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The spam apps are written in Objective C, C, C++, or Javascript, I hope.
by Vivtek 17y ago
The spam apps are written in Objective C, C, C++, or Javascript, I hope.
- ryanhuff 17y agoI doubt it. If my "job" was to crank out as many spam apps as possible, I would choose a tool that allows for the most efficient means (fast turnaround). Today, straight obj c would probably be my last choice.
- pkulak 17y agoIt's pretty easy to crank out an iPhone app in Objective C.
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- gabrielroth 17y agoDon't be so quick to judge that as a job or not. If the market didn't favor spam, there wouldn't be any. Those two sentences don't add up. Spam is a free rider: it offloads most of its cost onto its audience. 'The market' might favor that, but I don't, so I'm going to continue to judge it.
- InclinedPlane 17y agoThe purveyors of spam do not have to pay its full costs. If various companies and email providers were able to charge spammers for the cost of maintaining spam filters, for example, spam would be extremely unprofitable.
- jshen 17y agoalso, a lot of spam is fraud. It's a tad dishonest to say that the market favors it if the spammers are tricking people into buying by making apps that are 1 edit different than a popular app or some such.
- nopassrecover 17y ago"Spam is a free rider: it offloads most of its cost onto its audience" makes no sense as you acknowledge by agreeing with the (presumably downvoted, now deleted) parent in your next sentence "'The market' might favor that". If people didn't make money spamming then they would not spam. People buy spam, therefore people "sell" spam.
- gabrielroth 17y agoThe chief costs of spam are the time and attention of people who don't want it but get it anyway. Those costs are borne neither by the buyers nor by the sellers but by third parties. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
- nopassrecover 17y agoLabelling externalities costs in the traditional sense is misleading. By the same logic one could argue that the "real cost" of meat-production isn't borne by the buyers or sellers of meat, but by the moral-vegetarians whose conscience the process bothers. Similarly, just because Pepsi has billboards and I prefer Coke, doesn't mean I would say Pepsi existing delivers a cost to my time. Misleading products on the other hand are different, (when the offer isn't genuine), but spam does not necessarily mean fraud.