How quickly people forget this. It went quickly from Apple is changing the game, and giving developers an unprecedented cut of the sale of their apps. And for their 30% they host it, they process the credit cards, they provide the iCloud infrastructure and notifications for free, they make it searchable in their store. No one said it wasn't a good deal.
But a few years pass, and now it's the Apple Tax? Some people could promote and sell it themselves for less. A lot less? Maybe, maybe not. But most of us could never ever do it for the 30%. Why does everyone think they're the smartest one in the room these days? Odds are, you're really not. Sorry. You're just not.
>let’s just say that while the Mac App Store is convenient for consumers, it doesn’t really serve the needs of some developers
Boo fking hoo. If you didn't want to sell to consumers then the choice of selling your app in a less consumer convenient way would make sense. If you just don't want to do a little extra work or are put off by Apple's consumer focused restrictions, you can just go away if you ask me.
It takes about 15 seconds for the clock to cycle. Only three of these seconds are spent actually showing the time. So if I want to know the time I need to sit and wait typically about 10 seconds before I'll know what time it is.
It's cool, but it's upside down. It needs to be a clock first, then cool.
I would work with the US post office, and any other countries postal service to turn the service into a public utility run by the people for the people under the same idea that the post office delivered physical messages, it would be in the public interest to deliver electronic messages as well. Stop trying to be profitable, not all useful things need to make money. Some things are worth funding because they are of public benefit.
I used pfSense for a long time and ultimately the conclusion was it was a 75% solution. It made those 75% things pretty easy to set up and configure. But once you needed something from the 25% you had to dig into the BSD configuration and now had to deal with how that interoperated with the pfSense stuff. Better to just bite the bullet and configure BSD (or linux for some things it does even better) from scratch and get exactly what you want and need.
While I'm sure this is was too simplistic. Seems like it they can produce less wheat, then maybe people will eat less wheat, and possibly the reduced carbs will make them healthier. Win/win!
This project seems flawed before it starts. It just continues the bad tradition of giving the loudest voice to the ones with the most money. That's not how to get all sides of an issue.
So people like it better when the people in charge know what they're talking about.
But people keep putting the ones that tell them what they want to hear in charge.
And the two sets don't usually overlap much.
Oooh, an artist spend 20 minutes with PhotoShop and now Apple can just take his pretty pictures and start pumping out new computers. It's not like anyone needs to actually create an actual prototype, source components, set up manufacturing, market and deliver anything.
The article doesn't even mention what kind go jobs they are. For all I know they could be associates who sell things using amazon's infrastructure. Or low paying high stress warehouse picker jobs. But those are increasingly being automated away.
Perhaps a larger concern is the chemicals that are required to develop the stuff and making sure they are disposed of responsibly and not just flushed down the drain. There's more important reasons than "liking how it looks". I know people will disagree, but a skilled photoshopper can often reproduce the look and feel of film with digital. And certainly can do things film could never do. I believe it's a good trade-off
I think this is a good call from Kodak. People are enamored with less accurate reproduction of vinyl records. So it's no surprise that up and coming hipsters will soon be shooting with another media that capture a less accurate version of reality, calling it superior and claiming they like it better.
Why do you think Chrome is a better browser? Better for what? I find Safari more responsive, and since I'm already all in on the Apple ecosystem, the handoff, and iCloud syncing of bookmarks etc, works better for me. It also feels a bit faster to start up for me. Not sure what chrome is better for, except as a way to cast videos to a Chromecast on my TV.
This was always the first app to send me an alert when news happened often by a long time. I always wondered why they didn't charge for that, it's the kind of thing I'd happily pay what I no longer spend on a newspaper for to get. Though I must admit, the last time I routinely bought a newspaper it was $0.35 a copy. and $0.75 on Sunday. $2.85 a week, and no coupons, or ads which in a newspaper were part of the value so I'd easily pay $1 a week.
So you only hire experienced developers? Where's your commitment to paying it forward? Where will we get the next generation of experienced coders if you don't give a few less than perfect candidates a chance? I guess if you get yours then screw everyone else, right? Or am I being too harsh and bitter?
When did we stop smart people who may not have fit precisely into the perfect little niche we've carved for them but showed a good ethic, and an ability to get the job done and learn new things as technologies evolve? We're really screwing up this industry in favor of getting it done fast, today.
It doesn't. It takes as long as it takes. It's a constantly evolving moving target. Why does writing a book or making a movie take so long? It's a creative thing. It's hard.