from outside the App Store, those programs are denied access to several key aspects of 10.7.

At this rate, I'd expect outside installs to be gone entirely by 10.8, and the fans eating up every step of it.

[Mongrel]

That's okay. Eventually, we can go back to the old days where the Mac was a target of perpetual ridicule for having no games.

But wait, you say that developers will be brought to heel by the power of the newer, mightier Apple? While this is quite probably for at least a little while, sooner or later there'll be a really top-shelf game that comes out that flagrantly crosses the censorship guidelines set-by Steve-O. Then the real fun will begin. 

[Brentai]

God damn, how will Mac users ever cope with having a limited software library?

[Aintaer]

Steve views his products as pieces of art. He's already disgruntled that he has to let users use them. The next best thing is to control every aspect of how a user can use them. Then they will see his vision. Then they will understand art.

[Thad]

I think the idea of Mac as a completely closed software platform is a paranoid fantasy (though not entirely out of the question).  An app store isn't an inherently bad idea (it's just Apple catching up to where most Linuxes have been for the better part of the past decade), but banning anything Java pisses me off pretty thoroughly.  Hell, a program where you can download software as long as it doesn't require any dependencies to be installed pretty much takes the idea of apt and then misses the entire fucking point.

Apple's abandonment of Java is going to prove devastating to the small but loyal market of programmers who've switched to Macs; if I had to hazard a guess I'd say it's going to benefit Canonical more than Microsoft.

I'm curious about portability.  If it turns out to be easy to port iOS apps to this OSX framework, that could potentially be a big deal for Mac gaming.  But I'm just saying that because I want Final Fantasy Tactics, dammit.

[Aintaer]

Why Macs will never have games.

[Mongrel]

And also why Steve Jobs is to blame for EA.

Hah!

[François]

Following a link on that article...

“So, during the day, I got an email from Steve Ballmer asking me to phone Steve Jobs and calm him down about the whole thing,” he said.

“Anyway, we did this deal with Apple where we’d port some PC games to the Macintosh and help Peter Tamte create this company to do it, and I had to go to a Mac developer conference and get on stage and talk about this whole new partnership. It was a pretty strange time.”

I don't understand what's going here. Steve Jobs calls Microsoft to throw a hissy fit, and the MS people have to placate him? What was he gonna do? Were they afraid he was going to have an aneurysm? Had I been in charge of that I would have been all nelsonhaha.wav and farting into the phone.

[Brentai]

This was back when Microsoft was a terrifying monolith dealing with wave after crashing wave of antitrust suits, and not a beached whale slowly bleeding out on the beaches of the microcomputer movement.

[Mongrel]

This was back when Microsoft was a terrifying monolith dealing with wave after crashing wave of antitrust suits, and not a beached whale slowly bleeding out on the beaches of the microcomputer movement.

Wouldn't it make even less sense for Ballmer to do this back when MS was far more dominant than it can hope to claim now?

[Thad]

Only if you assume they weren't busily trying to prove they WEREN'T a monopoly.

[TA]

With all the disadvantages of a curated app store, it's important to remember that there are some advantages, as well. Apple has strict rules about what content is or is not acceptable for the iOS app store - nothing pornographic or bigoted, no offensive content. Everything that's sold is something Apple has approved for sale, something they've judged to have an acceptable message they're willing to stand behind - thus the banning of political apps, since approving them would be taking a political stance as a corporation.

So it's good news for the makers of the PeekaBoo Tranny app, which promises to insert "fierce tranny bitches in hilarious poses" into your photos, that Apple has deemed nothing about "a tranny surprise in every shot!" to be offensive to right-minded people.

[Thad]

Good news on the OSX Java front: Apple IS giving its code to OpenJDK, and Java apparently WILL be allowed on the Mac App Store.  (Reg)

[Shinra]

With all the disadvantages of a curated app store, it's important to remember that there are some advantages, as well. Apple has strict rules about what content is or is not acceptable for the iOS app store - nothing pornographic or bigoted, no offensive content. Everything that's sold is something Apple has approved for sale, something they've judged to have an acceptable message they're willing to stand behind - thus the banning of political apps, since approving them would be taking a political stance as a corporation.

So it's good news for the makers of the PeekaBoo Tranny app, which promises to insert "fierce tranny bitches in hilarious poses" into your photos, that Apple has deemed nothing about "a tranny surprise in every shot!" to be offensive to right-minded people.

I have never wanted an iphone more.

MS BURRITO IF YOU'RE NASTY

[Burrito Al Pastor]

What?

[Royal☭]

I don't know how we've avoided talking about Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs working on a newspaper app together, but that should cause some definite outrage.

[Büge]

Because the concept was so ludicrous as to inspire harrumphing.

[Mongrel]

"A world so absurd it surpasses all possible parody"