Well, apart from hosting the app. And handling the purchase transactions. And serving the ads, if you use those. And the work involved in each of these increases as your sales increase, while *you the developer* earn money from each additional sale without lifting a finger.
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"MS and Apple where working on the GUI at the same time. Apple release a few months earlier."
Take a look at Windows 1. It's a primitive half-assed emulation of a faulty understanding of the idea of a GUI.
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The Alto (and the Star) were great, if you had $100,000 to spend on a "document processing" solution for your department in a Fortune 500 company or government agency.
Personal computing was nothing they were interested in.
Woz would probably have been happy if the Apple Computer had remained at roughly the Apple 1 "some assembly required" stage of development.
Woz may have designed the hardware, and done a fantastic job, but I expect it was Jobs who pushed to give it the polish and ease-of-use necessary to make it work as a product for people who don't know how to solder.
"They couldn't legally treat software as something that could not be resold to another, thus the move to SAAS. "
That's the theory, but who's going to trust SAAS if the apps are likely to get killed a few years down the road?
At least with software on your desktop, you can find ways to keep using it even if the vendor stops developing it.
In order for people to trust their data to SAAS and apps in "the cloud", the apps have to stick around for a *long* time.
Google should be spending the money to keep these things going, even if it's just a shoestring maintenance budget. Instead, they're driving home to potential SAAS customers just how little control they have over cloud apps.
Back in 1994/1995, I spent some time working at Swiss Bank Corp. in Chicago. They had some older trading-related systems running on Symbolics machines.
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"Works are only valuable because you allow people to enjoy them. "
If anyone's going to *profit* from my creation then I'd better get a cut.
Look, this is a bad copyright case. But that's no reason to throw out copyright.
Sometimes there are valid copyright infringement cases, where the little guy stands up to the rich people screwing him.
No. Because if I write a novel I don't want some greasy Hollywood executive to make a movie from it without paying me.
Looks like a small-time local attorney. Not even a web presence.
"The top 1% of money-makers in the US earn something like 15% of all the money."
18%
", all without Apple having to lift a finger."
Well, apart from hosting the app. And handling the purchase transactions. And serving the ads, if you use those. And the work involved in each of these increases as your sales increase, while *you the developer* earn money from each additional sale without lifting a finger.
"It makes it sound like a homicide."
Or an overdose.
"MS and Apple where working on the GUI at the same time. Apple release a few months earlier."
Take a look at Windows 1. It's a primitive half-assed emulation of a faulty understanding of the idea of a GUI.
The Alto (and the Star) were great, if you had $100,000 to spend on a "document processing" solution for your department in a Fortune 500 company or government agency.
Personal computing was nothing they were interested in.
Woz would probably have been happy if the Apple Computer had remained at roughly the Apple 1 "some assembly required" stage of development.
Woz may have designed the hardware, and done a fantastic job, but I expect it was Jobs who pushed to give it the polish and ease-of-use necessary to make it work as a product for people who don't know how to solder.
With Lion's window reopening, I find restarts to be *much* less painful.
That said, when Software Update tells you to restart, you can usually Force-Quit it and continue working.
"Why the hell would someone with previous experience apply for a junior/apprentice level position at all?"
Because they're desperate for a job, and it beats Home Depot?
"They couldn't legally treat software as something that could not be resold to another, thus the move to SAAS. "
That's the theory, but who's going to trust SAAS if the apps are likely to get killed a few years down the road?
At least with software on your desktop, you can find ways to keep using it even if the vendor stops developing it.
In order for people to trust their data to SAAS and apps in "the cloud", the apps have to stick around for a *long* time.
Google should be spending the money to keep these things going, even if it's just a shoestring maintenance budget. Instead, they're driving home to potential SAAS customers just how little control they have over cloud apps.
but you'll want to take some Art History classes or similar.
There are girls.
Back in 1994/1995, I spent some time working at Swiss Bank Corp. in Chicago. They had some older trading-related systems running on Symbolics machines.
You could use one of those 7" USB monitors for the display. You just need a big fresnel lens in front.
Okay, I'll give you that.
"Moreover, WTF does this have to do with news for nerds"
Interest in typewriters is pretty nerdy.
But even nerdier, there are still people hacking typewriters into USB keyboards and such, or doing Arduino hacks, etc.
is the Fairlight CMI 30th anniversary edition.
http://fairlightinstruments.com.au/
"And the RAM in the Osbourne 1 was probably eight 8KB chips"
Actually it had 32 16kbit chips.
You could probably patent a coated lightbulb with a different socket.
Or, a simpler example.
First guy invents and patents a lightbulb.
Later, second guy invents and patents a durable lightbulb, covered by a shock-resistant coating.
The second patent isn't invalidated by the prior art of lightbulbs, because the second patent is really about the coating on the lightbulb.
"purported to be FBI detainee Ted Kaczynski"
Oh please. He did it. Knock it off with the lame conspiracy theory bullshit.
No lines!
Probably the crappy cheap tablet that was being sold for $99 at Walgreens pharmacies in the US, or an equivalent sold elsewhere.
"then why did the peoples of the New World not stand on par with those of the Old?"
Less competition due to lower population and lots of room to spread out in.