Re: [OT] How to take a fairly good concept and jack it up badly

2012-04-17 Thread Richmond
On 17/04/12 00:37, Bob Sneidar wrote: Everyone by now has heard about the App Store. Apple even has gone so far as to deploy Lion this way, and appears poised to provide ALL Apple produced software this way... AND NO OTHER. So what's the big deal right? Seems pretty convenient! Well the Devil

Re: [OT] How to take a fairly good concept and jack it up badly

2012-04-17 Thread stephen barncard
Maybe Steve should have trained and left his wife in charge On 16 April 2012 23:10, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Whatever you may think about Steve Jobs; one should always remember that when the 'guru' dies, the nature of the organisation changes; rarely for the better in

Re: [OT] How to take a fairly good concept and jack it up badly

2012-04-17 Thread Colin Holgate
For the iOS situation to be limiting you would need to be talking about an app that was needed by over 100 people in the company. Even medium sized companies rarely have 100 people who have to run a particular in-house app. If you wanted many hundreds, you only need another one or two more

Re: [OT] How to take a fairly good concept and jack it up badly

2012-04-17 Thread Bob Sneidar
I was misinformed. You can do more than one, but I don't think more than 5. We have 70 at least. Bob On Apr 16, 2012, at 6:39 PM, J. Downs wrote: I use the same Apple ID on all my Lion Macs, and download software I've purchased to as many as I like. Is there some plan to change this in

Re: [OT] How to take a fairly good concept and jack it up badly

2012-04-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/17/12 9:09 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: Using either BetaBuilder, or Jacque's thing, it's easier to install on iOS than Android. With iOS you have to touch the screen three times - once in the email you received, once in the web page you're taken to, and once more in the dialog that asks if

Re: [OT] How to take a fairly good concept and jack it up badly

2012-04-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/17/12 10:47 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: You have to wait for it to download before you can use it, but you don't have to wait for it to download if you're just installing it. With Android the download stage is ahead of the installing stage. The Android download, accept permissions, install

Re: [OT] How to take a fairly good concept and jack it up badly

2012-04-17 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 17/04/2012 16:14, Bob Sneidar wrote: I was misinformed. You can do more than one, but I don't think more than 5. We have 70 at least. My impression is that you can, but you shouldn't. That is, the store lets you download and install on multiple machines; but you are then in breach of the

[OT] How to take a fairly good concept and jack it up badly

2012-04-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
Everyone by now has heard about the App Store. Apple even has gone so far as to deploy Lion this way, and appears poised to provide ALL Apple produced software this way... AND NO OTHER. So what's the big deal right? Seems pretty convenient! Well the Devil is in the details. First, each App

Re: [OT] How to take a fairly good concept and jack it up badly

2012-04-16 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 16.04.2012 at 14:37 Uhr -0700 Bob Sneidar apparently wrote: Everyone by now has heard about the App Store. Apple even has gone so far as to deploy Lion this way, and appears poised to provide ALL Apple produced software this way... AND NO OTHER. So what's the big deal right? Seems pretty

Re: [OT] How to take a fairly good concept and jack it up badly

2012-04-16 Thread Kee Nethery
I would guess that your complaint is one they are hearing right now from other similar customers. Until the software is actually for sale, it probably does not make much sense to get worked up about their distribution system for large organizations. Their last OS update price was around $30.

Re: [OT] How to take a fairly good concept and jack it up badly

2012-04-16 Thread Warren Samples
On 04/16/2012 06:14 PM, Kee Nethery wrote: Until the software is actually for sale, it probably does not make much sense to get worked up about their distribution system for large organizations. If one wishes to prevent a plan from becoming a problem, it may be that before it matters is

Re: [OT] How to take a fairly good concept and jack it up badly

2012-04-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
The way things seem to be going, if Satan was wearing a sweater with an Apple logo and sitting in their board room in Cupertino, I could hardly be surprised. ;-) Bob On Apr 16, 2012, at 4:24 PM, Warren Samples wrote: On 04/16/2012 06:14 PM, Kee Nethery wrote: Until the software is actually

Re: [OT] How to take a fairly good concept and jack it up badly

2012-04-16 Thread J. Downs
I use the same Apple ID on all my Lion Macs, and download software I've purchased to as many as I like. Is there some plan to change this in Mountain Lion? J. On Apr 16, 2012, at 4:37 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Everyone by now has heard about the App Store. Apple even has gone so far as to