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The US has more "agressive" ads than Germany, because in Germany exists law against such agressiveness. For instance, you are not allowed to put down a competitor, not even mention their products.

"Law against unfair competition"

Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb (UWG)

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/uwg_2004/__6.html

Sit down with people from the target audience and let them use the thing you are going to write about. Observe where they struggle. Let them articulate what they are doing and why. You wouldn't believe…

It was the first CPU of the Macintosh under Raskin. When Jobs took over the switched to the 68k.

You ask: "Is it very hard to do that" which is a bit ambiguous as a question.

But here are some tips for starters:

- Pick a niche for your app that is very nerdy, don't do something mainstream, that would make too mayn people interested in your offering.

- Do not have a website or a youtube channel that helps people use your app. obscurity is absolutely crucial for your Android apps business success.

- Please pick a very cheap price with a crummy number like, say, $4,97 to evaporate your margins.

- Understand that consumers hate pretty icons and nicely animated user interfaces. Your app has to look like a Linux desktop of a guy, who feels most comfortable to be in terminal all day.

- Please make the billing process a PITA, otherwise things would be too easy! Better yet, make sure I can't even buy your app in most countries!

- Don't invest in graphics! Make the app icon ugly und undiscernable!

- Likewise, don't think about marketing. It is important that you just upload the app and let the app store do it's magic! It works 100%!

- Make sure you have no customer support. If you have good customer support, that could build trust and drive sales, something we do not want if we want to be successful.

- Lastly, let's make sure you disrespect quality programmers. Buy cheap code from a third world country! The delivered software architecture that breaks with every OS update and additional bag of bugs will be a constant maintenance nightmare. And after all, we want to have dreams, right?

- Oh, and don't make the app useful. Make it a gimmick that nobody really needs!

Keep the above in mind and surely, becoming a millionaire garage style with programming Android apps will be a peace of cake!

> I think fitness is a bit of a unique market because, in my experience, people are more willing to spend money on it compared to other types of software.

It is one of 3 markets that are like that: health, dating/relationships, finances.

"Fitness" as a concept pertains to the "dating/relationships" market and is therefore linked to the strongest motivator ie. gettig laid. It is also linked to health and for some it helps with their professional performance. So yeah, "fitness" hits a sweet spot there.

But really, have a seriously useful app in either one these three and you can build a business around that.

I found it in the students library and I had a C64 at the time and I thought "Wow, this is it! This is the official, real language for the Commodore, 'cos COMmodore and COMal, obvious, right?"

COMAL is one of these little computer tech gems that just went overboard with currents of tech market history.

I understand with text files you like the flexibility and independence you describe. You call that the value of plain text and I agree.

However, that doesn't make me lose control over my content, if I don't use plain text files, which was my actual argument.

The app lock-in doesn't make me lose access to my content. Many proprietary formats are supported by import/export in major apps. There are converter tools. Also, I do not need to switch apps.

The problem with corruption is solved by backups. It's a solved problem.

> the guarantees that your content is truly yours (no lock-in).

Maybe I am a magician of some kind, but my content is always mine, regardless of the file type I use.

For the sake of argument, let's say I have a floppy disk with a Vizawrite file on it, that I typed 30 years ago. There is no lock-in. I still can use that file.

I think this warrants a re-link:

http://www.paulgraham.com/nthings.html

I think this is the right answer, compared with something the grandgrandparent touched upon: windows apps from third party vendors do not act as competitive advantage anymore. (This us also due to how Windows OEM contracts work.)

Not on the Mac. If you take MS Office and the Adobe stuff aside, the iconic indy Mac apps are still ruling their respective categories.

They definitely had the engineering talent.

Atari, Commodore, Digital, Digital Research, were lacking the management talent.

They had the nicest gear, but the suits botched it primetime. That's why I drink.

Now, more to the point of the parent: Sun and SGI had the management talent. They had a good run. But that run ended anyway. At some point they run out of ideas to compete with "industry standard" hardware.

So, to come to the point of the parent: would a very successful Atari UNIX station, based on the 68030 made a difference?

NeXT used the 68k processors as well. And Apple. Even with the Mac's success the PowerPC eventually run out of steam against Intel. Would an additional load of many, many Ataris made a difference here?

What did ARM do differently than all of those mentioned above?

Emojis are different from chars insofar as that the former are always (not by necessity, but in practice) multi-coloured. A set of mono-coloured emojis is probably a good idea.

Omni Outliner, Nirvana, Things, maybe Omni Focus, Evernote

Ha! They even managed to include Commodore into the article.

Two ressources that I found most helpful:

https://stevepavlina.com/?s=relationships

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4553092-real-time-relati...

<cmd-F3> shows Desktop and <Swipe up with three fingers> shows Exposé

Thank you! Very awesome work.

See this comment by another poster: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29431103

Lunar phases are a natural phenomenon, traditionally you observe four phases. The more detailed model knows eight phases.

It's related to the lunar phases, not a purely mathmatical division.

The week is related to the phases of the moon. Aproximately four phases per month.

> I think their claim is dead wrong

Out of genuinely interest, what claims specifically are you addressing here and why do you think are they wrong?

RSS is good because it is an open web standard and not owned by a single entity.

The problem with RSS [in the context of the OP] is that you can't see other subscribers.

This is what adds a lot to the social feel of SM, everyone can see who follows who.

This social feel is part of the reason why non-tech folks use SM over traditional Blogs to post online. If the goal is to move people back on to the more traditional web, then it is necessary to create this social feel.

Now, the anonomity of RSS also has advantages, but similar to how the OP added "Webrings" to RSS, social proof could be added to RSS with another tool. So that all subscriptions can remain anonymous if wanted, while still providing the social feel.

Disqus is a little bit like that for comments. Disqus is also proof of concept for the OP that such "organic" additions to the standard blog concept.

Thank you. This is something the Civ5 designers should have known.

Why can one city just build one unit at a time? Is there a game design rationale behind this?

This is an aside, but I absolutely loath how the word "strategy" gets used and abused these days.

> This made it possible for players to use strategy – for example, allowing players to whip their ships around the star.

That's not a strategy, that's a tactic.