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Re:Why Can’t Tablet Makers Just Freaking Ship? on Thursday February 17, 2011 @04:03PM (#2232851)
So when is the CrunchPad being shipped?
Re:Apple Launches Subscriptions on the App Store on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @12:07PM (#2222068)
Lets take Hulu for example, who currently has a subscription model of $8.00 a month. Now if a users decides to subscribe to Hulu through an iOS app the price of the subscription is the same for the user. But for Hulu instead of collecting $8.00, they are now collecting $5.60, since 30% is now going to apple, because that person used an iOS device. So it is a tax on both the app publisher and the consumer.

Apple's new term of service states: "All we require is that, if a publisher is making a subscription offer outside of the app, the same (or better) offer be made inside the app". For the app maker, the quickest way to compensate for a 30% Apple tariff is to raise the price by at least 30%, which hurts the app maker and the consumer. Even before this announcement the app market as we know it today, is on it's way out. In favor of creating a browser based mobile web app. With this new tax, I believe the adoption rate to create browser based mobile web apps will continue forward at full throttle so app makers and consumers are not losing 30% of subscriptions and content purchases to apple.

Re:Silicon Valley geeks have their own ‘Fight Club’. I kid you not. [v... on Thursday February 10, 2011 @07:40AM (#2201711)
It looks like some miss guided people, that wrongly interpreted Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club.
Re:Ken Olsen, co-founder of Digital Equipment Corp., died at 84 on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @12:04AM (#2192019)
Thank you for the video.
Re:Facebook.com is now the internet on Monday February 07, 2011 @12:44PM (#2189870)
This has happened before, in 2000 every one was directing you to their myspace page. In the mid 90's it was a AOL keyword, late 90's is was their website. Next will be twitter.
Re:Andrew Warner is in the hospital on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @08:24PM (#2173123)
Get Well Soon!
Re:Flickr Accidentally Deletes a User's 4,000 Photos and Can't Get The... on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @09:14PM (#2168572)
No off site daily back up? I guess we can assume they have no disaster recovery plan?
Re:Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @10:43AM (#2165859)
Google copies Bing's layout for images. Bing copies Google's search results.
Re:Python vs. Ruby: A Battle to The Death on Monday January 03, 2011 @11:09AM (#2063531)
Is any one else getting tired of these versus type articles?
Re:Warren Buffett: Pretty Good for Government Work on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @10:09AM (#1914442)
If a Business fails because AdSense, Amazon.com, or others are shutdown, than it was that Businesses fault in not diversifying their revenue streams.
Re:The Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial screencasts are out on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @04:39PM (#1784843)
If you want to be a rails developer it is going to take more than 15 minutes.
Re:Ask HN: What % of Y Comb startups either become profitable or succe... on Wednesday September 15, 2010 @02:35PM (#1695340)
80% is a really high rate. About 51% of new business started will make if five years or more. http://web.sba.gov/faqs/faqIndexAll.cfm?areaid=24
Re: Rate my startup: Make stupid simple websites for work, play and life. on Wednesday September 15, 2010 @02:26PM (#1695291)
I agree, the screenshots of example sites should open to the actual live site.
Re:Call phones from Gmail on Wednesday August 25, 2010 @03:05PM (#1633786)
So when will this make it in to Google Apps?
Re:The Middle Class in America Is Radically Shrinking. on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @03:23PM (#1552385)
Slowly killing the American economy.
Re:Introducing the Linode Backup Service on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @11:56PM (#1320293)
I was looking into Cloud servers recently. I think I will be going going with 1and1 Dynamic Cloud Server. 1and1 seem to have a better price than Rackspace, and you can change the Ram, CPU, and storage all independently. At Rackspace you had to scale both the Ram and your Disk space. How is your experience with Rackspace? Has any one else tried 1and1's Dynamic Cloud server?