Apple iPad Thread

[Freakin]

Originally Posted by Nicholasp27

You worried that the RAA will come after you if your dled music gets up in the iCloud?

it's even safer than that. It's apple providing legit copies of the music he pirated

[suzzer99]

Only if they confirm I've purchased it.

[Nicholasp27]

Originally Posted by Freakin

it's even safer than that. It's apple providing legit copies of the music he pirated

right, but I was assuming he's talking about songs it doesn't match

anything it matches it just gives him the legit one for free (well, $24.99/year) so he then uses non-pirated (and likely higher quality) version from then on

a $24.99 charge to legitimize 12 years of pirated content (based on napster '99)

[Nicholasp27]

Originally Posted by suzzer99

Only if they confirm I've purchased it.

they don't confirm you purchased it, just that it's on your hard drive

I can come over to your house with a 1TB drive full of music and plug it into your USB port and then have you run the matching service on the drive and your account now has all that music as legit copies

[suzzer99]

All it takes is one subpoeana on "the cloud" and you're effed.

[dylan's alias]

Originally Posted by Nicholasp27

i don't think we have a mac thread, so i'll just point out that I love that Lion is adding more multi-touch gestures for Mac.

My favorite gesture that currently works is that I can go right to top of page with 3-finger up swipe and right to bottom of page with 3-finger down swipe; i mean instant.

FYI - you can already do this with Firefox. I had to do it manually in 3.5, not sure if it was automatic in 4.0. Type about:config in the address bar, search for swipe. My settings are:



browser.gesture.swipe.down; cmd_scrollBottom
browser.gesture.swipe.left; Browser:BackOrBackDuplicate
browser.gesture.swipe.right; Browser:ForwardOrForwardDuplicate
browser.gesture.swipe.up; cmd_scrollTop

[Nicholasp27]

yeah, that's what i'm doing in FF right now on my Mac

"that currently works"

i didn't enable it manually, so must be automatic; but good post so people know how to add it if theirs doesnt

[oldgrandma18k]

Originally Posted by Nicholasp27

damn, iOS5 just took away a bunch of objections that people had (and advantages of Android):

Better Notification System, including on lock screen
PC-Free Activation and Updates!
Wifi iTunes Syncing!
Tabbed Browsing in Safari



Other Great Stuff:
Volume Up button used as camera shutter
Turn-Based games in Game Center (Settlers, anyone?)
iMessage - SMS across all devices (iPod/iPad); start conversation on iPhone, pick up on iPad, then finish on iPod
Take Pic from Lockscreen
AirPlay Mirroring (mirror iPad display on AppleTV; not sure if only iPad2 tho)
Thumb keyboard for iPad (left half on left side, right half on right side)
Reminders/Todo - syncs across devices
Reading List for reading page later - syncs across devices
Reader - removes all but text from webpage to just read content (even email this content, not link)
Full Twitter Integration
Multitouch Gestures to swap between apps

[suzzer99]

I don't know why you guys are so afraid to try other browsers. Mercury blows Safari away in every category. There are some other good ones as well AFAIK. And I'm the "I just want it to work and be simple" guy.

[Nicholasp27]

Confirmed no longer losing our webpages when moving between tabs in Safari?

"Safari appears to cache pages when not active so you don't have to reload them when you switch back and forth."

#winning


i also like the new OS-wide text shortcuts...you can setup any combination of letters/numbers/symbols to type anything you want...so if I have a really long password for websites like foiuwflekwsndi32432ldf!@@3jejdlfkjsd I could set up pw1=foiuwflekwsndi32432ldf!@@3jejdlfkjsd and then I just type pw1 on my iDevice instead of the long-ass password. or setup npmail=myemail@mydomain.com so I don't have to type out my email all the time

[Fat-not-Thin Man]

I'm not scurd.

Grabbed it last night after your post. Really like it. One deal breaker for me in past attempts to switch from Atomic has been that I have become completely hooked on the transparent buttons at the bottom of the screen and I really rely on having a back button in the lower right. Mercury has it available in fullscreen, but I tend not to use fullscreen much.

Either way, I like this browser a lot so far, so I'll give it a shot for a while.

[Nicholasp27]

So apple changed their terms for in-app content so Netflix, won't be affected

Only if you have a purchase link in the app do you have to also allow purchase via iTunes and lose 30%

If u do that, then you can also charge more to make up for the 30%

Basically, u only pay apple if u use their marketing ecosystem and payment processing

[Nicholasp27]

Basically kindle app will say buy this book for $13.50 here or click this link to purchase for 9.99 on amazon.com

[sylar]

that's actually really awesome for amazon and netflix.

[Freakin]

Originally Posted by Nicholasp27

So apple changed their terms for in-app content so Netflix, won't be affected

Only if you have a purchase link in the app do you have to also allow purchase via iTunes and lose 30%

If u do that, then you can also charge more to make up for the 30%

Basically, u only pay apple if u use their marketing ecosystem and payment processing

Yeah i forgot all this conversation was going on here. Posted this in the iphone thread. For the record, I think this is clarifying their policy, not changing it.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/09/app...ription-rules/

11.14 Apps can read or play approved content (specifically magazines, newspapers, books, audio, music, and video) that is subscribed to or purchased outside of the app, as long as there is no button or external link in the app to purchase the approved content. Apple will not receive any portion of the revenues for approved content that is subscribed to or purchased outside of the app.

So basically they have no intention of charging for services or subscriptions purchased outside the application, as myself and others have speculated. Their 30% only applies to apps that include a way to purchase content inside their application. They are forbidden from creating a buy button that links to an external purchase platform.