Im curious what you’re looking for then. You said “I don’t care about comp” in your post, but now the pay is too tiny? Are you looking for a company that’s going to pay you to work on your side project?
For distributor of the app (app stores) - they can take a percentage of sales if the app is monetized.
For users of the app - As you mentioned, speed is an important factor. But we can also trust that the distributor has reviewed the app and confirmed that it's safe to use (theoretically at least).
One more point I would add - app stores provide a singular place for me to search, compare, and discover new apps that might be valuable to me.
Agreed. I see no issue in in google’s situation for 2 reasons:
1) I am able to, by default, download apps from other app stores and marketplaces (albeit at my own risk)
2) The Play Store is valuable to me because I know that the apps I download there have been verified and are safe to use (at least in theory).
In Apple’s case, I think the argument is that their operating system is not open to other hardware vendors, so they don’t need to allow alternative app stores. I don’t think it’s anti-competitive that Mazda doesn’t allow me to choose the navigation software in my car’s HUD. If I wanted different navigation software, I should have considered that before purchasing a Mazda.
Is there an estimate for how long that would take with a solar sail? If the window is every 16 months and the flight time is another year or more, I would imagine a large scale mission with multiple re-supply trips would be pretty difficult.
I shoot on a film camera for fun. There's something indescribable about an image shot on film vs digital. The colors, texture, and vibrance of certain films are not easily achievable on a DSLR.
Also, you only get 24 or so shots per roll, so it forces you to be more thoughtful about each shot. It's not for everybody, but neither are vinyl records, and that business is thriving.
He is saying that he is uncomfortable with so much detailed and important information being owned by one entity, not explicitly accusing Google of leaking his info.
I guess what I meant is that the overall concepts are understandable. Nuclear fuel gets hot, boils water, drives a turbine. For transmissions, different sized gears allow things to turn at different rates.
But as soon as I dive into the details, I get lost. How exactly can you control the nuclear decay? How exactly does do the gears in the transmission move around and combine with eachother to create a specific gear ratio? These concepts probably are probably pretty simple for a lot of people, but they just make my head spin.
There are a few technologies that I’ve tried very earnestly to understand, only to find out that it’s basically black magic and there’s no use in trying to understand it. Those things are modern car transmissions, nuclear reactors, and SSDs.
The Starliner mission was a test. You wouldn't have 100% confidence that a test would be executed flawlessly. The purpose of the test is to find flaws in the system, and that's exactly what they did.
If I'm thinking about this correctly, isn't this essentially what a Chromebook does? Google Sheets, for example, shows me a picture of a spreadsheet that's being generated on a Google server, not my machine. A Chromebook is just a display with a keyboard - and the Chrome browser is just the software that passes the images from the server to my display.
