hilarious, but you all know that journalists in the tech world are seen as the "I-dont-know-nothing-but-I'll-just-pretend__with-a-smile-like-if-i-understood."
It's media like this that great minds are trying to fight, you just want to make stories, create a buzz, even if it's by communicating misleading information that, when interpreted by people would not show the truth of what happens but just make them go nuts.
illustrated example:
billgates twitter account: " Do you want me to give you all my money or what lolz"
techcrunch : "OH MY GOD, BILLGATES PLANING TO GIVE A WAY ALL OF HIS MONEY"
and later : "OH MY GOD, HERE'S THE GUY BILLGATES WAS TALKING ABOUT"
I mean seriously, I just hate buzz seeking journalists.
Nope, this way, your photo app would be dependent on the internet, wich is a really stupid idea Apple would never do. In other words, what if I switched off the internet from my iPhone before the organizer applies for the "event store", do you think my photo app will tell me : "Oops no internet connection, you can't take photos, we don't know if this place has applied or not for the block"
It's the iPhone who is preventing you, because Apple made it possible, so here's the scenario :
"Organizer : Hey apple, block this guy from taking videos of my event"
Apple : Oh no problem, he'll just see dead fish instead ROFL"
If the organizer does not want you to take videos, you should still be able to, but if you do or don't, it should be your decision not apple's. So who is telling you what to not film?
I understand you completely, but this is an apple patent, so it's likely that this feature will only be available for iPhones. And again, who the fk is apple to tell me I can't take photos if I want to.
Great post, I'll just add that besides the "technical" hassle, the linux desktop experience has been poor at providing a nice, beautiful and clean workspace. I just switched to OS X from years of using Linux as my primary desktop environment. So please if you have any time you can spend on open source software, don't create a new Linux distro, try to build a new clean Desktop, come on, you geeks, don't tell me you can't do it. And I'll be more than happy to switch back, and of course contribute, eventually. We don't need new Linux distros as much as we need a new Desktop environment. I guess Ubuntu got that, but they're still stuck with GTK..argh
What people seem to forget while talking about how awesome iCloud is, is the fact that iCloud is only offering 5G of storage for free.
It is cool and hype to have access to your data from everywhere, but this will unpersonnalize the computer. Since all you care about is your data. Your data is your computer. with iCloud, welcome to the era of the unpersonal computers, where a computer has nothing to do with it's user, except being, well, like a cable to connect to the cloud. An empty cable that a lot of people can use, but nobody really owns it.
What I think people should do, if they are against this path, is to build a system where you can install a personal cloud, using an external hard drive. And be able to sync, automatically, all your data with all your devices. It is way cheaper to buy a hard drive than to buy storage on the cloud. Build your own iCloud.