Here is a story that says iOS Apps generate 6 times the revenue of Android Apps, not due to downloads or unit sales.. Perhaps this is due to lower app quality on Android, but more likely it is simply LESS BUYING and MORE PIRATING.
So unhappy iPhone users and poor quality apps is what drives iOS app sales? Have you looked at Apple's customer satisfaction numbers??
Take a look at in-app purchases of iOS vs. Android.. Fewer than 2% of Android users are likely to get off their wallet and spend a little cash online.
That wasn't said-- but comparatively, Android users are MORE UNETHICAL and SPEND LESS MONEY*. Part of that is Apple users have more disposable income.. but also jailbreaking is not widespread. Most jailbreaks on newer hardware are tethered, meaning you need to be near your computer if you want to restart your phone for any reason--not worth it for most.
*Disclaimer, not all Android users are cheap, bastards of low moral character. Some restrictions apply.
I hope that Apple bills each user who tries this... It would not be that hard to show that the purchase was made and after a little sorting out, the credits will go to the developer.. I'm not sure what happens if you run up expenses on your account that you can't afford, but my guess is that your service may be interrupted...
Most of us have day jobs where we toil away for a corporation or government. Some of us toil away on software projects so we can escape that grind. It isn't easy making a living selling software... Show a little decency and respect to the developers... The marginal cost of delivery has nothing to do with the morality of getting something that you're not entitled to have.
Amazon already has the computer know-how to jack prices up or down depending on its market position (and the customer it is dealing with...) Not sure what can be done about it.. except tax them more...
If they are actual bugs, just fix them as soon as you can... Add some TODO flags where you think they are happening, add more asserts and unit tests.. set breakpoints, recreate, fix, comment and test.. Avoid putting something into another todo list if it can be fixed right away. Most bugs I run into are simple NPE's, copy and paste bugs (where similar code is copied but incorrectly modified).. and logic bugs... Few bugs are so complicated I need to write out a long description of the problem before tackling it..
More consideration should go into adding features...
The gas station example is specifically not horseshit. The number of independent gas station owners dropped dramatically after a number of insane regulations that required $100K's of dollars of unnecessary retrofitting. Yes, big oil companies more easily afford larger regulatory expenses, but the regulations resulted in less competition and higher prices at the pump. But independent gas stations used to be the norm, now it is the exception... and oil companies and regulations make it difficult to compete--making it, for instance, illegal to purchase gasoline from another state, or requiring that a gas station owner buy gas from a particular refinery.
I didn't read the article, but presumably the traders wouldn't allow their sale price to drop below the cost of the item plus the marginal expense to sell on Amazon.... so if anything, the prices will drop to at or near the cost of the item... Which is good for buyers, bad for resellers...
You keep dodging the topic. First you say other religions are just as bad (or Islam not the silliest.) Then we're supposed to remember the crusades, but not mention the ethnic cleansing and forced conversions going on in Egypt, Sudan, the Philippines, Pakistan, etc.. Then you throw out a whopper about a fictitious "Operation Just Crusade" and cite it as evidence as a US war admitting the war is a crusade. (Care to explain that lie??) Then you suggest that Saudi and US capital punishment are comparable and ignore the inconvenient fact that Muslims execute people based on what they think, who they screw, or because they think someone is a witch.
But my real beef with Islam is not that it is misinterpreted by a few 'extremists', but because when you interpret it perfectly and do exactly as the pedophile Mohamad did, you end up with millions of people enslaved to a system that they can't escape that treats women, minorities, and non-muslims as second class citizens... don't even get me started about jihad and the 72 raisins. but defend it all you want.. better yet, move to an Islamic paradise and tell me how it is..
Ah, I see what you did.. you compared a country with a religion.. Not quite the assignment, but I can work with it.. Lets see, in Saudi Arabia, you can be executed by beheading, stoning, or firing squad. In the US, its primarlily lethal injection. In the US, capital punishment is reserved almost exclusively for murder. In Saudi Arabia, you can be executed for witchcraft, sorcery, adultery (between two consenting adults) drug use, or simply rejecting Islam.
The war in Iraq was never a crusade, and "Operation Just Crusade" is never existed. (Feel free to prove otherwise.)
Islam IS BY FAR the most backwards and violent religion. To suggest that other religions are somehow even in the running is ridiculous. Nobody "remembers" the crusades... unless you count the crusades happening today by Muslims. Prove it to yourself... If you can't find 20 violent Muslim atrocities for every non-muslim one, you just aren't trying. Or looking at the doctrine, find the worst Christian, Jewish or Buddhist practice, and see how it compares as it is practiced in Saudi Arabia.
Right on cue, you are offended by a website and apparently not at all offended by the atrocities committed by those practicing the silly religion that got stuck in the 6th century. We can't do much about acts of God.. but we can sure as hell condemn some of the abominable acts of Man committed in the name of Allah.
Any estimate of the number of people who installed it and ran it? Did it have a useful function that would get people to install it from the 500K other iOS apps? Did the app have any ratings that suggested that it was worth installing? Was the app Russian language only? (English language apps probably get more scrutiny, since the app reviewing is done by Apple in Cupertino...) Did anyone check with PayPal to see if the account has been closed and if refunds are due?
Almost certainly operator error... I bet one of the operators thought it would be a good idea to do a last minute reboot (sync the clocks one more time?), hit a "reset all" button, or even made a last minute tweak to the control software. The vendor says they are looking into it, but there is at least one dude who started swearing after their mistake.
Huge bummer for those with kids.. (My kids are too young to stay up late so we watched a few high-def YouTube videos of fireworks on the TV.)
When the alien says "Take me to your leader"... I predict a mad scramble to hand over Obama. He won't be hard to find-- He'll either on a golf course or at a fundraiser.
This "advisement" is being made by immigration lawyers.. Who make a majority of their money from people who are in the country illegally. This is simply a lame attempt to deflect attention from the real problem--people who are here illegally. Of course, if you get detained for an actual crime, you may need to phone someone to provide citizenship status--no papers on person required.
On Sourceforge.net there are fewer than 400 iOS projects (I had a hard time finding the exact number)... compare that to the 500,000 apps in the App store that are not open source. Yes, there are plenty of open source projects.. just not that many in the iOS space.
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Here is a story that says iOS Apps generate 6 times the revenue of Android Apps, not due to downloads or unit sales.. Perhaps this is due to lower app quality on Android, but more likely it is simply LESS BUYING and MORE PIRATING.
So unhappy iPhone users and poor quality apps is what drives iOS app sales? Have you looked at Apple's customer satisfaction numbers??
Take a look at in-app purchases of iOS vs. Android.. Fewer than 2% of Android users are likely to get off their wallet and spend a little cash online.
That wasn't said-- but comparatively, Android users are MORE UNETHICAL and SPEND LESS MONEY*. Part of that is Apple users have more disposable income.. but also jailbreaking is not widespread. Most jailbreaks on newer hardware are tethered, meaning you need to be near your computer if you want to restart your phone for any reason--not worth it for most. *Disclaimer, not all Android users are cheap, bastards of low moral character. Some restrictions apply.
Google does something inexpensively? Hah.. They treat a missing million dollars in cafeteria budge as an inconsequential rounding error.
This is a good war porn action.. Its begging for some peace through trolling comments.
I was wondering about that too.. Only thing I could think of was batch or shell scripts...
I hope that Apple bills each user who tries this... It would not be that hard to show that the purchase was made and after a little sorting out, the credits will go to the developer.. I'm not sure what happens if you run up expenses on your account that you can't afford, but my guess is that your service may be interrupted... Most of us have day jobs where we toil away for a corporation or government. Some of us toil away on software projects so we can escape that grind. It isn't easy making a living selling software... Show a little decency and respect to the developers... The marginal cost of delivery has nothing to do with the morality of getting something that you're not entitled to have.
Amazon already has the computer know-how to jack prices up or down depending on its market position (and the customer it is dealing with...) Not sure what can be done about it.. except tax them more...
Until the post office decides to become relevant... but yeah, FedEx and UPS are one of those use em everyday services..
If they are actual bugs, just fix them as soon as you can... Add some TODO flags where you think they are happening, add more asserts and unit tests.. set breakpoints, recreate, fix, comment and test.. Avoid putting something into another todo list if it can be fixed right away. Most bugs I run into are simple NPE's, copy and paste bugs (where similar code is copied but incorrectly modified).. and logic bugs... Few bugs are so complicated I need to write out a long description of the problem before tackling it..
More consideration should go into adding features...
Yes, drop your comcast and DirectTV and just pirate everything! Nice ethical solution... (ducking)
The centrifuge operators in Iran may beg to differ..
The gas station example is specifically not horseshit. The number of independent gas station owners dropped dramatically after a number of insane regulations that required $100K's of dollars of unnecessary retrofitting. Yes, big oil companies more easily afford larger regulatory expenses, but the regulations resulted in less competition and higher prices at the pump. But independent gas stations used to be the norm, now it is the exception... and oil companies and regulations make it difficult to compete--making it, for instance, illegal to purchase gasoline from another state, or requiring that a gas station owner buy gas from a particular refinery.
I didn't read the article, but presumably the traders wouldn't allow their sale price to drop below the cost of the item plus the marginal expense to sell on Amazon.... so if anything, the prices will drop to at or near the cost of the item... Which is good for buyers, bad for resellers...
You keep dodging the topic. First you say other religions are just as bad (or Islam not the silliest.) Then we're supposed to remember the crusades, but not mention the ethnic cleansing and forced conversions going on in Egypt, Sudan, the Philippines, Pakistan, etc.. Then you throw out a whopper about a fictitious "Operation Just Crusade" and cite it as evidence as a US war admitting the war is a crusade. (Care to explain that lie??) Then you suggest that Saudi and US capital punishment are comparable and ignore the inconvenient fact that Muslims execute people based on what they think, who they screw, or because they think someone is a witch.
But my real beef with Islam is not that it is misinterpreted by a few 'extremists', but because when you interpret it perfectly and do exactly as the pedophile Mohamad did, you end up with millions of people enslaved to a system that they can't escape that treats women, minorities, and non-muslims as second class citizens... don't even get me started about jihad and the 72 raisins. but defend it all you want.. better yet, move to an Islamic paradise and tell me how it is..
The war in Iraq was never a crusade, and "Operation Just Crusade" is never existed. (Feel free to prove otherwise.)
Islam IS BY FAR the most backwards and violent religion. To suggest that other religions are somehow even in the running is ridiculous. Nobody "remembers" the crusades... unless you count the crusades happening today by Muslims. Prove it to yourself... If you can't find 20 violent Muslim atrocities for every non-muslim one, you just aren't trying. Or looking at the doctrine, find the worst Christian, Jewish or Buddhist practice, and see how it compares as it is practiced in Saudi Arabia.
Next up, you'll be defending the reintroduction of sex slaves in Egypt...
Any estimate of the number of people who installed it and ran it? Did it have a useful function that would get people to install it from the 500K other iOS apps? Did the app have any ratings that suggested that it was worth installing? Was the app Russian language only? (English language apps probably get more scrutiny, since the app reviewing is done by Apple in Cupertino...) Did anyone check with PayPal to see if the account has been closed and if refunds are due?
Almost certainly operator error... I bet one of the operators thought it would be a good idea to do a last minute reboot (sync the clocks one more time?), hit a "reset all" button, or even made a last minute tweak to the control software. The vendor says they are looking into it, but there is at least one dude who started swearing after their mistake.
Huge bummer for those with kids.. (My kids are too young to stay up late so we watched a few high-def YouTube videos of fireworks on the TV.)
The real dilemma: How to play competition games created for an operating system that you deem too offensive to own or install.. Oh the humanity!
When the alien says "Take me to your leader"... I predict a mad scramble to hand over Obama. He won't be hard to find-- He'll either on a golf course or at a fundraiser.
And I bet you've never been stopped when walking without ID after working out. So imagine it being "exactly the same."
Hah, the only thing you DON'T need an ID for is to vote.
This "advisement" is being made by immigration lawyers.. Who make a majority of their money from people who are in the country illegally. This is simply a lame attempt to deflect attention from the real problem--people who are here illegally. Of course, if you get detained for an actual crime, you may need to phone someone to provide citizenship status--no papers on person required.
On Sourceforge.net there are fewer than 400 iOS projects (I had a hard time finding the exact number)... compare that to the 500,000 apps in the App store that are not open source. Yes, there are plenty of open source projects.. just not that many in the iOS space.