Re:Apple's Mistake
by mseebach on Friday November 20, 2009 @04:38AM
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You list of advice is good. It's that it needs to exist to put software on one of the most popular devices of the decade that's absurd.
In the 80's you could travel pretty freely as a western visitor in communist eastern Europe if had a similar list, telling you who to nudge where, what gifts to bring for cheap bribes (IIRC I heard that a good ball point pen got you far in some places) and so on. Now, the ultimate solution isn't a better list, I think was PGs point.
Re:Apple's Mistake
by hristov on Friday November 20, 2009 @05:38AM
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I don't know about ballpoint pens but a good bottle of cognac always worked. I knew some people that started a business right after communism fell -- they had to buy cognac by the case.
Re:Apple's Mistake
by c1sc0 on Friday November 20, 2009 @04:50AM
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Completely agree. Apple needs competition from people who have a clue, but in the meantime a lot of developers will continue traveling to 'communist' Apple, because that's where the money is ;-)
In the 80's you could travel pretty freely as a western visitor in communist eastern Europe if had a similar list, telling you who to nudge where, what gifts to bring for cheap bribes (IIRC I heard that a good ball point pen got you far in some places) and so on. Now, the ultimate solution isn't a better list, I think was PGs point.