I once wrote as an introduction to one of my books: "In the past we used to create high quality content in low resolution. Today we create low quality content in high resolution".
I work with CGI, but regarding a movie, I prefer to watch a low-res high quality content movie than the contrary.
Apple is right for one reason. Imagine you have a store and one day a man comes to you and say. Hey, I represent a free magazine. Can I put a stand on your store to distribute my magazine for free for your customers? You see that the magazine is cool and allow the guy to put a stand there for free. One day you notice that the guy is now offering a paid subscription service to those who come to him. He is now mounting a business inside your store and profiting for it. WIll you allow this guy to continue?
Obviously not. Apple was clear. Free apps cannot sell anything and paid apps must deliver digital content to users and the content must be in one of two forms: already inside the application or on a server outside. If the user chooses the second option, the server must be prepared to talk to Apple's servers acknowledging the delivery of the digital content.
What these guys were doing were mounting a store inside Apple's store. No business in planet would ever allow that. Try to make your stand inside Barnes & Nobles for free and tell me if you was successful.
M$ choose to make windows that way, i.e., to carry all crap from the eighties in order to be compatible with most part of everything. This was theory but never worked in practice after windows 98. Now they are being haunted by all the crap they are carrying around. In fact they are already dead, as stated by John C. Devorak a few years ago. Who cares?
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I once wrote as an introduction to one of my books: "In the past we used to create high quality content in low resolution. Today we create low quality content in high resolution". I work with CGI, but regarding a movie, I prefer to watch a low-res high quality content movie than the contrary.
Apple is right for one reason. Imagine you have a store and one day a man comes to you and say. Hey, I represent a free magazine. Can I put a stand on your store to distribute my magazine for free for your customers? You see that the magazine is cool and allow the guy to put a stand there for free. One day you notice that the guy is now offering a paid subscription service to those who come to him. He is now mounting a business inside your store and profiting for it. WIll you allow this guy to continue? Obviously not. Apple was clear. Free apps cannot sell anything and paid apps must deliver digital content to users and the content must be in one of two forms: already inside the application or on a server outside. If the user chooses the second option, the server must be prepared to talk to Apple's servers acknowledging the delivery of the digital content. What these guys were doing were mounting a store inside Apple's store. No business in planet would ever allow that. Try to make your stand inside Barnes & Nobles for free and tell me if you was successful.
M$ choose to make windows that way, i.e., to carry all crap from the eighties in order to be compatible with most part of everything. This was theory but never worked in practice after windows 98. Now they are being haunted by all the crap they are carrying around. In fact they are already dead, as stated by John C. Devorak a few years ago. Who cares?