You can get your apps listed in the App Store, they take care of hosting your files, managing the download bandwidth, the credit card transactions, etc. All for 30%.
For OS X apps, you can do it all yourself and still have to pay for hosting, bandwidth, credit card processing or PayPal fees. But your program will not be listed in the App Store searches. Also, novice users may not trust installing applications outside of the App Store.
Indeed, putting all problems into the "malware" category just confuses the issues.
Viruses are the real problem, because even the most secure OS in the world cannot protect its users against trojans. "Enter my password to see the dancing kitty? Of course I will!"
You don't need a computer to access the iTunes Store, it can be accessed via an iPod touch, iPhone or iPad. So I'm guessing you're an Android user.
But you can also purchase music from Amazon, almost the same way you can buy from the iTunes Store, so what's the problem?
You didn't have to "invest" anything in the early days of Bitcoins either. You just ran a program that used your CPU, then later your GPU, to mine Bitcoins. Yes it cost you more on your electric power bill, but that cost vs the value of Bitcoin today is negligible.
RadioShack is struggling now, because they did not adapt their retail stores to new consumer needs.
Is it really what happened? Or are they struggling because the makers are now getting their parts from places like eBay and AliExpress? There's only so many parts that a hardware store can physically stock.
Amazon understands piracy. Is so damned easy to order books on my Kindle I don't even bother to download them even though it'd save me $8. It's just not worth me getting out of my reading chair and dinking around with it. I can search for the book, click a button, viola. The prices aren't crazy and I can get my books when I want them. If the music and movie industries did something similar I'd probobly start paying them again as well.
Buying books from Amazon is easy but buying music from Apple is too complicated?
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You can get your apps listed in the App Store, they take care of hosting your files, managing the download bandwidth, the credit card transactions, etc. All for 30%.
For OS X apps, you can do it all yourself and still have to pay for hosting, bandwidth, credit card processing or PayPal fees. But your program will not be listed in the App Store searches. Also, novice users may not trust installing applications outside of the App Store.
After reading a few other posts, I think the browser should put the sub-domains in light gray too.
https://www.bankofamedica.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The question is, if they had the perfect solution, why would they want to change it?
Safari 7 already does this.
It helps the dumb users AND it doesn't punish the users who understand technology.
Google are slowly turning into the old version of Microsoft.
Good news everyone! Cars won't need keys in the future!
The thing is, you're not affected by nuclear weapons until you're on the receiving end and once you are, you won't have much time to care about it.
At least www.bing.com has a nice background photo of Ned Ryerson.
A lot of corporate users are still stuck with backends that require ActiveX.
Ten years ago, people kept telling me I shouldn't worry about it and everyone would be using Windows and Internet Explorer forever. Idiots.
Bing!
Even if it's not a virus it can be malware anyway.
Comic Sans, anyone?
Indeed, putting all problems into the "malware" category just confuses the issues.
Viruses are the real problem, because even the most secure OS in the world cannot protect its users against trojans. "Enter my password to see the dancing kitty? Of course I will!"
Dear ArcadeMan from Universe CK-34B,
please send 5000 Bitcoins to the following address: 1LHuLKyHDndUdjgKUsmfAG8tDnXZ5fTuUA
Buy from Apple without iTunes, an iPod touch/iPhone/iPad? No.
But they've been selling regular, non-DRM'ed AAC files for years now. The tunes play without any problem in my Nintendo DSi.
But music videos, TV shows and movies are still DRM'ed, AFAIK.
http://life.nationalpost.com/2...
http://www.yvesveggie.com/
http://www.tofurky.com/
http://solcuisine.com/
https://www.morningstarfarms.c...
etc
You don't need a computer to access the iTunes Store, it can be accessed via an iPod touch, iPhone or iPad. So I'm guessing you're an Android user. But you can also purchase music from Amazon, almost the same way you can buy from the iTunes Store, so what's the problem?
I was talking specifically about mining in the early days, with a CPU and then with a GPU.
You didn't have to "invest" anything in the early days of Bitcoins either. You just ran a program that used your CPU, then later your GPU, to mine Bitcoins. Yes it cost you more on your electric power bill, but that cost vs the value of Bitcoin today is negligible.
Is it really what happened? Or are they struggling because the makers are now getting their parts from places like eBay and AliExpress? There's only so many parts that a hardware store can physically stock.
FTFM
I don't care who it is, but the first company to give me a free-to-use, no monthly fee smartphone is getting me as a customer.
Buying books from Amazon is easy but buying music from Apple is too complicated?
Goddamn Bitcoins, worthless pieces of shit.
Everybody who's against Bitcoin is mad because they didn't mine it in the early days.