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The lack of any real business model besides gambling on mobile apps sends the market from professional firms like Autodesk and Adobe to solo developers overseas
by fipple 8y ago
The lack of any real business model besides gambling on mobile apps sends the market from professional firms like Autodesk and Adobe to solo developers overseas. They have much lower accountability which makes this entirely predictable.
- MBCook 8y ago> to solo developers overseas Why is that kind of racism necessary at all? It has nothing to do with where people are. Developers want money. Duh. But the App Store has gone to “ basically everything is free“. The only two ways to accomplish that for most developers are in app purchases, which don’t work every app, and ad/data sales. As new people find new ways to monetize data that they can get their hands on, they’ll approach developers and that data will get sold. Isn’t having no privacy laws great? Of course people could just pay for high-quality apps. Sadly that train sailed. I feel like IAP made it worse.
- fipple 8y agoOverseas matters a lot. It makes prosecution almost impossible.
- ericd 8y agoThat's not racism - as fipple mentions, there are significant differences in legal accountability. And even if there weren't, pretty sure that would be considered slight xenophobia rather than racism.
- MBCook 8y agoYou’re right. Xenaphobia was the word I meant to use. The legal issue seems like a red herring. Selling an app in the American App Store makes you subject to American law.
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