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Incentives

Incentives

Posted Mar 31, 2012 23:48 UTC (Sat) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Incentives by smoogen
Parent article: Free is too expensive (Economist)

>With phone I have advertising dollars by selling the information to various companies about what my users are doing.

Most of apps on Android/iPhone only display ads, with little to no information transmitted to advertisers.

>With mac/windows there are programs where I get paid to port my program to another platform if I had a good market. Or if it is important enough, paid NOT to port it to any other platform.
...yawn...

Yeah, it's a conspiracy and now we have to kill you for breaching our secrets.


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