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I worked directly with ASDA, a large supermarket based in England and owned by Walmart, on a video for their store managers conference in September 2012. The conference, called the 'Golden Quarter' is held around September / October each year and is for the store managers around the UK to come together and hear about all the products coming out in the lead up in to Christmas. The video I was making was for the entertainment department and was focused on the top CD's, DVD's, books and computer games being released.
I was given the X-Factor UK TV intro as inspiration for the video because they liked the idea of flying around in space between all the different products. I was sent a long list of the upcoming releases and was given access to FTP sites & download spaces online to download various images, logos, clips and graphics for the products. As there were so many products to show, they decided to have the majority of the products on screen for about 5 seconds, but the top 4 highest projected sellers in each category needed to be on screen for longer, around 10 seconds.
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One of the few progressive Christian writers with a national voice, Anne Lamott's work (Bird by Bird, Operating Instructions) ranges from the meditative to the hilarious. Blue Shoe falls somewhere in the middle of that range. A slow, thoughtful novel, rooted in the domestic routines of child-raising, Blue Shoe follows the newly separated Mattie Ryder as she moves back into her childhood home, recently vacated by her elderly mother, and undertakes the renovation of her entire life. Her best friend Angela has left the San Francisco Bay area to move in with her new lover, Julie. Mattie's ex-husband, Nicky, has settled so quickly into a steady relationship with a young woman named Lee that it is clear they were involved during his marriage to Mattie. Nicky and Mattie's two children are displaying signs of emotional disturbance (Lamott is at her best in describing the quietly weird behavior of young children). And to add to the mix, Mattie's mother is falling into a senile dementia characterized by pleading phone calls and wacky assertions of independence. All Mattie wants is a little more money, a decent boyfriend, and for her philandering father to rise from his grave and solve all her problems. Is that so much to ask? Some of the action in this novel could have been compressed, and the major subplot involving Mattie's father fails to excite, but the strengths of Blue Shoe--humor, unflinching characterization, and keen observation--more than compensate for its weaknesses. --Regina Marler --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Memoirist and novelist Lamott (Operating Instructions; Crooked Little Heart, etc.) brilliantly captures the dilemma of a divorced woman from the so-called "sandwich generation" in her latest, a funny, poignant and occasionally gut-wrenching novel that tracks the efforts of Mattie Ryder to cope with her divorce, find a new man, deal with her mother's aging and restore the emotional equilibrium of her two young children. The divorce dominates in the early going as Mattie continues to sleep with her sexy but egotistical ex-husband, Nick, even though his new romance with a younger woman is clipping along at a sprightly pace. Meanwhile, Mattie grows close to a married friend named Daniel, who also feels a romantic pull although he's happily married. Mattie's feisty mother, Isa, ages precipitously and becomes increasingly disoriented, leading to a series of calamities. Mattie's touching relationships with her kids, two-year-old Ella and difficult but sensitive six-year-old Harry, become the emotional anchor for the novel, and narrative momentum is provided by the gradual unfolding of a family secret, which reveals the infidelities of Mattie's late father. Most of the comedy is of the domestic variety, and Lamott continually displays her gift for finding the right combination of humor and small but significant revelations in ordinary moments. The ensemble cast is another major strength of the book, providing a backdrop against which Mattie, Daniel, Isa and the children emerge as powerful and memorable individuals. Lamott has explored similar terrain in her earlier works, but the scope and freshness of this novel could make it a breakout work for her.
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Theme: searching for why her family is so screwed up. Discovery: (1)her dad was a self-serving adulterer/pedophile who inflicted emotional pain on everyone he was close to, and (2) he probably got that way because he was knocked off his moorings by being sexually abused as a kid.
So what does Mattie, his spiritual and tender-hearted adult daughter, do? (1) Knocks both her kids off their emotional moorings with her sexual blundering and floundering, and (2)casually crushes Pauline underfoot--- Pauline, a nice woman who never did Mattie any harm and who was, in fact, outlandishly generous toward her--- in order to steal her husband Daniel.
All the while making like this is so very understandable and so very special, because she and Daniel like going to church! So t'hell with Pauline and too bad for the anxiety-tortured kids --- give 'em a snuggly hug, right? --- because kids can always adapt, right?
Mattie: so perceptive, so self-aware, so honest. Tenderhearted as a rusty knife.
She is recently divorced, a single mother, part of the sandwich generation - taking care of both her children and her aging mother. She was raised in an unstable and abusive environment. She is perceptive, bright, aware, and intelligent, trying desperately to sort out the confusions, losses, challenges and growth in both her past life and for the future.
I would highly recommend this book to any women (in particular) who have questioned themselves, their paths, their choices, and find themselves at mid-life with no "happy ending" ......yet. The book is compassionate, insightful, messy, strong, and very much about the human condition.
Just as in Lamott's nonfiction, we are subjected to laments about the past--mainly her crazy alcohoic family. And, of course, the lack of a leading man. Quite frankly, the story line grows weary, wheter it's in fiction or nonfiction. Who wants to hear a woman with a decent life whine about her messed up family past and her poor choices when it comes to men?
I gave Blue Shoe two stars, rather than one, because Lamott can be funny and entertaining. I enjoy when we hear about the *good* in Mattie's life--the deep friendships, the wonderful kids, the found faith. And Lamott *can* be downright funny. The book held my attention and was entertaining enough. But periodically I had to put it down because the whining was driving me crazy.
Perhaps someday Lamott will realize how blessed she is, and will decide to focus on the human connections and the humor of everyday life, rather than wallowing in self-pity.
The plot: a mother (Mattie) and two small children (Ella and Harry) survive, build new friendships and repair old ones. Mattie seeks answers to her father's psychological abandonment, the meaning of a key covered in blue paint, and a toy shoe.
But these plot gears merely turn the larger wheels of inquiry. Why do lives unfold the way they do? What events do we control? Can we accept the passage of time and all it brings? Very moving answers can be found.
The book refers to time and weather so often that they become characters:
"...through the dark and dreary skies, sunbeams slanted, bright and operatic."
"sunlight fell on the mountain as though through a doilie..."
"The storms of winter began, tossed down by towering clouds and marked by sudden shifts of light."
Nature and the changing seasons reveal inner states, primarily Mattie's. Nature plays the part of fortune teller, illuminating lives, predicting events, setting them in motion. This rings true; often it is what we see, in grains of wood, or a shadow on the blind, that reveals us. Our perception is our reality.
Working in counterpoint is another personified character, the Blue Shoe. This toy, left in her father's old car, compels Mattie to investigate his life and possible indiscretions. She holds the toy for comfort, panics when it is gone. She passes it from friend to brother and back to herself as a talisman of searching. It comes to stand for the characters' desires.Read more ›
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This book is the best example of the worst writing that I've ever had the displeasure to read. It was disjointed, meandering and totally unsatisfying. Read morePublished on May 28 2012 by Agnes D Dorken
I enjoyed the beautifully written descriptions of the lead character's surroundings. It was interesting to note the degree of self-centeredness for her. Read morePublished on July 12 2004 by Liz
I found that the book was easy reading and it didn't really have any point to it at all. I wouldn't recommend it. Read morePublished on June 1 2004
Anne Lamott's name should be Anne Lament because that's all her characters ever do. We enjoy reading about flawed characters because it reaffirms our own imperfections in life,... Read morePublished on March 10 2004
I sat down with Anne Lamott's new character Mattie Ryder, and she let me know that it's perfectly fine to be flawed. Read morePublished on March 3 2004 by Erin Rhodes
Mattie Ryder is a middle aged divorced mother of two who loves her children, loves her parents, loves her friends, and loves her dog. Read morePublished on Feb. 24 2004 by David B. Tomko
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HI every body, my appworld has stopped working. I couldn't be able to open it. Its showing a message as
"App world requires the latest version of Blackberry ID." And it shows that
"Blackberry ID installation failed. Please try again later. (80002)"
Please help me out. Thanks.
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Please refer to this thread and try those suggestion App World latest version of Blackberry ID update
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Hi prince, i'm sad to say that all the work-arounds and the solutions given in that page could not help me. I am using wifi on bold 8900 and it has blackberry 5.0 bundle 1626. I've checked all those written in that page. Pls help me with this.
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Do you have any BlackBerry Data Plan / BIS on your account ?
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Hi prince, I don't have any blackberry data plan or BIS on my account. I've reinstalled appworld on my blackberry several times. And it has the same problem even now. I've read in the "knowledge data base of blackberry" about removing the IT policy, as a solution for a problem like this. But i couldn't understand how to do that. Is there any other option that you can help me with. Please let me know, thank you.
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Hi prince, just now i've checked once again and when i try to open the appworld, it shows--"App world requires the latest version of Blackberry ID." But when i click update it shows--"Sorry, the software update server is unavailable. Please try again." If i click --close-it shows--"Blackberry ID installation failed. Please try again later.(80002)." Please help me with this, thank you.


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But just face facts: ditching the headphone jack on phones makes them worse, in extremely obvious ways. Let's count them!
And let's compare them to arguments against removing floppy drives from the iMac in 1998.
1. Digital audio means DRM audio
Restricting audio output to a purely digital connection means that music publishers and streaming companies can start to insist on digital copyright enforcement mechanisms. We moved our video systems to HDMI and got HDCP, remember? Copyright enforcement technology never stops piracy and always hurts the people who most rely on legal fair use, but you can bet the music industry is going to start cracking down on "unauthorized" playback and recording devices anyway.
I'm not familiar with how people are taking advantage of the "analog loophole" to do things with audio out of the iPhone headphone port that would be forbidden using the digital Lightning port, but now seems like a good time to raise the big question: Should the analog headphone jack remain on our devices forever? If you think so, you can stop reading. If not, when? Maybe now is the wrong time, and Apple is making a mistake. I don't know. None of us outside the company seem to know, because all that has leaked is that the new iPhone won't have the port, with no explanation why. But I say at some point it will go away, and now seems like it might be the right time. Also, historically, Apple has proven to be very good at timing the removal of established legacy ports.
Patel misses the bigger problem. It's not enforcement of DRM on audio playback. It's enforcement of the MFi Program for certifying hardware that uses the Lightning port. Right now any headphone maker in the world can make any headphones they want for the standard jack. Not so with the Lightning port.
We deal with DRM when it comes to video because we generally don't rewatch and take TV shows and movies with us, but you will rue the day Apple decided to make the iPhone another 1mm thinner the instant you get a "playback device not supported" message. Winter is coming.
As an aside, whatever the merits of this decision, it's not about device thinness. The iPhone 6 is the thinnest iPhone to date at 6.9mm. The iPod Touch has a headphone jack and is just 6.1mm thick. The iPod Nano: 5.4mm. The analog headphone jack is more costly in terms of depth than thickness.
2. Wireless headphones and speakers are fine, not great
Totally agree. But the rumor is that the new iPhone will ship with wired Lightning earbuds.
3. Dongles are stupid, especially when they require other dongles
External floppy drives sucked too.
4. Ditching a deeply established standard will disproportionately impact accessibility
The traditional headphone jack is a standard for a reason — it works. It works so well that an entire ecosystem of other kinds of devices has built up around it, and millions of people have access to compatible devices at every conceivable price point. The headphone jack might be less good on some metrics than Lightning or USB-C audio, but it is spectacularly better than anything else in the world at being accessible, enabling, open, and democratizing.
Apple is the company that brought us the 30-pin and Lightning ports, and whose iPhones, iPods, and iPads have never had USB ports. "Enabling, open, and democratizing" have never been high on Apple's list of priorities for external ports. They're on the list, to be sure. Just not high on the list.
5. Making Android and iPhone headphones incompatible is so incredibly arrogant and stupid there's not even explanatory text under this one
Why would Apple care about headphone compatibility with Android? If Apple gave two shits about port compatibility with Android, iPhones would have Micro-USB ports. In 1998 people used floppy drives extensively for sneaker-netting files between Macs and PCs. That didn't stop Apple from dropping it.
The incompatibility that matters is with Apple's own devices, particularly MacBooks. Presumably Apple's Lightning earbuds will work on iPads, too. But it's going to suck having to use different headphones (or a dongle) for the Mac than you use with your iOS devices.1 But again, this is no different than the transition from 30-pin to Lightning. You have to start somewhere. (Unless you believe Apple should stick with the analog headphone jack as we know it forever — but I told you people to stop reading way back at the top.)
6. No one is asking for this
Raise your hand if the thing you wanted most from your next phone was either fewer ports or more dongles.
I didn't think so. You wanted better battery life, didn't you? Everyone just wants better battery life.
"No one" asked for the iMac to remove the floppy drive or switch from ADB ports to USB (at a time when PCs weren't shipping with USB either, which meant few — I mean really few — existing USB peripherals on the market). There was a huge outcry when the iPhone 5 dumped the proprietary-but-ubiquitous 30-pin port for the proprietary-and-all-new Lightning port. MacBook Air fans are still complaining about the new MacBook's solitary USB-C port.
This is how it goes. If it weren't for Apple we'd probably still be using computers with VGA and serial ports. The essence of Apple is that they make design decisions "no one asked for".
And as for battery life, surely removing the deep headphone socket can only leave more room for a larger battery.
Vote with your dollars.
We shall see. But I bet people will do just that. And in five years we'll look at analog headphone jacks the way we look at all the other legacy ports we've abandoned.
Will MacBooks ship with a Lightning port in lieu of a headphone jack? If so, will they ship with headphones? (Probably not, I say. Cough up the extra $29 for a new pair of Apple EarPods.) Is this why we haven't seen new MacBook Pros yet — because they're waiting for the new iPhone, so that both can go Lightning-for-audio at the same time? Perhaps. ↩
Moscone West isn't big enough for 5,000 attendees to fit in a room, so a few thousand WWDC attendees always had to sit in an overflow room where they'd watch the keynote on video. That's a major reason why attendees would line up at the crack of dawn, even though the keynotes start at 10 am. The Bill Graham Civic Auditorium has no such limitation, and it was nice to see (and hear) all attendees. The sound system there was just great, and the huge screen behind the stage was good too. I give the new venue a thumbs-up.
I was hoping for a thorough reinvention of the WatchOS UI navigation structure, and it looks like we got it. Glances are gone — an updated app for WatchOS 3 is a glance. Just tap the side button once to see the new "Dock", and the apps in the Dock are live views of the actual apps. A conceptual simplification, along with a deliberate effort to reduce many common tasks to just one or two taps, is just what the doctor ordered for Apple Watch.
As for the purported dramatic improvements to app launching times and background data refreshing, I'll believe it when I see it, but it sounds like an amazing year-over-year improvement.
I'd be happy if the only new feature were the system-wide single-sign on for authenticating with your cable provider to use apps that require proof that you subscribe to a traditional TV service.
It didn't make the keynote, but another change to tvOS that games can now require a dedicated gaming controller. I can see why Apple didn't allow that — they wanted to push developers to support the Siri Remote as a controller. But some games simply require a real controller. That requirement was holding back the platform. ("Common sense prevails" is arguably the theme of this year's announcements.)
I love the name change, but as someone who remembers when the classic Mac operating system was called "Mac OS", I'm finding it tough to type without the space. Back then, "MacOS" was considered a typo.
The new "Continuity" features between devices sound great. Auto-unlocking your Mac with your Apple Watch is a very cool feature, as is the new Universal Clipboard. (That's not really a Mac feature — it works from one iOS device to another, too.)
I don't have time to write about all the new features that were announced today (let alone all the ones that didn't even make the keynote), but looking over my notes, it strikes me that these are all very practical improvements. Everyone encounters the lock screen; Apple has made it more useful. Siri is smarter and can now integrate with third-party apps. Computer vision analysis of your photos — if it works well — will be useful to anyone who takes a lot of photos.
But perhaps the biggest change wasn't even mentioned on stage. Most built-in system apps can now be removed from your device.1 Third-party VoIP apps can now commandeer the lock screen when an incoming call arrives — something that until now was reserved for the Phone and FaceTime apps. Likewise, third-party messaging apps can be specified as the default for people on a per-contact basis. iOS 10 looks like the anti-lock-in release.
I've been arguing for a while now that iMessage is vastly under-appreciated as one of the most popular and best messaging platforms in the world. I think because it's only for Apple devices it somehow doesn't count in some people's minds, even though there are (according to Apple) a billion Apple devices in use.
Messages is the most-used app on iOS, so it makes sense for Apple to spend a lot of time and attention on it. With the bigger emoji, stickers, and "bubble effects", it's clear that a lot of Apple's work went into making Messages just plain fun. But the new extension APIs that allow for "iMessage Apps" strike me as turning iMessage into a genuine platform. One way to think about it is as an effort to move away from sharing plain text (and often ugly, unreadable) URLs that open in Safari and instead exchange software "objects" that are usable right there in the message thread.
We don't have Xcode for iPad yet, but this is a start. It looks like a lot of fun and a great way to learn Swift or even just how to program, period. This is the most approachable programming environment from Apple since HyperCard. I'm interested to see whether Playground files wind up like HyperCard stacks.
Curiously, there doesn't seem to be a way to specify a third-party app as the default handler for things like "mailto:" links, even if you remove the system Mail app. I hope that's just something Apple hasn't gotten to yet. ↩
But Schiller insisted that it wasn't any kind of "Apple tax" backlash or companies encouraging users to go to their own websites that drove Apple's new subscription model: "It wasn't done from a negative like that," he says. When I asked about this, he stresses that it was "absolutely done because we recognize that developers do a lot of work to retain a customer over time in a subscription model, and we wanted to reward them for that by helping them to keep more of the revenue." Apple can help drive customers to the original download, Schiller argues, but only the developer can keep the customer over time and "we want to incent them to do that."
Schiller imagines scenarios where many kinds of apps that were previously single-time purchases could move to the model. Games that have an ongoing subscription-like program, ones that have a massive online playing world that require upgrades of game worlds, might make sense. He suggests many enterprise apps could move to subscription, and that professional apps that require "a lot of maintenance of new features and versions" would be a good fit.
That's pretty much exactly what Schiller told me yesterday too, which colored my take on the breadth of apps that could take advantage of subscription pricing. I wrote:
This dramatically changes the economics of the App Store. Until now, productivity apps could charge up front as paid downloads and that was it. Updates had to be free, or, to charge for major new versions, developers would have to play confusing games by making the new version an entirely new SKU in the app store. Twitter clients like Tweetbot and Twitterrific, for example, did this, to justify years of ongoing development. Now, apps like this can instead charge an annual/monthly/etc. subscription fee.
But Apple's own "What's New in Subscriptions" web page makes this uncertain:
Starting this fall, apps in all categories on the App Store will be eligible to offer in-app purchases for auto-renewable subscriptions to services or content. Users enjoy the reliability that comes with subscribing to a service that they love, and the experience must provide ongoing value worth the recurring payment for an auto-renewable subscription to make sense. Although all categories of apps will be eligible, this business model is not appropriate for every app.
Like many freemium apps, successful auto-renewable subscription apps operate as services that are continuously supported, and often require sustained content development or feature enhancements to retain users. Whether updating content on a regular basis, providing on-demand use of a service, or giving access to a large collection of content, successful auto-renewable subscription apps are equipped to offer continued utility and enjoyment to their subscribers.
In a sidebar titled "Types of Auto-Renewable Subscriptions", Apple lists only two, "Content" and "Services":
Provide paid access to content that is updated or delivered on a regular basis, such as newspapers, educational courses, or audio or video libraries.
Provide paid access to an ongoing service within your app, such as cloud storage or massive multiplayer online games (MMOGs).
Professional apps that require "a lot of maintenance of new features and versions" don't fit either of those categories. Would Twitter clients like Tweetbot and Twitterrific qualify for subscription pricing? After talking to Schiller yesterday, I thought so. Now, I don't know. Developers are definitely confused.
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I have a side project, a Mac app, that I could also do as an iOS app. I have no plans to do so — but the news about subscriptions and free trials makes me reconsider.
It might be sustainable with this new model.
But here's the thing: the app is a stand-alone thing. I'm not running a backend web service for it. Would it be okay to use the subscription-based pricing? […] What does "not appropriate" mean? Does that mean rejection? Or is that just a warning that it's maybe not the best fit, but it's okay to try it anyway?
Schiller obviously knows what he's talking about, but what he's said seems to be outside the new written rules. So I think what Apple is trying to do here is discourage frivolous use of subscriptions. I think it's obvious from Apple's own description that while apps from any category are now allowed to offer subscription, that doesn't mean every app will be allowed to. Like with many App Store rules, Apple doesn't spell things out in detail in order to preserve control and flexibility. Like Justice Potter Stewart's "I know it when I see it" definition of "obscenity", I think Apple wants to define "good use of the subscription business model" as "we know it when we see it".
The problem with that is that developers don't know whether they're going to be approved or not. As it stands, they would need to do all the engineering (and design) work to support subscriptions, submit the app, and wait to see if it's approved and perhaps appeal if it isn't. That's bad enough for an existing app whose developer wants to switch to subscription pricing. But this uncertainty is downright untenable for a new app whose developer sees subscription pricing as the only sustainable business model to justify the app's development in the first place.
The letter of the rules Apple has posted creates counterintuitive incentives for developers. An app with its own proprietary sync service can use the subscription model, but a competing app that provides the same features using CloudKit cannot. But Apple wants developers to use iCloud.
I think Apple should just allow any app to offer subscription pricing, period. Apple's role should be as the trusted platform vendor, making sure users can easily cancel subscriptions, requiring opt-in to any pricing changes, and making sure no one is being tricked or confused in any way. Otherwise Apple should allow developers to define their use of subscriptions as they see fit. In the same way that developers with paid-up-front apps can pick their own price, and users determine whether it's worth it or not, developers of subscription-based apps should be able to define their own "here's what you get when you subscribe" features and let users decide whether they're worth the price or not. I don't think Apple ought to control this — the market will work itself out. People won't sign up for a bad subscription offering for the same reasons they don't sign up for bad subscription deals in the world outside the App Store.
Apple needs to clarify this to remove the uncertainty.
Another question: If an app is deemed qualified to use subscription pricing, must it be functional in some limited way without a subscription? Apps that use in-app purchases must be functional without the IAP. Is that true for subscription-based apps too?
My understanding is that if an app gets approved for subscription pricing, then it is up to the developer whether the app is useful without a subscription. A simple comparison: Spotify and Netflix. Spotify plays music for free (with ads) even if you don't pay them a nickel. Netflix, on the other hand, doesn't offer any content to non-subscribers. I'd like to see Apple clarify this too.
I should add that I don't think subscription pricing — even if Apple clarified that subscriptions are open to any app, period — are a panacea. There is no perfect way to sell software. The old way — pay up front, then pay for major upgrades in the future — has problems, too, just a different set of problems. If I had my druthers Apple would enable paid upgrades in the App Store(s), but I get the feeling that's not in the cards. That leaves us with subscriptions.
DF reader Sean Harding framed the problems with subscription pricing well, in a short series of tweets:
I think the new stuff is good, but I don't think it really solves the upgrade pricing problem from a customer standpoint. A sub forces me to effectively always buy the upgrade or stop using even the old version. I don't dislike subscriptions because I don't want to pay. I just want freedom to decide if the new features are worth paying for.
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I'd probably be fine with a subscription model, if they degraded nicely. Stop paying, app still works but no more upgrades. That seems fair.
That's a nice notion, but I'm pretty sure the App Store doesn't allow for that and never will. A nice side effect of paid downloads is that you, the user, can keep using an old version of an app until it technically no longer runs, because of an OS update or something like that (e.g. a PowerPC binary that no longer runs on Intel-based Macs — a scenario that could happen again if Apple starts putting ARM chips in Macs). With software-as-a-service, when you stop paying for the service, you don't get to keep using the current version of the app — or if it's a freemium model, you don't get to keep using the non-free features that were previously enabled via the subscription.
I can see why some people don't like this. I personally have a few not-the-latest-version apps that I'm glad still work for me. But this is the way the software economy is moving. Nobody expects a subscription web app/service to continue working if you stop paying for it. With Adobe and Microsoft leading the way, that's the way the economics of app development are shifting too.]]>
So started my phone call with Phil Schiller yesterday.1 Doing something a little different, indeed.
These changes and improvements to the App Store — or App Stores, if you prefer, because they all apply to iOS (and thus WatchOS), Mac OS X, and tvOS — are no little things. These changes fundamentally change the App Store, for users and especially for developers.
A quick summary:
App Store review times are now much shorter. These changes are already in place, and have been widely noted in recent weeks. Apple is today confirming they're not a fluke — they're the result of systemic changes to how App Store review works.
Subscription-based pricing was heretofore limited to specific app categories. Now, subscription-based pricing will be an option for any sort of app, including productivity apps and games. This is an entirely new business model for app developers — one that I think will make indie app development far more sustainable.
Changes to app discovery, including a smarter "Featured" tab, the return of the "Categories" tab, and, yes, as rumored, paid search ads.
Until now, subscription pricing was reserved for apps that served media content: streaming audio and video, news, etc. Apple is now opening it to apps from any category, which effectively solves the problems of recurring revenue and free trials. Even better, Apple is changing the revenue split for all subscriptions: for the first year of any subscription, the revenue split remains 70/30; after the first year, the revenue split changes to 85/15.
In Schiller's words, this is "in recognition that the developer is doing most of the work" with any app that is so good that the user remains a paid subscriber for over a year. This change is effective starting this Monday — any app that already has subscribers will start splitting revenue with Apple 85/15 on subscriptions that are at least a year old.
This dramatically changes the economics of the App Store. Until now, productivity apps could charge up front as paid downloads and that was it. Updates had to be free, or, to charge for major new versions, developers would have to play confusing games by making the new version an entirely new SKU in the app store. Twitter clients like Tweetbot and Twitterrific, for example, did this, to justify years of ongoing development. Now, apps like this can instead charge an annual/monthly/etc. subscription fee.
This could be the change that makes the market for professional-caliber iPad apps possible. On the Mac, there has long been a tradition of paying a large amount of money for a pro app, then paying a smaller amount of money for major updates. The App Store has never allowed for that sort of upgrade pricing — but upgrade pricing is what enabled ongoing continuous development of pro software. Paying for each major new version, however, is arguably a relic of the age when software came in physical boxes. Subscription-based pricing — "software as a service (SaaS)" — is the modern equivalent. That's the route both Microsoft and Adobe have taken. In the old world of boxed software and installation disks, the natural interval was the version. In today's world where everything is a download, months or years are more natural payment intervals.
Now, it's available to all app categories in the App Store. I think this is terrific news both for developers and users.
Other changes:
Developers have been asking for a way to do free trials and to sustain long-term ongoing development ever since the App Store opened in 2008. This is Apple's answer. I think all serious productivity apps in the App Store should and will switch to subscription pricing.
You might argue that people don't want to subscribe to a slew of different apps. But the truth is most people don't want to pay for apps, period. Nothing will change that. But for those people willing to pay for high quality apps, subscriptions make sustainable-for-developer pricing more palatable, and more predictable.
This is mostly a benefit to developers, who get a quicker turnaround time. Users don't really see the review process — it's hidden from them. Users just see when updated apps are available to them in the App Store. But there is a benefit to users of faster turnaround times — when developers fix bugs, users will get those bug fixes much sooner.
According to Schiller, 50 percent of submitted apps are now approved within 24 hours; 90 percent in 48 hours. For years, turnaround time was measured in days, not hours, and was generally in the range of a week.
Schiller told me this change can be attributed to three things:
I asked for details regarding those "policy changes", and Schiller demurred. One thing he emphasized, however, is that the rules for apps haven't changed at all. If anything, Schiller claimed, with the new tooling at the disposal of reviewers, reviews are even better at identifying apps with quality problems than before. The impression I'm left with is that reviewers are now given more discretion to fast track apps from long-time trusted developers, once their binaries have passed Apple's automated tests.
One can argue that this is long overdue, but better late than never.
I was against this when it first leaked, and I remain skeptical. But now that I've seen the details, I'm OK with it. Here's what Schiller told me:
Apple has been leaving a lot of money on the table for Google and Facebook, both of which have been raking in money hand over fist from developers paying for ads that lead to app downloads. Schiller only mentioned "search engines" and "social networks", but the truth is they should have been singulars, not plurals. It's Google and Facebook.
Apple's system does not use tracking. No profiles are kept of users, and no user-identifying information is sent to advertisers. And users can opt out of things like location-based ads with the system level preferences for location privacy. Downloads are already being driven by paid ads, so they might as well be in the App Store itself, where Apple can take some of the money and deliver ads that live up to its standards for privacy.
It's also important to note that the ads are the same as the regular App Store listings. What you'll see is the same exact content, vetted through the same approval process, as the regular app store listing. Developers are not paying to get a discrete "ad" displayed, per se, but paying to get their regular App Store listing displayed as an ad.
My concern when word first leaked about this is that the system would be geared toward large developers. Schiller emphasized to me that Apple designed this system with small indie developers in mind. 65 percent of app downloads start with searches in the App Store, according to Schiller — effectively two out of every three downloads. App Store search is absolutely essential to discovery. These ads should help small developers gain exposure — and they should be more efficient than ad spends at Google or Facebook, because they only appear in the context of a user who is already searching for an app.
Collectively, these changes should put to rest any notion that the App Store is neglected or in any way an afterthought for Apple. I'm certainly glad about the vastly improved turnaround time for App Store submission reviews, and I have a certain "wait and see" ambivalence regarding the App Store search ads.
But I am genuinely excited about subscription pricing being an option for all apps. I think it's truly win-win-win, for Apple, its users, and most importantly for developers.
For Apple, Ben Thompson nailed it back in 2013:
What makes monetizing productivity apps so tricky is that they are indispensable to some consumers, yet overwhelming to others. It's that indispensable part, though, that should matter to platform owners. If a user comes to depend on certain productivity apps that are only available on one platform — and, in general, mobile productivity apps are much more likely to be monogamous — then that user is effectively bound to the platform, and won't even consider another platform when it comes time to upgrade.
The opportunity for growth in smartphones is increasingly previous-smartphone owners (as opposed to new smartphone owners). Keeping those owners around should be a top priority for every platform, and one of the best ways to do so is fully supporting a subscription model for productivity apps. It will make them more successful and thus stickier, ultimately to the platform's long-term benefit.
For users, the benefit is that they should see more high quality productivity apps. And they'll only have to pay for them as long as they're actually using them.
For developers, I think this is the first time the App Store supports a business model that sustains long-term ongoing development of deep applications. The proof of the pudding is in the eating, and so we'll have to wait and see if this actually changes the economic dynamics of developing for the App Store. But Phil Schiller's enthusiasm for small indie developers is undeniable. It's palpable. The new 85/15 revenue split after the first year of a subscription is proof of it. He's trying, and now that the entire App Store is under his leadership, that means Apple is trying. I would argue that the App Store has changed more in the last six months than it did in the previous eight years. Throw in a "finally" if you want, but again, I say better late than never.2
Last but not least, the fact that these significant — dare I say dramatic — changes to the App Store didn't make the cut for the WWDC keynote makes me damn curious about what did make the cut for the keynote. The optimist in me foresees a keynote full of great new features in iOS 10, Mac OS X (MacOS 12?), WatchOS 3, and tvOS. The cynic in me foresees a repeat of last year's interminable Apple Music segment. ↩
It's also not clear what policy response Gawker's outraged defenders would recommend. Put caps on the amount of money people can contribute to legal efforts they sympathize with? That would put the ACLU and any number of advocacy groups out of business. It would also represent a far greater threat to free expression than a court-imposed legal liability for the non-consensual publication of what is essentially revenge porn. If Marshall and others are worried about the superrich harassing critics with genuinely frivolous lawsuits — as, yes, authoritarian characters like Donald Trump have attempted to do — they would have more success backing tort reform measures to limit litigiousness overall than attacking Thiel for contributing to a legitimate cause he has good reason to support.
Willick's argument is that Thiel's bankrolling of Hogan's case against Gawker is within the bounds of free speech. I don't disagree. My counter to Willick, though, is that it's possible to be outraged and/or alarmed by Thiel's behavior without proposing any sort of new legislative barrier to prevent this sort of thing.
Fortunately, this debate does not needs to be resolved, because our First Amendment protects the speech rights of everyone, regardless of where they reside on the left-wing privilege totem poll. And that means Peter Thiel's right to back Hogan's cause is not and should not be in dispute, no matter how much Gawker-sympathizers hand-wave about how the wealthy contrarian is ushering in a totalitarian oligarchy.
It's free speech on both sides. Thiel was free to secretly back (and apparently strategically steer) Hogan's case against Gawker. But Gawker founder Nick Denton was free to air his suspicion that Hogan had a billionaire Silicon Valley backer, and Forbes was free to out Thiel as said backer. And now commentators who are appalled are free to express their outrage at Thiel, perhaps embarrassing him and making it less likely that he or others of similar super-wealth will do this in the future. Willick's defense of Thiel strikes me as being of a piece with the view that the super rich are an aggrieved, rather than privileged, class.
I, for one, don't dispute Peter Thiel's right to back Hogan's case. I simply think he's an asshole for doing it, and a coward for having attempted to do it in secret.]]>
Utilizing unique feedback from the marketplace and our Columbus pilot, MCX has made a decision to concentrate more heavily in the immediate term on other aspects of our business including working with financial institutions, like our partnership with Chase, to enable and scale mobile payment solutions.
CurrentC is a complete and utter failure.
As part of this transition, MCX will postpone a nationwide rollout of its CurrentC application.
CurrentC's nationwide rollout is never going to happen.
As MCX has said many times, the mobile payments space is just beginning to take shape — it is early in a long game. MCX's owner-members remain committed to our future.
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Came across this osteria by chance on our way back from lucca. We stay for 2 months of the year in castelvecchio pascoli which is a twenty minute drive away and unaware of this gem. We had their midweek fixed lunch menu at 10 euros which was very good in particular their pasta dishes. It was my husbands birthday following Sunday so we booked For Sunday lunch along with my parents. Everything from start to finish was excellent along with the little extras included.Although we were surprisingly the only 4 in the restaurant the waitress was very attentive and helpful. It seems a shame that so many tourists come to this area and are unaware of this osteria possibly because it's difficult to access from the main road.
Unfortunately we are back in scotland now but look forward to returning later in the year. I definitely reccomend their antipasto and the frittora mista.
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107 Piccadilly is a Grade-II listed building on Lena Street in Manchester, England. Situated near Piccadilly Gardens, it was originally built as a packing warehouse and showroom with offices for cotton manufacturer Sparrow Hardwick & Company.
It was designed by influential Mancunian architect Charles Heathcote in a lively Jacobean-Baroque style. The building was completed in 1899. The exterior consists of red sandstone and red brick.[1] The five-storey has an eye-catching central gable on the front façade reminiscent of Jacobean architecture. The use of arched and square windows give the building a playful appearance. The building gained Grade-II listing in 1974. It has since been converted to an Abode Hotel and restaurant.[2]
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|Reviews for Continuum
| DukeBrymin chapter 4 . 5/27/2010
Enjoyable chapter, fun to find out about the Society. But now I'm all worried about all the knowledge that's been lost through time.
| David Fishwick chapter 4 . 5/27/2010
Cool chapter and I liked how you wrote the back story of the Society. Please write more thanks.
| Rosiline chapter 3 . 5/22/2010
Wow, what an unexpected plan, i didn't see that coming!
can't wait to read more! also congrats for Best Drama!
| Fairqueen2 chapter 3 . 5/21/2010
After a week full of college finals, this made my week. And the cliffhanger makes me want more! Can't wait for the next chapter
| Karl Skywalker chapter 3 . 5/21/2010
Great start! :D
It looks to be a wonderful story so far! I am entranced by this story and I am wondering what is the secret is. I guess that the secret has to do with the witches but that do not explain why Molly wanted nothing to do with it after her brother were killed. That is unless the secret is how the females could entrance men and that is what happened to the brothers and how they got killed, the death eaters being witches members of the society themselves. Perhaps the bonding? But that also doesn't make sense, unless it is just one part of secret.
I look forward to another update!
| DukeBrymin chapter 3 . 5/21/2010
I so did not expect a time travel fic-nice surprise, that.
I liked Molly's acceptance that Ginny would leave with Harry whenever he came for her.
And now we have a secret society-very exciting!
| RiddikulusSnuffles chapter 3 . 5/21/2010
woo! im excited to hear the story passed along the generations. this is getting very interesting ;)
| David Fishwick chapter 3 . 5/21/2010
I am loving the story so far and please update soon thanks.
| Rosiline chapter 2 . 5/15/2010
great update!
| tgfoy chapter 2 . 5/14/2010
Loving it so far. Especially liked the description of the muggle shop and the characterisations of harry and Hermione. You have portrayed their feelings very well I think and are setting up what promises to be a good story. I take it Ron arrived at the Burrow whilst Arthur was greeting Harry as he didn't seem to know Ron was thier at 't wait to see where you are taking this
| Ron Hunter chapter 2 . 5/14/2010
Loved it. Can't wait to see where you are going with this.
| David Fishwick chapter 2 . 5/13/2010
Sweet chapter and I liked the Harry, Ginny scene. Please keep up the good work. Thanks for writing.
| kat183 chapter 2 . 5/12/2010
A sweet chapter, had to laaugh at the handwriting bit - perhaps Harry should be a Doctor instead of an Auror. And Ron it was so long ago I read the book I forgot he was at Bill's. And Ginny how you wrote it when he saw her - lovely. Looking forward to reading more.
| MyGinevra chapter 2 . 5/12/2010
A sweet ending, and some interesting developments before that. And Ron really got what was coming to him.
As for Collinda's artwork... ahem. Hot Hot Hot.
| Fairqueen2 chapter 2 . 5/12/2010
This is great! It's a different twist on canon and I love the fact that Harry wants only Ginny with him when he puts his plan into action. Keep it up!


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The looming tax hikes and spending cuts are a massive austerity measure, so the most obvious antidote would be more tax relief and government spending in the short-term.
The fight over the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy has taken center stage. But other parts of the fiscal cliff have a disproportional impact on Americans on the other end of the spectrum.
Ordinary Americans are poised to be hit by a big tax hike at the end of the year. But they're either unaware or unconcerned about the pending increase, as consumer confidence has hit a five-year high.
The outline of a fiscal cliff deal is finally coming into view in the Senate. But even among budget experts who like the framework, there's sharp disagreement over how long legislators really have to come up with a deal.
The Tax Policy Center has calculated that the fiscal cliff will raise taxes on 90 percent of Americans, raising the average tax rate 5 percentage points. Here's a closer look at how the tax rate would affect different income groups.
While much of the opposition has focused on the defense sequester, the US Conference of Mayors emphasizes the impact of its domestic spending cuts, pointing out that much of the spending will hit state and local budgets.
Douglas Elliott doesn't want the United States to jump off the fiscal cliff. But he can imagine Congress reaching a point at which it could be the best available option.
Clinton's tax hikes ultimately helped fuel growth to the extent that they were part of his broader deficit-reduction package. Obama wants to pass a similar plan, but that doesn't mean we'll see a repeat of the 1990s.
Rep. Steve LaTourette became the latest moderate Republican casualty on Capitol Hill, citing the partisan deadlock for his decision to retire. But even he refuses to let the Bush tax cuts expire in 2013.
One funny thing about the Senate's vote last night to extend the Bush tax cuts for income under $250,000: it was a vote of the Senate. Usually, taxing and spending bills originate in the House because of the "origination clause" in Article I of the Constitution. So Republicans think the bill's Senate origins mean it cannot become law.
Democrats are now threatening to go over the fiscal cliff on Jan. 1 if Republicans aren't willing to agree to tax hikes for the wealthy. Technically, that means that the Bush tax cuts for everyone will expire, including middle-class and ordinary Americans. But there's also a way for Congress to apply the Bush tax cuts retroactively, although it wouldn't be without its own complications.


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"Jack Reacher" an uneasy but entertaining mix
Those walking into "Jack Reacher" with little knowledge of author Lee Child's popular book series are probably asking themselves "Who is Jack Reacher?" Moviegoers walking out of Tom Cruise's latest action romp, on the other hand, are probably asking themselves "What is 'Jack Reacher'?"
Because after 130 minutes, it's hard to walk out of the theater knowing what kind of movie "Jack Reacher" intends to be. It's all entertaining, but it's also a combination of genres and tones that don't quite sit well together.
Cruise stars as the title character, an army cop turned drifter for justice with a name seemingly made exclusively for action movie fame. He makes his way over to Pittsburgh (I don't know if they ever say it's Pittsburgh … but it's clearly Pittsburgh) after a sniper guns down five random people in broad daylight with the kind of chilling, matter-of-fact realism that's sure to make audience members uncomfortable after recent events. More on that in a second.
All the evidence points toward James Barr, a former military sniper who previously got in trouble in Iraq. Reacher, the officer behind the investigation in Iraq, is convinced of Barr's guilt and wants to make sure he's put away for good, either in a prison cell or a casket. After Barr's attorney (the lovely Rosamund Pike from "An Education") talks him into taking a second look at the evidence, however, Reacher begins to think there might be something more going on than a simple gunman-gone-crazy. The mysterious cars and henchmen following him would seem to validate that theory.
But back to the sniper scene, the uncomfortable elephant in the room. The opening sequence will inevitably trouble many in the audience, more so than the filmmakers could've ever imagined while making the movie. If you're looking for fun action escapism for the whole family this holiday, "Jack Reacher" doesn't really qualify anymore.
Before any angry letters get written, however, remember the movie was in production well before this past wave of tragedies, and, to the film's credit, it doesn't fetishize the gun violence. It's understandably easy to be reactionary, but unfortunately timed and distasteful are two different things, and "Jack Reacher" easily falls into the first category.
Now, returning to the movie.
"Jack Reacher" seems to be going for a modern day "Dirty Harry" vibe (which features an even more overt tie to a real crime spree – Scorpio as the Zodiac – but nevermind, back to the movie, back to the movie!), featuring a likeable anti-hero with a strong moral code that may not exactly go word-for-word with the law.
But whereas "Dirty Harry" and other movies of its ilk seem confident in its goals, "Jack Reacher" seems less sure of itself. Half of the movie plays like an intense realistic '70s paranoia thriller, with cars following our heroes down over street, long periods of time spent talking the investigation and every event a cog in some greater conspiracy.
Even the action is filmed with minimal flash; there's never music (slightly disappointing because that rockin' guitar music in the trailer was awesome), and it all seems refreshingly practical, featuring real stunts. A great car chase near the middle of the film looks like Cruise and company are actually behind the wheel, only adding to the intensity.
The other half of the film plays like a silly '80s-style action fantasy, with literally every woman on-screen mesmerized by Reacher, goofy action quips and even goofier action moments, highlighted by a bathroom sequence in which two henchmen do their best impersonation of the Three Stooges, bonking each other on the head with baseball bats and crowbars. The only thing missing is someone going "nyuk, nyuk, nyuk."
Luckily for "Jack Reacher," they're slamming two entertaining, well-made brands of action movie together. It's amusing to watch Reacher toy around with inept goons and drop tough guy one-liners, especially with Cruise in the lead. Fans of the book may question his casting because of his notoriously short stature, but if you're really that unnerved by his height, you're not seeing the forest for the trees. Few actors can deliver an effortless star performance like Cruise, 5' 7" frame be damned.
At the same time, it's captivating to watch Reacher work his brain like a grown-up version of Encyclopedia Brown, putting the pieces together and barely staying a step ahead of the villain, played by the famous German director/documentarian Werner Herzog in strangely menacing but underutilized turn. Seriously, his henchman, played by Jai Courtney (aka John McClane's son in next year's "A Good Day to Die Hard"), gets more screentime, and though he's awesomely sinister too, he's still just the heavy.
That aside, the slow-building legal mystery is intense and intriguing, even when the deadly conspiracy itself is revealed to be rather ridiculous. Not to spoil anything, but it seems like a lot of effort and dead bodies for a rather mundane goal. However, it works as a means to an end, and that end is watching Cruise be charming and punch bad guys in the face, sometimes with rocks.
Unfortunately, while these two movie styles are fun, they have to sit uncomfortably together in the same film. It's hard to get the full comedic entertainment out of the goons' bumbling Keystone Cops routine when a few scenes before, we were taken through each of the sniper victims' last moments (one of whom is caring for a child before her final moments).
Each element is handled well – the aforementioned sniper victim sequence is actually quite powerful – but they belong in separate movies where the sequences of action fantasy and serious drama don't undercut one another.
You'd think that two entertaining movies for the price of one would be a good thing. In the case of "Jack Reacher," however, it's reaching just a bit too far.
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