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Rian van der Merwe: We need to reframe this argument. The real issue is much deeper than this specific acquisition. The real issue is the sudden vulnerability we feel now that one of our theories about independent app development has failed. Exactly.
Matt Gemmell responds to complaints over Sparrow’s acquisition that customers “invested” in the app and future updates: You paid $10 for the Mac version, or $3 for the iOS version. Go ‘invest’ in a magazine and a coffee. They owe you nothing. The Sparrow acquisition nicely highlights the App
Faruk Ates responds to Matt Gemmell’s Entitlement and Acquisition: There is an implicit promise in the act of doing business. It is a promise of respect and mutual trust, where the business offers the customer something of value, for which the customer pays money. The free-but-paid-with-
Guy English explains the difference between an “app” and applications: “Apps” is fun. It’s fun to say, it sounds unthreatening, it’s a word sufficiently abbreviated that it takes on a life of its own without dragging to the forefront of peoples minds the more sterile and technical sounding
Jack Cheng is writing a novel, and you can support it on Kickstarter. You can read a description of the story and an excerpt. It’s excellent. I’ve backed the project and I can’t wait to receive the book.
If you’d like to see what’s wrong with our economy in one chart, well, here’s your chance. Lack of economic growth and high unemployment are not simply a result of low demand (which could be solved through aggressive fiscal policy). It’s heavily structural, too, as this
Last night, during a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises, a man broke into an Aurora, Colorado theater and opened fire. At least twelve people were killed. Unbelievably horrible. My thoughts are with the people in Aurora. I hope the injured recover and survive, and the people there come
The Economist has an excellent look at quantitative easing (http://www.economist.com/node/21558596): THE conventional arms have run out. Central banks in America and Britain have long since pushed interest rates to close to zero. On July 5th the European Central Bank (ECB) joined them, slashing its rate
Jeffrey Sachs on our increasingly irrelevant, theatrical debate over the economy (http://blogs.ft.com/the-a-list/2012/07/12/move-americas-economic-debate-out-of-its-time-warp/#axzz20R2aPRNy): America’s economic debate is stuck in a time warp. On the one side, Mitt Romney’s conservative advisors
Last month, NASA posted a promotion video of sorts for the Curiosity Mars rover, which is set to land on Mars August 6th. The video is very good and if you’re at all interested in it, you should watch it. If you’re curious about what the rover is
Tapbots released Tweetbot for Mac as a public alpha today. Matthew Panzarino has a first look at the app and small interview with Tapbots’ Paul Haddad. I’ve been using Tweetbot for the past hour or so and it’s been terrific. If you’re hesitant to download unfinished software,