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Accidents happen. Partners cheat. Here is a simple example from Shift Jelly about Amazon App store and their free app of the day. http://blog.shiftyjelly.com/2
by minot 11y ago
Accidents happen. Partners cheat. Here is a simple example from Shift Jelly about Amazon App store and their free app of the day.
http://blog.shiftyjelly.com/2011/08/02/amazon-app-store-rotten-to-the-core/ http://blog.shiftyjelly.com/2011/08/02/amazon-app-store-rott...
> All we got was about 300 emails a day to answer over the space of a few weeks, that left us tired and burnt out. For all we know most of the people who wanted our application, now have it. To add insult to injury Pocket Casts relies on a server to parse podcast feeds (allowing instant updates on your phone), and all these new users forced us to buy more hardware just to meet demand. Hardware that we are going to have to support indefinitely at our own cost.
Can you fault Shift Jelly for not being able to see through this?
- peteretep 11y agoAmazon offered them a deal. Amazon made the terms of that deal super clear by putting it in bold type. Shifty Jelly accepted that deal. Calling that cheating is beyond comprehension.