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by akashs 16y ago
I could be wrong, but it sounds like the developer program is free for universities, and xcode is supposed to come free with that. http://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/university/
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by akashs 16y ago
i've also on many occasions just straight up asked for double meat, and i've never been charged, probably because it's always another person ringing it up.
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by akashs 16y ago
All I'm saying is you can't tell how accurate it is, but it doesn't sound like to me they are fudged. Companies play with numbers to make one set look favorable to investors, and another set look poor to the government at the same time so
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by akashs 16y ago
I'm a little confused, perhaps I was unclear. It sounds like I'm in agreement with you that I don't think the numbers are crazy. However, accounting is more of an art, and you can play games with numbers. E.g., large companies typically
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by akashs 16y ago
can't directly lie, but people play games with accounting numbers all the time. for all we know, a large chunk of that revenue could be going to pay year-end bonuses. but given they have 45 people, after salaries and benefits, and after al
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by akashs 16y ago
If you're looking for someone, I have iTunes purchases, and I'm not happy about it. 1) What are these magical capabilities you're talking about that are so egregiously missing from Android? At least with my Droid, I can download software t
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by akashs 16y ago
It's a bit unfortunate that most of the post is a bunch of gushing about how Apple is so amazing. Unfortunate because there's a very insightful point in that second to last paragraph. The chair is definitely part of Apple's genius when it
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by akashs 16y ago
how about this: go back to the difficult tests and puzzles they used to have. make it a pre-requisite to send in an application. that would reduce the number of apps and ensure applicants meet a high bar at the same time. (also not sure h
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by akashs 16y ago
no worries. you couldn't delete those emails if you tried. no, seriously: http://www.law.com/jsp/tal/PubArticleTAL.jsp?id=120243445084...
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by akashs 16y ago
I think you're half correct. While Apple certainly has every right to try to put mechanisms in place to prevent you from doing certain things on your device, the fact that you purchased it gives you the right to legally circumvent any of t
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by akashs 16y ago
So in my mind, the reason this upsets people is this: Imagine you bought a Sony TV and all you could ever watch on it was Sony produced movies, tv shows, and Sony music unless the other studios gave them 30% of the revenue. You can even o
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by akashs 16y ago
How does using their servers mean they're doing inventory and shipping? I'm not understanding how it's possible to pay UPS to ship an app. Do you think anyone would have an issue if Apple just wanted to be compensated for that piece of ho
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by akashs 16y ago
Yes, I've read the post several times, both the original and your many reposts of it. The trouble is is that it's not clear at all. How does Apple do any inventory management or "shipping" given we're talking about digital goods? By havin
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by akashs 16y ago
Kindly explain to me where above I made any mention of Apple having a monopoly. But if you must push me: http://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=apple+mp... and http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#3.
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by akashs 16y ago
Actually, before you go putting others down, you should read about how this stuff works. It's highly dependent on what the market ends up being defined as. If you're talking smartphones, Apple certainly has more than 4%. MP3 players, aga
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by akashs 16y ago
Who says iOS devices are consumer only? There's plenty of business apps in the app store and plenty of large enterprises who are using the iPad and plenty of people who would love to handle their ERP through the iPad. Even then, not all of
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by akashs 16y ago
I think you're grossly underestimating how much 30% of revenues means. Let's look at how this could actually affect you. Lets forget for a second that Amazon is even part of this issue. Let's stick to straight software development, what
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by akashs 16y ago
Don't think you need the same plans, just need to make sure that whatever plan is made available through Apple is the same rate as the plan made available through any other channel and that any plan that grants iOS access is made available
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by akashs 16y ago
err yes. or closer to 43, but yes.
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by akashs 16y ago
That's an interesting way to get around Apple. I wonder if it will hold. You're basically saying that if you want iOS accessibility, you pay 43% more. So maybe WSJ has a newspaper version, a newspaper plus digital (including android, any
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by akashs 16y ago
I seem to be the only one missing this, so just wondering how it's been concluded that it was strictly due to timing? Watson didn't miss many and the one's it didn't answer, it had the correct answer most of the time. Just wondering how t
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by akashs 16y ago
And for those who don't need the help with payment, distribution, etc Apple is forcing them to take it. Do you think Amazon really needs Apple's help in processing or distributing any of their content? I'm pretty sure the WSJ has plenty
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by akashs 16y ago
Apple's argument is that they deserve 30% of all revenue streams for getting a customer on board. For 30% of revenues, you could hire a true sales force that goes out and actively sells stuff, rather than just sitting back and hoping someo
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by akashs 16y ago
Don't know if it's in any way the cause of anything related to a decline in IPO, but this spread is what the banks make money on and what enables them to do what they do, effectively a measure of their margin on trades. Going from an eight
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by akashs 16y ago
Actually reminds me more of trying to split the vote in politics (or maybe just The Wire) But I get your point on the decoy. Although that's an awful big game to play with a few months worth of Coke sales if they knew it in advance.
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by akashs 16y ago
I never said it was taste based, but the taste (better or worse) was part of the issue. The primary issue was they were abandoning the brand they had spent 100 years building up. But that brand was linked to the original taste, and throwi
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by akashs 16y ago
Err, sort of. The taste tests were flawed (and also the reason Pepsi repeatedly won blind taste tests over Coke around then as well). New Coke was designed to be more Pepsi-like in that it was sweeter. In smaller quantities, people readil
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by akashs 16y ago
Well, yes and no. Completely agreed on your basic point that their strength lies in their brand. However, in 1985 when Coke tried to reformulate the original formula and create "New Coke", one thing that it showed was that the taste of th
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by akashs 16y ago
How is this in any way different than MS and Windows Home vs Premium vs Ultimate? The code / SW you purchase is exactly the same no matter which version you buy, but MS markets them as entirely different products. You then need to pay ext
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by akashs 16y ago
1) they do at movie theaters, restaurants, a lot of places. a 12 pack costs more than a 6 pack. etc, etc. 2) you still get the point. it's then even more clear that it has nothing to do with the underlying cost.

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