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Last Man Standing….

Personally, the number 1 annoyance of the Internet are ads. Actually, number 2-23 as well.

Could Apple “afford” to not place ads? To give more than 5GB free iCloud Storage? Go into the market of making some of the friggin’ best-to-use routers? I think they could without going bankrupt. And certainly delight lots of users that love High Quality, “Just works”, “Apple’s different” etc.

Undortunately, in a parallel world, that might work. Here, unfortunately, more is always better.. And sometimes considered not enough. What stays is the Kobe that at least there will be an ad-free tier somewhere in the offering.

mikethemartian said:

I would think there would be continuum mechanics modeling and simulation software that would predict these issues beforehand.

That’s why it is called “model”. Apart from the limitations of modelling by itself, there are things like identifying the right parameters, testing the right worst case combinations, taking production variation into account, only to name a few. I would also be surprised if they would not do validation testing in hardware, including foreseeable use / test to failure to understand robustness,, etc. It is rather unlikely, especially for a 1st gen product, to get it all right from design to supply chain and production quality to have no deviations leading to defects. Actually, I do not know any industrial product that - on large scale. - is defect free considering the whole population.

Maybe it’s time to completely rethink the current concept of fees. Instead of getting into arguments over and over again what financial transaction from the customers should lead to an x% cut going to Apple, devs might have the option to be charged based on the services Apple is offering:
- hosting costs
- App Store usage costs
- financial transaction fees (like credit cards)
- API licence costs
- „approved by Apple“ fee
- …

Curious to see how this evolves with the advent of 3rd party stores. 

Translation: “Dear EU bureaucrats, we are looking forward for you and your consumers you have only the best in mind, to enjoy tonight’s menu. For starters we serve degraded WebApps served along paper clips and lack of insight. Please enjoy.”

or: the opposite of good is good intention.