People are only doing it because of desperate economy. Basically, Uber is banking on the economy remaining desperate, and may actually be helping to continue it.
Because they want a chance to make a living capable of supporting a family and making a comfortable life, as opposed to popping bennies and driving for 72 hours straight just to keep things going? Just a guess. Also, they've made expensive business investments in the licenses to drive, which is now becoming useless. How would you feel if several families suddenly decided to move into your house and the government refused to do anything about them?
Progress also means a de-evolution of employment standards. People get to start a company and have associates by phone now. No obligation to the worker whatsoever. I can't wait until the company I work for picks up on this.
Is that better than you taking away the right for Uber to treat their employees.. er, contractors? No.. Let's just call them phone associates with no bargaining power whatsoever... is it better that Uber is allowed to treat them like shit? Just because people will do the job doesn't mean that it's right that people are in the position that they have no choice.
Can you please provide the complete moral code that you abide by? In the way I was raised, braking the law is wrong and obeying the law is right. Obviously everyone cannot simply follow their own moral code because then drug dealers would declare themselves "illegal but not wrong". Perhaps if you could provide yours to completion, all of society could just adopt it and we can finally have peace on the insanity of 'the people' selecting the laws that work the best for them.
Customers have a choice of whether to go with Sprint or not, and now less should on average because there is less service for the same price. Sprints practices were ruled deceitful and now they must make adjustments, thats all it is. Its a big win for the little guy and now hopefully the little guy sees that they should clearly take their business somewhere else.
The minorities are part of your society now so deal with your crap. You sound like parents who excuse and condone their kids being terrors "because they're just kids".
Personal accountability to a certain extent, yet. But if society isn't looking like how you want it to because certain people are holding you back then GO HELP FIX IT instead of throwing up your hands and saying there is nothing you can do.
The people that buy this stuff think that Apple 'just works'. Apple has been able to convince them if they don't buy products with 3000% markup not only might their Apple product not 'just work' but it will be their fault. So they happily bend over for corporate America due to the fear of the unknown.
You overestimate the intelligence of people in general. Of course 'iDevice' matters. So many people are incapable of thinking for themselves, they're looking for the iDevice label because... because.... surely something bad will happen if they don't. They don't know what that bad thing is, but large American corporations would never lie to them and overcharge for the sake of overcharging, right?
Ridiculous comment. How are you going to fight an entire police force with your guns? You might take out one or two cops with you but these are simply people who are forced to follow orders by the same kinds of penalties that they are dispensing.
Not sure why I was down voted. Many American companies rely on people from oppressed societies to make profit. If we allow them to look the other way and pretend they are not associated with these governments, then we will soon be like them.
This is why, ultimately, people aren't making much money on apps in general. Because they think they can just depend on the Apple model to protect their investment, when Apple really only cares on making money for themselves.
1) When I can't do something with my old machine, I buy a new machine. So far I can do everything with my old machine. Furthermore, I haven't finished the games that came in the era of 'the last laptop I bought' yet. In fact, I'm concerned I might not be able to finish them in the life of the laptop. Those games are fine and I'm not into new and shiny for the sake of having new and shiny. My family benefits from the extra funds.
2) Along the lines of other comments, when I build a system it is slightly ahead of the curve with good components. These systems tend to last a long time.
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People are only doing it because of desperate economy. Basically, Uber is banking on the economy remaining desperate, and may actually be helping to continue it.
Because they want a chance to make a living capable of supporting a family and making a comfortable life, as opposed to popping bennies and driving for 72 hours straight just to keep things going? Just a guess. Also, they've made expensive business investments in the licenses to drive, which is now becoming useless. How would you feel if several families suddenly decided to move into your house and the government refused to do anything about them?
Progress also means a de-evolution of employment standards. People get to start a company and have associates by phone now. No obligation to the worker whatsoever. I can't wait until the company I work for picks up on this.
Is that better than you taking away the right for Uber to treat their employees.. er, contractors? No.. Let's just call them phone associates with no bargaining power whatsoever... is it better that Uber is allowed to treat them like shit? Just because people will do the job doesn't mean that it's right that people are in the position that they have no choice.
Can you please provide the complete moral code that you abide by? In the way I was raised, braking the law is wrong and obeying the law is right. Obviously everyone cannot simply follow their own moral code because then drug dealers would declare themselves "illegal but not wrong". Perhaps if you could provide yours to completion, all of society could just adopt it and we can finally have peace on the insanity of 'the people' selecting the laws that work the best for them.
Apple just works! Even when badly written by a bunch of idiots!
how LAWS weren't what prompted the change.
Customers have a choice of whether to go with Sprint or not, and now less should on average because there is less service for the same price. Sprints practices were ruled deceitful and now they must make adjustments, thats all it is. Its a big win for the little guy and now hopefully the little guy sees that they should clearly take their business somewhere else.
"If it wasn't for minorities".. WAH WAH
The minorities are part of your society now so deal with your crap. You sound like parents who excuse and condone their kids being terrors "because they're just kids".
Personal accountability to a certain extent, yet. But if society isn't looking like how you want it to because certain people are holding you back then GO HELP FIX IT instead of throwing up your hands and saying there is nothing you can do.
So disable update on keyboard now, because you're probably fine at the moment. Wait for fix, then update.
I don't care how rich a company is, I cannot admire an organization built on screwing over people who are just naive.
The people that buy this stuff think that Apple 'just works'. Apple has been able to convince them if they don't buy products with 3000% markup not only might their Apple product not 'just work' but it will be their fault. So they happily bend over for corporate America due to the fear of the unknown.
You overestimate the intelligence of people in general. Of course 'iDevice' matters. So many people are incapable of thinking for themselves, they're looking for the iDevice label because... because.... surely something bad will happen if they don't. They don't know what that bad thing is, but large American corporations would never lie to them and overcharge for the sake of overcharging, right?
Hats off to you sir, you beat me to this.
Guns or not, if the US government wants to get rid of you, they have 100 ways to swat you like a fly.
Guns are nothing but a security blankie for those that grow up paranoid of everything.
Ridiculous comment. How are you going to fight an entire police force with your guns? You might take out one or two cops with you but these are simply people who are forced to follow orders by the same kinds of penalties that they are dispensing.
Not sure why I was down voted. Many American companies rely on people from oppressed societies to make profit. If we allow them to look the other way and pretend they are not associated with these governments, then we will soon be like them.
That rely on the practices of this government to make a buck for the shareholders.
Then the human race is truly headed for Idiocracy.
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Twitter, this news service.. Painful to read. For crying out loud, people need enough text to complete their thoughts.
This is why, ultimately, people aren't making much money on apps in general. Because they think they can just depend on the Apple model to protect their investment, when Apple really only cares on making money for themselves.
Only if they have a poor business plan. Making money on the app alone is a hard way to go.
Waaay easier to slap something together in Java and then do the iPhone app. So much easier to make adjustments in Java.
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1) When I can't do something with my old machine, I buy a new machine. So far I can do everything with my old machine. Furthermore, I haven't finished the games that came in the era of 'the last laptop I bought' yet. In fact, I'm concerned I might not be able to finish them in the life of the laptop. Those games are fine and I'm not into new and shiny for the sake of having new and shiny. My family benefits from the extra funds.
2) Along the lines of other comments, when I build a system it is slightly ahead of the curve with good components. These systems tend to last a long time.