Recent Comments:
Live Traffic comes to Mobile Navigator {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Sep 17th 2009 1:05AM That seems like a total rip. You can get better traffic data from google including side streets for, um free. Having to have be a subscription is just ridiculous, a one time fee on top of the app fee is pretty iffy as it is.
With the iPhone 3.1 update little things mean a lot {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Sep 12th 2009 2:24AM Sadly, the POS voice control STILL dose not use the phonetic fields (or nick names) and is pretty dam brainless for anything more complex the Joe Smith.
iPhone OS 3.0 breaking video out {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Aug 31st 2009 5:58PM It's total BS, they killed a perfectly good cable that dose nothing but supple power to recharge in the car (hey even bought at a apple store). This is the kind of behavior that pisses consumer off over time and will drive away the influences fast. Everybody already hates AT&T so it only takes a few nudges to get any one tech savvy looking at other options. Trying to screw everybody for a few extra bucks every other firmware update is a good way to loose customers, and loose them fast.
Aperture updated to 2.1.4 {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Aug 28th 2009 1:57AM Now if they would get the fuck to work on the hair pulling teeth grinding issues with A2 and Snow leopard (particularly text fields and book layout *shudder*).
CoPilot Live throws a hat in the navigation ring {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Aug 18th 2009 7:39PM I ultimately fired ALK years back from my ipaq. Their DRM is quite obnoxious and seemed to allays live my device in a failed state needing reactivation. Incredible frustrating when you are on the road. It's not that they can't build a good product but they constantly put their needs and fear of piracy over that of their actual paying customers. This dose not make me want to give them more money, since this sounds like a halfway done job.
I wonder when real time traffic will be a free regular feature, it's not like most services couldn't just pull it through the google API right?
Navigon updates iPhone app, adds some desired features {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Aug 15th 2009 4:36AM Ahhh so Alk copilot we meet again... or will we...
I had copilot for years on a (now super old) ipaq, I even bought several upgrades for it. It was generally a very good guidance system when joined to a good blue tooth GPS unit. I ultimately, angrerly, ditched it though. The ipaq had battery issues and would fully discharge (not alk fault of course but...) but their bloody fucking registration/activation DRM shit was so aggressive that every time the device had a problem or lost power completely I had to reactivate, over and over again.
This sucked eggs, especially in the field or late at night on the road with no network (calling in to activate when you are lost and pissed, and late is not fun).
I see notes in their itunes link to suggest that they have not really changed their ways (get through itunes link to avoid avtivation problems etc). ALK's DRM drove me to buy a dedicated unit even though I had tons of money sunk into hardware and software.
Protecting your IP at the expense and frustration of your paying customers is not cool. In writing this I realize I'm still pissed, 3 or so years later at all the aggravation.
So if you do test their package make you also test it with a range of device failure, reimage and other crap that might happen when it's important for it not to to gauge it's recover robustness, something that is very important for real world use, and something ALK had multiple epic fail for me.
I have nothing bad to say about the design they had for the application it's self though just their craptastic ever reactivate DRM.
Confession: I hate my Apple TV {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Aug 5th 2009 11:11PM Give/sell it to me, I'm going to stick XBMC on it to remote stream my WHS stuff :).
Is this what's in the next iPhone update? {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 3rd 2009 8:35PM Sure hope that means full AVRCP control for BT... Two years late this stuff is seeming pretty half assed.
AT&T iPhone customers: tethering is coming, for a price {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jun 18th 2009 7:16PM Dear ATT, FUCK YOU. I already pay for unlimited data, how I use that is none of your fucking business. Out.
If your greedy ass exec's had a collective brain to share you might have have gotten away with tacking on a 5 dollar fee to the already outrageous 30 dollars a month you are charging people (sad to think that might fly but it probable would)... but $35 for tethering, with limitations is more then a lot of folks pay for full unlimited broadband to their homes + 30 for data on the phone, + minutes + SMS. Please pass the crack pipe, maybe we all need a hit to see how this is not robbery at gun point because the iphone is a device is locked to your network?
Ps: have fun on with that FCC hearing, I know I will be sending in a letter begging them to beat you with rubber hoses and end the exclusivity BS that you so cheerfully show as harming competitiveness in the market place with these very tactics.
Is it time to drop your iPhone plan and buy a MiFi? {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jun 9th 2009 4:56PM Mmm yes... lets see, pay us money to make our service not suck for you that you pay us for in the first place... and, we will use your network resources that you also pay for....
Sheer fucking genius that people will buy these, truly marketing corporate gods are pushing these.
