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Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store

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On 10/06/15 01:11, Alan Baker wrote:
> On 10/4/15 7:12 PM, GreyCloud wrote:
>> On 10/04/15 19:39, Nobody wrote:
>>> On 10/4/2015 5:52 PM, nospam wrote:
>>>> In article <mus9jm$34b$4@dont-email.me>, Peter Köhlmann
>>>> <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> la la la la yadda yadda, Apple blames developers.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> developers who pirated xcode are at fault.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> No. They still have to pay apple to get their apps into the store.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> $99. big deal.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> $99 plus the cost of a Mac, times as many employees you have
>>>>>>> working on
>>>>>>> the software.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> only the $99 is needed to get apps into the store. period.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> downloading a genuine xcode is free.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> employees would have a computer no matter what type of app they were
>>>>>> writing.
>>>>>
>>>>> "A computer" running XCode, you conveniently forgot. A Mac
>>>>>
>>>>> Translation: A computer costing between 2 and 3 times as much as
>>>>> computers
>>>>> in same category not coming from apple
>>>>
>>>> nonsense. macs are competitive in price and often cheaper.
>>>
>>> That is indeed "nonsense" that is easily disproved by simple comparison
>>> shopping.
>>>
>>> You're also forgetting one must by a Mac for every employee developing
>>> for the AppStore, regardless of what computer they already have. A far
>>> cry from "$99. big deal."
>>>
>>>> the retina imac costs about the same as the dell 5k display that is
>>>> only a display no computer, and you need two video cards to drive that
>>>> display. in other words, you get a free computer with the imac.
>>>
>>> No, you're forced to buy a Retina display with a Mac even if you don't
>>> need or want to pay for one. You're up to the old iCultist trick of
>>> using the Mac as the baseline, whether or not the expensive extra
>>> features are needed or wanted.
>>>
>>
>> That's a load of bullshit and you know it, Edwin.
>>
>>
>
> Is that Edwin... ...Edwin Thorne?
>
> I wondered where he'd crawled off to.
>
> :-)

I'm afraid so.  But he is still using windows and wants to be part of 
the cola herd.  And they have accepted him as one of their own.


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