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2010-03-01 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Not yet but it can. One of the articles I read is that the more the manufacturers control the user environment the more cases we will have like the Kindle. Stewart At 12:14 AM 3/1/2010, you wrote: Apple isn't ensnared, they are doing this themselves. Apple is bar far the most controlling

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2010-03-01 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:14 AM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote: What Apple is doing with the iTunes App Store is selling what they want in their own store. If you want something else, go to Cydia. Yes, Apple does not want to be associated with the dissemination of products that they

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2010-03-01 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
I'm just waiting for the biggest source of pron to be eliminated on the iPhone- The Safari Browser. On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:16 AM, phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:14 AM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote: What Apple is doing with the iTunes App Store is

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2010-03-01 Thread tjpa
On Mar 1, 2010, at 1:02 AM, b_s-wilk wrote: Because Apple has customers around the world who aren't as sexually repressed as people in the US. Do you think the Apple Store should be selling different apps in different regions? No sex for folks in Texas and kinky perversion for New

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2010-02-28 Thread mike
I keep wondering about this myself...who in Apple is doing this and why? Are they going to start banning certain sites on the phone also? On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:17 PM, phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.comwrote: Why doesn't Apple Corp. develop a means of either preventing or making it

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2010-02-28 Thread tjpa
On Feb 28, 2010, at 2:17 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: Why doesn't Apple Corp. develop a means of either preventing or making it difficult for users of their computers to be able to access or use overtly sexual material or applications? I don't know why Apple is getting ensnared in this.

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2010-02-28 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 6:43 PM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: I don't know why Apple is getting ensnared in this. One word: INNOVATION. Another one: FEAR. Steve * ** List info, subscription management, list rules,

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2010-02-28 Thread mike
Apple isn't ensnared, they are doing this themselves. Apple is bar far the most controlling tech company out there, controlling their customers, controlling themselves.. On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 5:55 PM, phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 6:43 PM, tjpa

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2010-02-28 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 8:08 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote: Apple isn't ensnared, they are doing this themselves.  Apple is bar far the most controlling tech company out there, controlling their customers, controlling themselves.. I think that Apple has taken this approach with the iPhone

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2010-02-28 Thread mike
It's far easier for a kid to get a hold of an iphone/ipod touch and use safari to look at chicks in bikinis than they can get the password to download such apps. It makes no sense...so therefore it probably is the lawyers... On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:08 PM, phartz...@gmail.com

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2010-02-28 Thread t.piwowar
On Feb 28, 2010, at 11:08 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: I think that Apple has taken this approach with the iPhone because their legal department told them to do it. At the moment, I cannot think of another reason for this step to have been taken For a business the two most destructive

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2010-02-28 Thread b_s-wilk
On Feb 28, 2010, at 2:17 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: Why doesn't Apple Corp. develop a means of either preventing or making it difficult for users of their computers to be able to access or use overtly sexual material or applications? Because Apple has customers around the world who aren't

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2010-02-28 Thread b_s-wilk
Apple isn't ensnared, they are doing this themselves. Apple is bar far the most controlling tech company out there, controlling their customers, controlling themselves.. That's silly. Ridiculous. Apple doesn't control their customers. They provide products that people like, and if there's