The Flat Earth Society
Other Discussion Boards => Technology & Information => Topic started by: Thork on May 27, 2014, 07:33:39 PM
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For a long time, Apple users have banged on about how safe Apple is and that they don't need anti-virus.
Well Apple is now a big enough target. Welcome to the internet.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27588972
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Thork if you think anything will change what an Apple customer thinks about Apple you have not had enough experience with cults. I am so jealous of Apple. I mean, really. If I could trick that many people into throwing money at me... it's like trolling the world.
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Thork if you think anything will change what an Apple customer thinks about Apple you have not had enough experience with cults. I am so jealous of Apple. I mean, really. If I could trick that many people into throwing money at me... it's like trolling the world.
omg 999
And I agree. The cult of Apple is strange. Spawned from one obsessive asshole's desire to sell what could have been free.
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Would someone please explain why people think that demanding ransom payments via PayPal is a smart idea?
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When paypal don't honour those payments ... yes it does seem rather strange someone with the academic ability to do this couldn't think that far ahead. They should have demanded bitcoin.
I think the cult of Apple is having a wobble though. I know dyed in the wool Apple fans who are losing patience and are seeing android and windows devices and wondering what the hell they are paying twice as much for. If the iPhone6 isn't any radical improvement over the iPhone5, I can see their share price tumbling.
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I'm trying to figure out how they did this.
From what I know of apple, sending a simple message like that across the internet is not easy. And installing anything silently requires direct USB access to a server.
Locking it remotely is easy but a custom message? That took skill.
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I'm trying to figure out how they did this.
Are you considering a career in cyber crime?
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I'm trying to figure out how they did this.
Are you considering a career in cyber crime?
No, but I've become the unofficial apple guy. I setup an apple MDM server (on a 6 year old laptop) and I've got to manage ipads with software costing around $218 per license. So it benefits me to know how they do this stuff so I can (hopefully) avoid it happening to us.
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Might I enquire what software for iPad costs £218 per license?
Even Office 360 is only $99. What the hell app is that?
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Might I enquire what software for iPad costs £218 per license?
Even Office 360 is only $99. What the hell app is that?
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/proloquo2go/id308368164?mt=8
Proloquo2go
It's for kids who can't speak. All it does is show them pictures. They click the pictures to form sentences which are then spoken.
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Might I enquire what software for iPad costs £218 per license?
Even Office 360 is only $99. What the hell app is that?
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/proloquo2go/id308368164?mt=8
Proloquo2go
It's for kids who can't speak. All it does is show them pictures. They click the pictures to form sentences which are then spoken.
That is fucking disgusting.
How the hell do those guys sleep at night, charging that much for an app that simple. An app for kids! I'm going to have a word with my boss. I'm sure we could bring something to market for $0.99.
$218 for that! The art is crap, the interface looks clunky. I could write that in about 5 days if I had the assets. And I'm sure they weren't very expensive either. $218! I'm appalled.
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Might I enquire what software for iPad costs £218 per license?
Even Office 360 is only $99. What the hell app is that?
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/proloquo2go/id308368164?mt=8 (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/proloquo2go/id308368164?mt=8)
Proloquo2go
It's for kids who can't speak. All it does is show them pictures. They click the pictures to form sentences which are then spoken.
That is fucking disgusting.
How the hell do those guys sleep at night, charging that much for an app that simple. An app for kids! I'm going to have a word with my boss. I'm sure we could bring something to market for $0.99.
$218 for that! The art is crap, the interface looks clunky. I could write that in about 5 days if I had the assets. And I'm sure they weren't very expensive either. $218! I'm appalled.
But because it's for children to speak (and it's one of the few I think) they can charge an arm and a leg.
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Might I enquire what software for iPad costs £218 per license?
Even Office 360 is only $99. What the hell app is that?
Those are very similar prices, once you account for the exchange rate between GBP and USD.
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Might I enquire what software for iPad costs £218 per license?
Even Office 360 is only $99. What the hell app is that?
Those are very similar prices, once you account for the exchange rate between GBP and USD.
No. They aren't.
@Lord Dave. They say they have 75,000 users! That app hasn't cost $16m to develop, yet their revenue exceeds this. This makes me feel sick. I feel bad when I charge a faceless corporation £700/day for making some boring arse app about their boring arse product.
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Might I enquire what software for iPad costs £218 per license?
Even Office 360 is only $99. What the hell app is that?
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/proloquo2go/id308368164?mt=8
Proloquo2go
It's for kids who can't speak. All it does is show them pictures. They click the pictures to form sentences which are then spoken.
That is fucking disgusting.
How the hell do those guys sleep at night, charging that much for an app that simple. An app for kids! I'm going to have a word with my boss. I'm sure we could bring something to market for $0.99.
$218 for that! The art is crap, the interface looks clunky. I could write that in about 5 days if I had the assets. And I'm sure they weren't very expensive either. $218! I'm appalled.
I second this. You could write this app after reading 1/4 of "App Development For Dummies".
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I'm gonna ask my boss about crowd sourcing it. For $300,000 we could write something that would blow that out of the water.
For $0.99 we'd only need 30,000 users to break even.
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Might I enquire what software for iPad costs £218 per license?
Even Office 360 is only $99. What the hell app is that?
Those are very similar prices, once you account for the exchange rate between GBP and USD.
No. They aren't.
Yes, they are, and they're both obscenely overpriced.
I'm gonna ask my boss about crowd sourcing it. For $300,000 we could write something that would blow that out of the water.
For $0.99 we'd only need 30,000 users to break even.
I think you need a new calculator.
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Might I enquire what software for iPad costs £218 per license?
Even Office 360 is only $99. What the hell app is that?
Those are very similar prices, once you account for the exchange rate between GBP and USD.
No. They aren't.
Yes, they are, and they're both obscenely overpriced.
You think £218 is equivalent to $99?
Ok, will you swap me £21,800GBP for $12,000USD then? Sounds like a good deal huh?
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I'm gonna ask my boss about crowd sourcing it. For $300,000 we could write something that would blow that out of the water.
For $0.99 we'd only need 30,000 users to break even.
I think you need a new calculator.
Mmmm. Ok, well $9.99. Its still a hell of an improvement over $220.
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You think £218 is equivalent to $99?
Oh, my mistake. I read the currencies backwards.
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You think £218 is equivalent to $99?
Oh, my mistake. I read the currencies backwards.
We'll call it quits :P
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Just so everyone is on the same page:
218 USD not GBP
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I have yet to see any mention of an actual virus in this thread.
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I know dyed in the wool Apple fans who are losing patience and are seeing android and windows devices
Lol windows devices!
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I know dyed in the wool Apple fans who are losing patience and are seeing android and windows devices
Lol windows devices!
What do you mean? Windows 8(.x) is selling faster than they can produce licenses for it. That is why there are no more users on Windows XP, a 13 year old operating system.
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I'm gonna ask my boss about crowd sourcing it. For $300,000 we could write something that would blow that out of the water.
For $0.99 we'd only need 30,000 users to break even.
I think you need a new calculator.
Mmmm. Ok, well $9.99. Its still a hell of an improvement over $220.
That depends on which end of the $220 you're on.
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If Apple users are cultists, then so are anti-Apple users.
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If Apple users are cultists, then so are anti-Apple users.
: a small religious group that is not part of a larger and more accepted religion and that has beliefs regarded by many people as extreme or dangerous
: a situation in which people admire and care about something or someone very much or too much
: a small group of very devoted supporters or fans
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If Apple users are cultists, then so are anti-Apple users.
If scientologists are cultists, then so are atheists.
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If scientologists are cultists, then so are atheists.
Which many strongly religious people will be happy to confirm. The cult of science, and all that.
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If scientologists are cultists, then so are atheists.
Which many strongly religious people will be happy to confirm. The cult of science, and all that.
I think that's grasping at straws, really. There are plenty of atheists out there that don't really think about their beliefs, but they don't necessarily follow a structured belief system, or dogmatic holy texts, or God(s) and religious figures.
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If Apple users are cultists, then so are anti-Apple users.
: a small religious group that is not part of a larger and more accepted religion and that has beliefs regarded by many people as extreme or dangerous
: a situation in which people admire and care about something or someone very much or too much
: a small group of very devoted supporters or fans
Zealot may have been a better word. Yes, you're an anti-Apple zealot.
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Zealot may have been a better word. Yes, you're an anti-Apple zealot.
Yes. What exactly is your point?
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ITT: People get jelly that Apple makes better stuff.
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ITT: People get jelly that Apple makes better stuff.
HA!
Better? Not even close.
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ITT: People get jelly that Apple makes better stuff.
HA!
Better? Not even close.
Literally better.
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Better if you have 0 aptitude with computers.
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Apple products are better if you're looking for an Apple product.
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ITT: People get jelly that Apple makes better stuff.
HA!
Better? Not even close.
Literally better.
It's true. I've never seen a better constructed laptop than a MacBook before.
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Do Macs have Steam now? If so, how many games are playable?
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Do Macs have Steam now? If so, how many games are playable?
Yes, you can install Windows or Linux on most Macs.
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Do Macs have Steam now? If so, how many games are playable?
Yes, you can install Windows or Linux on most Macs.
Steam is available without having to install a bad operating system.
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Do Macs have Steam now? If so, how many games are playable?
Yes, you can install Windows or Linux on most Macs.
No argument from me.
That wasn't the question though.
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Better if you have 0 aptitude with computers.
lolno
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Do Macs have Steam now? If so, how many games are playable?
Yes, you can install Windows or Linux on most Macs.
No argument from me.
That wasn't the question though.
Do you mean to ask if OSX can support Steam?
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Do Macs have Steam now? If so, how many games are playable?
Yes, you can install Windows or Linux on most Macs.
No argument from me.
That wasn't the question though.
Do you mean to ask if OSX can support Steam?
Exactly.
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Do Macs have Steam now? If so, how many games are playable?
Yes.
http://store.steampowered.com/browse/mac/