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The apps themselves are marketing channels of their own with cross promotion, social network sharing etc and word of mouth.

Paid advertising is not possible when you make 70 cents per sale. It costs more to advertise a copy than you make from a sale.

A way around this is to increase your lifetime income per download, which is where IAP comes in, which is where candy crush etc show the way.

If Apple don't want the store to only be that, they've got some work to do.

The app store that came with iOS6 totally destroyed the income of developers on iOS. Many developers pointed out the problems, many left the platform. With iOS7 apple plainly ignored the problem. With iOS8 some changes are coming which might help.

Apple did it. They had better undo it if they don't want their iOS devices to be nothing but ad display machines or in app purchase tricks.

I expect no more religious output from the bbc

No, my point was plainly that I was embarrassed to watch people who until they took on these valuable roles were so unaware of what most of the world is like.

If it was news to me too Id be as amazed by these observations as they seemed to be.

This place can be painfully self righteous, no-one is seriously suggesting the work they do isn't important etc etc.

Kids eh! :)

Im going to be down voted for this.

To me, the speech was fairly embarrassing. Its as though some rich people saw some poor people on a poor person safari. Now they come back to tell of what they saw, as if everyone in their audience would be just as amazed at such things as they were.

Perhaps for a stanford graduate audience that is true?

Theres suffering in the world!? :O

Thats what I was left with. No-one rational could disagree with their points, the validity of the foundations purpose, etc etc and all of that.

But the speech made me cringe a little.

When you get old enough you realise you wouldn't do what they do now not because you can't, but because it was pretty dumb.

Blurry text is worse than the real life equivalent!

Sorry can't play it, makes my eyes go funny. Can you turn that text blur off or down?

My favourite part of the article.

A few meanings I think are possible, I like the explanation that the observers were wrong to assume they knew where the target was ; It was after all his shot to take, he wasn't conforming to the expectation of the group.

Reminds me of "A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to".

40 minutes for a couple of bucks, you ever been to an amusement arcade?

Not good value for money!! AN APP!!! And on HN as well. Unbelievable

iOS only. Parse it is then.

And the first thing I did was write a blog post

> It's funny to start seeing more and more questions from people who started using computers with Windows 95.

I don't know why they stuck with it!

C64s and amigas.. when computers were cool before microsoft ruined it! Now we've been saved by apple, hurah