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Apple is paying close attention to the app offerings for its new watch. If your iOS app advertises support for any watch, other than the Apple Watch, prepare for trouble. Apple recently rejected an update to an established iPhone and iPad app because it mentioned support for a non-Apple Smartwatch:
We noticed that your app or its metadata contains irrelevant platform information in the app. Providing future platform compatibility plans, or other platform references, is not appropriate for the App Store. Specifically, your app and app description declare support for the Pebble Smartwatch.
Additionally, Apple has established criteria for Apple Watch developers that reject applications where the primary function is to tell the time.
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Apple Rejects Watch App for Description Saying 'Pebble Compatible'
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Saturday May 02 2015, @01:37AM
I think you're completely missing my point from earlier, which is that most computer users don't have much choice when it comes to MS; they have to use it or not have a job. I can't exactly take some corporate-drone job and then say, "I'm not using Windows, the IT department needs to install and support my Linux distro of choice." Now of course, demands like that would be ridiculous with just about anything (where your desk is, where you park, etc.), but it's not like you can easily choose your job based on what OS you'll be using, whereas you *can* shop around for ones with different work environments (cubicles vs. open-plan, what part of town the office is in, whether there's an on-site cafeteria, etc.). With corporate work, you're 99.9% sure to be stuck using Windows.
So it doesn't really matter if MS listens to their customers or not. They sure don't listen to me. And if I'm a corporate worker, I'm not their customer anyway; the corporation and its IT department are.
As for Red Hat, at least there you have choices: there's lots of distros out there, and there's even a few that compete with Red Hat (namely SUSE).
Yes, Apple dictates, but they have the enviable position of having hordes of customers who actually *like* it that way. And besides, they're not a monopoly in any way. The chances of me getting a job requiring me to use a Mac are very slim, so it's not like I'll be forced to use their products.
And you're absolutely right about this behavior being the entire history of Apple. That's another reason I have zero sympathy for Apple customers.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Saturday May 02 2015, @07:24AM
So you are against the free market except when it supports YOUR personal tastes? Thanks for clearing that up.
The reason why businesses far and wide use Windows should be obvious...they have the best business tools PERIOD. Hell I can teach any 15 year old with more than 2 functioning brain cells how to set up and run a Windows SBS implementation, and tools like Outlook and Exchange have been doing exactly what the corps want them to for many years.
So if you (or anybody else) does not like it? You are free to work for another business or hell you can do like me and go out on your own, but as long as you work for somebody else you do what they say, and that includes which OS you use on company time. BTW if you want a job with an alternate OS? Look at medical, I've had to support many a doctor and help hospital IT accommodate the fact that docs? They loooove their Macbook Airs.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Saturday May 02 2015, @08:09PM
So you are against the free market except when it supports YOUR personal tastes? Thanks for clearing that up.
It's not a "free market" when there's a monopoly, or anything close to it. In fact, this whole "free market" thing is just a canard. It isn't real. There is no such thing as a free market, and there never will be, and people who talk about "free markets" a lot are just as delusional and religious as fundamentalists.
The reason why businesses far and wide use Windows should be obvious
Yeah, it's because of inertia and because to use various MS tools, you have to have MS infrastructure. It has nothing to do with quality, it's all about lock-in and lack of competitors (which again is because of inertia; what competitors they had all died out).
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Saturday May 02 2015, @10:09PM
Oh bullshit, cry me a river. You wanna know why MSFT ended up #1? Every single victory of MSFT in the 80s and 90s can be preceded by "And then the other guy did something REALLY fucking stupid".
Apple? Fired the only guy with taste for a soda water seller that made 50 models at different price points with ZERO way for the consumer to tell better from worse, and let the OS rot. OS/2? IBM turned OS/2 into an OS as appealing as plague blankets by first trying to fuck the other OEMs with the MCA bus and then charged $200 a pop for it (that IS the OEM price BTW, no discounts to actually gain share, might cut into thinkpad sales you know) at a time when the OEMs could pick up a copy of Windows for less than $20 wholesale. BeOS? First tied their OS to a failed AT&T CPU, and THEN if that wasn't fucking stupid enough they went full retard and went with the PPC which meant they had to fight Apple for every chip (fat chance) and then when they finally saw the light and went to X86? They had blown through their budget and couldn't afford to market. BTW I can do this with Linux in the 00s too, MSFT releases Vista? Devs go "Herp derp, lets shoot ourselves in the face by releasing a half baked alpha quality Pulse and KDE 4 and if that doesn't fucking kill us we'll make it the default on every popular distro! That will piss away any momentum we gained!"
Its easy to win a battle when the enemy is a bunch of retards, you want to know why MSFT hasn't gained shit in mobile? Google and Apple under Jobs wasn't run by booger eaters, simple as that. Hell Android is buggy as fuck, Apple iOS is finicky as shit and its quality goes down with each release BUT since the companies are run by retards you don't see the kind of supergigantic fuckups that let MSFT have the time to hire guys with brains like Cutler to make really good OSes like the NT arch. BTW I am proud to state the Hairyfeet Challenge has stood now for EIGHT YEARS without a single consumer Linux distro coming even close to passing, not one. Goes to show you OSes run by people that can't get their collective shit together still exist even in 2015, they just have share so low nobody cares when they systemd themselves out of what little relevance they had left.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.