Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!ecngs!testfeeder.ecngs.de!81.171.118.62.MISMATCH!peer02.fr7!news.highwinds-media.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Lloyd Parsons Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Date: 6 Oct 2015 17:41:59 GMT Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <86549329f10d815d2e5922dee68cf94a@anemone.mooo.com> <210920151816339085%nospam@nospam.invalid> <210920151849448520%nospam@nospam.invalid> <041020151828504734%nospam@nospam.invalid> <5tmdnY_rbLLTfY7LnZ2dnUU7-U-dnZ2d@supernews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 08kjW10Pwl8LJzG60OH/0gPYQO/tJcJocDUKEB2yD6ULpIAo3g Cancel-Lock: sha1:h/JNiGxK2cUZYixkP6jTLCytygo= User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) X-Received-Bytes: 2503 X-Received-Body-CRC: 4136564439 Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.freeware:245074 comp.sys.mac.system:81900 comp.os.linux.advocacy:324929 On Tue, 06 Oct 2015 13:15:07 -0400, nom de plume wrote: > On 2015-10-06, Peter Köhlmann wrote: >> I bought that wretched thingy because I needed a machine running OSX >> for compiling my programs for that environment >> >> If I had not had that need I would never be so stupid to buy such a >> overpriced underperforming toy >> >> The apple hardware is OK. But so is other hardware for half the price > > I see. I'm actually not a fan of their hardware at all. I don't like a > most products that they make except for the iPad. That I do like. The > iPhone I would like but it is missing one feature that ruins it for me. > The watch is meh. Other than that I don't like any of their hardware and > honestly, their software sucks camel balls. > > I do actually actually like iBooks. Bet no one would have guessed that. > :) The Kindle ebook app sucks donkey dicks. Apple's is better. That > simple. I like iBooks too and I read a lot. The only thing I don't like about it is that it isn't cross-platform at all. That's one nice thing about Kindle and Nook apps. -- Lloyd