On 07/14/2015 10:24 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
Although there is open source software for office and accounting, I can't imagine wanting to spend my free time on such a thing. It is just boring and depressing to think about. I don't think it has anything to do with it being hard. Hard is New Horizons..
Well, you're a much better programmer than I am, even easy things are hard for me. I tend to think of hard as synonymous with work. Interesting vs. boring is orthogonal. So, there's interesting-hard and boring-hard. I'll accept money for either type of work, though I much prefer interesting-hard ... obviously. Interestingly, there are also interesting-easy tasks; and whether one should pay others to do interesting-easy tasks is an interesting question. (Hah! 4 uses of the same term in the same sentence! My gift to the compressors.)
Meanwhile, as Gary points out, the commercial World of Boring circles the wagons around music streaming and participation in mobile app markets, banking, and other such things so that they can control prices. The software is coupled to the protocols and one would have to buy-in (with $$$) to see how the pieces fit together and make free alternatives. What a hassle.
Yeah, it blows my mind what people will pay for. There's also this article: http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/07/13/apple-inc-continues-to-dominate-smartphone-profits.aspx
Furthermore, of the world's eight largest smartphone makers, Apple captured 92% of operating profits in Q1, according to data compiled by Canaccord Genuity (via The Wall Street Journal).
I can't, for the life of me, imagine buying an Apple product except when some client/project demands it. What are these people thinking? 8^) -- ⇔ glen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
