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McGraw-Hill CEO: "The tablet is going to be just really terrific"

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Re: McGraw-Hill CEO: "The tablet is going to be just really terrific"

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Post by Zak »

drewcrawford wrote: post #60
tvon wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, it's the problem for maybe 1% of developers (to pull a "sufficiently tiny to make my point, but still made up" number out of thin air). There is still plenty of money to be made that doesn't conflict with the default functionality of the iPhone. Don't get me wrong, I'd rather there was no filtering at all and there was instead a sort of "paid apps have the option of getting Apple Certification and being listed…

I've developed 10 different apps. 2 of them have gotten the Apple axe. It's way above 1%.

It may not be when you consider the large number of low-quality but harmless games and distractions out there. It's when you try to do something interesting - to push what the device can do that you run a high risk of not being approved.

Re: McGraw-Hill CEO: "The tablet is going to be just really terrific"

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Post by glhaynes »

drewcrawford wrote: post #60
tvon wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, it's the problem for maybe 1% of developers (to pull a "sufficiently tiny to make my point, but still made up" number out of thin air). There is still plenty of money to be made that doesn't conflict with the default functionality of the iPhone. Don't get me wrong, I'd rather there was no filtering at all and there was instead a sort of "paid apps have the option of getting Apple Certification and being listed…

I've developed 10 different apps. 2 of them have gotten the Apple axe. It's way above 1%.

If you're going to tell us that, you need to tell us what the 2 were that got the axe.

Re: McGraw-Hill CEO: "The tablet is going to be just really terrific"

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Post by harpastum »

drewcrawford wrote: post #60
tvon wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, it's the problem for maybe 1% of developers (to pull a "sufficiently tiny to make my point, but still made up" number out of thin air). There is still plenty of money to be made that doesn't conflict with the default functionality of the iPhone. Don't get me wrong, I'd rather there was no filtering at all and there was instead a sort of "paid apps have the option of getting Apple Certification and being listed…

I've developed 10 different apps. 2 of them have gotten the Apple axe. It's way above 1%.

As the adage goes, "The plural of anecdote is not data."

Neither you nor your parent have any statistical basis for your estimates. As of early this month [1], there are over 100,000 applications in the app store. If 1% were rejected, that means that 1,010 apps were rejected. Your two apps could easily fall into that category.

Basically, all we can know is that many apps get accepted, but not all of them do. Any more clarity than that requires Apple's intervention (which I don't expect to see any time soon).

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store#Number_of_launched_ap...

Re: McGraw-Hill CEO: "The tablet is going to be just really terrific"

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Post by jakez »

CamperBob wrote: post #40
defen wrote: post #36

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I'm confused...is it a well known thing that Jobs' car has no plates? Is that legal?

Surprisingly, yes. In California, apparently, there is a provision in the motor-vehicle code that allows 'celebrities' (for some definition of 'celebrity') to drive around without license plates.

won't driving without a license plate just single you out as a celebrity then?

Re: McGraw-Hill CEO: "The tablet is going to be just really terrific"

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Post by CamperBob »

jakez wrote: post #64
CamperBob wrote: post #40

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Surprisingly, yes. In California, apparently, there is a provision in the motor-vehicle code that allows 'celebrities' (for some definition of 'celebrity') to drive around without license plates.

won't driving without a license plate just single you out as a celebrity then?

Yes, but the stalker/paparazzo/divorce attorney won't know which celebrity.

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Post by megaduck »

CamperBob wrote: post #35
thras wrote: post #26

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The problem is that there is a hell of a lot of general purpose software out there already that's never going to be worth the effort to port to a single device. The iPhone has some nice apps, but runs nothing important to me in my professional life. And if the new tablet isn't going to be a useful work tool, why would I want it?

What's your profession, and what tablet/phone apps might be helpful but not yet available?

I can't speak for thras, but if I can't do software development on a device, that's a pretty big problem.

I'd love to replace my netbook with sleek little tablet, but the odds of Apple selling something that runs Java, Ruby, or emacs is slim-to-none.

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Post by ynniv »

CamperBob wrote: post #33
ynniv wrote: post #27

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I have to disagree: have you seen the money students drop on textbooks lately? The whole market has consolidated and now makes books worthless after only a year or two (hence small secondary market) by releasing new revisions with different exercises in them. Maybe publishing at large doesn't know their business, but the textbook companies are minting money.

The textbook publishers had better gather their rosebuds while they may, because that scam isn't going to work forever.

Hah - kids don't buy textbooks because they want to. It has nothing to do with paper pulp, and the universities are hurting for cash lately.

Re: McGraw-Hill CEO: "The tablet is going to be just really terrific"

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Post by zackattack »

dnsworks wrote: post #59

You are all very, very good little consumers. And Apple doesn't even have to pay you for generating it's hype.

Dude, get over it. Let me guess: you grow all your own food and you abstain from all media (oh, hey, wait a second..)? Apple devices are useful problem-solving technology, and they bring a lot of joy to people's lives.

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Post by epochwolf »

ynniv wrote: post #27
jasonlbaptiste wrote: post #12

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these are the guys that run the textbook market. ill go with option 1.

I have to disagree: have you seen the money students drop on textbooks lately? The whole market has consolidated and now makes books worthless after only a year or two (hence small secondary market) by releasing new revisions with different exercises in them. Maybe publishing at large doesn't know their business, but the textbook companies are minting money.

Yeah, $0 for my latest comp sci class. Someone found a pirated pdf of the book and offered to hand it out to the class. The professor made no objection.
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