lowededwookie

Even art galleries rotate pieces to remain fresh and vibrant.

That means pieces once popular may not remain so and thus get pulled out.

The developer is just lazy and expectant of people stumbling on their title and giving them money. The problem is that most users would look at when it was last updated and decide not to download.

I know I do.

I would like to see some of the old MobileMe features come back running on Apple servers.

I've wanted to start a podcast, but all the options on the table require someone else to be in control. And given that Apple has a number of rules for the RSS files it seems odd that one can't just self-host with MAMP and an RSS feed tool from Apple. But MobileMe used to host iWeb and iWeb allowed us to create Podcast webpages with ridiculous ease. I'd happily pay for this rather than deal with some third party.

God I miss iWeb. Yes it was limited but it was so easy to setup blogs and podcasts. It just sucked in terms of designs for your sites and getting commenting running.

goodbyeranch said:

lowededwookie said:

Even art galleries rotate pieces to remain fresh and vibrant.

That means pieces once popular may not remain so and thus get pulled out.

The developer is just lazy and expectant of people stumbling on their title and giving them money. The problem is that most users would look at when it was last updated and decide not to download.

I know I do.

Better analogy - Imagine there was only one officially sanctioned art gallery in the entire world. And the art they sold could only be installed on a certain type of wall sold and controlled by the art gallery - unless the government intervened at great expense to the public. And this art gallery threatened to pull works from sale unless the artist updated their painting every seven years to be compatible with an arbitrary built-in obsolescence of the old walls. The moral of the story is... analogies are stupid. The artist and Apple are at cross-purposes and both have valid points. But Apple has the power and the artist is "being difficult".

Except that's not a real life analogy is it. Apple makes the App Store and is 100% allowed to set the rules. It's no different to any art gallery, museum or whatever. So stop ragging on Apple who is doing no wrong. It's not like Apple is stopping you from running an Android phone and getting Android apps.

Your argument is facetious at best.

Ofer said:

Will calibre import DRM-protected files?

There used to be a way back in the day but Amazon kept making things harder.

Also, if you want a free way to make your own ePub books, Sigil is a great app in partnership with Calibre.

Why do we keep listening to this idiot? What has he actually been bang on the money of?

He seems to be a tech Nostradamus. Everyone thinks Nostradamus was right about so many things, but of the 900 or so predictions he made, only about 90 of them came true and that was with massive amounts of twisting information to make it fit.

I can't actually remember the last time Kuo was accurate on something related to Apple and yet tech publications keep reporting on him as though he's some sort of oracle.

Stop it. Do your own research instead of blindly listening to someone who I'm pretty sure is trying to game Apple's stocks.

I guarantee consumers won’t save any money.

All that will happen is the power companies will raise their prices due to consumers using less power.

It happens here in New Zealand where power companies increase prices in winter to rort the consumer claiming we’re using more power than they can generate. Except New Zealand can produce more power than it actually needs.

Welcome to the wonderful world of markets. Don’t even get me started on how we pay international market rates for New Zealand beef and lamb internally.

AmberNeely said:

lowededwookie said:

The “e” clearly means “Entry” 

Ohhhh, I thought it stood for Apple Entelligence 

“Intelligence” is what the “i” in “iPhone” is. After all, the iPhone has ALWAYS been the most intelligent phone on the market since it came out and it gets more intelligent with every model.