Forced time off for a half a million employees in there Foxconn company community. It’s to cut down on stress that it’s employees are feeling with the 131.80$ a month pay before the drastic overtime that they have to put in and the living conditions in a this company town. No word on the 20% raise that was announced in May that the employees were to be given. I don’t know the culture so I hope this works, killing one’s self is just wrong.
This is great. Finally a magazine that is not double dipping for money. People Magazine to let subscribers use it’s iPad App for free. I wonder exactly how they are going to carry it off. Will it be like this: You subscribe to the paper one, then when you download the app and when you install it will ask for your name/address/phone or some other identifier and then activate? I wonder what Apple thinks of this, since if they have a free App but people still pay for it does Apple get a cut still?
Who needs porn when you got an iPhone! Steve Jobs has stated in the past that he wants to keep porn off the iPhone. It looks like the reason has now come to light. Why need the porn on the phone when you can get some action! The following link states that iPhone users have more sex partners than any other phone group. Note it doesn’t say more sex, just more partners. So is the iPhone the, tell, tell that lets you know when a person is in the mood? At the bar the person can just set their Iphone down letting everyone know what they on the prowl?
But also the study doesn’t’ go into other thinks like, does this mean that people who own iPhone have problems with relationships? That would be an interesting study.
Since Apple controls what is used to create the ipad/iphone software and controls if the software is allowed to even be used by anyone. Is Apple bad for open source. Open source by nature means the free usage of source code. Hummm…. Intresting…. To paraphrase Steve Jobs if you don’t like it don’t use it. Hummm….
It’s to funny, if you want to try to jailbreak go an Apple Store and try it on one of their devices. Apple has stopped people by blocking jailbreakme.com but all you have to do is see if other wi-fi hot spots are around and use them, or bring your own. While I don’t approve of anyone doing this, since it’s not your device , it is funny that someone came up with the idea. I guess Apple will have to watch everyone like a hawk, since it takes about an hour to re-set the phones back to normal.
This is great. Flash on iPhone I wonder what Steve Jobs is thinking about it. while you need a jail broken iPhone, iPad in eight steps you could be watching basic flash animations. To do this the install looks long and some what complicated, but if you went though the trouble of jail breaking your phone then you shouldn’t have an issue with it. Since it’s v 0.2 of Frash as the creator is calling it I’m sure if Adobe and Apple don’t come to an agreement that this guy will update his stuff to be easier and more full featured.
This article says it best. Google doesn’t make the phone, they only make the OS on the phone. Which means that the phone manufacture puts there own spin on how it looks. Because of this not everything works the same or correctly in all cases on all phones, which can cause problems when Google updates something. Microsoft has long had this problem because of the same exact issue, they don’t make the devices they can only do what they can in most cases. Apple doesn’t have this problem the make the device and the OS and look at the problems they are having while theya re in control of everything. People hopefully will begin to understand the what presures Microsoft has been under for all these years.
Microsoft has been the butt of jokes about quality and design specifications. I hope regular (non-computer) type people begin to understand the complexities of the computer universe. the Microsoft vs. Apple war has to end. Every Computer manufacture is at the point where they have the same problems as everyone else. Apple has issues with there equipment in the same way that Microsoft does, and Google is following along just as well. The more complexed a device the probems it has. The more you don’t have full control over the device the more issues you have. The quicker you ship the more problems you have because of not testing everything so you end up putting less into the product.
I guess Apple will now stop supporting PDFs. Apple controls the vertical and the horizontal when it comes to their devices. Apple doesn’t want Flash because of issues from Adobe so I guess they will stop PDFs since they cause problems to.