can it run Crysis?

Microsoft has copied Apple, and introduced a locked-in app store for Windows Phone 7 Series, where Ballmer gets to say what apps go in, and you're not allowed to buy an app from anyone else.

Then, after copying Apple's ways, Microsoft did something much worse to developers. It told them that all their Windows Mobile apps are obsolete.

I believe the iPhone and iPod touch are both capable of utilizing the App store. If you believe these to be the same device, then describing the iPad as "...the second device to make use of the App Store..." makes sense.

From the point of view of an App, iPhone and iPod touch are very similar, but from the user's point of view they are obviously different: different names, prices, capabilities. You can start by saying one is a phone while the other isn't. Maybe being a phone is of minuscule importance to The Inquirer.

The second issue: Apple does require signed NDAs, as well as measures taken to prevent prototype, beta, or advanced equipment from being seen. This has been true for at least two decades. It may be novel news to Inquirer, or you may have published the same story every year for all I know, but to those who develop products for Apple platforms, it is status quo. The developers I know are very respectful of Apple's wishes in this matter. They have skin in the game. They know the drill.

Apple gets a great deal of market leverage by controlling how it introduces new products, and fully understands how exuberant all of Apple's partners DO get when they get their mitts on some delectable bit of secret information, equipment, or software. So, of course they do more than mention what the rules are early and often. To Apple, a bit of security "theatre" gets the message out and helps everyone's bottom line.

Apple is far from being the only corporation to defend its secrets, but it is one of the few that has done a consistently good job at it.

Finally, you should note that it is entirely possible that Apple gives preferential treatment to Apple-only developers.

It used to be that Apple worked hard to get companies to port to Apple platforms, or develop using Mac and porting to other platforms, but that hasn't been true since 1997.

The ipad prototypes are very hard to come by, and many of us developers will ship ipad products with only the simulator to test on. Not the greatest way to test, but although the simulator is way faster than the real thing so you might get caught on speed, basically it isn't that big of a deal except for the cellphone-based apps which require use of 3G which of course doesn't exist in the simulator. The units will be here in a month so it isn't that big of a deal for the software people.

<quote and be attached to an immovable object. </quote

Why, that would be the iPad itself. Isn't it the oversized iPhone? Am I missing something?

troll ing along!!!

eh, theo didnt mention windows or mac?
& I didnt attempt to answer theos question, thats why my heading was
"2 ways to stop inquirer showing up in Windows"- no mention of googlenews - ya noob
if you think about it,
windows queries the host file before dns
and i said nothing about
/private/etc/hosts

so yeah, score you full points on the iconic ironic stupidity scale,
ah just knew some itard would say it, "autodefend the iflock" is on, turn it off mate

at least you picked up on the sarcastic bit

iPAID is NOT reccomended device, as that device is still in process of being built.

Ahso, another item on Google From Forgein Service , bit of reflection on Non Google world from within Peoples Republic of China.

ipai? BAIDU States United States Is Up to $500/Share, RIGHT NOW.Wow....

@1010011010 (or 666) It's pretty standard that businesses ask partners to sign NDA's actually, and employees, and unfortunately also 'journalists', the ' are to indicate those that agree to sign.
In fact even if you work in a stupid shop selling let's say baby-strollers, you are sometimes asked to sign an NDA and an agreement to not work for a competing shop within x months after leaving your position.
It's a mad mad world.

Not that apple doesn't take it even further and is pretty damn insane with such matters.

- Think about forcing everyone you do business with to fill out NDA's which place them at risk of legal action if they do not do exactly what you tell them to.

- Think about controlling each and every interaction of your customers with your products, and restricting them from outside influences.

- Think about using child labor to build gadgets, then suddenly "auditing" and "discovering" this fact years later, when it looks as though your little scheme is going to be found out.

- Think about using an internal "secret police force" to control the thoughts and actions of your employees; a force who will apparently even go to the extent of encouraging those losing iPhone prototypes to jump out of skyscrapers.

Think "different"...just like Steve Jobs (the guru of peace and happiness).

Ironic comment, for #1 you don't answer the question that he was asking (lame attempt to sound smart, BTW), making your comment about stupidity in #2 funny as hell. FAIL!

Ah, does not matter... based on your sarcastic tone you are probably just lAwrense lAyoff trolling his own retarded blog.

@ theo - Google is your friend. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/news/thread?tid=720f8e102b817b08&hl=en

Every time I read an article at The Inq that talks about Apples causes Apple fanbois to come rushing in to complain about how wrong the Inq is.

Get a Nexus One and shut up.

NufSed

1/ bit difficult, right click notepad-run as admin, /open/browse to windows/system32/drivers/etc-change view to all files, open hosts, add this
127.0.0.1 inquirer.net

2/ much easier, esp 4 iTards,pack up your computer, all the bits and wires instruction manuals etc, bring it to your place of purchase.
Tell them you are just too blindly stupid to own a computer and that they have to take it back.

Every time I see an article here relating to Apple and or its products it is always written with sarcasm.

-James

your typical prickishness went a bit too far on this one. you usually sound like a paid flamer. now you sound like a paid flamer prick that is having a bad day.

give it a rest bro.

anyone know if there is a way to keep theinquirer.net from showing up in your google news list? i'd be interested in learning how.