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January 2012

Apple hit by boycott call over worker abuses in China | Technology | The Observer

by night.kame

Earlier this month Apple took the unusual step of releasing a list of all the firms in its worldwide supply chain as part of its 2011 audit of human rights conditions at factories where it has partnerships.However, the company's own list made for grim reading. It revealed that a staggering 62% of the 229 facilities that it was involved with were not in compliance with Apple's 60-hour maximum working week policy. Almost a third had problem with hazardous waste.Cook insisted in his email that Apple did not turn a blind eye to conditions in its supplier network. But he did warn that the firm was likely to discover more problems. "We will continue to dig deeper, and we will undoubtedly find more issues," he said.

Tim Cook, CEO actuel d'Apple, est responsable de toute la partie production depuis son arrivée en 1998. La fermeture des usines Apple : c'est Cook. La transformation d'Apple, fabricant informatique, en un bureau d'études couplé à une agence de publicité : c'est Cook. L'iPhone 4 blanc avec un an de retard : c'est encore Cook. Depuis 10 ans, Cook a joué la carte "sweatshops" et engrangé les profits ; ça commence à se voir, mais ça n'est plus un problème : l'argent est là, n'a jamais été distribué aux actionnaires, il peut s'acheter une virginité tel le mafieux versant son obole pour la restauration du presbytère.

Daring Fireball Linked List: Sony, Too

by night.kame

Sony should no more abandon the point-and-shoot camera market than Apple should abandon the music-playing iPod market, but Sony has to recognize that it’s a business in decline and that the future is in putting better cameras into phones.

Nous dit le type qui n'a visiblement jamais eu un téléphone Sony-Ericsson dans les mains.

PluginsNoLongerSupported - tenfourfox - Explaining plugin (non)support. - Mozilla for Power Macintosh - Google Project Hosting

by night.kame

No major plugin is being maintained for Power Macs any more: Flash stopped updates with Flash 10.1.102.64 in November 2010, and QuickTime 7 for the PowerPC was decommissioned with the release of QuickTime 7.7 and OS X Lion in August 2011. (Tiger users have not had an update since QT 7.6.4 in September 2009.)

Quel est la différence entre un Mac de 2003 et un PC de 2003 ? Le PC de 2003 peut encore servir et être mis à jour. Le Mac de 2003 a été abandonné, à commencer par Apple

iPhone 4S is worth buying to look fashionable but not for Siri feature -- Shanghai Daily | 上海日报 -- English Window to China New

by night.kame

One of the most touted features of the iPhone 4S is the web-based voice recognition assistant Siri. It's interesting and sometimes powerful, but not always in China. First, it doesn't support Mandarin and China-based map and location services, which makes it somewhat less appealing than Apple's US-based advertising would have you believe. The good news is that Apple has said it will launch a Chinese-language version of Siri this year. Second, it can't always recognize words spoken in English. I tried it 10 times, and it recognized my words only 5 times. A Canadian native speaker who also tried found it worked seven out of 10 times. Still, it will give you results sometimes if it manages to catch only keywords.

Siri, c'est la personne qui vous répondra toujours au téléphone.

December 2011

Designing for the Retina Display (326ppi)

by rvuong & 3 others

For three generations of the iPhone, Apple kept the screen consistent (320x480 pixels and 3.5 inches diagonal). But now Apple's new iPhone 4 boasts the "highest resolution phone screen ever (960x640 pixels, 3.5 inches diagonal, & an 800:1 contrast ratio)." What's the impact to designers?

Apple releases 12 Days of Christmas app for Europe, Canada

by alamat & 1 other (via)
Apple has launched its 12 Days of Christmas app in preparation for its annual holiday promotion offering free songs, music videos, apps and books to residents of parts of Europe and Canada.

November 2011

Video Effects Prod

by Dawa
Tutoriaux Final Cut Pro X et Motion 5: le montage selon Apple

DRM m’a tuer – signé le livre numérique légal - Tablette-tactile.net

by night.kame (via)

Ce qu’il ressort de cette expérience c’est que malgré mon expérience je suis toujours à l’heure actuelle dans l’incapacité de lire le livre acheté sur mon iPad.

Et donc il blâme... l'éditeur du livre et pas Apple qui verrouille complètement ses machines ! Une chose est sûre : les DRMs ne verrouillent pas la raison.

Rocketbox

by karlcow & 3 others

Over time the Mac App Store will become the primary way Mac users purchase their software. Unfortunately this is a marketplace that Rocketbox will not be allowed into. Rocketbox is a Mail plugin which is unsupported by Apple and not allowed in the Mac App Store. As more software moves to the Mac App Store it will become increasingly difficult to sell Rocketbox through a third party website.

Daring Fireball Linked List: 'Opponents'

by night.kame

Silverlight was an opponent to Flash. Apple didn’t favor its own proprietary plugin over Flash. There’s no QuickTime plugin on iOS either.

Ça c'est sûr, il ne faudrait pas laisser le navigateur ouvert.

Apple’s view was, and is, that there should be no proprietary web browser plugins, period.

La vision d'Apple est que si on veut offrir plus que la version propriétaire de HTML supportée par Mobile Safari, il faut acheter un ordinateur Apple et payer pour avoir le droit de développer des applications, et payer pour se former à des outils et bibliothèques propriétaires qu'aucune autre plateforme au monde n'utilise. La vision d'Apple c'est : aboule le pognon, et pas de concurrence, point. Apple c'est l'ouverture... à la chinoise.

Apple

by karlcow

Q - Oh, okay, I thought you had made some sort of mistake. A - Yes, exactly.

Why the Mac App Sandbox makes me sad | Naming Things

by night.kame

These things make users happy. On Apple platforms, the users are paramount, not the developers.

Avec les nouvelles règles de bac à sable pour les applications dans le Mac App Store d'Apple, Mac OS peut décider à tout moment d'effacer des fichiers créés par une application dans son bac à sable. Comme par exemple, la version de travail de votre dernière création. "These things make users happy." nous dit Hamranhansenhansen. Je comprends maintenant que je ne sois pas un fervent macqueux : je n'ai pas la même idée du bonheur que ceux-là.

Siri goes down for iPhone 4S owners across the country | VentureBeat

by night.kame

Siri, Apple’s new voice assistant feature for the iPhone 4S, is apparently suffering from an outage, which has rendered it useless for many iPhone owners. The outage began at around 11 am PST today.

Siri isn’t just a simple piece of voice control software. To function properly, Siri must communicate with one of Apple’s servers for additional information.

Même si un travail de décodage est fait au niveau de l'iPhone 4S, le véritable coeur de Siri est dans le nuage de la pomme (ze Apple's Cloud). C'est là que sont stockées et analysées toutes les phrases que vous croyez prononcer dans l'intimité de votre assistant numérique. Mais votre iPhone n'est pas votre assistant numérique, c'est l'assistant de Cupertino dans votre poche : nuance.

Apple and the Kindle (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)

by François Hodierne

That’s the thing about delightful details: they’re not just another thing you can add on top. Unless you sweat the details all the way through the user experience, the ones that delight quickly get drowned out by the ones that constantly annoy. I hope someone at Amazon will take that to heart.

Applesoft BASIC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

by sylvainulg (via)
Applesoft, like Integer BASIC before it, did not come with any built-in commands for dealing with files or disks, other than a feature to save programs to, and load programs from, audiotape. The Apple II disk operating system, known simply as DOS, thus intercepted all input typed at the BASIC command prompt to determine whether it was a DOS command. Similarly, all output was scrutinized for a Control-D character (ASCII 4), which BASIC programs would send before seemingly PRINTing a disk command to get DOS's attention (the disk commands would not really get PRINTed but were intercepted by DOS and prevented from making it to the screen output).[3] ProDOS followed this lead, although the BASIC command interpreter was placed in a separate program called BASIC.SYSTEM and the hook worked in a different manner.[4]

October 2011

Daring Fireball Linked List: AppleInsider: 'Apple Reportedly Questioning Future of Mac Pro'

by night.kame

AppleInsider:

Although the Mac maker has reportedly developed a revision to the existing Mac Pro that may or may not see the light of day, people familiar with the matter said management as far back as May of 2011 were in limbo over whether to pour any additional resources into the product line.

You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

Oui je suis d'accord avec Gruber : Apple a abandonné le marché des entreprises, il quitte peu à peu celui des professionels. La cible est claire : la classe moyenne supérieure qui préfère Coca à Pepsi par snobisme. C'est elle la cible ultime, c'est pour ça que Siri comprend les rots mais pas l'accent écossais.

Steve’s Bio: A Personal Perspective | Monday Note

by night.kame

Get thee to a physical bookstore, if you can find one, or to Amazon’s or Apple’s online dispensers, you won’t regret it.

Amazon ou Apple ? Pourquoi référencer les deux boutiques de livres électroniques les plus fermées du marché ? Elles seules ont le livre en question ? Non, toutes les boutiques généralistes du marchés l'ont. Elles ont besoin de publicité ? Hahahahahaha. Non, c'est juste de la propagande par omission, ou par aveuglement devant la réussite de ces systèmes clos, donc confortables.

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