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by zweben 16y ago
Because most of them will continue to buy the games anyway. Whether a consumer is pissed off is irrelevant to EA; they have to refuse to buy the product for it to matter, and most don't.
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by zweben 16y ago
I wouldn't be so sure about that. The only bit of law I've ever heard of that stands in the way of this sort of thing is the first-sale doctrine, which says that you can sell copyrighted works without permission from the copyright holder.
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by zweben 16y ago
Looking only at the price they charge consumers doesn't give an accurate picture of their pricing strategy. Most estimates I've seen peg the average total revenue Apple makes per iPhone hardware sale at about $600, most of this paid to App
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by zweben 16y ago
Yeah, who do they think they are, Apple?
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by zweben 16y ago
More like 'The Deterioration of Privacy on Facebook'
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by zweben 16y ago
That's true, but I don't think their goal was to weed out crappy apps. I think what they really wanted was to keep the platform exclusively their control, to remove the possibility of a 3rd-party SDK getting popular, lagging behind Apple's
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by zweben 16y ago
But it gives you an excuse to wave your iPhone around, just in time for the release of the newest revision!
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by zweben 16y ago
Not really. The Streisand effect would be if Apple's reaction caused the joke ad to be viewed more, and those views hurt them. The ad's harmless though; they just look stupid because they overreacted.
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by zweben 16y ago
Pretty sure that's more marketing than anything to do with their product strategy. They release the best products they can, but implementing features better than their competitors means it takes them longer, so they talk down any feature t
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by zweben 16y ago
They just changed their Flash player interface; that is it. The HTML5 player looks like the older Flash interface.
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by zweben 16y ago
I'll be interested to see how they will deal with the licensing issues regarding font embedding. Right now, there aren't a whole lot of non-free fonts that allow @font-face embedding, because embedding a font with @font-face makes the font
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by zweben 16y ago
This will be an interesting test of Steve Jobs' reasoning on why Flash should be kept off the iPad. My predictions of Jobs' accuracy: -I think battery life will indeed be an issue. 10 hours has certainly set the bar high. I think people ar
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by zweben 16y ago
I like the part where you addressed the glaring holes he pointed out in your argument and provided compelling counterpoints.
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by zweben 16y ago
Apple makes (much) more money selling iPad hardware than they make selling apps. They are not going to make more money by intentionally crippling Javascript performance, especially after so publicly touting it as an alternative to Flash. I
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by zweben 16y ago
I don't think you can really draw any useful information about how much people prefer each device for reading by comparing the average number of books sold per device. Everyone who buys a Kindle buys it to read books on. Some people who buy
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by zweben 16y ago
Microsoft: 267 billion Apple: 237 billion http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=aapl%2C+msft
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by zweben 16y ago
Pretty much any computer that can run IE6 should be able to run Firefox, no? I think the number of users who would have to upgrade their hardware to use something newer than IE6 is very low. I agree about not shutting IE6 users out though.
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by zweben 16y ago
He's been doing short emails for years, and the occasional open letter, but it seems that he's doing it a lot more as of late. Presumably in response to all the recent Apple controversy.
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by zweben 16y ago
The point is it will only ever directly effect products made by the same company. A device from HP or Microsoft will never be hurt by an issue with a closed Apple platform. If there are issues with Flash, it will hurt every company using F
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by zweben 16y ago
Given that the people he spoke to wouldn't even be aware of the existence of the lost prototype, I don't think you could call that an honest attempt to return the phone at all. Even sending an email to sjobs@apple.com would've been more lik
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by zweben 16y ago
But not a very good one, clearly.
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by zweben 16y ago
Consumer-friendly material? As opposed to what? Something that electrocutes you? The iPhone 3GS battery is not really consumer-unfriendly, it's just hard to access. iPhone 3GS battery: http://s1.guide-images.ifixit.com/igi/sRE6GIaYuMouSG