"This Is Apple At Its Absolute Worst: It Thinks It Owns Any Book You Make Through iBooks" by Steve Kovach
“In addition to announcing new textbooks for iPad, Apple also released a new free Mac App that lets you create and publish your own books for sale in the iBooks store. It’s called iBooks Author.
It seems like a neat tool. Until you read the user agreement.
Dan Wineman pointed out on his blog that Apple’s End User License Agreement (EULA) states that books made with the iBook Author app and sold through the iBook store can’t be sold anywhere else.
However, if you offer your book for free in the iBooks store, then you can distribute it for free anywhere else you want.”
Oh Apple, you worthless fucks.
The Telling Story of a Once Faithful Google Apostle Saved by Vic Gundotra after Automated System Falsely Flags Account for Possessing Child Pornography | SiliconANGLE
Oh good. Maybe Senior Vice President Vic Gundotra has the time to personally look into each erroneously cancelled account and call each wronged user from now on.
Or maybe Google could muster a sliver of its incredible engineering power and discover a clue about providing customer service.
People Staring at Computers
An interesting project, though one that got its architect, Kyle McDonald, in trouble with the Secret Service.
via Daniel Jalkut
