January 2012
Apple hit by boycott call over worker abuses in China | Technology | The Observer
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.
PluginsNoLongerSupported - tenfourfox - Explaining plugin (non)support. - Mozilla for Power Macintosh - Google Project Hosting
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
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
Rumor: Google prepping ‘Majel’ Android voice assistant to counter Apple’s Siri
Apple releases 12 Days of Christmas app for Europe, Canada
November 2011
DRM m’a tuer – signé le livre numérique légal - Tablette-tactile.net
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.
Why Adobe Failed and Where Startups Can Swoop In
Rocketbox
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'
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.
Why the Mac App Sandbox makes me sad | Naming Things
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.
Apple and the Kindle (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
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
November 1st and iOS 5 Hasn't Fixed the F*cking 1 On the iPhone's Calendar
See what I mean? Can you see IT? The 1 is off center. Instead of being optically centered, it's geometrically centered. So it just looks wrong. Really, what happened there, Steve? Where did all that love for typography and attention to detail go?
Ça n'a jamais été de l'amour, juste un facteur différentiateur.
iOS Apps: Puzzle Agent
October 2011
Daring Fireball Linked List: AppleInsider: 'Apple Reportedly Questioning Future of Mac Pro'
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.










