Hardly. Everything they've been successful at has been done before. Mostly where they excel is seeing where current market participants are dropping the ball then doing it right(er) and then successful marketing.
Apple runs the marketplace. They want to make money so they take a percentage of sales. Fair enough, pay to play.
Apple allows free/very cheap apps. They allow these because it improves their market position and they're willing to take the hit on the overheads to improve their marketshare. Also fair enough.
The issue becomes that item 1 conflicts with item 2 in terms of apple making money because it allows people to use free or cheap apps with in-app purchases to cut Apple out of the deal. In theory, you could put your $30 blockbuster on the market for free and have all the content be DLC. Obviously, there's something not in the spirit of things there. Apple doesn't like that so they introduce new rules. Unfortunately, those new rules overstep the bounds of what is reasonable, coming between the owner of a device and the producers of an owned app for doing nothing at all.
In my mind, apple needs to take their profit up-front. Either require that apps with in-app purchases be sold for a minimum cost, allowing Apple their cut or require that the producer pay apple for each sale if they want to put the app out there for free. Once the app has been sold and is on the phone, Apple should be out of the picture, pretty much.
None of this is needed for an already installed app. If apple wants to offer these things as a service, more power to them. To make it mandatory... Well, I guess people buy their crap voluntarily but hopefully they'll wise up (yeah...)
It was must-watch at first though looking back, I see I have not seen all of the final season. It really didn't seem part of the main arc so I guess that kinda backs my overall point. They never did seem to resolve the ZFT thing properly unless I missed it.
Such controls are only fairly recent and are typically more about control than anything. Hopefully they are a fad that will pass though the welfare states of many nations make it troublesome to remove.
No, it's the result of the election process. Many smaller districts voting will tend to reflect the biases of those districts, not an agregate average of the total. Minorities will be protected somewhat but also kept out of the game to a degree.
How the darkness spread through the heart of Google, infesting its ethos of "Don't be Evil" with its corruption and engendering a perverse desire to force Google Plus on all.
It's not just taking a poke at apple. Apples fees are egregiously high. Smaller operators may just be forced to suck it up but Amazon is in the position of making a more tactical decision. Not only do they have their own device(s) but Apple is not exactly without other competitors. I guess they feel they're in a position where they can see how it plays out.
I call it cargo-cult writing. The writers know the elements that go into a great story so they ape them and add them to their scripts but when it comes into organizing it into a cohesive whole and wrapping it up nicely at the end, they have no idea. Thus you end up with a show which has a mediocre to good beginning, a fantastic middle and then it all falls apart towards the end.
I used to be really upset when many of the shows I liked got cancelled. These days, I suspect they may just have ended up sucking and probably the writers were relieved they got cancelled before they got found out. There *are* writers who can pull it off (JMS, Whedon) but others like RD Moore are just fakes.
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What exactly is it doing?
Oh, I'm sure he is. Just not in that particular case.
Somewhat fittingly, the fallacy at work here is actually "Tu quoque"
wristworn?
And some of those holders rock self-winding watches, effectively "recharging" them.
I still don't see it being a good thing. Screen size is king with smart devices.
Hardly. Everything they've been successful at has been done before. Mostly where they excel is seeing where current market participants are dropping the ball then doing it right(er) and then successful marketing.
I quite like Citizen's eco-drive myself.
No, it's called rent seeking.
Though, of course, available mobility then was not what it is now where almost anyone can go halfway around the world for a week's pay.
Clearly though, here is the issue...
Apple runs the marketplace. They want to make money so they take a percentage of sales. Fair enough, pay to play.
Apple allows free/very cheap apps. They allow these because it improves their market position and they're willing to take the hit on the overheads to improve their marketshare. Also fair enough.
The issue becomes that item 1 conflicts with item 2 in terms of apple making money because it allows people to use free or cheap apps with in-app purchases to cut Apple out of the deal. In theory, you could put your $30 blockbuster on the market for free and have all the content be DLC. Obviously, there's something not in the spirit of things there. Apple doesn't like that so they introduce new rules. Unfortunately, those new rules overstep the bounds of what is reasonable, coming between the owner of a device and the producers of an owned app for doing nothing at all.
In my mind, apple needs to take their profit up-front. Either require that apps with in-app purchases be sold for a minimum cost, allowing Apple their cut or require that the producer pay apple for each sale if they want to put the app out there for free. Once the app has been sold and is on the phone, Apple should be out of the picture, pretty much.
None of this is needed for an already installed app. If apple wants to offer these things as a service, more power to them. To make it mandatory... Well, I guess people buy their crap voluntarily but hopefully they'll wise up (yeah...)
It was must-watch at first though looking back, I see I have not seen all of the final season. It really didn't seem part of the main arc so I guess that kinda backs my overall point. They never did seem to resolve the ZFT thing properly unless I missed it.
Amazing what you can interpret people as saying if you ignore words that they use. Idiot.
What overheads to Apple have *at all* from items sold in-app from a phone you have purchased over your own internet connection or data plan?
Such controls are only fairly recent and are typically more about control than anything. Hopefully they are a fad that will pass though the welfare states of many nations make it troublesome to remove.
OTOH, they'll be staying at home or inside playing Xbox.
No, it's the result of the election process. Many smaller districts voting will tend to reflect the biases of those districts, not an agregate average of the total. Minorities will be protected somewhat but also kept out of the game to a degree.
How the darkness spread through the heart of Google, infesting its ethos of "Don't be Evil" with its corruption and engendering a perverse desire to force Google Plus on all.
It's not just taking a poke at apple. Apples fees are egregiously high. Smaller operators may just be forced to suck it up but Amazon is in the position of making a more tactical decision. Not only do they have their own device(s) but Apple is not exactly without other competitors. I guess they feel they're in a position where they can see how it plays out.
Quit raining on his chain.
I'm not sure about Abrams though. Lost may have lost its way but Fringe was pretty good. Though if it's still on, I haven't been watching it recently.
I call it cargo-cult writing. The writers know the elements that go into a great story so they ape them and add them to their scripts but when it comes into organizing it into a cohesive whole and wrapping it up nicely at the end, they have no idea. Thus you end up with a show which has a mediocre to good beginning, a fantastic middle and then it all falls apart towards the end.
I used to be really upset when many of the shows I liked got cancelled. These days, I suspect they may just have ended up sucking and probably the writers were relieved they got cancelled before they got found out. There *are* writers who can pull it off (JMS, Whedon) but others like RD Moore are just fakes.
in turn exhibited in a landfill museum
How about "Microsoft sponsors research into historic abysmal software releases to try and explain Windows 8"
I think when they said the game stank, they didn't literally mean it was giving off methane.