donflamenco

Here's an idea on how Apple can "win."

The phone market is quickly turning into a mature business like the PC is today. Essentially all of the major innovation on the hardware side is done and the software side will be where people choose their phone/tablet.

IOS has the best apps, period. Apple needs this to always be the case. Just like people buy Windows because of its apps (games, etc.)

Developers make more money on the IOS platform (by far) than any other. Apple needs this to always be the case.

I submit that Apple needs to drop the commission rate for apps sales from 30% to some value approaching zero. This will starve Android/Win8/BB of developer mind share.

Developers will write great apps, make more money and users will pick the IOS platform because it has the apps (games) they want.

Early on at Amazon, the forms you got with your order was generated with TeX ( LaTeX? )

It was probably installed by ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Davis_%28programmer%29 ), but he was gone by that point.

The system was running on a couple of the Sparcstations and at that time (97) the zon was switching to Alpha.

I remember looking at that the build system and thought that it was "unsupportable" by myself or any other systems admin there at that time.

Recently, I've wrote some docs in LaTeX and was told to convert it to Word/Confluence.