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Free of charge: economy enabler or disabler?
Christian Zibreg at Geek.com writs an article on so called App Store economy that using free applications can bring up to more than 900$ a day of possible earnings (full article at http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/the-app-store-economy-how-to-make-900-a-day-with-free-apps-20091014/.
I think that App store strategy of having low cost and at same time high value apps is a winning one, because enables customers buying more at lower prices and helps programmers having well diffused applications to sell.
On the other side I’m quite convinced that if free could be the key for earning more money, at same time is not the key for having internet cleaned of malicious or unwanted ads. I agree on the fact that some providers pay for in applications ads, but some people don’t like having ads shown everywhere. I prefer to pay a little bit rather than having ads everywhere.
I know it could be very personal, but I think that “free” is not the way economy goes on.
This comment as a post also at http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/the-app-store-economy-how-to-make-900-a-day-with-free-apps-20091014/comment-page-1/#comment-2357671
Politics
Politics consists of deals and ideals.
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Iphone is not jailbreak resistant
Brian X. Chen at Wired updates yesterday article on Apple efforts to stop Iphone jailbreakings (full article at http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/10/jailbreak-iphone).
I think the problem is not if IPhone is jail-breakable or not. The question is why Apple is wasting spending time in researching how to block telephone modding.
This comment also at http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/10/jailbreak-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-96027
Parallel lines
Parallel lines never meet unless you bend one or both of them.
Anonymous
IPhone Jailbreaking blocked: why? Because!
Kevin Purdy at Lifehacker (http://lifehacker.com/people/Therevan/posts/ ) writes an article on the fact that Apple, as usual, is fighting against IPhone modding (full article at http://lifehacker.com/5381431/latest-iphones-block-jailbreaking).
I think that on a tech point of view Apple may invest in something a little more valuable than trying to block a niche group of people.
On a business point of view, I also understando that Apple is selling a “mood” or a “user experience” that doesn’t want be changed (also because of commercial agreement).
This is the main point, and unfortunately, is beeing followed also by the “free by detfinition” people at Google (see the cease and desist notification for Android modders).
This post as a comment also at http://lifehacker.com/5381431/latest-iphones-block-jailbreaking
Packrat’s credo
”I have no use for it, but I hate to see it go to waste.”
Anonymous
Reason and failure
No matter what goes wrong, there’s always someone who knew it would.
Anonymous
Iphone as an enabler: the real joys of third gen economy
Brian X. Chen at Wired (http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/author/bxchen/) writes a good article about Adobe decision to realease a new Flash developer kit allowing programmers to “port” Flash based applications to Apple IPhone compliant ones (full article at http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/10/flash-economy/).
I really appreciate the concept of seing a technology as an enabler for something, because, I think is not only an enabler but a sort of “multiplier”.
Flash has, as written in the article, a wide base of users and a wide base of developers all of them needing something (easy and nice applications for users, money and easily reachable market places for developers): Apple IPhone and much more its application store could be the “take off condition” and the real breakthrough for developers.
Only a copule more point:
a) Flash has got a wide spreading also because allowed everybody to develop and release applications that now will be “evaluated and approved” by a third party (remember Google Voice case?)
b) IPhone apps store is really big at this moment, what will it be with some millions of Flash Apllications potentially being inserted?
This post as a comment also at http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/10/flash-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-95648
Modesty and hope
Modesty: Being comfortable that others will discover your greatness.
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