Good news for me. They opened it up for a couple of my accounts, one with paid storage, and one free on Wednesday. So the rollout is progressing quicker than I expected.
Google has a little breakdown of the old-vs-new plans. They say the purchased storage is shared with everything, but my Gmail says I have 208, so they add the default 8GB to it.
I just checked and it was already set to Rapid Release, and I have no Drive. I set it to scheduled, and then back, but alas, it's not that simple. I guess I'll have to wait and wait for it to get rolled to any of my accounts.
Have you looked at Ting? The folks from Tucows have gone into the prepaid cell market. Buy a phone ($300-500 for Android, $65 for basic flip phone), then get refunded for any unused minutes, text, or data each month. There's no need for any 50,000 minute plan when you know you're only going to need 100.
It's definitely worth looking into once my contract nears it's end.
This is piracy, plain and simple. The publishers are losing millions, if not billions, because each kid now won't need to buy the book themselves. They need to multiply the cost of the book by the number of kids being read to, and add a half dozen zeroes to the end for good measure.
Copyrights are to be taken very seriously, folks! This mass, rampant piracy needs to come to a close immediately so these poor, kind, destitute authors can get what is due to them.
I'd wager they did not spend much time supporting the Android version. I heard good things about it from iDevice people. I looked periodically for it on the Android market. I bought it June 3, 2011. So, it was released near that time, maybe 2 weeks or so prior. I'd say they gave up quite quickly, without a whole lot work. They sold between 50 and 200k units at $2.99 with a few months work. That's certainly not bad for a married duo operation.
In the end, I believe they just didn't care about Android, which is acceptable. But to blame it as Android's fault??
Hmm, Itunes page lists the game as having 5814 total ratings for the game. That's comparable to Android's number. I can't believe the number of purchases can be too much further off.
I bought the game last year, and this article got me to thinking. I cannot recall when I last saw an update in the market for it. So, I pulled up AppBrain page for it, and see updates were coming in from May to July 2011. Then there has been nothing since. So, I have to wonder how many tweaks to the shaders and whatever they say they really did? I mean, they gave up on the game a long time ago. It hit 50k purchases in August, so there's $150,000 in sales made. Google takes what, 30%? So that's $105,000 minimum.
I know I've seen some nasty comments in the user reviews on the market, so I pull up their page there. I see 4991 four or five star reviews, and 383 one to three star reviews. That's just 7% of the reviews are bad. That looks quite good to me. Looking at the recent ratings, there have been many of the 196 one-star reviews posted just in the last couple of days. Since March 1, people have been giving it one star for not having updates like IOS has (Did that version just get an update?), which is an understandable sentiment.
Now, that's considered a failure for small-time developers? They really put in more time/effort on this than to make it a losing venture?
All this talk, so I decided to dig through my GMail accounts and find a hotmail account I created long ago. I created it May 5, 2009. I used it for a month or two and haven't logged in (hundreds of spam in a brief time) since. I tried to log in now, reset the password, etc., and it says there is no such account. So I think they fixed their spam filters by just deleting my account. Miraculous!
Also, see the GoogleTV vs many of the content providers web sites when GTV first came out. They were rushing to get all sorts of fixes to viewing their content on things there were not a traditional computer.
Say you want to go to some restaurant. You type it in to Google to find the closest one near you. Then, you see that a long time ago, your grandpa put up a post about how he got E Coli there. He recovered, so that isn't on your mind anymore. Now you see it and it sparks your memory. Do you still want to get directions there?
It can be a handy thing depending on the situation. If you are just searching for the history of the Statue of Liberty, then you wouldn't want to do the social search.
Like anything in life, you have to learn how and when to use it.
Yes, Gore only challenged and wanted recounts in the counties of major cities. That was his first mistake.
That, and the Florida constitution said all counties must submit their final count by the end of one week after the election. The state supreme court overrode that line of the constitution without giving a reason. So, that's where the US Supreme Court overturned it, after asking the state court again to give a justification, which they let lapse.
Does the 3GS not have a microphone? Or is it just not capable of transmitting the recorded voice over a network connection the the Siri master computers?
More serious though, can developers program extensions to Siri? Say I have an app that manages a grocery list. Can I add a hook to let the user say "Add A, B, and C to my grocery list" and do it?
How about timeliness? This has "revamp" been going on for a few months. One of my less-used accounts had it turned around Thanksgiving. Aha, I've found a nice article on ti going back to November 29.
Overall, Google has been "Plus"-ifying most all it's services. It's not unexpected.
No. I have seen the number of Android phones increasing around my workplace, especially among women. Never once have I heard a complaint about ads in their Angry Birds or whatever. Just like banners on web sites, you just get used to ignoring that area.
It really is a moot point among 99.99% of ordinary users. Those of us who get in a tizzy about ads are smart enough to know how to get around them.
Applers buy 3-4 apps a month? I play plenty of games, use a bunch of apps on my Android phone, but I just don't have the urge to go to the Market that often to look for new things to buy. How many hours per week are these average IOS users spending on their phone? Am I not using it enough to tire of the apps I already have so soon?
I guess I just don't have the appropriate Apple mentality.
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Good news for me. They opened it up for a couple of my accounts, one with paid storage, and one free on Wednesday. So the rollout is progressing quicker than I expected.
It's far easier to just be able to think you're sticking it to Big Farma by buying organics. Don't go making this complicated!
It's not rolled out for everyone, apps domains included. I'm in the same boat, waiting.
Google has a little breakdown of the old-vs-new plans. They say the purchased storage is shared with everything, but my Gmail says I have 208, so they add the default 8GB to it.
I just checked and it was already set to Rapid Release, and I have no Drive. I set it to scheduled, and then back, but alas, it's not that simple. I guess I'll have to wait and wait for it to get rolled to any of my accounts.
Have you looked at Ting? The folks from Tucows have gone into the prepaid cell market. Buy a phone ($300-500 for Android, $65 for basic flip phone), then get refunded for any unused minutes, text, or data each month. There's no need for any 50,000 minute plan when you know you're only going to need 100.
It's definitely worth looking into once my contract nears it's end.
1% man, 1%!!
That's all the reasoning many of these types need.
This is piracy, plain and simple. The publishers are losing millions, if not billions, because each kid now won't need to buy the book themselves. They need to multiply the cost of the book by the number of kids being read to, and add a half dozen zeroes to the end for good measure.
Copyrights are to be taken very seriously, folks! This mass, rampant piracy needs to come to a close immediately so these poor, kind, destitute authors can get what is due to them.
I'd wager they did not spend much time supporting the Android version. I heard good things about it from iDevice people. I looked periodically for it on the Android market. I bought it June 3, 2011. So, it was released near that time, maybe 2 weeks or so prior. I'd say they gave up quite quickly, without a whole lot work. They sold between 50 and 200k units at $2.99 with a few months work. That's certainly not bad for a married duo operation.
In the end, I believe they just didn't care about Android, which is acceptable. But to blame it as Android's fault??
No, but if Anonymous/Lulzsec put their efforts to good use, they could cure cancer and every other ailment to life...
Hmm, Itunes page lists the game as having 5814 total ratings for the game. That's comparable to Android's number. I can't believe the number of purchases can be too much further off.
I bought the game last year, and this article got me to thinking. I cannot recall when I last saw an update in the market for it. So, I pulled up AppBrain page for it, and see updates were coming in from May to July 2011. Then there has been nothing since. So, I have to wonder how many tweaks to the shaders and whatever they say they really did? I mean, they gave up on the game a long time ago. It hit 50k purchases in August, so there's $150,000 in sales made. Google takes what, 30%? So that's $105,000 minimum.
I know I've seen some nasty comments in the user reviews on the market, so I pull up their page there. I see 4991 four or five star reviews, and 383 one to three star reviews. That's just 7% of the reviews are bad. That looks quite good to me. Looking at the recent ratings, there have been many of the 196 one-star reviews posted just in the last couple of days. Since March 1, people have been giving it one star for not having updates like IOS has (Did that version just get an update?), which is an understandable sentiment.
Now, that's considered a failure for small-time developers? They really put in more time/effort on this than to make it a losing venture?
All this talk, so I decided to dig through my GMail accounts and find a hotmail account I created long ago. I created it May 5, 2009. I used it for a month or two and haven't logged in (hundreds of spam in a brief time) since. I tried to log in now, reset the password, etc., and it says there is no such account. So I think they fixed their spam filters by just deleting my account. Miraculous!
OMG, I went to Slashdot.org to watch some videos and they are not loading! Amazon is really pissing me off.
I guess I'll go to Nintendo.com next so I can try to check my email. If that doesn't work, boy am I ever going to post about this on the Internets.
Also, see the GoogleTV vs many of the content providers web sites when GTV first came out. They were rushing to get all sorts of fixes to viewing their content on things there were not a traditional computer.
Say you want to go to some restaurant. You type it in to Google to find the closest one near you. Then, you see that a long time ago, your grandpa put up a post about how he got E Coli there. He recovered, so that isn't on your mind anymore. Now you see it and it sparks your memory. Do you still want to get directions there?
It can be a handy thing depending on the situation. If you are just searching for the history of the Statue of Liberty, then you wouldn't want to do the social search.
Like anything in life, you have to learn how and when to use it.
Yes, Gore only challenged and wanted recounts in the counties of major cities. That was his first mistake.
That, and the Florida constitution said all counties must submit their final count by the end of one week after the election. The state supreme court overrode that line of the constitution without giving a reason. So, that's where the US Supreme Court overturned it, after asking the state court again to give a justification, which they let lapse.
Does the 3GS not have a microphone? Or is it just not capable of transmitting the recorded voice over a network connection the the Siri master computers?
More serious though, can developers program extensions to Siri? Say I have an app that manages a grocery list. Can I add a hook to let the user say "Add A, B, and C to my grocery list" and do it?
How about timeliness? This has "revamp" been going on for a few months. One of my less-used accounts had it turned around Thanksgiving. Aha, I've found a nice article on ti going back to November 29.
Overall, Google has been "Plus"-ifying most all it's services. It's not unexpected.
That sounds just like this Youtube bit. Protesting for the sake of protesting, pretty much.
No. I have seen the number of Android phones increasing around my workplace, especially among women. Never once have I heard a complaint about ads in their Angry Birds or whatever. Just like banners on web sites, you just get used to ignoring that area.
It really is a moot point among 99.99% of ordinary users. Those of us who get in a tizzy about ads are smart enough to know how to get around them.
The SDK is still Mac only? So, on top of the $99 per year, you'll need to shell out for a Mac computer if you aren't hip enough to already have one.
I figured after all these years, there'd be more options. I guess I misunderestimated Apple.
Perpetually strapped into a car seat?
No, even leaving a baby in a car seat isn't safe...
Applers buy 3-4 apps a month? I play plenty of games, use a bunch of apps on my Android phone, but I just don't have the urge to go to the Market that often to look for new things to buy. How many hours per week are these average IOS users spending on their phone? Am I not using it enough to tire of the apps I already have so soon?
I guess I just don't have the appropriate Apple mentality.
But Steve had said it's more polished, intuitive, and users love it when they hold it the right way. Therefore it is.