Are there no other publishing platforms that do this for a flat fee? Apart from taking payment and applying DRM, what else is involved? Checks to ensure the author is the legal owner of the copyright?
It will be interesting to see if this is true, or whether they will go down and the local workforce will be negatively impacted as a result. Conversely, it will be interesting to see whether salaries for US techies will go up, or older people will have more opportunities. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
This may not apply to TrueWeather in particular, but other apps could have the same policy and send the app requests to other services that do collect personal information... so, for the policy to be clear it would have to say "At time of publishing TrueWeather nor any of the services used by TrueWeather collect any personal information"... just my humble opinion on this complex topic.
Thanks. I find $550 a bit expensive. Linux Mint runs flawlessly on a Lenovo S120 (11.6"/4GB RAM/32GB SSD) but I can't upgrade the SSD and that's a bummer. Can't complain, though, it was $170 new from Amazon...
I think there is wage increase, but not as paying more for the people that keep doing the same thing as yesterday. Companies are forced to pay more for the skills in short supply. Google "angular dev salary" vs "java dev salary" - the wage difference is essentially that increase you're looking for.
Linux Mint 18.3 is amazing. People should really try it out... I recently got a new Lenovo 120S, replaced its Windows 10S with Linux Mint and everything worked out-of-the-box. CPU @ 2-3%, RAM < 550MB on a 11.6" laptop for £129 with zero issues restored my faith on Linux as a viable desktop OS.