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Did you comment on the wrong story? I do not understand how you connected a story about the Commodore 64 floppy drive in the 1980s with Apple & Google today.
by cek 15y ago
Did you comment on the wrong story? I do not understand how you connected a story about the Commodore 64 floppy drive in the 1980s with Apple & Google today.
- access_denied 15y agoDid you read the article? In the last paragraphs he tells the story of how he almost did not get any compensation at all for his software. Ironically, since his program was mostly used to pirate software. Apple, Amazon and Google are close to offering a solution to this problem.
- chipsy 15y agoI'm sensing some kind of rule of technology stories: All stories must be perceived as commentary on contemporary Apple and Google.
- ghshephard 15y agoFirst read the entire story. You'll discover that one of the key takeaways is an incredibly talented developer put a lot of effort into creating some very clever and useful software, but was unable to ever sell it for much money, despite putting effort into the process. Of course, to counter my own position, Apple of today would unlikely allow him to sell software that messed around with low-level internals on it's own platform.