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Some of us think that if app developers who deliver good apps earn money from it, it will incentivize them to continue creating good apps. But sometimes I feel
by skinkestek 3y ago
Some of us think that if app developers who deliver good apps earn money from it, it will incentivize them to continue creating good apps.
But sometimes I feel myself slipping closer and closer to your much more cynical ideas.
In particular I remember donating what for me was a good chunk of money to Caddy right before they started "experimenting with business models" or whatever he called it. Same goes for happily paying WhatsApp, walking around like a living talking billboard for it only to have them sell out to Facebook shortly after.
Just two examples from the top of my mind.
- pixl97 3y ago"Greed is good" --Says the monkey with his hand trapped in a jar. History has taught us that an enforced rule of law is the only way to prevent scammers from being the dominate players (by number, not size) in a market.
- psd1 3y agoNegative. It ceases to be adaptive to be a cheater when cheaters exceed a certain percentage of the population. The advantage comes from information asymmetry. Law makes cheating less adaptive. But even without law, cheats would not exceed some small minority.