Well, it's also kind of difficult when politicians are writing their funding bill with "NASA gets X dollars, as long as they spend it working with company Y, NASA gets A dollars, as long as they spend it doing B." It's having complete morons micromanage NASA.
It is not surprising NASA doesn't do stuff like SpaceX does.
In a small, crowded, dimly lit room, filled with people in varying stages of being impaired, with plenty of testosterone and/or estrogen flowing competing for dates, we need more guns. Because NOTHING can go wrong in that situation.
It has ALREADY been shown that popular clubs that had a problem with gun and knife violence, after introducing a no-weapons policy with metal detects, they stopped having gun and knife violence. People stopped dying and/or having critical injuries [both "victims" and bystanders]. Yes, there were still fights, but the next day, the people involved went on living.
Well, how the hell do you know what a "reasonable rate" is? You seem to think Apple should charge 2-3%, so effectively operate it at a loss, which is ridiculous. It costs real money to review apps, do the bandwidth for unlimited downloads of the app, keep track of everything, make and update the sdk, keep their web site from being hacked.
If anything, you should complain that google is charging the same, while doing a lot less work [their review system regularly lets malware through], crappier tools, a lot poorer support.
But this is also the same as any industry with a very high barrier to entry, but that everyone wants/needs. Ones that come to the top of my head include internet access, cable service, telephone service [less so now], refining petroleum.
High cost of entry, so only a limited number of big players, and everybody makes the most money if everyone charges similar, high amounts.
Those were all "electronic" stores listed except for the line about retail software sales. Developing software for mobile devices sucked, it was much harder to do and you made a lot less money compared to when Apple entered the market.
And yes, there isn't a much of a competitive market for where you can get software for iOS devices, as you can only buy it via the Apple Store (technically, you can also jailbreak and buy apps from a couple of 3rd party stores as well).
And everybody copied Apple: Google, Microsoft, RIM/BlackBerry, Amazon, I think even Nokia.
But feel free to set up an online competitor to Google Play and give developers a better deal if you want. I'm sure everyone will jump right on it.
It's huge, except for what they were before Apple started their app store.
Before that, you had:
1) a carrier would preload your app on a phone, and give you a few pennies for each one sold. Of course, you have to trust their accounting department, which took lessons from the accounting departments of the major music labels. But even so, this is the 'lottery win' case. 2) you sell your app through a carrier. 80/20 or 90/10 split. guess which one you get. 3) third party app store. win! you are up to 30%. 4) sell the app directly yourself. total score: you keep 90% of sales. unfortunately, sales vary between 0 and 1 per month.
And then there were as many different model phones as there currently are Android model phones, each running a slightly different version of Java, with a slightly different set of included libraries, with varying amounts of RAM, CPU power, screen size, and buttons. So you either kept your app incredibly simply or you spend a gazillion dollars on doing QA across a bazillion different phones. And don't forget, the "same" phone on each carrier has completely different firmware, and possibly cpu and ram.
Same with retail software sales through physical stores. You get what, 30%, with the rest divvied up between the multiple levels of distribution chain.
It's terrible, unless you consider how badly you got fucked before.
Their stuff was crap. Like that "business tablet" that was going to take over the enterprise, and blow the iPad out of the water. It took what, a year, after it was released to finally get a mostly-working standalone email client?
Virtually all their phones were primarily using parts from the last-year bins, or the two-years ago bins, at least since the iPhone was released.
Yeah, requires three things: time, effort and money
1. Time and effort: Any IT working "looking for hackers attacking the network" is automatically assumed to be doing unproductive work by their immediate supervisor. Or by their supervisor. It is also pretty likely that none of his bosses will not understand anything he has done to stop a hacker, and they are also unlikely to believe him. Released to look for other opportunities. 2. Money: any money spent on this "looking for a problem proactively" is money not available for the executive bonus pool. Since the result of anyone working on doing this at best can only claim to have stopped someone, and only MAY have prevented a loss of some kind, clearly the first executive that realizes this deserves a bonus at least equal to the budget of the department he just cut, because that is real, verifiable savings going hundreds of years into the future. He basically has just saved the company from bankruptcy.
These releases have shown that the US gov't, at the very least, considers all of it's own citizens as "potential enemies", and treats them as such. Or unindicted criminals living in the community.
Not from Canada. All the big ISPs are in the "we are thinking about considering starting to propose a meeting to plan a test rollout".
They think they made progress on IPv6 day by making their home page [and only that page] accessible via IPv6. And, of course, virtually nobody in Canada could access it via IPv6.
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Well, it's also kind of difficult when politicians are writing their funding bill with "NASA gets X dollars, as long as they spend it working with company Y, NASA gets A dollars, as long as they spend it doing B." It's having complete morons micromanage NASA.
It is not surprising NASA doesn't do stuff like SpaceX does.
That is totally a SMRT idea.
In a small, crowded, dimly lit room, filled with people in varying stages of being impaired, with plenty of testosterone and/or estrogen flowing competing for dates, we need more guns. Because NOTHING can go wrong in that situation.
It has ALREADY been shown that popular clubs that had a problem with gun and knife violence, after introducing a no-weapons policy with metal detects, they stopped having gun and knife violence. People stopped dying and/or having critical injuries [both "victims" and bystanders]. Yes, there were still fights, but the next day, the people involved went on living.
This is a non-US story, as it cannot be implemented within the US.
No, this is ONLY a problem for Apple, because they have lots of money. And their products are really popular.
But it wasn't free as well. I want a free one. Mind telling me where you live?
Are you kidding? The FBI wishes they could track everyone's sperm and eggs. And had a sample of the DNA of every one of them.
I believe they are operating under the idea that if they make the drug problem worse, they will get more money. And they want a lot more money.
We're throwing them into a fire as fast as we can in our attempt to recover the data.
How about just adding back the fucking warning popup that was so fucking effective.
You still get to use macros, just like before.
List of politicians maybe. Or priests if you are Catholic (as a bonus, you get to see the world, going from one parish to another).
Or just use Roman Polanski's excuse: she was willing and able
Well, how the hell do you know what a "reasonable rate" is? You seem to think Apple should charge 2-3%, so effectively operate it at a loss, which is ridiculous. It costs real money to review apps, do the bandwidth for unlimited downloads of the app, keep track of everything, make and update the sdk, keep their web site from being hacked.
If anything, you should complain that google is charging the same, while doing a lot less work [their review system regularly lets malware through], crappier tools, a lot poorer support.
But this is also the same as any industry with a very high barrier to entry, but that everyone wants/needs. Ones that come to the top of my head include internet access, cable service, telephone service [less so now], refining petroleum.
High cost of entry, so only a limited number of big players, and everybody makes the most money if everyone charges similar, high amounts.
Those were all "electronic" stores listed except for the line about retail software sales. Developing software for mobile devices sucked, it was much harder to do and you made a lot less money compared to when Apple entered the market.
And yes, there isn't a much of a competitive market for where you can get software for iOS devices, as you can only buy it via the Apple Store (technically, you can also jailbreak and buy apps from a couple of 3rd party stores as well).
And everybody copied Apple: Google, Microsoft, RIM/BlackBerry, Amazon, I think even Nokia.
But feel free to set up an online competitor to Google Play and give developers a better deal if you want. I'm sure everyone will jump right on it.
But you must click this link using your car's computer to get it free!
Yeah, has Europe jumped on civil forfeiture the way US police forces have? Suddenly, everything is the proceeds of crime.
It's huge, except for what they were before Apple started their app store.
Before that, you had:
1) a carrier would preload your app on a phone, and give you a few pennies for each one sold. Of course, you have to trust their accounting department, which took lessons from the accounting departments of the major music labels. But even so, this is the 'lottery win' case.
2) you sell your app through a carrier. 80/20 or 90/10 split. guess which one you get.
3) third party app store. win! you are up to 30%.
4) sell the app directly yourself. total score: you keep 90% of sales. unfortunately, sales vary between 0 and 1 per month.
And then there were as many different model phones as there currently are Android model phones, each running a slightly different version of Java, with a slightly different set of included libraries, with varying amounts of RAM, CPU power, screen size, and buttons. So you either kept your app incredibly simply or you spend a gazillion dollars on doing QA across a bazillion different phones. And don't forget, the "same" phone on each carrier has completely different firmware, and possibly cpu and ram.
Same with retail software sales through physical stores. You get what, 30%, with the rest divvied up between the multiple levels of distribution chain.
It's terrible, unless you consider how badly you got fucked before.
Have Intel embed a GPS receiver in the part of the CPU in your computer that only they control.
Their stuff was crap. Like that "business tablet" that was going to take over the enterprise, and blow the iPad out of the water. It took what, a year, after it was released to finally get a mostly-working standalone email client?
Virtually all their phones were primarily using parts from the last-year bins, or the two-years ago bins, at least since the iPhone was released.
The 'dual-ceo' thing didn't help either..
It has to do it that way, because it can't get up to 88 mph.
Somebody really needs to DDOS Trump's internet connection.
Yeah, requires three things: time, effort and money
1. Time and effort: Any IT working "looking for hackers attacking the network" is automatically assumed to be doing unproductive work by their immediate supervisor. Or by their supervisor. It is also pretty likely that none of his bosses will not understand anything he has done to stop a hacker, and they are also unlikely to believe him. Released to look for other opportunities.
2. Money: any money spent on this "looking for a problem proactively" is money not available for the executive bonus pool. Since the result of anyone working on doing this at best can only claim to have stopped someone, and only MAY have prevented a loss of some kind, clearly the first executive that realizes this deserves a bonus at least equal to the budget of the department he just cut, because that is real, verifiable savings going hundreds of years into the future. He basically has just saved the company from bankruptcy.
end well.
These releases have shown that the US gov't, at the very least, considers all of it's own citizens as "potential enemies", and treats them as such. Or unindicted criminals living in the community.
Not from Canada. All the big ISPs are in the "we are thinking about considering starting to propose a meeting to plan a test rollout".
They think they made progress on IPv6 day by making their home page [and only that page] accessible via IPv6. And, of course, virtually nobody in Canada could access it via IPv6.
You should be happy with 640K.