Posts by Herba 31 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Mar 2011
There is already TN3270 apps on the app store :p
That being said, odds are IT will probably agree to support one now. Where I work we use cisco for IT remote access so since its build into the ipad I can connect with a securid and use the a 3270 app on the ipad over LTE. nice indeed since I need to support the mainframe 24/7.
Apple pays its taxes in the countries it makes its sales. The problem is the US wants to charge the difference between the country rates and the US rates when Apple tries to move the cash into the US. The result is the cash stays offshore unless the country has a >= 35% tax rates, in which case Apple can bring the cash to the US without additionnal charge.
For example, if Canada tax rate is at 25%, Apple pays 25% to Canada on sales made in Canada. But if they move the profits made in Canada to the US, the US wants another 10% on top of what Apple already paid (35% - 25% = 10%). This is where the US system is flawed.
This has absolutly nothing to do with tax dodging. Apple does do it with itunes sales in some cases (example: itunes ireland hub deserved the EU), but not with hardware. Tax dodging with software sales or ads is a major problem with Google and Amazon, but not Apple.
WTF are you talking about? I don't recall Apple dominating the smartphone market at any point in time. They pretty much get all the profits, but not the market shares.
And number are very deceiving, last quarter was the S3 first 3 months and it was Apple 4s last 3 months. Lets look at the chart in february again and compare...
The china chart is a joke, 95% of the android phones sold there a complete junk than can barely run any app because they are running old Android versions on junk hardware.
I prefer to pay more for Apple products not only because of quality, but because I am not going to sell my soul to Google "free" offerings. Google is ad based and they literally rip off every single thing you do in order to push you context ads and now geographic ads. Try sending you're self various emails to you're Gmail and look at the ads... Google is reading you're mail and is recording everything you do. Google will also relay everything to any government agency if requested.
Android may be free, but there is a tradeoff. And dumping hardware at cost is currently destroying the entire tech sector into an unprecedented race to the bottom.
ABC airs a non damning documentary on Foxconn: conflict of interest and lies
NBC airs a non damning documentary on Foxconn: lies
BBC airs a non damning documentary on Foxconn: foreign lies
CBC airs a non damning documentary on Foxconn: communist lies
Some loud mouthed hyperbole laden dude with a microphone and a Sony camcorder airs a scathing report on his blog about the slave sweatshops run by the Illuminati managed Foxconn, secretly owned by Apple: the absolute and unquestionable truth
I hope people will realize that if you want to boycott because of working condition in China, you need to simply not buy phones or tablets at all because they are all made there. Foxconn is in fact one of the best of those factories where workers line up in hope to get a job.
If you're going to buy a Samsung phone instead you are shooting yourself in the foot twice, you're hurting a US company over a Corean one and you're not helping conditions in China at all...
Americans are completely disconnect from the dynamic of the situation in China. The factories may not be paradise, but the alternative is even worst. Its up to the Chine governement and the people of China to come up with solutions.
indeed, i got it from a google link yesterday. It did downloaded automaticly without asking but at the install step I got a confirmation pop-up. In fact, nothing can be install on my mac without prompting for the password and I didnt changed any settings regarding security.
Apple did brough the term "App Store" in volume to the world. The key point here is App is short for Application.
Now the problem is they should had file a patent for it back in 2008, not now. Thanks to Apple "App Store", the therm App is now used for application on a massive scale. Basiltly its too late to patent it.
You could jailbreak the AppleTv and put XBMC on it. imo dont buy anything on itunes until they start there clould based sercive. Managing DRM files sucks indeed.
The thing I do is I store my files on the NAS then drag them into itunes WITHOUT copying them (its in the itunes settings), so they are only shortcuts in itunes. You do need to have a PC/Mac on and running itunes but at least your files are on the NAS. This may change when the AppleTV has apps.
Apple entreprise program gives companies full access to there iDevices for vertical applications. IT can actually run there own private app store and have full control of the devices without having Apple in the loop.
I worked in IT btw and idevices are great for entreprise deployment...
I love Apple produits and OS but I sincerily think there publisher policy is seriously flaw and hope it crash and Burns. Its like apple only has one field to store percentage, everything doesn't have to be 30%. And it's obvious reseller of content like amazon, Netflix, hulu, zinio can't pay the same cut to apple has a publisher who sell is content directly in the app store.
I particular hate the rule that force to sell at the same price they offer on there websites, that got to be illegal...
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