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Miscellaneous ****ing rants about their stupidity, hypocrisy, and dishonesty.
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- HOURs removed from pimping iAd for iPhone OS (their ad platform which introduces annoying, Flash-like ads to the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, where they get a 40% share of the revenues) they release Safari 5 with a feature called Safari Reader which contains the copy: "Safari Reader removes annoying ads and other visual distractions from online articles." http://www.apple.com/safari/whats-new.html Are you ****ing serious? Are ads good or bad? The thing here is you make 40% of the revenue from iAds, you make 0% from the web. Google makes the most from the web. **** you, Apple.
- Apple's copy also claims Safari is the leader of HTML5 support, when they implement 90% of HTML5 (same portion as Firefox 3.6, out long ago) while the Firefox 4 beta due out within a week or two supports 98%. **** you, Apple.
- Apple's copy also claims Safari is "the fastest browser". I just ****ing benchmarked it, in no single benchmark is Safari faster than Chrome. IN FACT, Chrome is at least TWICE as fast in Apple's very own Sunspider javascript benchmark (the one they specifically cite). **** you, Apple.
- Apple just amended their developer Terms of Service to specifically screw over Google's AdMob service from collecting metrics from iPhone devices. Google will need to find a way to work around this now. There's no reason for this at all except blatant anti-competitive behaviour. **** you, Apple.
- Apple is notoriously pimping "open web standards" on the web, because it's convenient rhetoric in their war with Adobe (where Flash is an alternative development platform devs can target on the iPhone to bypass Apple's 30%-of-the-revenue-cut from the App Store; so Apple bans it). Part of their support for the "open web standards" includes the very-expensive, $5M-a-year to license even for non-profit open source organizations h264 codec. Google open sources and makes VP8 royalty free, and Apple refuses to support it and even suggests it's an invitation for lawsuits to do so. **** you, Apple.
- Apple's rah-rah-HTML5 rhetoric includes some "demos" they just launched the other day. Most of these demos work on Chrome and Firefox also, but Apple added browser checking so they ONLY will load with Safari 4/5 and will tell you you NEED to download Safari 4/5 to view them even though they'll work on Chrome & Firefox also. http://www.apple.com/html5/ The whole ****ing point of HTML5 is the ****ing mockup is platform-independent. It's not proprietary, it'll work in any HTML5 browser. **** you, Apple.
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Made me feel a bit nostalgic though, I remember sites using that during the browser war 
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