The best model that has the least dysfunction in it to pay for apps is either advertising or subscriptions. Apple doesn't allow infinite number of business models and only supports certain ones. If you say you don't want to pay in one of those ways, what you're effectively saying is you don't wants to pay at all because there is no other option for the app.
- Pre-show: Phish season
- Follow-up:
- The Anonymous Corner
- Some anonymous thoughts on mail delivery to Apple Park
BELIEVE
shirts are at Apple Park
- Rank-and-file engineers also hate Radar
- Why does Apple bother with responses at all? (via Matthew Fenselau)
- Not all subscriptions are created equal, notes Claude Zeins
- More on “no subscription” hardliners
- Myth and Oni were given to Take Two Interactive
- Exit Interviews
- WWDC Preview & Predictions
- Post-show: Casey destroyed Erin’s car & computer
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