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This is Hacker News. The only app environment that makes any money is iOS. Android is just a money pit. Get it straight!

by QE2 16y ago

zbanks 16y ago
"...with 12 million of those being paid downloads on iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches." That's quite a big chunk of change right there from iOS. It's just nice to see mobile advertising on Android be successful.
- revorad 16y ago
  I think QE2 was being sarcastic...
  - chime 16y ago
    If my comment does not add positively to a discussion, I don't hit submit. Comments with no content but just memes, sarcasm, meta-jokes, or in-references are rarely upvoted on HN. Depending on the your point-of-view, QE2's comment didn't meet one or more of the guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html * Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation. * Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them. * Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you. I click the comments link to read useful, insightful, and critical things that others would like to add to the topic. Sarcasm in most cases doesn't fit the bill for me.
    - revorad 16y ago
      Best of all, probably, is humor. Zealots, whatever their cause, invariably lack a sense of humor. They can't reply in kind to jokes. They're as unhappy on the territory of humor as a mounted knight on a skating rink. Victorian prudishness, for example, seems to have been defeated mainly by treating it as a joke. Likewise its reincarnation as political correctness. "I am glad that I managed to write 'The Crucible,'" Arthur Miller wrote, "but looking back I have often wished I'd had the temperament to do an absurd comedy, which is what the situation deserved." http://paulgraham.com/say.html http://paulgraham.com/say.html
    - ugh 16y ago
      Hacker News is not as consistent as you think it is: http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=1932278 http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=1932278 (Pure sarcasm, no content, 16 upvotes. That was actually a bit of an experiment on my part. I wouldn’t have expected to receive any upvotes.)

This is Hacker News. The only app environment that makes any money is iOS. Android is just a money pit. Get it straight!

by QE2 16y ago

This is Hacker News. The only app environment that makes any money is iOS. Android is just a money pit. Get it straight!

zbanks 16y ago

"...with 12 million of those being paid downloads on iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches." That's quite a big chunk of change right there from iOS. It's just nice to see mobile advertising on Android be successful.

revorad 16y ago
I think QE2 was being sarcastic...
- chime 16y ago
  If my comment does not add positively to a discussion, I don't hit submit. Comments with no content but just memes, sarcasm, meta-jokes, or in-references are rarely upvoted on HN. Depending on the your point-of-view, QE2's comment didn't meet one or more of the guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html * Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation. * Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them. * Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you. I click the comments link to read useful, insightful, and critical things that others would like to add to the topic. Sarcasm in most cases doesn't fit the bill for me.
  - revorad 16y ago
    Best of all, probably, is humor. Zealots, whatever their cause, invariably lack a sense of humor. They can't reply in kind to jokes. They're as unhappy on the territory of humor as a mounted knight on a skating rink. Victorian prudishness, for example, seems to have been defeated mainly by treating it as a joke. Likewise its reincarnation as political correctness. "I am glad that I managed to write 'The Crucible,'" Arthur Miller wrote, "but looking back I have often wished I'd had the temperament to do an absurd comedy, which is what the situation deserved." http://paulgraham.com/say.html http://paulgraham.com/say.html
  - ugh 16y ago
    Hacker News is not as consistent as you think it is: http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=1932278 http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=1932278 (Pure sarcasm, no content, 16 upvotes. That was actually a bit of an experiment on my part. I wouldn’t have expected to receive any upvotes.)