Category: Economics
Grist – The American suburbs are a giant Ponzi scheme
I can’t say I agree with this, but it fits my perception of America’s infrastructure.
BBC News – Capital One to buy ING online bank
I’m a huge fan of ING Direct, been using them for years so I hope this doesn’t hurt them in any way.
Mac Rumors – Apple Reverses Course On In-App Subscriptions
Good news for publishers and services like Amazon’s Kindle and Netflix.
NYTimes.com – Financial Times Introduces Web App in Effort to Bypass Apple
The first big name publisher to switch to a web app for publishing and not deal with Apple’s 30% cut.
Greenpoint Gazette – An Open Letter from Eugene Mirman to Time Warner Cable
It only gets better.
Official Gmail Blog – Our plans to support modern browsers across Google Apps
Wouldn’t that be amazing if this is start of all web applications/sites being able to only support this same list of browsers.
The Official Google Code Blog – Making money with Google In-App Payments for the Web
Apple’s cut is so out of portion to everything else comparable is the real problem.
Clickable Bliss Blog – iAd Policy Change: No more kid-focused apps
I can totally understand Apple wanting to pull iAds from apps targeted towards children, however that has to really hurt app developers as apps targeting kids are probably most often ad-supported business models
NYTimes.com – Google’s Digital Music Service Falls Short of Ambition
This doesn’t bode well for what we all really want, stream our already owned music collection without having to upload it, wonder if Apple will have any better luck with the record labels.