flydog

Mike Wuerthele said:

riverko said:

It happens very often that I request the desktop version of a site and still get served with mobile version. Which is often very annoying and i didn’t find any way how to fix this...

If the mobile version still gets served after the request, then the web developers from that site are not adhering to standards. You'll need to take it up with them, I'm afraid.

It has nothing to do with adhering to standards. There is no web standard for honoring "request desktop site."  All that button does is change the user agent in the mobile browser to a desktop use agent.  But these days most websites are optimized for devices based on the detected screen width and device orientation, not on the user agent, which is the correct way to implement the behavior.

hmurchison said:

Well 7 Hells...my cell bill is never going down. 

How would your bill be affected by a wireless carrier buying or not buying a company that doesn't offer wireless services?

ericthehalfbee said:

rogifan_new said:

We don’t know what really happened. We have Apple’s words against Valve’s. But what we do know (and what I suspected all along) is this went to the highest levels of Apple leadership.

You have no proof whatsoever that “this went to the highest levels of Apple leadership”. Having someone like Schiller comment is not proof. It’s more likely he only commented because this became news (after Steam whined about it) and Schiller had nothing to do with the App approval process.

Of course Schiller had nothing to do with the initial app approval process.  No one has said that he did.  Did you expect the actual employee who conducted the app review to issue a press release? 

tylersdad said:

"System for disseminating media content representing episodes in a serialized sequence."

Doesn't this describe television? Is there someone at the patent office who is technical enough to identify a BS patent when they see one?

Seems like no.

What you just quoted is a snippet from a patent that runs over 28,000 words

Next time it may benefit you to familiarize yourself with the facts before making baseless conclusions.

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,112,504.PN.&OS=PN/8,112,504&RS=PN/8,112,504

The Ecobee thermostat itself is nice, but the app has never worked properly since I bought my Ecobee two years ago, and I've lost all hope that it will ever work properly. The HomeKit integration is useless, since it overrides the built-in Ecobee functionality.