Category: Technology
Ars Technica – Apple quietly drops special subscription requirements for iOS apps
The new rules feel much more balanced for both publishers and Apple.
Ruk – How to replace 30 laptops (and $10,000) with 150 sheets of paper
Sometimes technology is the wrong solution.
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.
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.
Smashing Magazine – Ten Oddities And Secrets About JavaScript
JavaScript is easily one of the weirdest languages to have gained such usefulness.
Shawn Blanc – Cloudy With a Chance of Music
Ownership and total control over the experience is almost paramount for how I listen to music.
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.