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You couldn't pay me to use huge, inept outfits like GoDaddy or Dreamhost who compete primarily on price. I have a similar, though evidence-free aversion to companies which put words like "cheap" in their name.

Sure, iTunes Match or syncing several devices directly to iCloud might induce a heavy user to pay for more, but iCloud remains a bona-fide free service for the vast majority of its customers.

Even for ISPs running their own network, such as BT, [ISP CTO] Davies claims the figures of €0.01-0.03 per GB are "rubbish". "It's an order of magnitude greater than that," he claimed.

This is coming from a guy claiming that the "existing smartphone data tariffs of around €10 per GB" are too low. They're profit-seeking, and relying on their regulators to be as bad at math as they are.

People who reply "Well if you think your taxes are so low, make a voluntary contribution" are probably-deliberately overlooking that the goal isn't for an individual to pay more, it's to provide meaningful support to the entity which needs the revenue, whether that's Allen Odgaard or the US government.

Yes. It has nothing to do with his ability to critique a product design. Jobs was sui generis.

No one person replaces Steve Jobs. Tim Cook and Jony Ive know it.

https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/1062

Sounds like a bug.

Amazon looked like it was setting up an app store where Android developers had a hope of getting paid, but so far, they've created a space where the control-freakism runs deeper than under Apple (e.g., the lack of control over basics like device filtering and removing apps from sale), and the return on investment is worse than under Google.

Why does it have to be "threatening" to be newsworthy?

I pay pretty close attention, and I thought the free apps of the day were paid at the 20% rate that Amazon warns they may pay you if they unilaterally discount your app.

"Who could have predicted that breaking into people's voicemail was going to cause such a fuss?"

In particular, "real-looking domains" have never been a required detail of phishing attacks, which only have to look plausible on the right side to do damage. A profusion of TLDs only serves to degrade what "real-looking" means to non-nerds.

You're obligated to pay sales tax on items purchased out of state, by annual remittance. Almost nobody does it, but if you're ever audited (by your state), they can ding you if you don't. Amazon is plenty big enough to be specifically called out by cash-strapped state governments for, effectively, encouraging people to evade the law.

(I live in Washington state, where Amazon has always collected sales tax, so personally it seems like a non-issue.)

I've observed no such 10-20% slowdown on iOS, which is more CPU-constrained than most realms. Typically, LLVM-generated code is equivalent to or faster than gcc. Sometimes it's much faster.