Apple can suck my fucking dick with its iphone update

I'm sitting there, 11:30pm at night, trying to update that thing and then it tells me I have to update goddamn itunes first. Fuck itunes, it's such a resource hog in the first place.

THEN, before its finished, I move my leg and it sends the phone plummeting, detaching the cord. All hell breaks loose and it tells me I am fucked. I must start all over again.

I just shut my computer off and went to bed MAD.

new keyboard layout fooking RULES.

mr salads: so apple sucks because you dropped/disconnected your phone during a 250mb firmware update? hmm. just saying :embrassed:

yeah apple is shit and great.

there has yet to be an inbetweener, something that is easy but with the freedom to install anything you want.

  Kibreg said:

new keyboard layout fooking RULES.

 

mr salads: so apple sucks because you dropped/disconnected your phone during a 250mb firmware update? hmm. just saying :embrassed:

Yeah basically.

iphones seem cool but I don't think I'd use enough of the functionality to justify the cost.

Did the update cost anything on the iPhone? I just have an iPod Touch and Apple is apparently charging $9.95 for the firmware upgrade (which is the first time - as I recall, the last two were free).

Oh well, I'll get the iPhone in August when my Verizon plan is up.

  joshier said:

yeah apple is shit and great.

 

there has yet to be an inbetweener, something that is easy but with the freedom to install anything you want.

CONGRATULATIONS CONSUMER ON YOUR PURCHASE OF A GNU/LINUX XMR3010, AN IMPOSSIBLY NAMED, ABSOLUTELY UNTRENDY, COMPLETELY OPEN AND FREE IPHONE CLONE. INITIAL SETUP WILL REQUIRE APPROXIMATELY FIFTEEN HOURS OF EDITING CONFIG FILES SO THE XMR3010 KNOWS PRECISELY HOW TO DIRECT YOUR FREEDOM. PLEASE SEE A DOCUMENTATION PAGE THAT HAS MYSTERIOUSLY BECOME A DEAD LINK FOR MORE INFORMATION.

lol calm down fag

hey hey now hat, didn't you hear? they've reduced the setup time down to 14 hours for the config files.

  LOL Alzado said:

lol calm down fag

oh and btw as a serious response to joshier: it takes about 20 minutes to jailbreak your iPhone/iPod touch.

  Babar said:

yeah that's right, a software.

  Quixote said:

Did the update cost anything on the iPhone? I just have an iPod Touch and Apple is apparently charging $9.95 for the firmware upgrade (which is the first time - as I recall, the last two were free).

 

Oh well, I'll get the iPhone in August when my Verizon plan is up.

Yeah it costs to upgrade for the ipod touch. Really though what do you need one for?

  chenGOD said:

oh and btw as a serious response to joshier: it takes about 20 minutes to jailbreak your iPhone/iPod touch.

  hahathhat said:

  joshier said:

yeah apple is shit and great.

 

there has yet to be an inbetweener, something that is easy but with the freedom to install anything you want.

 

CONGRATULATIONS CONSUMER ON YOUR PURCHASE OF A GNU/LINUX XMR3010, AN IMPOSSIBLY NAMED, ABSOLUTELY UNTRENDY, COMPLETELY OPEN AND FREE IPHONE CLONE. INITIAL SETUP WILL REQUIRE APPROXIMATELY FIFTEEN HOURS OF EDITING CONFIG FILES SO THE XMR3010 KNOWS PRECISELY HOW TO DIRECT YOUR FREEDOM. PLEASE SEE A DOCUMENTATION PAGE THAT HAS MYSTERIOUSLY BECOME A DEAD LINK FOR MORE INFORMATION.

ok, not a phone, an OS, but: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_android

  kaini said:

  hahathhat said:

  joshier said:

yeah apple is shit and great.

 

there has yet to be an inbetweener, something that is easy but with the freedom to install anything you want.

 

CONGRATULATIONS CONSUMER ON YOUR PURCHASE OF A GNU/LINUX XMR3010, AN IMPOSSIBLY NAMED, ABSOLUTELY UNTRENDY, COMPLETELY OPEN AND FREE IPHONE CLONE. INITIAL SETUP WILL REQUIRE APPROXIMATELY FIFTEEN HOURS OF EDITING CONFIG FILES SO THE XMR3010 KNOWS PRECISELY HOW TO DIRECT YOUR FREEDOM. PLEASE SEE A DOCUMENTATION PAGE THAT HAS MYSTERIOUSLY BECOME A DEAD LINK FOR MORE INFORMATION.

 

ok, not a phone, an OS, but: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_android

has anyone here used both, and what's your opinion?

lots of people on /. love android, but they're not exactly an unbiased source

just noticed android supports magnetometers. i'm sure there are some really] cool applications for that, probably involving some sort of magnetic doohickey, but i'm fucked if i can think of any.

also

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Android has native support for multi-touch but the feature is disabled at the kernel level (possibly to avoid infringing Apple patents on touch-screen technology

how the FUCK can you patent the idea of placing two fingers on a screen and the device being able to sense both? that's insane.

  kaini said:

lots of people on /. love android, but they're not exactly an unbiased source

 

just noticed android supports magnetometers. i'm sure there are some really cool applications for that, probably involving some sort of magnetic doohickey, but i'm fucked if i can think of any

a $300 compass?

My ex had an android. It worked pretty well I thought. Suitable alternative

salads your original post is reminiscent of zelah's famed "taco bell fucked up my bean burrito" post. congratulations.

  Mr Salads said:

My ex had an android. It worked pretty well I thought. Suitable alternative

no, she didn't

she had a phone running android

as for the magnetometers, i'm imagining a magnetic stylus or thimble or something giving full 3d wiimote like control or something. in conjunction with the accelerometers on the phone itself you could do even cooler shit. not a compass

if you just wanted a 'smart browsing' phone - ie a browser and maybe ftp and ssh stuff, anything running symbian s60 should do it. i mean how much do people want their phones to do? i suppose they're becoming more 'multi-purpose handheld device' now though really. i'm rambling

How open is Android? I'm considering buying an android phone. But can I access terminal, the root filesystem, use GNU tools and install any type of CLI app? Or is it hard/impractical to do anything outside the java vm?

  LOL Alzado said:

salads your original post is reminiscent of zelah's famed "taco bell fucked up my bean burrito" post. congratulations.

alzado you are a couple of rungs down the humor ladder, you need to get smarter about this

  kaini said:

  Mr Salads said:

My ex had an android. It worked pretty well I thought. Suitable alternative

 

no, she didn't

she had a phone running android

 

as for the magnetometers, i'm imagining a magnetic stylus or thimble or something giving full 3d wiimote like control or something. in conjunction with the accelerometers on the phone itself you could do even cooler shit. not a compass

 

if you just wanted a 'smart browsing' phone - ie a browser and maybe ftp and ssh stuff, anything running symbian s60 should do it. i mean how much do people want their phones to do? i suppose they're becoming more 'multi-purpose handheld device' now though really. i'm rambling

isnt the OS what we are talking about

  Ego said:

How open is Android? I'm considering buying an android phone. But can I access terminal, the root filesystem, use GNU tools and install any type of CLI app? Or is it hard/impractical to do anything outside the java vm?

Since 21 October 2008, Android has been available as open source. Google opened the entire source code (including network and telephony stacks[23]), which had previously been unavailable, under an Apache license.[24]

With the Apache License, vendors are free to add proprietary extensions without submitting those back to the open source community.

Android had been criticized for not being all open-source software despite what was announced by Google. Parts of the SDK are proprietary and closed source and some believe this is so that Google can control the platform.[25][26][27][28] The Android Software Development Kit License Agreement[29] states that:

3.2 You agree that Google (or Google's licensors) own all legal right, title and interest in and to the SDK, including any intellectual property rights which subsist in the SDK. Use, reproduction and distribution of components of the SDK licensed under an open source software license are governed solely by the terms of that open source software license and not by this License Agreement. Until the SDK is released under an open source license, you may not extract the source code or create a derivative work of the SDK.

i seem to recall chaosmachine did some dev for mobile platforms?

  chenGOD said:

oh and btw as a serious response to joshier: it takes about 20 minutes to jailbreak your iPhone/iPod touch.

yeah but then you can't do updates because it isn't signed.

  Mr Salads said:

  LOL Alzado said:

salads your original post is reminiscent of zelah's famed "taco bell fucked up my bean burrito" post. congratulations.

 

alzado you are a couple of rungs down the humor ladder, you need to get smarter about this

i'll try harder next time zelah