The iPhone was a tremendous success before the App Store existed. It certainly helped the iPhone become even more popular, but it's not the reason for its success.
I have a friend who gets genuine problems from lactose and another who gets really serious problems from gluten, as well as one who has to avoid sulfites and one who must avoid tomatoes. Most of my friends aren't bothered at all by any of these, but it's very nice to be able to go out and get food without lactose/gluten/sulfites when a particular friend is coming over.
No, the only way they could survive all those blunders was to get enough stuff right. Amazon is the poster child for the "start big and expand fast to dominate a new market" strategy, and that strategy means there's going to be lots of big mistakes as things that look like opportunities come up. A company doing that pretty much has to jump at opportunities, and can't take too much time figuring out if something really is an opportunity. Slow down to increase efficiency and you give competition a chance.
There are things that exist and can't be clearly defined. Try clearly defining "game" in a way that excludes most things we would not think of as games and includes things we do call games. Make sure it includes baseball, World of Warcraft, Dungeons & Dragons, chess, and the "Great Game" power struggle between Britain and Russia over Afghanistan and neighboring areas, to start with, and is compatible with "gaming the system".
Nobody intelligent and informed expects the US government to suppress hate speech in general, because that's unconstitutional. That doesn't mean there aren't things that most of us would call hate speech.
If all speech is the same, interpreted by the perceiver, then why do we have book reviews? Those exist to tell us what forms of printed speech we are likely to want to read. The only reasonable conclusion is that words have meanings.
In the real world, people use speech to proclaim hatred for others and encourage such hatred in their listeners. Fortunately, that's a fairly minor use, but it exists. That's hate speech.
It's legal of course, and I wouldn't want it to be illegal, but there are different kinds of speech.
It's a placebo aisle, then. (Personally, I find I can buy what should be a homeopathic panacea cheap in jugs marked "Distilled Water".) It isn't selling anything useful, so it could easily be repurposed to sell medicine without cutting into the space of anything that an informed person might actually buy.
If the market is unregulated, that doesn't mean that a company can't try to build an individual reputation for selling what it claims to be selling. If the reputation winds up being useful, it's a tempting target for counterfeiters.
That's why I'm involved in one of those Community Supported Agriculture things. Every week, I get a box (about the size of an old fanfold printer paper box, but I'm dating myself) of fresh fruits and veggies, and I do mean fresh. I love those carrots.
A good clicks-and-mortar operation will allow me to determine which store has what I want. Once I've accessed that, it makes sense for me to put in the order. If I want the item that day, I like to be able to go pick it up.
What the average male lifespan is is the average age that somebody male will die at after being born. Sanders is now in the pool of US males who have lived to age 75, which includes almost all guys who drag the average down. Since I'm 63, the statistical prediction is that I'll last another twenty years, maybe more. Sanders is not expected to die before he's 82.
Regrettably, unless we mandate the connectivity we paid for (which isn't happening with the current Congress and administration for sure, and I saw no sign of action from the Democrats), this is a sunk cost.
The real problem with the USPS is that it's either too independent or not independent enough. A government corporation run like a business can work. A government department can work. A government business that's subject to micromanagement by Congress is in deep trouble.
The ACA got tens of millions of people on decent health insurance that didn't have it before. It didn't cut the profit motive for innovation in health care.
Okay, is it scientific to say there's no such thing as ghosts? I've seen scientists entirely discount the possibility of the paranormal, not just claim there's no good evidence for it.
Hey, you threw it out in a paragraph about "lots of evidence", not me. If that's the best you've got for evidence that 99.99% of the poor are there because they made bad decisions, you got nothing.
You do realize that, if one poor person in a thousand got there by bad education or bad health or sheer bad luck, you're wrong.
Germany came out of WWI in pretty good shape, actually, although the whole reparations mess obscured that. Hitler blamed Germany's woes on a whole lot of things, mostly Jews and international bankers and such people. Hitler lied a lot.
More bullcrap. Germany was a basket case when Hitler took over. He immediately launched a massive Keynesian expansion that pulled not just Germany, but much of Europe out of the Great Depression.
Germany had a very strong industrial sector when Hitler took it over, and while it was hard hit by the Depression it wasn't a basket case. Nazi Germany policies kicked off a massive expansion based on borrowing from other countries. This wasn't going to last forever, which is why it was necessary to grab Austria and (more importantly) Czechoslovakia to avoid something of an economic collapse. Then Germany went to a war economy and got to loot a large part of Europe.
Not what I'd consider a sound economic policy, considering how it all ended.
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I hope that Apple is working on new and marvelous things, but I have real doubts about that.
The iPhone was a tremendous success before the App Store existed. It certainly helped the iPhone become even more popular, but it's not the reason for its success.
I have a friend who gets genuine problems from lactose and another who gets really serious problems from gluten, as well as one who has to avoid sulfites and one who must avoid tomatoes. Most of my friends aren't bothered at all by any of these, but it's very nice to be able to go out and get food without lactose/gluten/sulfites when a particular friend is coming over.
No, the only way they could survive all those blunders was to get enough stuff right. Amazon is the poster child for the "start big and expand fast to dominate a new market" strategy, and that strategy means there's going to be lots of big mistakes as things that look like opportunities come up. A company doing that pretty much has to jump at opportunities, and can't take too much time figuring out if something really is an opportunity. Slow down to increase efficiency and you give competition a chance.
The disruptive part was having mail and a full-fledged browser with a good UI. It was easy to do things on an iPhone.
There are things that exist and can't be clearly defined. Try clearly defining "game" in a way that excludes most things we would not think of as games and includes things we do call games. Make sure it includes baseball, World of Warcraft, Dungeons & Dragons, chess, and the "Great Game" power struggle between Britain and Russia over Afghanistan and neighboring areas, to start with, and is compatible with "gaming the system".
Nobody intelligent and informed expects the US government to suppress hate speech in general, because that's unconstitutional. That doesn't mean there aren't things that most of us would call hate speech.
If all speech is the same, interpreted by the perceiver, then why do we have book reviews? Those exist to tell us what forms of printed speech we are likely to want to read. The only reasonable conclusion is that words have meanings.
In the real world, people use speech to proclaim hatred for others and encourage such hatred in their listeners. Fortunately, that's a fairly minor use, but it exists. That's hate speech.
It's legal of course, and I wouldn't want it to be illegal, but there are different kinds of speech.
Any indication that it was an actual protester?
It's a placebo aisle, then. (Personally, I find I can buy what should be a homeopathic panacea cheap in jugs marked "Distilled Water".) It isn't selling anything useful, so it could easily be repurposed to sell medicine without cutting into the space of anything that an informed person might actually buy.
If the market is unregulated, that doesn't mean that a company can't try to build an individual reputation for selling what it claims to be selling. If the reputation winds up being useful, it's a tempting target for counterfeiters.
That's why I'm involved in one of those Community Supported Agriculture things. Every week, I get a box (about the size of an old fanfold printer paper box, but I'm dating myself) of fresh fruits and veggies, and I do mean fresh. I love those carrots.
Back in the day, I could walk into a "store" and find that what I wanted wasn't there. Actually, I can still do that.
A good clicks-and-mortar operation will allow me to determine which store has what I want. Once I've accessed that, it makes sense for me to put in the order. If I want the item that day, I like to be able to go pick it up.
What the average male lifespan is is the average age that somebody male will die at after being born. Sanders is now in the pool of US males who have lived to age 75, which includes almost all guys who drag the average down. Since I'm 63, the statistical prediction is that I'll last another twenty years, maybe more. Sanders is not expected to die before he's 82.
"Censorship" is necessary. I haven't seen a general forum succeed without some form of moderation since the Eternal September started.
Regrettably, unless we mandate the connectivity we paid for (which isn't happening with the current Congress and administration for sure, and I saw no sign of action from the Democrats), this is a sunk cost.
The real problem with the USPS is that it's either too independent or not independent enough. A government corporation run like a business can work. A government department can work. A government business that's subject to micromanagement by Congress is in deep trouble.
No problem.
The ACA got tens of millions of people on decent health insurance that didn't have it before. It didn't cut the profit motive for innovation in health care.
Okay, is it scientific to say there's no such thing as ghosts? I've seen scientists entirely discount the possibility of the paranormal, not just claim there's no good evidence for it.
Hey, you threw it out in a paragraph about "lots of evidence", not me. If that's the best you've got for evidence that 99.99% of the poor are there because they made bad decisions, you got nothing.
You do realize that, if one poor person in a thousand got there by bad education or bad health or sheer bad luck, you're wrong.
Germany came out of WWI in pretty good shape, actually, although the whole reparations mess obscured that. Hitler blamed Germany's woes on a whole lot of things, mostly Jews and international bankers and such people. Hitler lied a lot.
Germany had a very strong industrial sector when Hitler took it over, and while it was hard hit by the Depression it wasn't a basket case. Nazi Germany policies kicked off a massive expansion based on borrowing from other countries. This wasn't going to last forever, which is why it was necessary to grab Austria and (more importantly) Czechoslovakia to avoid something of an economic collapse. Then Germany went to a war economy and got to loot a large part of Europe.
Not what I'd consider a sound economic policy, considering how it all ended.
No, the reason is simple. We just haven't found the right intelligent species. Once we find that, Communism will work great!
Of course, we still have to exterminate those pesky humans or find a system that kinda works for them.