1,126 karma · joined September 23, 2012
landlords will end up posting offers on Airbnb directly ,that's what will happen "en masse" in the future.
And You'll need to pay the Airbnb premium to rent anything.
After all , if i'm a landlord and ask for 2000$ a month for normal tenants , i can just go on Airbnb and ask for 200 or more an night , so i only need to rent it for 10 days a month for it to be profitable...
Landlords arent stupid we'll eventually end up in that situation on a large scale.
But dont make it about liberty and freedom , that's totally relative.There is no such thing as absolute "liberty" or "freedom" ,some places are just more free than others and trust me you are lucky enough to live where you live.
This is not subversion ,this is how the system works. And you'll go with the flow eventually.
- so its not really any different than a blog posting a song their site.
And that's totally illegal since the owner usually doesnt give you the permission to do so. Did Grant Lee Buffalo label or Placebo label gave you the permission to broadcast their music ? Your host can shut down your website directly without warning following a DMCA takedown notice,if it is a US business. At this point you are supposed to be working on the coreAnd MS wonders why it has such a bad reputation now.
Doesnt change anything for the client.
The providers will swap an object tag for a video one ,that's what it is all about.
It's basically a Flash or Silverlight for video and sound only.
- "this is terrific. i'm baffled as to why google, msft, amzn, samsung and other device makers are not pushing harder to advance html5 and web apps as a way to attract more devs and eventually loosen apple's stranglehold on the app economy."
Which is kind of a stupid thing to say since the Iphone does exactly that since its first version ,you can install webapps on your home screen and run them fullscreen, even before allowing developpers to build native apps.Developpers ASKED for native apps on the iphone.
Anyway , do you really think that all the brands you cited dont want to be exactly where Apple is ? they are not interested in "sharing" the app economy. They want all of it and destroy the competition,just like Apple.
- "yet minimizing barriers for devs to build, release, and test on a new platform would attract more devs and at least force apple's hand at maintaining web parity on ios devices."
It's like the TESSEL stuff all over again.phone / embedded apps must have an higher engineering standard than desktop apps , because they run on limited hardware,with limited processing power and battery. if your iphone app takes to much memory the system will kill it , and rightfully so.
And mobile OS dont work the same way.
You want to program for the least common denominator ? that's what webapps are for, but I dont want a webapp to access my contacts.
But Adobe decided Flash was too expensive to maitain on mobile and fired 700 employees and outsourced the rest of the Flash team to india. The remaining employees are now working on Bracket (...). And Sencha is more profitable than Flash division at Adobe.What's left of Macromedia? nothing, They should have stuck with Livemotion and Golive ... lol
The result is that the last version of Flash (CC) has less features than the previous ones ( some drawing tools gone...)
Flash = almost dead
Dreamweaver = Zombie mod
Fireworks = Dead despite its powerfull features like jquerymobile skinning,project files as png files,games graphics, native app design, easily customizable through js.
Thank you Elop (who sold MM to Adobe ), thank you Adobe.