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by jaaron 16y ago
If you'd follow the press releases or read the updated app store guidelines, you'd learn that Apple has changed the rules and is enforcing old ones in new ways that will affect Rhapsody, Amazon Kindle, Rdio, Netflix, and so on. The new rule
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by jaaron 16y ago
No, a payment processor is exactly what they are in this case. Consider what Apple is attempting to do to Amazon's Kindle service: users can purchase Kindle ebooks directly in-app but Apple takes a 30% cut of the payment. Amazon still hosts
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by jaaron 16y ago
Stealth mode is no fun. Though it may make sense when you have a strategic partnership that requires silence until release. Of course, that's a very different kind of startup than most of the "my web 2.0 of the day" ventures often touting s
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by jaaron 16y ago
Because this press release also updates and clarifies enforcement of in-app purchases as well. The current approach taken by the Kindle app, that is, linking to the Amazon web Kindle store for purchases, will no longer be allowed by Apple.
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by jaaron 16y ago
Several new tablets have been announced. Moreover, the lack of a subscription API didn't stop the mentioned services from creating iPad apps to begin with. Those services are all successful independent of their iOS app. They have no reason
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by jaaron 16y ago
And with that, Apple just gave up the content app space to Android. Do you think the Economist, the Financial Times, Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, Rdio and others are really going to hand over 30% of their subscriber revenue?
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by jaaron 16y ago
Reminds me of Sony in the consumer electronic space. They've lost large leads in television and music player industries due to the same attitude.
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by jaaron 16y ago
Clearly legal, because you're a lawyer? Don't be too surprised if this lands Apple in court eventually. Leveraging their OS to disrupt competitors in other business markets is the exact sort of behavior that got Microsoft in trouble with Ne
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by jaaron 16y ago
First off, if you trace the article to its source, you'll end up on a WSJ article that says something slightly different: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870477560457612... As far as we know, Apple has not directly set a dead
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by jaaron 16y ago
Splitting at least 50% with the studios or labels is pretty standard. It's one reason why the Apple 30% app store tax makes no sense for some businesses (ebooks, vod, music).
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by jaaron 16y ago
It doesn't. It would mean removing a link to the Amazon store, which is stupid. Amazon shouldn't budge on this one. Apple needs to back down.
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by jaaron 16y ago
30% can be the entire profit margin for electronic content. The apps themselves are free and the provider has to pay a significant chunk back to the content owner (author, label, studio or publisher), leaving a much smaller margin for the
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by jaaron 16y ago
Los Angeles funded startup: web developer and visual designers. Still in stealth, but launching within next 6 months. We have 15 people worldwide and are well funded. Actual LA office is in Santa Monica and we need people on site there. L
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by jaaron 16y ago
One reason I've been hesitant to use Evernote is that I don't want to put a lot of valuable information into a service that could easily disappear. I'd actually be more comfortable with Evernote if they charged more because then I'd beli
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by jaaron 16y ago
Several years ago you already saw large number of MacBooks (well, PowerBooks at the time) at tech conferences. IMHO it really was the Unix + nice UI that attracted many developers. It certainly got me.
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by jaaron 16y ago
Orientation events are new in mobile safari as of iOS 4.2. The orientation works on the iPad, for example.
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by jaaron 16y ago
Ah, but switch the question around and you have grubers point: Why wouldnt you have an Android version too... It's the iOS exclusivity that is interesting. iOS has exclusive apps that should be able to run on Android. The reverse isn't as
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by jaaron 16y ago
If you believe his best point is that XML is not well-suited for RPCs then you've missed the point. XML is good for exactly what it stands for: an extensible markup language. It's good for dealing with semi-structured data, especially when
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by jaaron 16y ago
The Facebook wall for one of my passed away friends is regularly populated with notes and shared memories by those who knew him.
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And Apache has responded (tersely) back: https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/statement_by_the_a...
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by jaaron 16y ago
It's not just "promising" to certify Harmony. Sun had a contractual obligation to do so.
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by jaaron 16y ago
I like Jim's response on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/jimjag/status/4284342641623040
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Patents, for one. Field of use restrictions for another. OpenJDK's classpath exception to the GPL does not apply to JavaME related classes, thus limiting the use of OpenJDK for all platforms.
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by jaaron 16y ago
I know Noirin and I also know her ex-husband (they spent time on their honeymoon with my wife and I in Hong Kong). I've helped plan and run ApacheCon for years. Noirin is not one to exaggerate, she's one to call it like it is. So quit wi
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by jaaron 16y ago
Just to clarify, it wasn't in a private hotel room, it was in the pub adjacent to the conference hotel. It was in a public setting. I know Noirin and I've helped with ApacheCon for years (first time in years I wasn't there).
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by jaaron 16y ago
I would be reading it, if Jordan's estate hadn't requested delaying the ebook release by one year . Luckily Sanderson has intervened and the delay is only three months, but I'm still pissed. They could have at least communicated this to
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by jaaron 16y ago
I think it can be summed up in this statement by Doug: "If they indeed act as they have promised, then the JCP can never again become more than an approval body for Oracle-backed initiatives."
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The new MBA does look fantastic, but I'm still pretty happy with my MBPro and iPad combination. I reserve the Pro for development work and intentionally keep all distracting applications and sites off of it (I block sites so I'm not tempte
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by jaaron 16y ago
No, public source tree and a process for outsider commits are critical for proper open source projects. Otherwise, while you have the code, your only choice is to fork, not collaborate. The code may be OSI compliantly licensed, but the
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by jaaron 16y ago
Oh, please, please tell me Adobe will work with the OS X app store. Adobe's updater needs terminated with prejudice.

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