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Quote: Originally Posted by cy_starkman "But Apple's agency approach has the publishers set the prices paid by consumers -- something Random House executives were concerned could lead to considerably lower prices, and thus lower profits." If t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Menno Those numbers don't take ad revenue into account, nor do they include any content purchased outside of google checkout's app store. You'll also notice the monetization i Android went up significantly in the …
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Quote: Originally Posted by FreeRange Total nonsense - copying and cloning the approach won't work. Only clear product differentiation and meaningful added value are going to help them. WebOS had plenty of ammo/marketing push behind it when it la…
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Quote: Originally Posted by haruhiko And yet the "city-state" of Hong Kong which incidentally is the region's financial centre where literally EVERYONE has an iPhone 4 still doesn't have a single Apple Store. So I guess it doesn't need one any…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse And that ^, everyone, is how a troll responds to an article on improving battery life. And that ^, everyone, is how a robot without any sense of humour responds to a sarcastic joke.
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Quote: Originally Posted by omacko This guy is pretty much saying to eliminate native client apps and bring on HTML5 apps a la Google Chrome. Doing so would pretty much eliminate all the advantages of client apps compared to "web apps". Sounds …
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Quote: Originally Posted by TheGreatBug Gosh, what an idiot. An app store that doesn't "restrict consumers" would literally ruin iOS. LOL Nice try . What this guy is actually trying to fish here is to go back to those glory days where …
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Quote: Originally Posted by rain Sorry, but your the delusional one. Just this morning Rhapsody told Apple to smarten the fuck up or they are pulling their app. Netflix will leave Apple in a heartbeat. They don't need Apple or their platform at…
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Quote: Originally Posted by InLightOf Simple Arithmetic? If a developer was selling $10 subscriptions to 100 people before the 30% fee that's $1,000. Now if you sell $10 subscriptions to 130 people (30% more unit sales) that's $1300 which makes…
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Quote: Originally Posted by studiomusic One more time publishers: YOU CAN STILL SELL YOUR STUFF HOW YOU ARE DOING IT. YOU JUST HAVE TO ADD THE OPTION OF SELLING IT THROUGH APPLE. YOU DON'T HAVE TO SELL THINGS ON THE APP STORE. REALLY. IF YOU DO…
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Apple being dickish while being on top. Go figure. Hey, sflocal, Instapaper app isn't published by a "publisher", but by a developer. Go read what he thought about the move. This only proves what I have always suspected. Had Apple dominated t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Eriamjh Jailbreaking is indeed legal. There are no guarantees that all other legitamate functions need to be supported once jailbroken. In other words, it's also legal for Apple to not fully support JBd devices. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich Without copyright and patent protections in place, the economic incentive for creating content and inventions disappears and you end up with a non-competitive market as developed as Afghanistan. Unsuppo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Prof. Peabody Agreed. Additionally, people mis-state things when they say that jailbreaking is "legal." Jailbreaking has not been declared "legal." What happened is that the decision was made that jailbreaking…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Enjoy not being able to buy books in the future. Oh yes, I will enjoy not spending one yota of my hard earned money so that any corporation can decide how, where and in which thing I should read it, wh…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer You're less bright than you profess. It's not illegal. If the publishers don't want Apple to keep jailbreakers from respecting their DRM they will stop their licensing deals with Apple which authorizes them…
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This is why I hate copyright. The whole shenanigans Apple and so many corporations have to do to ensure that intellectual work behaves like private property in a "proper" capitalist market are nothing short of ensuring an enslaving world, in the nam…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell The importance of the screen resolution is to keep both the iPad, iTouch, and iPhone within divisible numbers for the developers. Using non-divisible numbers creates odd resolutions that have to be support…
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So they sold poorly, and even then costumers weren't as pleased? Color me unsurprised. I've seen the Galaxy Tab in Portugal a few weeks ago, it was displayed in the smartphone category, roflmao. The iPad was on the other side of the store. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Firefly7475 Well... no, not exactly. A market research firm, Strategy Analytics, came out with a report (I'm not sure when, 2011-01-31 I think) that Android had taken 22% of the Q4 tablet market share. Bloomber…