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This article sort of annoys me:
People are treating Obama's staggering fundraising numbers as a problem. I don't understand why. So public financing is dead. So?
When the AppStore was first released, a lot of people were disappointed with the quality of the applications found there. For every solid app, there seemed to be 100 that just weren't very good.
To start, I'd like to stress that I'm not unaware of the massive challenges facing America today. I'm not going to claim we're going to see prosperity with a snap of the fingers. But because many of the problems we have today can be traced directly to Bush administration policies, I think we're going to be pleasantly surprised with a few things when Obama is president.
First Obama had no bounce.
Now that Google is coming out with a browser, there's once again discussion about Google's dominance and what it means for their company's "don't be evil" motto.
In 1997, I worked at an ISP in the Bay Area doing technical support. My boss told me "the customer is not always right. That's why they're calling us, after all." Of course that old adage is referring to customers being treated well because they make your business, not their grasp of technical ISP details. But while his logic was flawed, I still do agree with his central point for a sightly different reason: the customer is not always right, because not everyone is a match to every product or service.
Apparently T-Mobile is going to make their own AppStore, but it'll be for the entire carrier instead of just one phone.
And they probably think 1000x the phones means 1000x the profit. I see 1000x the complexity. Or at least 5x the complexity considering that's the number of different platforms. Plus some multiplier because dealing with two platforms is more than twice as hard as only handling one.
Imagine the AppStore launch with ten times the delay and ten times the complexity and bugs. With no killer phone.
A new series of McDonalds commercials shows two hipsters discussing McDonalds' new espresso. When the word "McDonalds" is uttered, the hipsters recoil, and then one admits that they like McDonalds. Then the other admits it too, and they riff about how they're tired of being pretentious, and head off to the nearest McDonalds franchise.