Re: [CGUYS] Just How Bad is Google's Mismanagement of the Android Market?

2010-07-08 Thread tjpa
Hear we go again. I suppose this breathless author does not know of any other online merchant having accounts breached. It just never happens. Or, more accurately, it only happens to Apple. Sure. This is looking more and more like some bloggers are piling on. On Jul 7, 2010, at 2:05 PM,

Re: [CGUYS] Just How Bad is Google's Mismanagement of the Android Market?

2010-07-07 Thread mike
http://thenextweb.com/apple/2010/07/06/apple-addresses-another-problem-provides-unrelated-fix/ http://thenextweb.com/apple/2010/07/06/apple-addresses-another-problem-provides-unrelated-fix/Not so much dystopian but at least slightly lawlessand another bad PR move for Apple? It's being

Re: [CGUYS] Just How Bad is Google's Mismanagement of the Android Market?

2010-06-30 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
Tap Fish found a way around this limitation on the touch. Apple knows it. Apple refunded the $900 fish bill without much of a fight. Thurrott got satisfaction rather quickly from Apple. He had to call on a iPad Touch that was under warranty to have someone to complain to since the App store

Re: [CGUYS] Just How Bad is Google's Mismanagement of the Android Market?

2010-06-30 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 8:36 AM, John Duncan Yoyo johnduncany...@gmail.comwrote: Tap Fish found a way around this limitation on the touch. Apple knows it. Apple refunded the $900 fish bill without much of a fight. Thurrott got satisfaction rather quickly from Apple. He had to call on a

Re: [CGUYS] Just How Bad is Google's Mismanagement of the Android Market?

2010-06-30 Thread tjpa
Yes it is there. The default is no controls (as it should be). I tried the Tap Fish app. There are better and free aquariums available. Buying additional items takes you to the Apps Store and a password prompt. The problem may be that once the store password is entered, it does not have to

Re: [CGUYS] Just How Bad is Google's Mismanagement of the Android Market?

2010-06-30 Thread David K Watson
For any app store purchase, including purchases from inside an app, you have to enter in your password the first time you make a purchase, but your password activation only remains good for a little while afterwards, and in particular will expire after the idevice goes to sleep. So Thurrott

Re: [CGUYS] Just How Bad is Google's Mismanagement of the Android Market?

2010-06-29 Thread mike
Freedom and Liberty is frightening to boot-heeled leftists. On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:21 PM, t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: Google’s mismanagement of the Android Market http://nanocr.eu/2010/06/27/googles-mismanagement-of-the-android-market/ I am sure glad that the Apps Store does not look

Re: [CGUYS] Just How Bad is Google's Mismanagement of the Android Market?

2010-06-29 Thread mike
Paul Thurrott told a story a few days ago on one of the twit shows...apparently his kids had racked up 900 dollars in fake fish with an app called touch fish. Once you've ok'd the 'purchase' of the free app with your pass, the user can buy fish with real money in the game apparently without the