Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.bresnan.com!news.bresnan.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2015 15:08:34 -0500 Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2015 14:08:30 -0600 From: GreyCloud User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110518 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware,comp.sys.mac.system,alt.hacker,alt.privacy.anon-server,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store References: <86549329f10d815d2e5922dee68cf94a@anemone.mooo.com> <210920151816339085%nospam@nospam.invalid> <210920151849448520%nospam@nospam.invalid> <041020151828504734%nospam@nospam.invalid> <041020151852561506%nospam@nospam.invalid> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <3YidnT2HGf1f5ojLnZ2dnUU7-RudnZ2d@bresnan.com> Lines: 70 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 184.167.49.124 X-Trace: sv3-52TyJh9aSXY8pmMSIkawMZ65exvv4xsQ9yhZreAxEkHQwdc40CLT7rt2Lmlm8/dBlMItWCEG1OL9v2d!39SeIVSzc2wIHitZ+snBhwLEIsZAi+/WKKYgW6NDpmedyNVsi69fbsmedNbbsHC0utwaIADTbF8N!NDZeUvtlI/BNvA== X-Complaints-To: abuse@bresnan.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@bresnan.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 4186 Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.freeware:245469 comp.sys.mac.system:82349 alt.hacker:8991 alt.privacy.anon-server:46158 comp.os.linux.advocacy:325399 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 , Peter Köhlmann >>>> 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. -- When told the reason for daylight savings time the Old Indian said, "Only the government would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket."