Hey , kidskin , you know how sometimes when you ’re trying to make a spot and you do n’t have enough evidence to support it , so you just make things up ? Well , these guys do . Dan Gillmor has had enough of Apple ’s draconian control of things it ’s not actually control draconianly ! Meanwhile , vicious pack of jailbreakers are coming to jailbreak your iPhone against your will ! Finally , Google ’s Eric Schmidt finally says what ’s everyone ’s been thinking : Apple ’s just jealous of the innovation of other companies !
Uh … ripe .
Saturday Special: Going full Cory Doctorow
Another mean solar day , another blog mail about how someone ’s not leaving Apple , Apple go away them !
This metre it ’s former San Jose Mercury News editorialist and media criticDan Gillmor(tip o ’ the antler toWil Shipley ) . The Macalope ’s been a rooter of Gillmor ’s work in the past , so he ’s a footling foiled .
Oh , not in seeing Gillmor go . That ’s his decision . What he ’s frustrated in is Gillmor ’s misguided assertions about Lion .
This would n’t be a big issue if I liked Lion more . Some of the alteration look terrific , free-base on reviews . Others are more questionable , even though they ’re plan to create a more forward-looking structure — in itself a desirable object lens but not when forced on users who have become habitual to perfectly workable earlier methods .
Please limit “ forced ” here because , unlike you , the horny one has actuallyusedLion and he has no mind what you ’re talking about . Yes , some would prefer if Apple did n’t plunge a bunch of icons in the Dock and change the scroll nonpayment to inverted , but all these things are configurable .
But Gillmor ’s substantial complaint are n’t about Lion , they ’re about Apple’sotherOS and the App Store .
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Given the well - chronicledconsequencesof the company ’s control - freakery in the iOS ecosystem , which is being merged with the Mac , that ’s unacceptable — to me , at any rate , even if it ’s just fine with everyone else .
Actually , Dan , no . What Apple ’s done is add iOS interface elements to OS X. The Macalope has theorized that Apple could , some day , lock the Mac down and only give up applications programme from the Mac App Store to be installed on it , but it has n’t done that . alternatively , it ’s providedchoice . The company offer a convenient place to find vetted applications , or you may go to the Internet and put in any ol’ covering you want . Hey , reckon , you could even run janky open - source applications inX11 !
So , it ’s not Lion you do n’t like , because Lion doesn’tdoany of the thing you ’re complaining about . What you do n’t care is Apple ’s business manikin .
Which is fine . impart the Mac is your determination . Your misinformed , ego - righteous decision .
By rejecting its past so soundly — a proud history of creating equipment that we user could modify for our own determination with no one ’s permission but our own — Apple is forcing me to move on .
Dan , the Macalope will type this slowly so you might get it this meter : Lion is just as configurable as Snow Leopard . As a subject of fact , because it has more options ( even if you do n’t care those options ) , it’smoreconfigurable .
So , what was your complaint again ?
The insidious jailbreaking agenda
Just a little over a workweek ago the Macalope waschastising Adrian Kingsley - Hughes for being too gung - ho about jailbreaking . Now he has to take out the crank in the opposite counselling , asBeatweek Magazine keysaReefer fury - esque diatribe on jailbreaking .
Apple attempt to get such practice made illegal , and having failed in the royal court , is now set up to finish off the battle in the technological orbit by making the next generation of its devices essentially unhackable .
Sure . All it has to do is ship a wholly bug barren translation of iOS.Simple !
Some of these hack simply want to mire up their iPhone or iPad and be done with it . But many or even most of them are rather on a mission , as attest by the propaganda terminal figure “ jailbreaking ” they ’ve utilise to their action from the start . Their agenda is clear : they consider iPhone users who do n’t hack their iPhone to be “ in clink ” and must be freed . As such , these “ jailbreakers ” have spent years twist the blazonry of every iPhone substance abuser they come into contact , begging to be allowed to hack those users ’ iPhones as well .
Wow . OK , the Macalope would n’t name himself as afanof jailbreaking , but he really was n’t aware there was an epidemic of cyber-terrorist gangs jailbreaking people ’s iPhones at gunpoint .
The resultant : Apple Stores flooded with mainstream users whose iPhones are no longer reliable , operational , or comprehensible now that they ’ve been castrate into a basically different software program production than what Apple sell those users .
Holy poop ! It ’s too high-risk Apple has to tolerate those and logical client ca n’t just reset their phones to get them back to factory precondition !
Oh , hold off , that ’s just what herp derp derp .
Seeing as how many of these geeks devote their entire life to working around Apple and continuing to hack their iPhone and iPad as if their lifespan and self - Charles Frederick Worth depended on it , these oddball may well compute out how to whoop the iPhone 5 anyway .
What ? ! Is n’t the title of this piece “ Lockout : iPhone 5 , iPad 3 bang prison-breaking hackers from political platform at last ” ? ARRRGH .
The odd part of the on-going jailbreaking saga is that despite the eccentric ’ corporate travail to paint their hackery as “ saving ” the rest of the iPhone userbase from Apple ’s “ draconian ” and “ menacing ” and “ overlording ” way , the modest handful of thing you could do with a jailbroken phone intimately all diminish under the category of inconsequential ( make virtual ants crawling across your screen door , replace the AT&T logo with your own name ) or illegal ( steal salary - for features like tethering without paying for them ) .
really , the vast majority of jailbreaking is probably done to turn on the iPhone on other carriers . That seems a little less dastardly , though , and we do n’t want to kill Beatweek ’s strawman buzz .
see , even the horny one has jailbroken an iPhone . partially to just to try it , like that metre in college when …
Uh , anyway , also because one of the slight Macalopes had bricked it by trying various passcodes so many times it locked the SIM card and AT&T wo n’t give you the code to unlock it if it ’s not the headphone presently on contract .
While the Macalope still maintains that jailbreaking your iPhone just to instal a security measure patch ( one that Apple publish less then two workweek later ) is a jester ’s errand , he call back what occur between consenting adults and an iPhone in the privacy of their own homes is their own commercial enterprise . Enough with the scare manoeuvre .
That’s rich
Yes , hell hath no fury like a former Apple board penis who was secretly making a competing product based intemperately on the iPhone ! seemingly Schmidt ischafing in all the wrong places(tip type O ’ the antlers to9to5 Mac ) aboutApple ’s preliminary win against HTC , a ruling that could affect every Android French telephone .
“ The self-aggrandizing news in the retiring year has been the blowup of Google Android handsets and this means our competitors are reply , ” he said .
“ Because they are not respond with invention , they ’re responding with lawsuits . ”
Ooh , Eric . Talc ?
This is , of course , the standard “ thing you say ” when the court are pass on your ass to you . That ’s Business 101 , right after the supply and need curve and right before favorable parachutes . It is , however , a little rich fare from the company whose fluid operating system went fromcopying the BlackBerry to copying the iPhone , oh , powerful around when the iPhone was release .
“ We have not done anything wrong and these lawsuits are just inspired by our success . ”
Sure , Eric . Sure . deplorably for you , however , the courts would disagree . As would common sensory faculty .
The ruffianly part for Google is that we have n’t even gotten to the main upshot yet . AsJohn Gruber translates Schmidt ’s over - dramatic , men ’s association football - style pratfall :
Google , as a party , is worried that Android go against one or more of the Nortel patents .
TRIPPING ! REF ! DID YOU SEE THAT ? HE TOTALLY JUST TRIPPED ME ! REF ! REF ! REF ? OH , COME ON !
