Facebook. In Augmented Reality
Facebook. In Augmented Reality
About the lack of paid apps in the Android Market
You can buy Android apps from the Android Market in only 13 out of 46 countries and you can only develop paid apps in 9 countries.
Of course there are third party Android app stores but who knows about them? Do they advertise? Are they being promoted to potential Android buyers? How do operators fit in to this equation?
Google is an advertising company. Android’s existence is a vehicle to deliver ads in the mobile space. Having
a large library of universally accessible paid apps is counter to Google’s reason to have Android.
It’s time for the baked-in Android UI to die
This is why I’m not too fond of customized Android interface. Many phone manufacturers insist on having their own “optimized” interfaces according to their perceived need of their intended customers. This whole forcing people to use their custom interface meme flies in the face of the whole idea of openness that Google claims to champion. Or perhaps it’s open but from the vendor’s perspective, not the user’s.
Loic Le Meur: How much can you really make developing mobile apps?
“$2,500 average per paid app isn’t enough to cover the costs of an app, especially those that require constant updates to stay ahead of the competition. Remove the Angry Birds best revenue apps from that average and I am sure the average revenue of the average paid apps will be around $500 or so.”
Loic Le Meur: How much can you really make developing mobile apps?
Eye of the Tiger. On iPads. (via JordanHollender)
Man Scrawls World’s Biggest Message With GPS ‘Pen’
The guy must have been so moved and so driven by Ayn Rand that he’s willing to go this far to show his dedication to spreading her works across the continent.
The main idea of “Inception”: if you run a VM inside a VM inside a VM inside a VM, everything will be very slow
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Map of undersea cables
If you ever want to know how the world’s undersea cables are routed, check out this map.
Hey look at my homescreens!
So I signed up to the brand spankin’ new homescreen.me from the guys behind Smoking Apples and you can see how I arranged the home screens on my iOS devices. The site draws inspiration from firstand20.com but it’s for everyone (who has an invitation).
You can upload a single shot of each of your iPhone, iPhone 4, and iPad home screens but no more. I suppose one reason the iPhone 4 gets its own entry because of its higher resolution display but other than that, I’m not sure why it does. I hope the older iPhones don’t get all upset and cry about it because Preshit and Milind are playing favorites to the new kid.
I expect a gallery is on the way to make it easier to browse through people’s home screens. Somehow I see this developing into something like Flickr for, well, home screens. Would be better if we can submit them directly instead of having to switch to the computer and upload from there, but for a start, it’s neat.
Speaking of which, someone should come up with a collective name for these iOS devices.
Han Solo was supposed to die in ROTJ
“We had an outline and George changed everything in it,” Kurtz said. “Instead of bittersweet and poignant he wanted a euphoric ending with everybody happy. The original idea was that they would recover [the kidnapped] Han Solo in the early part of the story and that he would then die in the middle part of the film in a raid on an Imperial base. George then decided he didn’t want any of the principals killed. By that time there were really big toy sales and that was a reason.”
The discussed ending of the film that Kurtz favored presented the rebel forces in tatters, Leia grappling with her new duties as queen and Luke walking off alone “like Clint Eastwood in the spaghetti westerns,” as Kurtz put it.
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