That would also make it predictable. Essentially, if you get a sequence of random numbers, it should be quite hard to predict what the next one would be.
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I’ve heard a long, long time ago that the market for stolen devices had switched to stripping them for parts rather than selling them as working replacement devices. From that perspective, activation locks don’t help much. For thieves, even if some parts won’t work, any gain is better than nothing.
Also, my point about finding who uses Signal and the access logs (though it’s not a historic log, for which I stand corrected) stand — Signal does store the last access information.
I don’t know about this incident of them being racist, but if I leave that aside, your words sound exactly like what I would say about the company! This isn’t something new with Agile Bits ridiculing customers or potential customers on its forums. There have been instances of this several years ago too when people questioned the licensing model and asked about the changes. They essentially behave as if users are stupid and that they (Agile Bits) are the only ones who know what’s best in every case. It’s quite condescending.
With Signal, it’s also trivial to find out if someone is using it by adding their number to one’s address book. Then they can ask Signal for access and other information. That’s not easily possible with Telegram (there are settings to prevent this).
That said, Telegram does store all non-secret chats in an accessible form (for it) on its servers.
Having seen a few different situations, sometimes people may not pay because:
a) it’s quite expensive in their currency
b) they don’t really have a payment method available for international transactions
c) maybe they’re just poor and got some kind of a hand-me-down computer with their savings
d) culturally, in many places hardware has been seen as worth paying for, but software is seen as something you just copy (don’t even get me started on the pricing differences between app releases that do the same thing but run on Macs and on iOS/iPadOS devices)
e) there is a sense of entitlement towards bits, be they apps or photos or music or movies or TV shows
> Even with $23 per license, after taxes I barely make half of what I made at my previous job where I worked less hours. I don’t understand how you can dismiss this so simply.
Seeing the odd numbered price of $23, I presume you have tried different pricing tiers and options, since pricing is a matter of elasticity and finding the right price point to maximize your revenue would require some effort.
> the people pirating your software probably wouldn't have paid for it anyhow I heard this argument so many times.. it's like saying to someone who just got their bike stolen while they were trying to sell it | the thief would have probably never bought it
Actually, that saying about piracy is true many a times. It doesn’t matter that it doesn’t work in your favor either way. Anecdotally, I decide what I’m willing to pay for something and what I’m not willing to pay for something. Have I pirated software? Yes, I have in the distant past. And during those times, I wouldn’t have bought them at those prices either.
Maybe you need to change your website messaging to encourage those who cannot or will not pay to use the Lite version and encourage those who want the Pro version to pay. Pricing doesn’t have to be static all the time.
I hope you find the best options that work well for you and your customers.
I wonder how those who are left behind (or stay behind) may react. This whole situation is very messy, and it’s difficult (for me) to see how this will shape up, when the conflict will end, and at what cost.
To simplify heavily, is SWIFT just an accepted and legal alternative to the hawala system?
It’s a complete clone of the original Wordle site (which is just HTML, CSS and JS, without any server side code), and was posted here [1] a few weeks ago.
I use Firefox with uBO, and am not supportive of Apple’s position on not allowing uBO. But I see the value in controlling what information browser extensions can see, capture and possibly exfiltrate.
> It’s the one serious frustration with the iPad, I wish Apple would acknowledge that this is the way a large proportion of their customers use them and enable multiple user profiles (like that have on the Apple TV).
After buying a few iPads over the initial years because of hardware improvements, I decided not to buy new ones anymore until iOS (then)/ iPadOS supports multiple users on each device with an easy switching mechanism.
Maybe Apple thought, with its experience in the education market where multi user profiles were supported, that it wasn’t a great experience with its hardware (especially having to download data from iCloud).
But now that iPad Pro and Macs are using the same powerful desktop class chips (perhaps with some differences) and since iPad Pros also have more RAM, the only reason not to support multiple users is to make more money (the iPad is already a small player in Apple’s portfolio).
I’m still waiting for the support to arrive. Until then, I’ll keep using my old iPad Pro till it dies.
Actually, by many accounts, Tether (USDT) has been based on some kind of fractional reserve (nobody can prove that or disprove that), and USDT happens to be the top (?) stablecoin in use.