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The race for the bottom of everything
On Apple’s 30% cut. Again.
We all know where this all goes. Yesterday it was a deal. Today, 30% is way too much. So, let’s fight and try to force Apple to set the cut to 20%. No, 15%. That is way better, right? A few years down the road, a well known developer comes out and complain about 15% being way too much of a cut. Poor guy. Let’s start a fight and bring that down. Apple respond and set it to 10% because they are forced to. And the story continues.
Let’s face the reality. We don’t like to pay for something. We want it all. We know the price of everything but the value of nothing. How do you think China came to be so powerful? How do you think Amazon or Costco is sucking air from small local businesses in our communities? Why do you think our life is full of shitty ads are everywhere? Why do you think we are the product of Google, Facebook? Because we don’t like to pay for something, anything. We want it all free.
There is a pattern. There is a race for the bottom of everything. And I don’t agree in Brent’s views on what would happen if Apple lowers their demand from developers. I certainly don’t believe developers would lower the price of their apps.
Remember what capitalism is all about?
Change my mind.
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Smartphones going forward and Zoom going backward
Modern smartphones replaced most if not all specialized tools like camera, microphone, etc. Zoom wanting to sell dedicated screens for meetings would be going backward and… really, who want’s to buy a 27" monitor just for Zoom meetings? daringfireball.net/linked/20…
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Fascinating how the Trump administration did exactly the opposite in order to tackle this pandemic crisis. Inside Trump’s Failure: The Rush to Abandon Leadership Role on the Virus - The New York Times
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When I talk about this virus to my kids, my recurring message is the fact that this is not like the flu, far from it.
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Something fascinating and disturbing about COVID-19 and the US: everything that makes the US what they are is making them weak against this virus. #livefreeordie #againstthefed
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If you think not wearing a face mask is a free ride, think again. More than $ 330 Billions deficit for Canada because of the pandemic.
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This is the Apple that I love. Thanks, Mr @Tim_Cook. www.apple.com/speaking-…
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I’ve always been fascinated by the US society as far back as I can remember. And as far as I can remember, my relationship has always been of « love & hate » type. These days, it is more on the « hate » side, sadly.
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Is it me of Trump is getting worse and worse by the day… trying to bring the country in fire with him when he will lose this coming November…?
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Absurdities
This is the absurdities of our economic system. This coronavirus crisis is going to cause a big reset. Daring Fireball: Hertz Files for Bankruptcy, Somehow Accumulated $17 Billion in Debt
How in the world does it make sense for a company in a low-margin, long-established business with financials like this to rack up $17 billion in debt? When times were good this amount of debt would consume decades of Hertz’s profits. This is bananas.
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Stopping mass surveillance
I’ve been working from home since March, 13th. My employer is fully supporting remote work by monitoring the output of my work, not the input. Stop mass surveillance by reporting when you disagree with the policy. If no change, just quit.
Employee-surveillance software is not welcome to integrate with Basecamp m.signalvnoise.com/employee-…
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So true. Sad. Frustrating.
Washington Post Poll: ‘Americans Widely Oppose Reopening Most Businesses, Despite Easing of Restrictions in Some States’ daringfireball.net/linked/20…
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Nothing more to add.
Apple CEO Tim Cook Delivers Virtual Commencement Address to Ohio State University Graduates www.macrumors.com/2020/05/0…
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Remember those waiting lines in the seventies?
When I go for a walk my mostly empty city, thanks to the long lasting confinement, I see many lines in front of different grocery stores. These are unfamiliar scenes for us.
It reminds me of when I was a young child. It was at the height of the cold war. At that time, medias were portraying communism as the bad guys. I cannot count how many times I saw in the news, scenes from USSR of people waiting in front of grocery stores to get a few vegetables and bread. It was in the seventies. And we were kind of laughing at them and their failed society. And here we are. Different cause for sure but mostly same effects.
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Berlin, July of 1945. Devastation. These remastered movies are always poignant.
