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Mark Crispin - 21 Sep 2008 17:35 GMT

Apple refuses to allow people to access multiple GMail accounts in mobile
Safari, claiming that it "duplicates" the inferior interface in Mail.app
(e.g., inability to thread):

http://angelo.dinardi.name/2008/09/20/mailwrangler-and-the-apple-app-store/

Apple refuses to allow people to access podcasts directly from their
iPhone, claiming that it "duplicates" iTunes:

http://almerica.blogspot.com/2008/09/podcaster-rejeceted-because-it.html

What do you expect from a company founded by a slimeball who knocked up a
girl then refused to pay child support?

-- Mark --

http://panda.com/mrc
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.

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Y.D. Dandy - 21 Sep 2008 18:51 GMT

> http://panda.com/mrc
> Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
> Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.

With today's education system being what it is the sheep would be considered
a "fascist" for imposing his will upon the poor helpless individuals that
have been victimized by society. Just because those two have big ears to
hear you with, big noses to smell you with and big teeth to eat you with
doesn't mean they are wolves, that would be racial profiling.

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Elmo P. Shagnasty - 21 Sep 2008 19:38 GMT

> Apple refuses to allow people to access multiple GMail accounts in mobile
> Safari,

To be fair, even Google's gmail app for blackberry (for example) allows
only one login--no multiple accounts.

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Mark Crispin - 21 Sep 2008 20:52 GMT

>> Apple refuses to allow people to access multiple GMail accounts in mobile
>> Safari,
> To be fair, even Google's gmail app for blackberry (for example) allows
> only one login--no multiple accounts.

Which is why the application that Apple blocked access GMail through
Safari.

There are much better IMAP clients than Apple's Mail.app that do all this.
One was even made to run in iPhone via jailbreak, but further development
was cancelled after it became clear that Apple would block it as it has
blocked these.

-- Mark --

http://panda.com/mrc
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.

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Larry - 21 Sep 2008 21:12 GMT

> Apple refuses to allow people to access podcasts directly from their
> iPhone, claiming that it "duplicates" iTunes:

There will be NO bandwidth-usage apps or streams on the FruitFone, I told
ya. ATT would pitch a fit if iPhones started watching streams that DIDN'T
SELL FOR EXTRA MONEY. Won't happen unless they pay for some "product"
ATT/Apple is selling.

Geez! Next you'll want Realmedia and Wimdows Media and Flash 9 playing TV
or videos or movies or....or....or.....PORN for hours and hours....(well,
given the battery runtime, minutes and minutes!...that's better.)

How silly.....

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