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<rant> I've owned an iPhone from day one, I've jailbroke it and also purchased one of the first video apps in the jailbreak repo. Of course for my money I got no update and it finally faded into oblivion, but whatever... At first, in the jailbreak world, we had a lot of nice free stuff coming out, until the greed set in... The jailbreak store sells you shit now so if you buy a bunch of apps there and Apple locks out the jailbreakers, good luck getting your money back. After the App Store got settled and Apple added the copy/paste and video the only reason I had to jailbreak was for theming and some cool widgets that let me see what was happening from my lock screen. I miss this, but I got tired of jailbreaking just for that. So I started getting stuff from Apple's store. Life in the beginning was great! There was a lot of good free stuff to offset the commercial stuff, but this slowly changed. The free stuff became demos and the truly free stuff has become less and less. No big deal, most things are .99 cents. Well, that is slowly becoming a thing of the past also, as I have noticed prices slowly rising. If you remember when the AppStore started everything was .99 or free. Before Apple allowed developers to sell from inside their applications I purchased an app called Photo FX, which cost me $2.99. I go into Photo FX recently selecting a filter I wanted to use and it tells me I have to buy it, WTF! If I would have known that it was going to become a container to sell me more shit I wouldn't have bought it! It pissed me off... I also purchased another application, What's On, that went “free” I guess because it wasn't selling. Of course they decided to include f'ing advertisements so they could make money off this free app! Damn it, I paid for this with no ads and I shouldn't be troubled because your product didn't sell as well as you hoped! I could have just used i.TV! The Apple store is a free for all of greed and I am not really liking it. I love the NY Times application, which was free. It has an ad at the top and I don't mind, but all the sudden it started placing a full screen ad up that I have to click to exit! Now the real issue here is that many of these applications are falling within the realm of false advertisement! I don't know about you, but if I buy a black car, which was advertised as black, I don't want the paint to shift it's color to red in a month simply because Honda decided black no longer sells well! Wouldn't you take it back! That leads us to the next issue, you can't give it back! You can't get your money back once you purchased an application. So there isn't any real consumer protection and Apple dictates what goes into the store, even if it's something their customers want. Crazy... I'm waiting for the “pay to use” system where you pay to use the content in the application and borrow a shell to contain the content you pay for. If you remember old cell phone apps, this is basically what I'm talking about. My wife bought Pacman on her Sprint phone for $3 that expired after three months – EXPIRED! GPS Drive is charging monthly, or yearly, for the voice commands in their turn by turn app! WTF! I pay $2.99 to find out that I will have to pay yearly for the only feature I bought it for! I have their other application called GPS, which is the same damned thing as GPS drive without the option of adding the voice! It was an impulse buy for sure, I saw $2.99 for turn by turn and bought it. I should have just read their site first and bought the one I wanted, which is MobileNavigator. It's $90.00, but the voice is always there! I could have bought Sygic Mobile Maps for the US for $39.00 if I wanted cheaper... (GPS Drive is not falsely advertising and isn't really that bad of a deal, but I'm ranting damn it and it came out...) Imagine buying a desktop computer from Dell and Dell forces you to use Insight for your internet for a minimum of two years under contract, they lock you out of the hardware and limit your access to the file system. You can only purchase software from Dell and this software will not run on any other desktop computer. The software you buy for this system slowly morphs into a mini storefront or spam container. The majority of these applications are nothing more than interfaces to web services that can be accessed from a web browser for free. Last, but not least, your Dell installs software on other systems, without your permission, so your other systems can interface with your Dell. Would you buy it? Too bad the iPhone is the best smart phone available and Android will likely follow a similar path. Apple, Give me control of the hardware I paid for and own. I don't want to hack the fucking baseband, I just want access to the hard drive! Give me software with no hidden costs. Instead of denying apps, make the devs play fair. Don't allow developers to change software that was purchased without disclosure. Let me pick my carrier. Allow everyone in the AppStore, including competing products, services, and companies. Give me standard USB access to my phone so I am not forced into using only your software. </rant> Tags: apple, appstore, iphone
Current Mood:  bitchy
Current Music: Obscenity Trial - Lecture (No Club Mix)
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This just annoys me! People package Public Domain books, likely created by volunteers at Gutenberg, and sell them as individual e-books on the AppStore. You can download most of these free in Stanza or simply download them off the web and upload them to your phone using one of the file applications. Stanza is free by the way! Today I see another application along these lines called Cartoon Classics Lite. There is a pay version too... In the lite version they limit the amount of cartoons you can get and for both the pay and lite versions you have to be on WiFi to use them. PEOPLE!!! These are Public Domain cartoons! You can open You Tube on your iPhone, search Public Domain Cartoons and watch without WiFi. You can also download these off the internet and upload them to your phone. I also noticed that AOL Radio and SHOUTcast are the same application! Yep, look at the interface as well as the fav and station buttons. Basically a company pays to have a developer build an app and they just use a skeleton application... Since these are free I can't really complain, but if you think people are working hard to bring you quality products just remember, it's a buy and label world, not an industrious and innovative world - those days are gone, just ask George Foreman.
How about this! Don't put a selection in the app, no... Let's clutter the store with the same app for different languages, locations, or whatever, because we are annoying...
-Mohawke Posted via LiveJournal.app. Tags: appstore, iphone
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Someone needs to write an iPhone application to interface with the Public Library. The Columbus library electronic resources are awesome and an iPhone app would be so nice. Basically you enter your State and library card number to access the resources. Here are a list of resources at the Columbus Library site.What's makes this idea cool is that the library has sections for children and teens as well as resources for many interests which makes an application of this nature interesting to many people. For instance, if you needed to look up something in a past Dispatch article, wanted to browse car repair manuals, get help with homework, or view art at the Columbus museum of art it's all there. A feature to search for or check if the library has a physical copy of a book, dvd, or cd you wish to check out would be nice too. I am not a Mac developer, but I am thinking maybe I should give it a go to get some of my ideas created. I am seriously bored and uninterested in more social networking applications. Just how many do we need? Another one would be the iGlass, or iPhone magnifying glass, a magnifier that uses the iPhones camera and lets the user magnify at different levels. Come on, you all remember those magnifiers laying around grandma's book shelf, get on the ball! Tags: iphone
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"Richard Stallman, one of the fathers of the software freedom movement, has declared that cloud computing is stupid in calling for users to reject web applications." I agree! I like some of it and it is cool, but do you really want several companies controlling your data, watching your movements, and how do many accounts benefit anyone? My thought is users are becoming smarter, have cheap powerful home systems with 24/7 connections, and want to be mobile where their data can be accessed from anywhere. This made me think considering I am tired of managing several accounts. After reading a story about a guy getting his account locked so he couldn't gain access to his personal data I really started to think, how about managing my own data on my own server that uses web applications that are similar to the crap offered by third parties online. Orb also helped me in this vision, considering it was giving me access to my home computer where I could watch streaming video off my home machine on my iPhone. It made me think, why not stream from a web server of my own to the Safari web browser? My idea was born... While a lot of developers try to solve this problem with mostly manual backups or web apps that consolidate many accounts and services I am thinking about developing a self contained web server application with web application support, like the widgets we use trough Yahoo widgets or OS X desktop widgets, but served from your home pc to you and your family. Basically you install a application, you need to know nothing about server technology, because it is a standalone self contained and pre-configured SSL web server with PHP support. During setup it forwards through your router, if need be, and monitors you external IP address, the one you use to contact your web applications. The program notifies you if your DHCP address changes. Again, you need to know nothing... This server application contains a web server with SSL, an administration panel, and access to a small part of the hard drive for application storage, and a user page, which is basically a menu of your web applications. To install a web application you simply develop a standard web application using the standard tools, ajax, css, html/php or find one developed by someone else that you need. For instance, say I developed a web based word processor and photo editor. You download them and install them via admin panel. In the user panel you will now have access to these applications and can save what you do in them to the drive space you set aside for you web apps. When you are home you have access to this portion of the drive as nothing more than a folder, like C:/MyStorage and these web applications can be used on your home system as well. As far as the development goes there would be some standards and a small javascript in place so the web applications will work on many browsers including those found on iPhone, Android, Opera mobile browsers, etc... The advantage? You control all of your data on the go and at home. No fear of losing access. No tracking or commercials. One account to log into so security is better. The ability to save and manage data remotely on your hard drive. Open and tried and true web development means many useful programs and many developers. Programs are accessible from anywhere there's a web browser including mobile devices. Tags: iphone, mobile, servers, web, web applications, web development, widgets
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First off, what teen boy doesn't want objectionable material and second, what teen girl isn't already showing off theirs? I can bet they hit the ok button regardless...
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