It does seem evil but apple is forcing a fair and profitable ecosystem for developers to get paid
iOS devs make more money which is why the best new apps are on iOS first
Go look at the top 10 lists on both stores. iOS its real applications. Android you have nonsense like launcher pro in along with other geek apps in the top ten
Ea refused to refund purchases when the game clearly didn't work as advertised. Implied warranty should come into play unless ea can prove that most attempts to play the game worked
Otherwise don't buy the game on release day You people fall for the supermarket checkout aisle high margin item impulse buy scam
If you buy the game on release day then you're tagged as someone willing to pay any amount to play the game. Just like sports fans paying for the sports packages and music fans paying today's ridiculous ticket prices.
Everyone complains but they still whip the credit card out like a good Pavlov dog consumer
and how many times in history has the scientific establishment stopped progress by denying some crazy theory that proved to be true later on?
Mendel was a monk and his theories on genetics were dismissed by scientists for decades. after his death others ran the same experiments and after reading mendel's work found that he found more than they did many years before
the original priests were astronomers who figured out that the celestial bodies behave in predictable patterns and linked it to the seasons and the growing season. in a world where most kings didn't know how to read they were thought of as being able to talk to Gods. How else would they know when you should plant your crops?
I've seen every version from 2.2 up to 4 and it's the same 7 screens with an app tray to hold all your apps
apple's grid reminds me of windows 3.1 of all things. it works. no reason to change it. i've used windows for twenty years and every time there is a new version coming out the dummies on the internet always panned MS for keeping the same GUI. They finally changed it in Window 8 and the same idiots are saying there was no reason to change it.
android's GUI is a fairly close copy of Blackberry
going from say $10 billion market cap to $226 billion does not mean someone invested that money into the company. it just means people bid up the price of the shares based on beliefs of the company's future earnings and ability to pay dividends. chances are only a small percentage of shares held actually changed hands.
same thing with the fall in valuation. people dump their shares at lower and lower prices and the market cap goes down. not like people lose real money
i mean i can't believe there aren't hordes of VC's just waiting to invest in companies that don't have any sales or revenues.
advertising has always been about targeting your ads. we gone from the 18-49 demographic to targeting advertising to as a few as a few dozen people. what's the point of marketing something to people who will never have an interest in buying your product?
silicon valley has always been about incremental improvements, periodic revolutions in tech followed by dozens of me too investments
solar is nice, but you still need wires to transfer the power to devices and infrastructure. and there is still night time, clouds and rain to worry about. I believe parts of africa see rain for months at a time in the rainy season
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yep
been using feedly for at least a year. i've used flipboard a little as well and they will probably work on their own RSS subscription service now
the geeks probably hate feedly because it looks pretty, but i hated using google reader's GUI.
new PC can be bought for a few hundred $$$. comes with MS Windows and you can run office on it. very easy to set up out of the box
used PC you have to pay someone $50 or more per hour to configure them one by one and pay the software licenses
and even 2006 computers without 4GB of RAM are SLOW. try running Chrome with a few tabs open. there are $279 best buy specials with 4GB of RAM
destroy the hard drives if you're paranoid and just junk the PC's
nope, the guy taking over android is in charge of Chrome
google is merging everything under chrome
It does seem evil but apple is forcing a fair and profitable ecosystem for developers to get paid
iOS devs make more money which is why the best new apps are on iOS first
Go look at the top 10 lists on both stores. iOS its real applications. Android you have nonsense like launcher pro in along with other geek apps in the top ten
And then its perfectly fair for people who don't want advertising to pay for their software
Seems people want the free software and no advertising which brings in revenue to the developers
most people don't subscribe to RSS feeds. too much work
with facebook, G+, twitter and other social crap being used to notify people of blog posts
check out Feedly
it rides on top of google reader, but i think you can use it without google to save RSS feeds. awesome iOS app as well
the art and music is the same as Wings
you're paying for the new missions which took work
I only ask because in this day simply being able to play the game on release day is reason for joy
Please
They know demand is going to drop so they skimp on servers and ride it out
And refuse refunds for a product that does not work
Really?
I lived in Italy in the 90s and hated buying crap on the economy. Way better rights for Americans if you shop at the right store
Ea refused to refund purchases when the game clearly didn't work as advertised. Implied warranty should come into play unless ea can prove that most attempts to play the game worked
Otherwise don't buy the game on release day
You people fall for the supermarket checkout aisle high margin item impulse buy scam
If you buy the game on release day then you're tagged as someone willing to pay any amount to play the game. Just like sports fans paying for the sports packages and music fans paying today's ridiculous ticket prices.
Everyone complains but they still whip the credit card out like a good Pavlov dog consumer
popularity seems to be measured by retweets lately
and how many times in history has the scientific establishment stopped progress by denying some crazy theory that proved to be true later on?
Mendel was a monk and his theories on genetics were dismissed by scientists for decades. after his death others ran the same experiments and after reading mendel's work found that he found more than they did many years before
and vice versa
the original priests were astronomers who figured out that the celestial bodies behave in predictable patterns and linked it to the seasons and the growing season. in a world where most kings didn't know how to read they were thought of as being able to talk to Gods. How else would they know when you should plant your crops?
it is
try to get a developer to write more code than is absolutely necessary? easier to band aid than build something new
did it do any of them well enough to sell more units than the iphone? NO
isn't this android as well
I've seen every version from 2.2 up to 4 and it's the same 7 screens with an app tray to hold all your apps
apple's grid reminds me of windows 3.1 of all things. it works. no reason to change it. i've used windows for twenty years and every time there is a new version coming out the dummies on the internet always panned MS for keeping the same GUI. They finally changed it in Window 8 and the same idiots are saying there was no reason to change it.
android's GUI is a fairly close copy of Blackberry
going from say $10 billion market cap to $226 billion does not mean someone invested that money into the company. it just means people bid up the price of the shares based on beliefs of the company's future earnings and ability to pay dividends. chances are only a small percentage of shares held actually changed hands.
same thing with the fall in valuation. people dump their shares at lower and lower prices and the market cap goes down. not like people lose real money
i mean i can't believe there aren't hordes of VC's just waiting to invest in companies that don't have any sales or revenues.
advertising has always been about targeting your ads. we gone from the 18-49 demographic to targeting advertising to as a few as a few dozen people. what's the point of marketing something to people who will never have an interest in buying your product?
silicon valley has always been about incremental improvements, periodic revolutions in tech followed by dozens of me too investments
Only in small hick towns
They pass this to keep property taxes lower and still fund their lifestyle
What coffin?
There were powerful storms when the world was colder and their frequency hasn't increased with warming
Go look in Wikipedia. Northeast and Canada used to get hit with category 3 hurricanes on a regular basis
Sandy was barely a 1
solar is nice, but you still need wires to transfer the power to devices and infrastructure. and there is still night time, clouds and rain to worry about. I believe parts of africa see rain for months at a time in the rainy season
Have the game publishers pay for good reviews
Site gets money
Readers get content
Since every app has to be signed by apple's key, how would a hacker get their software on your phone?
Only thing I can think of is create a jailbreak and try to deploy it via an App Store GUI