Well without the oil jobs vacuuming engineers from the other industries we would not have had the explosive growth in salaries that has led to industry jobs going out of the country, but would have had to keep focusing on the metallurgic industries where we were very advanced (and to a lesser extent still are).
Already Adam Smith, in 1776, realized that what you wanted to be was a country that imported raw materials and exported fabricated goods. For the most part Norway has always been a "developing country" in the sense that we mostly exported raw and intermediate goods. Example of the twisted economy at play: Norwegians fish herring, which is then shipped to Poland to be packed more cheaply than here, and then the boxes are shipped back to be sold to Norwegian consumers.
The idea is that by automating menial tasks, humans can devote themselves to "higher-level" tasks and less menial jobs. But for those being replaced that transition will of course be a significant change because they need to find something else to do.
Here in Norway there is a number of people who scoff at service workers, academics and "desk workers" and claim that only the "primary professions" (farming, fishing, logging etc.) and industry are contributing value. However, those areas have been automating and "optimizing" for centuries and do not need as many laborers as they seem to think. Plus, every business that is in demand adds value, especially by the way economists count the GNP (where e.g. farming here contributes a measly 0.5% while the education sector alone dwarfs it significantly).
Intriguing. Do you feel the same way about people who buy products from the other companies that Foxconn manufactures for, like Cisco, HP, Nintendo etc.?
But Apple are NOT forbidding the use of any other means of buying. I can log in to amazon.com, buy a Kindle book, and it will be downloaded to my Kindle app, and Apple get zilch.
Depends on whether you have in-app purchases/subscriptions/registrations. If you do not there is no difference really, and if you have it really depends on whether you can do all the management of said subscriptions at zero cost.
Since company A (Amazon) obviously sees a business benefit from using the market of company B (Apple), company A should reimburse company B for the benefit. Do you think companies are in it for the profit of others?
In the same way Sony have a monopoly on GameOS (PS3) software sales, and Microsoft have a monopoly on whatever-it-is-called (XBox 360) software sales. The way can be shortened as: BFD.
No, because the customers can register and purchase subscriptions at a website (for instance). Case in point: I can log in to Zinio.com, start a subscription, and the iPad Zinio app will download the subscribed magazine. It is just more convenient to do it through the app and Apple's payment system instead of having yet another place where I have a credit card on file (or having to re-enter that info on every purchase).
Registering at Zinio.com, marvel.com etc. and then using the iOS apps means Apple did not bring the customer for the rule's purposes.
To the general public? Yes. To other developers? No, you can just zip the project and they can unpack, change an identifier value and use it with their wildcard provisioning profile. There are also options open to businesses to have "inhouse" distribution to known devices, and mass-purchase of apps (this latter is recent). And you can install provisioning profiles on your friends' devices to let them use your apps as well (but they need to let you install the apps for them IIRC).
They make 30% profit on apps sold through the app store. Would it really f'in kill them if they let someone else make a buck?
Where do you get that 30% figure from? They take a 30% cut from paid apps, but that does not in any way shape or form relate to any profit percentage. (As does Goole's Android Marketplace by the way - Amazon only charges 10% but then they get to set the price.)
You seem to be in the "companies should be non-profit" camp, but fact is that most are in it for the money. If you do not like it you are free to pick a different platform to develop for, instead of acting like Wal-Mart has a duty to let you open a stall in their supermarkets.
It's not Apple's product after it's sold to a customer.
Apple aren't selling the store to anyone. The App Store remains Apple's. The iOS device is the user's, free to do with as they please. The consumer cannot expect Apple to help them using it in other ways than what Apple prefers though. Heck, for the first months after the iPhone was released there was no App Store, Apple telling developers they should make HTML5 webapps.
Android? You mean the 99% pirated app platform? Made by Google, whose customers are the advertisers? Modified by vendors and operators to add distinct features since every sale of an Android device is a lost sale for the other vendors?
And since Microsoft are busy copying Apple's practices for their WP7 platform I guess "accepted norm" is the right answer.
A bit on the wrong side, aren't you? Evolutionary theories aren't dogma - like most scientific theories they are constantly being revised as new discoveries are made, and they form a central part of the the basis of modern biology. "Free thinkers" who profess the "religious creationism in a fancy dress" like Intelligent Design are pushing forward conclusions that predate genetics and other discoveries. Are there other conclusions (made thousands of years ago by nomadic tribesmen sitting around a campfire) you also will consider more valid than modern science? Should we perhaps abandon these fancy cars for trusty old camels?
Evolution deniers are skeptics in much the same way Holocaust deniers are skeptics. Should history classes teach historical revisionism? Or what about introducing contra-factual history ("what if" scenarios) at an early age to sow confusion? Should physics classes also teach the element-based world view? How about re-introducing the liquid balance principles in medicine?
Unrelated, he has been saying the same things for years. His terrorist group is in the Kurd areas (Turkey/Iraq/Iran), far away from Norway. The only reason he is still here is that we do not extradite people to countries where they risk the death penalty, and we haven't received binding enough guarantees from either the Iraqi nor the Kurd governments (Northern Iraq still being a somewhat self-regulated Kurdish province).
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Well without the oil jobs vacuuming engineers from the other industries we would not have had the explosive growth in salaries that has led to industry jobs going out of the country, but would have had to keep focusing on the metallurgic industries where we were very advanced (and to a lesser extent still are).
Already Adam Smith, in 1776, realized that what you wanted to be was a country that imported raw materials and exported fabricated goods. For the most part Norway has always been a "developing country" in the sense that we mostly exported raw and intermediate goods. Example of the twisted economy at play: Norwegians fish herring, which is then shipped to Poland to be packed more cheaply than here, and then the boxes are shipped back to be sold to Norwegian consumers.
The idea is that by automating menial tasks, humans can devote themselves to "higher-level" tasks and less menial jobs. But for those being replaced that transition will of course be a significant change because they need to find something else to do.
Here in Norway there is a number of people who scoff at service workers, academics and "desk workers" and claim that only the "primary professions" (farming, fishing, logging etc.) and industry are contributing value. However, those areas have been automating and "optimizing" for centuries and do not need as many laborers as they seem to think. Plus, every business that is in demand adds value, especially by the way economists count the GNP (where e.g. farming here contributes a measly 0.5% while the education sector alone dwarfs it significantly).
Intriguing. Do you feel the same way about people who buy products from the other companies that Foxconn manufactures for, like Cisco, HP, Nintendo etc.?
I am sure 90% of Kindle app downloaders know how to get books at Amazon. They are simply forbidding ONE mean: That the app directly links there.
But Apple are NOT forbidding the use of any other means of buying. I can log in to amazon.com, buy a Kindle book, and it will be downloaded to my Kindle app, and Apple get zilch.
Depends on whether you have in-app purchases/subscriptions/registrations. If you do not there is no difference really, and if you have it really depends on whether you can do all the management of said subscriptions at zero cost.
Since company A (Amazon) obviously sees a business benefit from using the market of company B (Apple), company A should reimburse company B for the benefit. Do you think companies are in it for the profit of others?
Yours. But Apple's services and the rules laid out for developers are unrelated to your device.
In the same way Sony have a monopoly on GameOS (PS3) software sales, and Microsoft have a monopoly on whatever-it-is-called (XBox 360) software sales. The way can be shortened as: BFD.
Well, it is your hardware, to do with as you please. You did not buy the App Store or the other Apple services.
No, because the customers can register and purchase subscriptions at a website (for instance). Case in point: I can log in to Zinio.com, start a subscription, and the iPad Zinio app will download the subscribed magazine. It is just more convenient to do it through the app and Apple's payment system instead of having yet another place where I have a credit card on file (or having to re-enter that info on every purchase).
Registering at Zinio.com, marvel.com etc. and then using the iOS apps means Apple did not bring the customer for the rule's purposes.
To the general public? Yes. To other developers? No, you can just zip the project and they can unpack, change an identifier value and use it with their wildcard provisioning profile. There are also options open to businesses to have "inhouse" distribution to known devices, and mass-purchase of apps (this latter is recent). And you can install provisioning profiles on your friends' devices to let them use your apps as well (but they need to let you install the apps for them IIRC).
They make 30% profit on apps sold through the app store. Would it really f'in kill them if they let someone else make a buck?
Where do you get that 30% figure from? They take a 30% cut from paid apps, but that does not in any way shape or form relate to any profit percentage.
(As does Goole's Android Marketplace by the way - Amazon only charges 10% but then they get to set the price.)
You seem to be in the "companies should be non-profit" camp, but fact is that most are in it for the money. If you do not like it you are free to pick a different platform to develop for, instead of acting like Wal-Mart has a duty to let you open a stall in their supermarkets.
It's not Apple's product after it's sold to a customer.
Apple aren't selling the store to anyone. The App Store remains Apple's. The iOS device is the user's, free to do with as they please. The consumer cannot expect Apple to help them using it in other ways than what Apple prefers though. Heck, for the first months after the iPhone was released there was no App Store, Apple telling developers they should make HTML5 webapps.
Android? You mean the 99% pirated app platform? Made by Google, whose customers are the advertisers? Modified by vendors and operators to add distinct features since every sale of an Android device is a lost sale for the other vendors?
And since Microsoft are busy copying Apple's practices for their WP7 platform I guess "accepted norm" is the right answer.
A bit on the wrong side, aren't you? Evolutionary theories aren't dogma - like most scientific theories they are constantly being revised as new discoveries are made, and they form a central part of the the basis of modern biology. "Free thinkers" who profess the "religious creationism in a fancy dress" like Intelligent Design are pushing forward conclusions that predate genetics and other discoveries. Are there other conclusions (made thousands of years ago by nomadic tribesmen sitting around a campfire) you also will consider more valid than modern science? Should we perhaps abandon these fancy cars for trusty old camels?
Evolution deniers are skeptics in much the same way Holocaust deniers are skeptics. Should history classes teach historical revisionism? Or what about introducing contra-factual history ("what if" scenarios) at an early age to sow confusion? Should physics classes also teach the element-based world view? How about re-introducing the liquid balance principles in medicine?
Just don't pick Britain or Germany, where software patents appear to be legal...
It's not rocket science to write an Eclipse plugin that supports a non-Java language. There are plugins for C/C++, PHP etc.
What they really wanted to piggyback on was the multitude of Java developers, as you also noted.
Of course: We all remember Steve Ballmer on stage at CES giving praises to the HP Slate.
Which then HP tried to make people forget about by making it almost impossible to actually buy.
Are they? There are 1.3 billion muslims, I don't see more than a scant few doing terrorist acts, and they tend to kill other Muslims.
You are moving into "we must kill the Jews to save Europe" territory. No wonder you post as an anonymous coward.
Typically either oil-fueled furnaces (in the process of being phased out many places here) or steam-based heating based on garbage incinerators.
Unrelated, he has been saying the same things for years. His terrorist group is in the Kurd areas (Turkey/Iraq/Iran), far away from Norway. The only reason he is still here is that we do not extradite people to countries where they risk the death penalty, and we haven't received binding enough guarantees from either the Iraqi nor the Kurd governments (Northern Iraq still being a somewhat self-regulated Kurdish province).
... but was it running a Human Operating System? And did it exchange Knowledge Packets?
I take it then that Facebook happily stands behind ads for penny auction scams, "consumption loans" with exuberant rates, suspicious herbs etc.?
Google, please get G+ finished so we can ditch Zyngabook once and for all.
Why? Islamophobes tend to yammer on about Muhammed's antics, and that was even longer ago...
- This is unreasonable!
- THIS! IS! VERIZON!