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One thing both Google and Apple might be getting wrong is if they won't let developers make serious money. They are both encouraging very low prices like $.99 f

by ssp 16y ago

One thing both Google and Apple might be getting wrong is if they won't let developers make serious money. They are both encouraging very low prices like $.99 for "apps", which might mean that a lot of interesting software will never be written for those systems. Microsoft always allowed and encouraged application developers to make money from their Windows applications, even though a "cheap applications means we can sell more Windows" strategy would naively seem to make sense. If I had to pick an OS winner, Android is still the one I would bet on, but with this move, Windows definitely seems to me like a more credible contender. Max Klein wrote about this at one point, but he apparently deleted it. The post is cached here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_6hkDvCzHMYJ:maxkle.in/why-im-investing-in-windows-phone-and-skippin/ http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_6hkDvC...

masklinn 16y ago
> They are both encouraging very low prices like $.99 for "apps" Please do explain how. Apple at least (I don't know about the Marketplace, apart from it not being available to a number of developers) has a wide range of available prices, there are GPS software for far north of $100 apiece, and a number of other applications which definitely aren't $.99. Even in games, "big hits" are generally closer to $10 (when not on sale) than $1 (and outlining this kind of stuff is very much why Apple introduced a third "tops" list in the appstore). And please also explain how Microsoft would solve a race to the bottom which is the combination of users being cheap fucks and developers still wanting those users. > Max Klein wrote about this at one point, but he apparently deleted it. The post is cached here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_6hkDvC… http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_6hkDvC... Doesn't say anything about iOS, and completely handwaves away the problem for Microsoft (apparently, microsoft "cares that he's making money" and will moneyhat him or something). Garbage.

by ssp 16y ago

masklinn 16y ago

> They are both encouraging very low prices like $.99 for "apps" Please do explain how. Apple at least (I don't know about the Marketplace, apart from it not being available to a number of developers) has a wide range of available prices, there are GPS software for far north of $100 apiece, and a number of other applications which definitely aren't $.99. Even in games, "big hits" are generally closer to $10 (when not on sale) than $1 (and outlining this kind of stuff is very much why Apple introduced a third "tops" list in the appstore). And please also explain how Microsoft would solve a race to the bottom which is the combination of users being cheap fucks and developers still wanting those users. > Max Klein wrote about this at one point, but he apparently deleted it. The post is cached here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_6hkDvC… http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_6hkDvC... Doesn't say anything about iOS, and completely handwaves away the problem for Microsoft (apparently, microsoft "cares that he's making money" and will moneyhat him or something). Garbage.