Apple Killjoy
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- dbloc
Apple's killjoy patent may thwart illegal mobile recording..
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/…
This seems like the wrong direction
- dbloc0
If all phones didn't adopt this, wouldn't it kill the marketshare?
- plash0
An Apple Store Genius leaked internal documents to ArsTechnica.
One memo reads:
Apple Internal Use Only - Issue/Investigation in Progress - Confidential Information - Do Not Disclose ExternallySymptoms:
Customers may call AppleCare to report and issue with malware (trojan) software known as Mac Defender or Mac Security, or because they are concerned that their Mac could become infected. The name may vary as new variants are released onto the internet. This malware is installed from malicious websites.Products Affected:
Mac OS X 10.6, Mac OS X 10.5, Mac OS X 10.4Important
- Do not confirm or deny that any such software has been installed.
- Do not attempt to remove or uninstall any malware software.
- Do not send escalations or contact Tier 2 for support about removing the software or provide impact data.
- Do not refer customers to the Apple Retail Store. The ARS does not provide any additional support for malware.- wtf are the cust svc reps supposed to say that is of any use ? Do not confirm or deny ??
Fucking politicians, now. Fuck.mikotondria3 - i like it when people tell the truth..plash
- "I think you need to have an uppercase P at the start of your name, plash".mikotondria3
- how geniusMiguex
- wtf are the cust svc reps supposed to say that is of any use ? Do not confirm or deny ??
- i_monk0
I'm in the market for a smart phone and this has definitely increased the likelihood I'll go Android.
- detritus0
“This seems like the wrong direction”
Hardly. Apple's long term business plan is to build on its commercially- astute decisions made after the launch of the iPod, then iPhone, then iPad, locking its consumers into a mostly-walled garden where they take 30% of EVERYTHING.
The really funny thing is, all hints point at them extending their iOS philosophy onto the desktop, maybe even as far as the professional range, meaning that every. last. program. you. buy. puts 30% into Apple's pocket.
It's amazing what a brand can do (in terms of making money) when it inspires such unthinking loyalty amongst its acolytes.
- colin_s0
as much as i dislike apple's monopoly, the awful and seemingly spur of the moment app store decisions, the way steve jobs handles business and the forced obsolescence of their products, i'd like to go back to a time when there weren't 200 fucktards holding up iphones at shows.
enjoy the goddamn music. youtube doesn't care. nobody cares that you were there.
- iphones are the new lightersdbloc
- My thoughts exactly.turnerworks
- yep, very true!set
- autoflavour0
so basically this means that venues and clubs will need to spend extra money so that some kid wont make a shitty low quality recording of some band that not many people will have heard of?
i forsee this being only relevant to metallica concerts, lady gaga and perhaps justin bieber..
totally agree tho, watching a concert thru the light of a thousand iphone screens sucks huge balls.. although i admit to doing it from time to time..
but at least i have the decency to turn the brightness down to nothing
- ESKEMA0
it's just a patent. every company has lots of goofy stupid ideas patented but never actually use them.
(though I can totally see this happening, just not right now...)
- chalk0
No response from Boz yet?
- utopian0
Who cares a vast majority of the music created today blows monkey balls! Who listens to this Auto-tunes, sampled, fake-ass bubble gum pop music shit anyway?