Re: Mouse control problem on Macintosh

Jared,

I have many British friends and the difference between their sarcasm
and yours is that theirs makes sense and is funny. You can't hide
behind your nationality. British humor is legendary but ignorance is
ignorance wherever in the world it is found.

Your analysis of the iPhone is also wrong. Unlike most other phones
(Android based phones excluded) the iPhone is primarily a UNIX (OS X)
based computer, with phone hardware attached to it. It is essentially
a stripped down Macintosh. Restrictions like terminating applications
when the phone app runs are not inherent in the hardware but are
instead applied by the Apple app software environment. Those
artificial restrictions are not obvious to long time UNIX experts like
myself.

Apple is walking a delicate line. They want to support powerful
applications but don't want to be perceived as enabling hackers to
attack the wireless networks. As an example I'm sure they could
shutdown jail-breaking if they applied themselves. Instead they make
it just hard enough to convince the phone companies they take the
issue seriously and protect themselves from lawsuits but not hard
enough to stop it.

Steve

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Jared Earle <jearle@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Steve Morris <barbershopsteve@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> You are being too nice. I got the fact that Jared was being sarcastic.
>> It is just that the English of his reply made no sense as a reply to
>> my question. If it had made sense it might have been slightly funny. I
>> appreciate sarcastic humor once in a while. However as worded Jared's
>> post just sounded childish, petulant and ignorant.
>
> You've got to take into account that you're using as phone as a VNC client.
> Unless you have background third-party applications allowed, which the
> iPhone doesn't, then you can't keep TCP connections open when you answer the
> phone.
> It's a phone. A phone that does other things admittedly, but a phone
> primarily.
> Third-party application writers can't change the way the phone works as a
> phone. To expect them to do so is unrealistic and deserving of a
> British-style sarcastic quip.
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