iPhone references in updated iTunes Protocol

Such a shame that so many were so quick to criticise ...

After all, this WAS an early giveaway about the nature of the iPhone registration/activation procedure, something that was debated right up until the procedure was publicly announced.

If only people had recognised it as such, instead of mistaking this as being nothing.

erica, why would you delete chunli's posts?

14 out of 18 does not equal 99%, Chun Li, it equals 77.77% and anyway, that percentage (of comments that are negative) is much much lower on Erica's other posts.

So you are obviously wrong about the "not ONE person has found it interesting" thing, and you would have been wrong even at 99% - do you understand percentages? 99% is not 100% !

I have no idea what you mean when you say that we already do stop at every page on the internet that we don't like and add a negative comment - what are you talking about? Most pages do not have a method for adding comments, so most pages don't have them, so you're wrong to say that we already do comment on every page we don't like.

But more than that, we don't stop at every page we don't like that has commenting, and negatively comment. At least, I don't, and people who do that are generally thought of as trolls, and are not welcome.

In any case, the "add comment" button does not grant you the right to do anything you want. Yes, sites need feedback to improve, but useless sniping comments are not feedback, they are not constructive criticism.

Do you think the "add comment" button gives you the right to personally attack and insult the author? Do you think the "add comment" button gives you the right to make exactly the same criticism of TUAW that you've made in dozens of other comments?

Just because you're encouraged to "add your opinions" doesn't actually mean that you're allowed to do so rudely, repeatedly, unnecessarily, or vexatiously.

As to why I am criticising the haters, that is easy. They are being rude and snide and unhelpful, and that is what I am criticising. If they were offering constructive criticism, I'd have nothing to say against them.

And good riddance to you, Ike. Can you take the rest of the bleating idiots with you, please?

It doesn't cost anyone a cent to view these pages, so your right to make unnecessary, snide and pointless attacks on authors is non-existent.

Stop telling other people what they should consider to be news and what they should consider to be worthy. It is their right to decide for themselves what they are interested in. If JUST ONE person reads this and finds it interesting, then that completely overrides any claim that it shouldn't have been written.

Just because YOU didn't want to read this doesn't many no-one wants to read it. Get off your high horses, the internet and this blog are for everyone, not just you.

There are millions of people using the internet, can you imagine what it would be like if we all stopped at every page we didn't like, and wrote, "I didn't like this" at the bottom? How messed-up would that be?

Well, the secureBag part was new to me. So some content.

Well, it's in the nature of our time periode, the periode of industrialisation and digitalisation, that many goods are made, that are actually rubbish, from the very beginning. Overcome this periode and the rest will overcome itself. It's a fight against windmills, otherwise. Read John Ruskin.

I have to agree that when there's nothing to report -> don't report how silent it is. There's a gazillion mac related things one can dig up if they have the time. And having RSS input from 10 sites can clutter my ticker bar quite fast if every one of them serves "news" just for the sake of posting...

useless news? maybe. useless comments? surely.
if you don't like a news just pass over it but don't blame ppl spending time to write on these pages.

Well there are many useless news in the world. Nobody forces us to read or listen to them. Why this complaining? I can't barely understand that.

Hey guys, I heard the Interweb is online!