If PayPal are more trusted than the banks that makes it very clear just how bad the banks are. I wouldn't trust PayPal with toy money my nephew left down the back of the sofa.
“$500 fully misappropriated, with a backbone! I said ‘That is the most expensive browser in the world’, and it doesn’t appeal to TechCrunch readers because it doesn’t have an Arrington, which makes it not a very good vaporware machine.”
Or you could wait until details come out, or read Engadget's report of what Steve said:
"We think a lot of people will want to become an iPhone developer -- go to our site, probably in about an hour, and download the SDK. You can join the developer program to test your app on the iPhone and iPod touch and distribute your app -- to join the dev program costs just $99. If you have any questions about anything give us a ping at developer.apple.com."
In other words, download a *free* SDK to write and test your app, then pay $99 to get the certificate to download onto your hardware, whether or not you decide to distribute it to the general public or not. The only 'going through Apple' is a $99 charge to get the key to the hardware.
But waiting until you actually have the full details and know the facts before making a decision, that is obviously too difficult...
Let's be clear about this. We keep talking about the RIAA like they are the baddies. They aren't. They are a smoke screen. They are nothing more than a trade group that represent the record labels, who are the real guilty parties here.
EMI, Sony BMG, Universal and Warner hide behind this RIAA label so that they distance themselves from the lawsuits, dumb-ass decisions, etc.
Up-and-coming bands still sign every day to these labels because they don't realise that they are the puppeteers pulling the strings of the RIAA. The RIAA itself has not one single artist on its roster.
It's classic misdirection. Let this RIAA 'persona' take the flack while the record companies themselves don't get tarred with the same brush.
Until people stop talking about the RIAA and its deeds, and starting laying the blame at the record companies themselves, nothing will change.
Slashdot Mirror
If PayPal are more trusted than the banks that makes it very clear just how bad the banks are. I wouldn't trust PayPal with toy money my nephew left down the back of the sofa.
“$500 fully misappropriated, with a backbone! I said ‘That is the most expensive browser in the world’, and it doesn’t appeal to TechCrunch readers because it doesn’t have an Arrington, which makes it not a very good vaporware machine.”
Or you could wait until details come out, or read Engadget's report of what Steve said: "We think a lot of people will want to become an iPhone developer -- go to our site, probably in about an hour, and download the SDK. You can join the developer program to test your app on the iPhone and iPod touch and distribute your app -- to join the dev program costs just $99. If you have any questions about anything give us a ping at developer.apple.com." In other words, download a *free* SDK to write and test your app, then pay $99 to get the certificate to download onto your hardware, whether or not you decide to distribute it to the general public or not. The only 'going through Apple' is a $99 charge to get the key to the hardware. But waiting until you actually have the full details and know the facts before making a decision, that is obviously too difficult...
Let's be clear about this. We keep talking about the RIAA like they are the baddies. They aren't. They are a smoke screen. They are nothing more than a trade group that represent the record labels, who are the real guilty parties here. EMI, Sony BMG, Universal and Warner hide behind this RIAA label so that they distance themselves from the lawsuits, dumb-ass decisions, etc. Up-and-coming bands still sign every day to these labels because they don't realise that they are the puppeteers pulling the strings of the RIAA. The RIAA itself has not one single artist on its roster. It's classic misdirection. Let this RIAA 'persona' take the flack while the record companies themselves don't get tarred with the same brush. Until people stop talking about the RIAA and its deeds, and starting laying the blame at the record companies themselves, nothing will change.