Argh, I hope this doesn't mess up my Outlook software. I should have known better with free software that's not open source and is untested...
The App Store is for Suckers
by Jonathan Stark
Submitting (pun intended) to the App Store is for suckers.
Do you really want to:
- Give up 30% of your profit?
- Learn Objective-C?
- Endure approval delays, rejections, and yanks?
- Navigate labyrinthian code signing issues?
- etc…The cheapest, easiest, fastest way for folks to get in on the mobile gold rush is to build killer web apps. Web apps can access location data, utilize client-side SQL databases, and even run offline.
In addition to side-stepping the App Store minefield, web apps run on more than 100 mobile handsets with zero modification.
And on desktops.
And on the iPad.
And on anything else that has a reasonably modern web browser; which will likely include everything from sewing machines to cereal boxes in the next few years.
The App Store paradigm (Apple and others) is an out-dated business model based on scarcity, middlemen, and control. It is newspapers. It is travel agents. It is used car salesmen.
The world has moved on. Don’t get suckered.
I love this commentary by Jonathan Stark on developing iPhone apps. I've sort of known that I wanted a web app for our school for a while. Athletics schedules, blog posts, access to our Moodle server, etc. But then I couldn't figure out if we should develop for BlackBerry or iPhones (and what about the Palm Pre!), but then this post just made it all clear.
Closed models = bad. Didn't the Internet teach us anything?
She said that the computer just started up this way. The quick fix (although it doesn't tell us what caused it) was a Function-F10 to toggle the display. It came back normal. For now.
Yeah, just checking up on @lessig 's slides, no big deal. Actually, I was more staring in awe as he asked me to get his laptop connected to the projector. The full photo is here:
Wow, my inbox is full from TEDxNYED related e-mails. I couldn't even
figure out how to take a screenshot of all the messages, as they
continue for a while more!
via gothamist.com
Every day New York tells me why I live in the greatest city in the world. (via @specialkrb)
Yesterday was the TEDxNYED conference. It was an incredible day filled with brilliant educators and equally brilliant speakers. We broadcast it live over the Internet and Livestream (our sponsor) reported to me today that we had over 20,000 views. I can barely comprehend that. Today, while I'm still fresh with memories, I want to try and reflect and deconstruct my experiences yesterday, and my experiences with TEDxNYED overall. In particular I hope to go back to my own tweets, go back some of the 2,871 tweets posted about #tedxnyed yesterday, to the Flickr stream, and to the blogosphere discussing TEDxNYED.
Some of my main goals for the reflection include:
- pulling out things that were really meaningful from the talks
- summarizing if and how TEDxNYED had a diversity problem (in the speaker set)
- lessons learned from organizing TEDxNYED
All this, after a perfect whole wheat everything bagel from Bergen Bagels, the best bagles in the world.
(the cool name badges created by Stacy Mar)
(binary apples designed by Lisa Chun)
(@ginab, CEO of Ning.com)
(@jlamontagne, our emcee, and TED fellow)
(@gsiemens, of Connectivism)
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
We're working like crazy to get things done in preparation for TEDxNYED. Take a sneak peak. Recognize any of those speakers sitting in the audience? Wow, this is really happening.
The Open Internet Debate: Redlining 2.0
via racewire.org
Racewire is one of the few places covering how net neutrality legislation affects people of color in particular. They are in support of a regulated national broadband plan that would help protect "certain" communities from being left out and/or targeted - they make a comparison to the unregulated mortgage industry which preyed on people of color. This is an important issue to keep in mind as you watch the evolving dialog around broadband laws.
via @cacrandall