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  • PublicKnowledge: Benefits of iPhone App Store tainted by 1984-like Control

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    Do We Really Like the Taste of Apple’s Remote-Kill KoolAid?

    Today’s Wall Street Journal has a story about Apple’s App Store for the iPhone. Clearly, having an easy way for mobile users to download apps is a good way to spur development and make money. According to Apple, over the past month the App Store has sold $30 million in iPhone and iPod touch apps. Of those sales, Apple should take in about $9 million, as it keeps about 30% of each app sold. While some application developers have complained about the revenue split, when one considers the costs associated with hosting the applications, cost of money changing hands, and general maintenance of the store, 30% is not unreasonable. What is increasingly unreasonable is the way Apple is controlling the App Store, both to the detriment of developers and consumers. read more

  • PublicKnowledge: Benefits of iPhone App Store tainted by 1984-like Control

    – or –

    Do We Really Like the Taste of Apple’s Remote-Kill KoolAid?

    Today’s Wall Street Journal has a story about Apple’s App Store for the iPhone. Clearly, having an easy way for mobile users to download apps is a good way to spur development and make money. According to Apple, over the past month the App Store has sold $30 million in iPhone and iPod touch apps. Of those sales, Apple should take in about $9 million, as it keeps about 30% of each app sold. While some application developers have complained about the revenue split, when one considers the costs associated with hosting the applications, cost of money changing hands, and general maintenance of the store, 30% is not unreasonable. What is increasingly unreasonable is the way Apple is controlling the App Store, both to the detriment of developers and consumers.

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  • Twitter Updates for 2008-08-10

    • listening to jackie sing ‘theres a dinosaur knocking at my door, and hewants to have shabbat with me’ #
    • woke up this morning just in time to see team usa squander lead to dutch. scheisse. usa still first in group. #olympics #
    • team USA will have to make do w/o Bradley or Adu vs. Nigeria: http://tinyurl.com/5m7ync #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2008-08-09

    • @montag and you work there because… ? #
    • watching opening ceremonies. is it time for soccer yet? #
    • cathy laughing at me because I didn’t know some swimmer dude named phelps. #
    • Way to go nbcolympics.com – way to lock out users from your web site. Asshats. #
    • @laurencooney yeah, I got the drooling look from Cathy and figured that was all I really needed to know 😉 #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2008-08-08

    • @tam911 anybody who quotes cibo matto is cool by me 😉 #
    • Here’s where I respond to @dmarti and his ill-fated slam on GeekPAC: http://tinyurl.com/2z56qh/41423 #
    • @CollabNet_Jenny welcome! I’ll be retweeting your stuff often 🙂 #
    • @toronado good to see you on twitter. now could you get rid of your asshole bartenders? #
    • wow, what a great post by Andy O.: http://tinyurl.com/5p33s6 #
    • @linuxlibrarian 🙂 I very much <3 @dmarti – even if he dislikes http://www.geek-pac.org but he’s wrong on this one 🙂 #
    • @montag well… how much time does it take to learn how to type “select * from blah”? #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2008-08-07

    • @DaveTaylor tried vimeo? and what about google video? #
    • at the ubucon http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubucon/SanFrancisco #
    • at ubucon watching @ripcitylyman #
    • #ubucon andrew fife talking about the ubuntu installfest for schools. #
    • @yasumoto thanks 🙂 #
    • #ubucon @einfeldt discussing the digital tipping point #
    • #ubucon “they saved $20K on brick machines by ‘open sourcing’ the brick machines” #
    • #ubucon listening to dr. sameer verma talk about ltsp on ubuntu at the sfsu lab #
    • @rossturk lol! that’s because you’re not at #ubucon 😉 #
    • @rossturk there are many many stories about how linuxworld dropped the ball. I can share #
    • @rossturk that’s only part of the story #
    • @rossturk linux is mainstream but linuxworld didn’t have to get boring. macs are mainstream, is macworld boring? #
    • #ubucon all about deki and dekiscript. thanks @mindtouch 🙂 #
    • and that’s a wrap. who’s up for beer? #
    • @storming @rossturk you guys still around? #

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  • PublicKnowledge: Why the Cablevision Decision Matters

    In my post from Monday, I laid out a very brief outline of some of the conclusions reached by the Second Circuit in its Cablevision decision on remote DVRs. Today, I want to take a step back and discuss why it was so important for the development of digital media and technology. Two theories espoused by the TV networks in the case were extraordinarily dangerous for copyright law. The first was that fleeting, transitory copies like buffer copies could make someone liable for copyright infringement. read more

  • PublicKnowledge: Why the Cablevision Decision Matters

    In my post from Monday, I laid out a very brief outline of some of the conclusions reached by the Second Circuit in its Cablevision decision on remote DVRs. Today, I want to take a step back and discuss why it was so important for the development of digital media and technology.

    Two theories espoused by the TV networks in the case were extraordinarily dangerous for copyright law. The first was that fleeting, transitory copies like buffer copies could make someone liable for copyright infringement.

    read more

  • Twitter Updates for 2008-08-06

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  • Hacking the Election Birds-of-a-Feather

    Tonight at 6pm at LinuxWorld, GeekPAC will host a Birds-of-a-feather on “Hacking the Election.”

    If you’re at LinuxWorld, it’s in room 310 at 6pm. See you there!